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White Man In China (2024). (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net to c/sino@hexbear.net

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In a recent video on Twitter, he compared the China of today to 2019 and was completely shocked at the speed to progress and change. Says it’s like stepping into the future.

1 - Automation: From trains to taxis to purchases - everything is done seamlessly with super Apple Pay.

2 - EV: 30%-40% of the cars are fully electric. You can get Teslas but you have Chinese brands that offer sedans for $10k.

3 - The air is much cleaner. Partly due to EVs.

4 - People are more respectful of societal norms. There is better service everywhere you go.

5 - Less foreigners, even in touristy areas. Most white people are actually Russian.

6 - In factories, robots do the work in contrast to the perception people have in the US of China just throwing cheap labor at every problem. Factories set up their own e-commerce platforms and sell directly on China’s TikTok.

7 - It feels like over the past 5 years, everything by in China just got better, while everything in the US just got worse.

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[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 71 points 6 months ago

Damn it's so wild how a highly educated country with a vast social safety net isn't full of barbarians. Now here's why socialism will always fail...

[-] Poison_Ivy@hexbear.net 63 points 6 months ago

It looks like China used the crisis that involved a lot of people staying home to do a bunch of stuff that can be done faster and more efficiently if there arent a bunch of people milling about.

Must be nice to live in a country that has a bare minimum sense of long term organizing for the betterment of its populace

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 58 points 6 months ago

It feels like over the past 5 years, everything by in China just got better, while everything in the US just got worse.

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[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 56 points 6 months ago

Coming to Finland from the US, I was surprised at the relatively higher use of machinery at things like construction sites. For example, using a bulldozer for moving small piles of dirt that I think in America would have been handled by a couple guys with shovels. Environmental question aside, the use of machinery in this way is good for labor QoL and longevity. Americans don’t realize how much harder they work for less pay.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

the use of machinery in this way is good for labor QoL and longevity

I’d want to see more about this. In the US, automation and technology are used to threaten workers to comply with shitty labor laws, and when they are actually implemented, the human workers are usually never cared about after being laid off. I’m curious to see the differences in attitudes and implementation in China

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

Well I don’t mean to hijack a c/sino discussion, but I think the behavior and tactics of capital depends on its power relative to labor. Finland has relatively strong labor in part because of the welfare state. Capital can only demand so much before workers strike or quit. There have been multiple large strikes in the past months.

If and when the economy declines in Finland, all the meager social-democratic gains won by the socialists in the 20th century will be lost. And once they are lost, we probably won’t see them again without a revolution. We are already trending this direction as the social entitlements are being eroded by the current center-right government.

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[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago

CEO of company I'm at told me today that Chinese cars don't have crumple zones so when they do test crashes they either fold up like accordions or they shear off on impact. I highly doubt that, but he was so adamant that they're awful and they don't care about safety at all. I work with the shitlibiest of shitlibs i think.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 52 points 6 months ago

If you ever want to push back on this, the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP, the only useful ANCAP) has given five star ratings to the BYD Atto, Seal, and Dolphin, along with Great Wall Motors entire Haval range. This makes all these Chinese cars safer than the BMW i4, which only got 4 stars.

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[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago

Counterpoint: the cyber truck is popular in America

[-] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

😔 unfortunately he’s right

That’s how they contribute to the state-mandated communist death threshold

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

This guy just admits to shitting his pants all the time? charlie-kirk

[-] meth_dragon@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

r/china sexpats tend to enjoy bonding over the shared trauma of getting explosive diarrhea after overexposure to non-mayo substances, it's something of a tradition in white people social bubbles in china

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

He has at least one other video solely about shitting his pants

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

Is this a fetish for him or is he just not potty-trained?

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[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago

China sounds appealing to move to at times. I'd still be a poor bastard and I don't know a lick of Mandarin/Cantonese/Etc, but I'd worry less on losing the roof over my head and the food is 🔥.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago

People are more respectful of societal norms. There is better service everywhere you go.

Explain?

[-] LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

I'd rather not if I'm honest lol. It's why I didn't link the video or even gave the name of the dude.

CW - Racism

He framed it as China becoming more "civilized" where people no longer piss on the street or spit at your feet, and public washrooms have toilet paper (his excuse for why he used to shit his pants all the time). Later on, he said today it's like a Japanified version of China, referring to the people. He was also rude/negative to the couple of Chinese people who tried to talk to him while filming and framed them as scammers.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago

He framed it as China becoming more "civilized" where people no longer piss on the street or spit at your feet, and public washrooms have toilet paper (his excuse for why he used to shit his pants all the time).

Wow it’s almost as if eradicating extreme poverty means people stop shitting on the street! Who woukdathunk?

Later on, he said today it's like a Japanified version of China, referring to the people.

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[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

I recently went to Shanghai and Beijing, as a Chinese person who used to live in both places I found that people were more likely to line up, less likely to litter, and less likely to have loud phone conversations on the train.

Service was more "nice" in Shanghai than in Beijing but both places people tried to help you. Was travelling with a Japanese person who noted that in Japan a service person is more likely to very politely tell you they can't help you, but in China they're more likely to act annoyed and hostile while they resolve your problem.

[-] darkmode@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

more likely to act annoyed and hostile while they resolve your problem.

I could easily live with this and say thank them profusely every time

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

Oh hey, those are actually good social norms!

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[-] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I have a question. Who, ever, in real life has shit their pants? Not talking about people with medical issues, but afaik we can hold it in if needed. And we can shit in other places than just toilets, like in the woods or wherever. Shitting in your pants seems an interesting choice indeed. How does lack of toilet paper make one shit their pants?

Don't people like this ever experience times when there in fact are no toilets around to shit in? Like during a long nature hike does this guy carry a toilet with him to be able to not shit his pants?

[-] reverendz@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

Have you never gambled and lost with a fart?

Once or twice, I had diarrhea as an adult, and thought it was a fart, and wound up sharting.

Can't be that uncommon.

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[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

Can we get a link to the vid =? papyrus-side-eye

[-] LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I mean, I can if you really want. But I don't think he's a good guy lol. Plus it's over 11 mins long. Also, how he stated Point 4 is very different from how I framed it above.

Edit - Here's the vid, but not on the OG channel so he doesn't get the Twitter revenue.

CW - Racism

[-] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 44 points 6 months ago

He framed it as China becoming more "civilized" where people no longer piss on the street or spit at your feet, and public washrooms have toilet paper (his excuse for why he used to shit his pants all the time).

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[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago

I feel like after the first time I would just start bringing my own roll

[-] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago

Ikr? And/or just doing a game theory and shitting in the toilet anyways, since it's better to have less shit than more shit in your pants. Fulfilling the stupid American stereotype by walking around with shit in his pants and still daring to call the people subjected to the smell "uncivilized".

[-] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

Yeah, like most women in the west have had to do always, because public toilets are always out of paper.

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

Wtf literally just wash your ass with water and soap.

I can't tell how advanced China is because the West is so backwards.

[-] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago

his excuse for why he used to shit his pants all the time

jesse-wtf

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

He looks like a sex pest omg. He has to catch his breath with every sentence and I don't like the camera being so close to his face.

Below average white western men in China must be purged.

[-] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

What a disgusting epitome of western chauvinism this was. He has been going there for 10 years, but it was total shit, so why did he keep going back.

Love how people have spat on his feet there, pretty sure the reason for that can be found in the mirror and not in the people that have had to deal with this asshat.