So glad I found your channel. I've studied English, French , Spanish, Italian and I can understand a little bit of German. I've just started studying Mandarin and I'm loving it.

You are a REALLY good public speaker. Thanks for sharing your story

Your intention about uniting people is so noble, although this is so difficult to achieve, because of media and ignorance.

I live in Cambodia. I can speak khmer and I have been studying Chinese for a couple of months now. I tutor some Chinese students and I enjoy learning new languages. I would love to chat with you more about Chinese language and culture as well as life in particular. I am glad I found your channel 🙂

I am an overseas Chinese born in the Netherlands and have lived there for over 13 years. I currently live in Belgium for more than 6 years. My Mandarin is decent enough to hold a basic conversation with another Chinese person, but I mainly speak Wenzhounese with my parents and other family members. So my Wenzhounese is much more refined than my Mandarin. I also had a similar case where I couldn't speak Dutch until I was 6 years old.

I could relate to a lot of the things that you talked about, especially not fitting in with everyone else. There’s also the problem of forgetting your own culture after being away from it for so long. I didn’t like myself for because I thought I was too influenced by American culture to be considered Chinese. I realized that you can’t attach your worth to something like that. You just need to be you because there will only ever be one of you.

Bro I feel u, I’m from China and I moved to Texas when I was 11. Most of my classmates are Hispanics and they tell me that I’m the most Hispanic Chinese person that they have ever know, I have even travel to their countries and know better about their culture, and they also start being interest in China and in Chinese culture

青出于蓝而胜于蓝 perfectly captures the Chinese American experience

The video is very positive. The advice is very useful. I hope the world is full of love and peace. ( Kevin, China, 12 y.o.).

Really interesting video. I’m in the UK and my city is 97% white. I remember we had two HK kids and one Indian kid in my school of thousands of children. Now I’m married to someone originally from China and I lived there for a few years too. Thinking about having kids I often wonder how they’ll feel in school and if they’ll feel isolated as 50/50 British/Chinese, and how I can make sure they know something about their fathers culture. Your experiences were helpful to hear.

ABC here, and super glad that I found your channel. Relearning Chinese as an ABC is like a weird in-between of being native and starting from the basics, so it’s great to hear insight from someone with similar life experiences. I think ABCs tend to feel like outsiders in the US even though our culture is pretty well permeated globally. I admire you for being so dedicated to learning Chinese, because a lot of my Chinese friends reject their culture. You’re very inspirational to people like me. Keep doing what you’re doing!!

I learned about this today, being from the US but of Latin American heritage: what you've experienced is known as liminal identity. It's kind of being between two cultures, and those people tend to be generally successful and can more easily understand foreign cultures, whereas most people tend to have a hard time (it's weird to me, but for others, trying to understand another culture is almost as much of a challenge as learning another language, it can take time, simply because they don't yet have a frame of reference to compare their culture against to see why it's different). The flip side is, sometimes it can make you feel out of place, because society can make you feel like you're not fully either of them.

I'm an Indian from Kerala state of India, I love china very much that my friends and teachers call me china man 😂

Wow, this video was great, thank you to sharing your thoughts!

我喜欢你的心态，超级阳光的。我好像很久（从小学3年纪？）都没有见过像你心态这么好的人了，我希望我以后能像你心态一样好。btw, it was my American friend recommending your video to me.：）

Such a beautiful story! 谢谢你

Thank you for making this video.

Found this inspirational. Thank you

Great story, I really enjoyed it.

The problem with living in any big country with a strong cultural identity and very little need to know about the world outside has the potential of making you ignorant and arrogant unless you have the chance of being very well educated or have contacts abroad. Having a multicultural background makes you more resilient to that, so it should be considered a boon.

Amazing video brother!! Thanks for your effort!!

Beautiful and nuanced video, thank you 😊

So eloquently said! Look forward to seeing more posts like you said about China/West relations. As I am learning Chinese with a few apps it is also really nice to hear your perspective on learning and reviews. Thanks for what you do!

Thank you for sharing this.

I really enjoy listening to your videos. You are clearly a very thoughtful and interesting guy. Thanks for sharing your experiences!

That was a great video. I want to hug you

Man, this is a great story. It was nice to hear it from you. You inspired me to learn Chinese but I am already spending too much time learning Hindi.

As a white American who was raised in a very diverse city in the south I would always hear stories similar to yours from my friends who immigrated here. And at a very early age seeing how they felt and listening to their stories always gave me a different perspective and that shaped who I am and how I view the world.

Great Clip!

Love all your videos, this is by far the most important video. Keep shining your light. The world needs more people like you. From Your American fan living in China.

you’re awesome!

Your channel is great!! I speak English and Welsh, I have been casually learning French for around 2-3 years and now I've started Chinese. It's definitely been a challenge to go from European languages to asian but its so fulfilling when I finally pronounce a word correct. I hope one day I can at least hold a conversation in simple Chinese 🙏

A wise and wonderful video. 👍

Thank you for sharing your story Andrew! I related to several experiences you shared in the video including the one at 08:42. Keep up the great work on the videos!

What a great video. Thanks for being so open and honest. I really enjoy your all your videos. Wish you continued happiness and success!

好喜欢你的视频哦 希望你继续做下去

😭😭😭I am crying now. I needed to hear this as an teenager. 🙏🙏🙏 make more of vids like this

Easy to know you are so smart. Ironically, some shuns to be smart just to fit in. The world needs you. All well said. Nothing missed. Thank you.

This is so beautiful. Thanks for sharing. I also learn chinese and graduated from chinese teaching as foreign language, but somehow I don't feel good enough.... I'm originally not a chinese ethnicity but I really appreciate and love chinese culture and history. Your channel is helping me to learn more about chinese and one of my chinese channels that I subscribed and hit notifications on👍🏽

You've got my full admiration with this video, my friend. Greetings from Serbia.

Delightful young man totally agree

This was cute, your thoughts are cute. I hope you stay motivated =) Best of luck

Thank you🎉

영상 잘 보고 갑니다. Thank you for the video! ^ ^

Hi, what a great talk and very interesting insights! I agree 100% with your thoughts on foreign languages and cultures. Languages are gateways to other cultures and learning about other cultures not only widens your horizons and enriches you personally but also helps to dissipate possible misunderstandings and even prejudices that one may have when faced with something unfamiliar by allowing one see things from other viewpoints. Cultural exchange, mutual understanding and thus more peaceful relations between nations and peoples are exactly what this world now needs more than ever in these turbulent times.

bravo!! Bridge that two cultures and two people ❤

I can totally relate! It's nice to know that someone else experienced the SAME things as a fellow ABC ... except, as of now, I can only speak enough Chinese to tell others I can't understand them 😂 but channels like yours always give me more motivation to understand the language and culture. Keep it up!!

A lot of what you said matched my experience, but I'm not asian. I was "the smartest kid", and I didn't "fit in", so I didn't have friends. At larger schools (after grade 7) I met other people like me and made friends. Lots of parents pressure their kids for high grades, college, important careers. It's a stereotype for Jewish and Chinese parents, so it's probably true for more of them. I never saw anyone bullied because of their race. I don't think kids notice race very much. But they definitely notice funny names! So it seems to me being asian didn't affect your schooling very much. Thanks for a very interesting video, and the time you spent thinking about this. 现在我在学习普通话。

Thank you for sharing this Andrew. I started studying Putonghua in January 2022, because I was not understanding what was being said on the Chinese singing shows I fell in love with in the spring of 2020 (I stayed home during the pandemic shutdown). Chinese is totally different from the French I studied in high school (many decades ago) and the Spanish I learned to communicate with my patients. I appreciate your reviews of the different online apps that can help me be successful with this big project I have started. I will be seeing you on your channel. Xièxie!

As a Bulgarian immigrant living in Italy, I totally felt the struggles of not knowing the local language when I came here in 2010. My school years were mostly lonely, but I slowly adapted into an introvert that is trying out a lot of new things just to experience the world within my own room - a faux-adventure, if you will. My knowledge of Bulgarian is low, I don't really like Italian as I only care about it for everyday usage, but English has always been something I prefer over others. I'm studying Japanese, mostly because I make content about a Japanese game that I wanna decipher because I'm illiterate, but I grew up enjoying the East Asian culture to bits. Whether it was the Dynasty Warriors games, fake Chinese-Japanese areas in games and the love for nature within these cultures, I love seeing things from a totally different perspective. I came across your channel mostly because your content is fun, but I'm also here for calligraphy tips, that of which you do have some explanations about. I actually might consider buying a proper brush pen - as I recently checked out some of the rollerball/gel pens you suggested in your videos to shoot my stationery into the stratosphere - because hanzi/kanji calligraphy has fascinated me since I was like an 8-year-old Lys. From what I've experienced, it's way harder than it appears to master it, but after picking up some key radicals and learning some kanji, I began to split up the characters which made them easier to write. I'm totally learning JP, but I may check out CN one day properly; I do play games with CN voiceovers after all (Honkai Impact 3rd, PGR, Genshin) so I would like to understand what the characters are actually saying. I do thank you for your tips and enjoy your cultural videos, plus it's nice to see you growing up into a person that blended in with the rest of your own local society. The Chinese writing system always intrigues me so I hope to see more history videos from you on those o/

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Im so happy to learn you had a happy childhood and teenage years... Sometimes kids (nor adults for that matter) don't know how their attitude and words can impact on another person. There is, quoting you, a much bigger world. Everybody being aware of it will make without doubt a better world. P. S. You are still as cute today as back to your school days self

Another Henanese here! Didn’t know your parents are from there too! I’m currently studying in Singapore tho but so good to know we are actually kind of like 老乡;) Hope everything’s alright! Really glad to see you having so much positivity and faith in life! Thanks for the video!

Hey, I'm from the Chicago suburbs too! Glad we can relate 😆

Another fantastic video. You are such a beautiful, smart, well balanced person, its hard to think that you were alone. I wonder if people felt they wouldn't meet up to your standards. I'm sure you have people from all over the world wanting to be your friend now.

Learning a second language or even a third language gives you a better understanding of your primary language. It makes you more acutely aware of the features that English has and does not have.

Thank you for this sincere video! And in general, you are a really great person, and you channel is superb and very useful. Thanks!!! It's definitely a subscribe :) 谢谢!

I am a Wang too, just with the first tone not third, with the water radical.

So well said. As luck would have it I was stationed in Taiwan from 1971-1974 with the US Navy. I was introduced to and fell in love with Chinese culture (Mao and Zhang Jie Shi were both still alive). I spent my physician career helping the mainland Chinese acquire Family Medicine. For the first time in my young life in the 1971 era I realized what it was like to be a true minority. As I learned to appreciate the excellent nature of Chinese culture (respect for education, family and learning) I began to look upon Americans who came to Taiwan as oddly 'different'. There was a lot for a young American to learn and I am still on that path. I agree with the intent of exposing all parties to learning a lot more about each other's culture. We have everything to gain by this and a dreadful amount to lose.

I learned a lot from this video I clicked expecting nothing but it was informative although I'm not American neither Chinese

Anglo culture, despite pretending to be “multicultural” is actually an extreme mono-culture. You can be any skin color, as long as you conform and “think Anglo.” If you start thinking Confucian, or talking factually about the how advanced China is (including the great government)…then you’ll get hate. Good for you! I first went to China in 2007 and it was a huge eye-opener. So much can be learned from East Asia.

I enjoyed this video. I am learning mandarin on my own and wish i had close chinese friends that i could talk with....or trade languages with...seems difficult to find...here in Boston. I have some friends but, one in particular, he in canada and one in malaysia....we throw words around and i am pretty sure if i went to any place that spoke chinese i would get around ok.....but speaking is key....getting off track here.....but as you said learning the language of another country really open up your mind and you feel different as i have noticed....when i hear people make comments that are just not true about asians, generalities and such...it really bugs me. I am not so happy with the US that's for sure. People here are very narrow minded that needs to change soon because it will be the cause of our undoing as a nation. We all cry, laugh, love the same,..america needs to get in touch with their spirituality as so many other nations naturally are....that would make a world of difference...come from a compassionate place towards all people....like it or not we are all in this together .....hopefuilly covid has been a wake up call for all countries and their leaders......

Thank you for sharing this story! I'm a white American, but I can relate some because I didn't have a TV as a kid. I also just copied a classmate when asked about my favorite TV show. I also knew a lot of classical music but no pop, and had never seen an Oreo cookie before school.

In some respects I can relate to you not knowing pop culture. We grew up without tv and I had no idea about pop culture, didn’t have a fav sports team. Our parents emphasized education over belonging to social clubs. Maybe that is why I am interested in the Chinese language and culture. Your outlook and mindset are wonderful, you have a beautiful soul.

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This is amazing. I didn’t know you were on KZfaq when I coincidentally met you at BSU. I wish you have a good future ahead.

When I came to Australia, I was hated just for breathing. They showed no mercy. I knew I was right in saying that my Parents should have went to America Instead.

I'm Chinese American and I'm currently learning Japanese kanji. Since Chinese hanzi and Japanese kanji have a lot in common, I've used your videos to help me with Japanese

听到后来，眼眶有点湿润，真是希望你能交到好朋友，我很幸运我们的社区中国人很多，孩子们也在教会有很多从小一起长大的朋友，很推荐你去华人教会看看，相信在神的引领下，你一定能交到有相同背景能彼此了解的朋友。

One of my exceptions with this video is the idea that bullying is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Its victim blaming. That may have been your experience but that is far from universal. My 5- year-old niece was introduced to anti blackness on her first day of kindergarten by a student who didn't want to sit next to her because she was brown. That had nothing to do with how my niece saw herself. To boil racial tensions in the US down to people "thinking" the world is out to get them is gaslighting and implies racism isn't real but just something that exists in the minds of people impacted by it. That is a very harmful and naive assumption.

You're the first person growing up in the Chicago area without the famous Chicaaaaago accent! So cool.

2:55 My Vietnamese friend's first name is Hoàng 王, he got the same treatment.

Hey another Henan person!

Great video, I'm a third generation Myanmar-Chineses, who could speak Chinese very well as we Myanmar-Chineses here studied it from a Chinese language school with Taiwan curriculum ( we now have Chinese language school with mainland china cirriculum as well). OF just like you we could never completely fit in the mainstream Myanmar culture understandably.

你很棒

When you said you feel your parents were lonelier during that time, I can imagine how hard the life of the first generation of immigrants.

I'm anxious because I'm Brazilian and want to do the au pair program in the US next year, don't wanna be bullied on college 😩

You should watch some video by 'Eli from Russia'. From what she's said in a few videos, one of her goals with her video sis to help people in the west see a different side of Russia, sort of like what you're doing with China. She makes travel videos all over the country. It's always great to see videos spotlighting beautiful parts of cultures that usually don't get seen without the undertone of politics

Your experience of growing up as a Chinese person in the US will be a great asset to you in the future as the balance of power in the world shifts - people like you will be very much in demand

1:14 Tom and Jerry is a silent film. It is not in any language, except body language, like ballet.

I'm Punjabi and I want to learn Chinese

we are neither chinese nor american, but we are emigrants, so i think it could be helpful to watch this w my 8 year old and discuss what the world is really like and what points she can relate to, while others could be eye-opening for her. thank you!!

Mr. Wang, as an old white American, father of one half-Asian son, I would be proud to be the father of a human being like you. Let's say, maybe I can be your online virtual godfather.

When it comes to learning a 2nd language, the Chinese in China are more keen to see their kids in ESL to give a more competitive advantage. It’s the ABCs who feel they need to lose their native tongue to be more American. More like “banana people” being Yellow on the outside, White on the inside.

I’m a white British male and school was very different in England. I started high school around the time of the Afghanistan/Iraq wars, by the end of 2nd year, my school was almost 50% Islamic refugee students. But, I found it important to break the wall and communicate about their country they left behind plus what they can experience in England. One of my best friends is originally from Lebanon and now has British citizenship. As for being open-minded as an anglophone native, Chinese is my 11th language 😅 languages are basically my hobby and I’m always immersed every day, whether it be music, a tv show. KZfaq videos or studying.

是！無錯。Yeah, I agree. Your experience is kind of what it's like in Australia, though it is more multicultural. There is still this desire to conform to the Aussie mono or mainstream Anglo culture at least while growing up, and thus I also for a while did not identify much with being Chinese. Things now are different as I too also went to China and met family there. Either way, it is a matter of perspective and learning Chinese or any language is a way of gaining access to a new perspective. Thanks for this evaluation.

5:16 I'm Vietnamese American, and now I play the race card. I learn Chinese (because Chinese is the root of Vietnamese) to be more Chinese. I play Chinese Chess. I would say: Did you know that Chinese chess is closer to its common ancestor of Indian Chess (Chaturanga) than Western chess? (It is true). I say it to impress on other people that I am that much smarter than they are, even if they play Western chess, which I also play.

I've just found your channel. I lived in Beijing and Hong Kong for 11 years, working as a copy editor for China Daily in Beijing and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. I've since retired and live in Indiana, and my Chinese has deteriorated through non-use. Glad to meet you, Wang Bo. Do you use an English first name, or does everyone call you "Bo"?

1/2 hours from Sydney, 70-100% white depending on the class. Less race diversity in my highschool especially as time went on

Thank you so much. Your video explained a lot of questions I had for a long time. Are you still living in the Chicago area? I would like to have you in my class to share your experience. By the way, I am teaching in a Chicago northern suburbs school.

'Smartest kid in school', oh yeah, Asian parents, high academic expectations.

What was that 成语 for self fulfilling prophecy you used ?

ok but like cashless payment right, the thing is without it u really can't buy anything lol, we were at this one tourist attraction and we couldn't buy water cause we didn't have it lmao, they don't take cash or cards or anything anymore lol

4:34 Im from Poland, where there arent soo many minorities (and if see asian or black person on the street is like win in a lottery) but also know too how to be outside the popculture, because i always live in another world unlike my classmates, where i don't watch too many films, sport, music etc.

I am an brazilian chinese and I was called by this names like ``Ching Chong`` or ``Jack Chan``

you are beautiful

I’m a blonde white person whose first language wasn’t English and grew up with a chinese family and had mostly chinese friends - in Canada.

要是我有你的心态就好了，可惜现实总是不尽人意。

Chicago! I hope you were not bullied. I grew up in three different states new Hampshire (there were only two African Americans in my school ) Florida (was 50/50 mixed with white black and Latin ) and Lowell Massachusetts (I was the only white kid in my class ) I grew up with allot of South East Asian kids and fell in love with the culture. I am living in SE Asia now. Amtrak 🤣你很帅❤️

helo, wangamatang ☺