Posted on 06/03/2019 1:27:41 PM PDT by beejaa
"Collectivism vs. Individualism is a major mental block for people in different countries. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both in today's video."
These guys are great!
I don’t get why people come to a text based site and post their videos with no synopsis.
I come here to review news QUICKLY. An 18 minute video is not quick.
The Chinese are pumping hundreds of Billions into their economy at historic levels. They are dumping the equivalent of the ENTIRE Obama Stimulus ($821 billion) every 28 days!
It is not going to end well. China is heading for a High Velocity Crash that the country may not survive intact.
Collectivism without corruption has never happened.
Individualism without corruption has not either.
The latter is, to date, the lesser of two evils by far.
Yes, I highly recommend them if you want to keep your finger on the pulse of China (although from comments they have made recently I would not be surprised if they both bail on China because of the worsening situation there). Some folks have been going to Taiwan, and they were there a couple months ago, as well as checking out Vietnam.
Their three YouTube stations are under “Serpentza,” “ADV China,” and “Laowhy86.”
Actually, I think the one guy is Canadian, not American.
And “laowhy” is Mandarin for “gaijin,” aka waeguksaram in Korean. :))
They say “Everyone is smiling” on the roadside billboards. Ok, what’s the alternative when no doing so means you are disagreeing? Most Communistic gov’ts take a very dim view of disagreement. This is the same as saying that freedom loses to servitude. Sure, we have disagreements out in the open with our gov’t, but that’s why we will outlast them. These guys have drunk the Leftist Koolaid too long.
Sorry, this reply meant for #2 gaijin.
I have been watching these guys for a couple of years now. Their videos are well worth the time, and most are quite entertaining on top of being informative.
Upwards of $11T a year?
I’ve been watching the one guy (”serperntza”) for quite some time, his stuff is always very interesting. He has always been really upbeat about China until fairly recently, since the “social credit” stuff kicked in, maybe... I wondered how he would weather this. I also notice he is shifting out of China.
Serpentza (real name Winston) has really been getting attacked by Chinese netizens in the past few months, probably being coordinated to some extent by the Chinese government. He’s also been the target of some smear stuff on Quora bearing the same fingerprints.
I think he would basically say that in the last year or so things have really been going downhill under the increasingly autocratic rule of Winnie the Pooh.
I kind of worry about their families, both are married to Chinese women. It can’t be easy for the wives, and probably their families are turned against them now also.
I actually did give a synopsis. At 4:30 minutes, the South African begins talking about how we really don’t have problems in the US compared to other countries.
30 year Tianamen Massacre Anniversary tomorrow:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3754177/posts?page=8#8
I've seen a couple of their videos.
I'm glad to see they've both come to their senses and are leaving.
I never understood why they wanted to be there in the first place (other than married to Chinese women) since from what I saw they were critical of China.
Currently about 11% of the Chinese population (about 1.4 billion) is 65 and over; life expectancy is about 76 years. About 10 million die per year, which is exceeded by the birth rate. The birth rate is skewed 1.14 male to female. By 2050, 310,794,774 will have passed, and about 30 million more will have emigrated from China. If current birth trends continued, 570,083,898 will have been born by 2050 (303,689,553 male, 266,394,345 female), but the birth rate is likely to decline because of the skew and the emigration.
By contrast, US population is rising more slowly through natural increase, but migration is largely inward; life expectancy is a bit better than 79; death rate is lower, birth rate is about the same; population under age 15 is about a percent higher than China's, with a closer male-female ratio; ages 15-64 is about 9 percent lower than China's; percentage 65 and up is 16% vs about 11% in China.
“They say “Everyone is smiling” on the roadside billboards. Ok, what’s the alternative when no doing so means you are disagreeing?”
They are discussing the pros and cons of collectivism and individualism. Everybody smiling on a billboard would be a negative characteristic of collectivism. On the other hand, the Chinese and Vietnamese support their own cultures. They are not engaged in excessive self-criticism so common to Western countries.
Interesting stats. Where did you find them?
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