Monday, June 26, 2006

Meet the Chinese

Really, all you need to do is watch this video and you'll understand more about the Chinese mentality than years of reading or studying.

Be sure to watch all the way through, it only gets better, and the ending is absolutely perfect. On so many levels and from both men's actions this explains what the U.S. can expect from a resurgent China.

Bus Uncle



Update: The rest of the story is on, of course, Wikipedia, under 'Uncle Bus'. Reading that entry inspired me to create a timeline of this clip.

-Get off the bus
-Don't call me boss
-Everyone has pressure (unprompted)
-Don't touch me
-We have to deal with it seriously
-Human dynamics
-Mad cause he's not responding
-Makes him apologize twice, second time louder
-Then let's shake
-Then he introduces his mother
-We may meet again--by destiny
-I welcome fight anytime
-Goes back to you patted me on my shoulder
-I should have patted you on your head
-Don't insult my mother
-I warn you
-Brings up pressure again
-Ends perfectly

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I saw that, and it is terrifying.

But I found this comment by someone at YouTube interesting: "I'm pretty sure that if this happened in the US, especially in say LA, the two people either would have started a fist fight or pulled guns on each other after about 10 seconds. To me the fact neither resorted to physical violence shows a much higher level of being civilized."