It can drive you mad or it can be seriously exciting! Crowds, crowds and more crowds… And Chinese people wouldn’t have it any other way!
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what strikes me is… so few fat people in china. they all look so healthy and slim.
In Finland a crowd is a person who lives close enough to be able to watch with binoculars when you take a piss in your backyard. I’ve always wondered how the few Chinese we have here manage to survive without losing their minds.
That bemused little granny at 1:16. XD
If I have to buy something from a shopping center I always try to go there as early as possible so I don’t have to deal with any kind of crowds. I live in Finland where people rather stand in the buss than sit next to someone who they don’t know.
Well when your country consists of billions of people there pretty much will Be a crowd everywhere. Personally it would be a nightmare to visit China or India. They both are beyond polluted, scamsters, and diseases everywhere. Not to mention literally every thing is a nockoff..
I think it’s the same in America. There’s a reason why restaurants typically have glass panes.
I absolutely hate the crowds!
Its funny ,what u get excited about sounds like hell on earth for me (coming from a small town 70k), enjoy and keep on.
Very good analysis.
There’s definitely more of an egoistic desire among Westerners to escape other people. We dissipate away from each other, driving things like suburban sprawl.
Peace back to however that person was in the background. Peace my chinese friends.
Sitting in my hunting hide/turret no sounds. Listening to nature is something everyone should try. The dark is your friend
But doesn’t that imply that Chinese culture encourages lemming thinking, a.k.a, NPC?
It is never because people like to go to crowd places.It is very natural where there is convinient to get people together where goes the capital.The more crowd a place is generally a better service provided.The average resources in China are fairly more limited than that of West.That means certain services will only be provided in those places.And because there is a greater density of population in China than any other western countries.It created an illusion as if chinese people like crowd.The truth is wherever comes good service where comes the crowd,and then people naturally think crowd means good.
Not true. Go to Australian cities of Melbourne or Sydney and there are areas that look like you are describing and people don’t have or need cars.
Equivalent to a small Chinese city
This is a pretty good summary of why I love this country and wanna stay in China. The crowds can feel overbearing sometimes, but I just love the general vibe and atmosphere
Crowds give me anxiety. I’m happy I left China.
I don’t like crowds at all. I wish I could live in the middle of a forest.
Half true i would assume lot of places in China though where there are no crowds in more remote regions.Was just in China a few weeks ago in Shenzhen,Guangzhou,Beijing and Hong Kong also you get used to the crowds.
Horrible people salad on land, people soup in the pool.
Yeesh…
They’re in a crowd, because they’re desperately looking for anyone who looks different.
4:00 New Bunren…Hahahahaha … Seriously 😂😂
In India…..this is not even a crowd..😂😂
Jokes apart…in India people have the same Psych as well….more crowd means something that is interesting..
Those massive crowds must be paradise for pick pockets…. would make me far too uncomfortable
Being from Chicago, I get that there’s a certain energy being around lots of people, but when I got the chance, I booked it for a college in the suburbs where I could breathe easy.
I get anxiety when I’m in big crowds. I absolutely hate it.
I love how you make the special exclamation marks and sound FX when people stare at you like you are a foreign invader
honestly fuck suburbs and having to drive everywhere. i hate these soulless suburbs so much they need to go. much rather be there than in a lifeless suburb with a bunch of creepy christians.
Very much the same in Thailand.
I hate crowds. I am Chinese.
Had the worst New Years in Sydney this year because of all the Chinese pushing and crowding everywhere. You are right. It is like a herd that loves to just be together in one big mess.
Nice I will love being there thanks for the info
What are you saying… Chinese are unlike you or your Country . Asian are gregarious by nature.
come on kickfroo.
I avoid crowds…& I gave up standing in lines when I got out if the army…Large crowds
have as Winston says @4:14 in…..miasma…A word I’ve never seen or heard till now
Full of beggars in south China, you don’t see any beggars in north China.
You could’ve just talked the whole time the music wasn’t that loud. I heard you bitching just fine so you could just went on with it my friend I love the vids and content
people has different culture, different likes. understandable that you not like “crowd”, and also i think you haven’t all-in the china culture yet. maybe one day we can see you using less “they”
0:57 “like a herd”
haha, hahahahaha
how right and wrong is that comment at the same
I want to feel this crowd of dongmen all around me.
i dont like crowds,and im chinese.i find
that all your results are being arbitrary
How do u not get sick all the time? In Japan everyone gargles more than they wash their Hands.
Thanks for the video. Yes China is crowded. But You gotta give it to the Chinese where 1 billion people can peacefully co-exist on Land equal to the size of the USA.
…. Its the same in London… People looking for queues and crowds, not bothered.
How do you post your videos on youtube being in China?
Answer to that on upcoming Monday’s ADVChina video
The old man hermit recluse in a mountain cave writing by candle light before looking up to ponder the nature of it all through his watery eyes before coughing, stroking his beard before resuming his calligraphy is one image of China that I got in my head growing up.
Anyway for every bit of popular culture there is a counter culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd_PClI4Ut0
Serpentza always is like:” this vlog has been going on for way to long” and im just here like *no it hasnt*
Good point, haven’t really thought about that but I feel this is really true. They are used to big crowds whereas I’m happy if I’m alone at a wonderful place just to enjoy the quiteness.
I’m Chinese.
*But I hate crowds..*
love your work !
My only problem here is how many pick pocketing is done within those crowd
I love that every time I visit Thailand, there’s people everywhere. Not just tourist places (I rented a car and spent quite a few days on the road, far away from the tourists).
But I live in Sweden, a country in strong contrast to China (actually most of Asia). Here there’s rarely someone outside after 6pm. Sure, large cities never sleep but honestly, the largest city in Sweden can’t compare to even smaller cities in China, our largest city is about 1.5-2mil citizens. It’s not the same.
I hate it and the result is I lock myself as well and don’t go out later during the evening. One day I’m going to end up far away from this shithole with boring people and crappy weather.
A lot of hot asian girls in the background!!!
China: too much groupthink, too much conformism, too much patiotism, too much obedience to authority, too much authoritarian tyranny.
lol, opening statement is so true.
It’s because they rejected multiculturalism that they can feel safe among their own people
Imagine Swedes in China.
Come in Romania vampire country 😁
good for me
We got too many guns in America for this LOL
Loved this summery
Fuck crowds man that’s way too many people, I’d rather there be 0 people around than that many, I feel much MUCH safer alone.
I like to see a comparison with India
‘Copyright strike’ 🤣 Yeah…
It’s not true, they have to, no choice.
Collective society is good otherwise loniness life carry lot of Depression
This poor bastard will starve to death for not tarnishing China.
i didint think 老头 translated into old fart, i thought it meant old guy.
There’s something to be said for a bustling City.
it’s strange that people look at him like he’s some sort of extraterrestrial.they act like they’ve never seen a white person before. they have china towns in white countries.but as soon as white people go to China we need to keep these westerners out they scream hypocrites.proof that diversity only goes one way in their minds.
‘Three (by the power of 947) is a crowd’
-Old Chinese Proverb
Fascinating video. 👍
How to truly mess up a Chinese person, drop them off in the middle of Montana, USA. Big Sky, no people.
caonima,r u understand what i mean?
the malls in Canada are just dead it’s 90% online it’s so weird seeing all this
Actually with crowd and also with noise, they said it is happy environment.
I’m not Chinese and I like crowds.
To me, America is too empty and boring.
1:05 look out‼️
Been a mexican l dont need to go to china to get so much of that amosphere , but its been changing due to proximity with USA unfortunately there is a negative vibe of somethings although bad and good ones to be fair
They are just different dude, they look & think like aliens. They are just a backward insular people. End of. Keep them in China & forget about the strange people who live there.
🙂
This is kind of funny because I’m an American-born Chinese who grew up in a semi-rural area, and suburbs seem too crowded for me. Cities are fun once in a while though.
it is on of chinas culture , respect
Old fart.. haha!
Chinese ruined Melbourne. High rise buildings. Hard to find non Asian food
I cannot bear crowds like that. the intrusion, the stench, the noise, the confusion, the lack of peace… i guess its what you are used to.
Thanks for another Awesome video. Can’t stop watching your videos 👍🏻
Winston this is why you have angry Chinese followers. You take video and sometimes spin it to your narrative and make generalizations. Chinese people can not live without crowds then you say it’s their whole society. This feeds some of the racist viewers and they write comments that Chinese are mentally ill, have no identity, etc.
China has a huge population, crowds is a fact of life. Chinese, old timers, grow with a sense of community and family. They like to be in crowded places because it’s lively, a festive atmosphere.
You could’ve put it in a better light and point out how they’re friendlier because of this. But you didn’t. Sometimes It’s easy to talk to a stranger and shoot the breeze.
But it doesn’t mean they don’t like their own space. Was in Hong Kong on New Year’s Eve and a distant family member didn’t want to go see the fireworks because she thought it was too crowded.
I like most of your videos though; sometimes you look irritable though. Could be the suit in hot weather
As a chinese let me explain: more people=that place is good!!!(even i don’t know what that location have). Less people=something happened at the area that scared people out.
I’m going on exchange to China
YouTube famous now! 2:19
I spent 6 years in China and I just never warmed up to the renao crowds XD. You either love it or you hate it 🙂
I love crowds
你这明明就是以偏概全,这就不是stereotypes 吗?你知道中国多少人吗?而你所见过的人只不过是很小一部分,而你却让看到你视频的人认为,原来所有中国人都是这样的
Taiwan No.1 and Chine No.19
I love you even more Winston for calling that garbage western pop music “terrible noise” I raise my coffee cup to you this morning
Good point I’ve travelled to a number of cities in China including smaller lower tier cities and there always is that one main pedestrianized shopping street where everyone walks and hangs out. A lack of those communal pedestrianized streets is a huge failure of north America (I won’t say the west because I remember Europe having them) because north America is too obsessed by cars and north american cities were designed for cars not people (really sad in my opinion).
Norwegian here. China sounds like hell
Lots of opportunities for pickpockets.
Is this how influenza is created?