Bro slowly realizing his biggest mistake in life was actually learning Chinese.

I wish I had this Chinese man in my life criticizing everything I do

Every western culture to everyone: “ omg China copy everything from us” China to everyone else: “why didn’t you copy their stuff and get rich?”

One thing I respect the Chinese for, is their “it will take generations to make things right” mindset. Too many third world countries are immigrating to a functional system instead of fixing their home. The amount of extremely bloody revolutions and civil wars in China could’ve easily made it barren and uninhabitable, but every time, they got back up and rebuilt the country again.

Rush Hour 4 trailer looking kinda wild

The black guy wants to get mad but he knows the Chinese guy is 100% right 😂

It’s better to be slapped by the truth, than kissed with a lie.

It's sad because the Congolese guy clearly isn't responsible himself, but feels shame for his countries inheritance.

It took a Chinese to tell this. If an European said the same thing, he'd be accused of rasism...

This is every Chinese parent explaining life to their children daily.

"They get drunk and shake they ass. Its wonderful" - Wise chinese philosopher

That “ look at your railways, high technology for the 1930’s”. Killer roast right there, served up with all the fixings.

He’s not being racist or demeaning, he’s just genuinely disappointed at the lack of progress and civility when all the tools for it are available.

Can we appreciate the fact that the Congolese guy spoke Chinese?👏

Ending it with “it’s wonderful” is diabolical 😂😂😂

These two men get along so well that they can be frank with each other. The Congolese man speaks fluent mandarin.

You have to remember that China was ripped a new one from the British Empire, invaded by Japanese and came to a realization that they were in the need to adapt. This Chinese man speaks from that painful truth.

The congolese is ashamed but he dosn't get offended and aggresive like so many idiots do. He knows that what the chinese man says is true and wants to improve his country instead of burying his head in the sand.

This is why I have always told my fellow Nigerians, Great Britain actually left us better off than we are today. 1960 when we gained independence China was experiencing Mao's famine, Nigerians were richer than Chinese people now look at us today!

My friend lost his farm in Zimbabwe in 2010 and the first thing they did was drain all the water out of the dam to get to the fish, not leaving enough water for dry season.

As an African, I hate to hear this, but it’s the God damn truth. Not all African countries of course as there are some bright spots. Take Somalia where I am from: the Italians left in 1960 and handed over a beautiful viable state with adequate infrastructure to build upon. Fast forward nearly 50 years later, Somalia is an utter hellhole with death and destruction everywhere you go, a country with not even a single operating factory as they have been destroyed and looted, the people who are starving on fertile lands (in the South), a corrupt, inept, tribal “government” which barely controls the capital city with the assistance of African Union troops and a country rampant with armed gangs and terrorists labelling it the most dangerous country in the World. Extremely sad.

the black man is so embarrassed it's felt thru the screen, it's painful.

Learn from your brothers, learn from your enemies. Just because they are evil does not mean they are stupid. -someone maybe

I know this man was speaking pure truth, but the most damaging line was "It will take generations to make things right"; and that shit just HIT.

This documentary is called "Empire of Dust" if anyone wants to watch the full thing

This Chinese man doesn't practice the racism of low expectations.

That guy is exposing an entire continent 🤣

Chinese has no chill and are honesty with their criticism, I respect that

Now this is a true Rush Hour documentary

He sounds like my dad lol. My dad is a straightforward man, blunt, often seems a bit harsh, but his words of criticism made my entire family strong. 😊

I imagined this Chinese man was following me around my house & garden for two years pointing things out, criticising & encouraging harder work & simple solutions to get things done. My house is now repainted clean & frugal. The garden is tidy & enjoyable. My accounts are perfect. I walk my kids to the bus stop as much as possible. The wife wanted to know who the hell I was talking to but never complained as stuff was getting done 24/7. Problem is, does anyone know how I’m gonna fill in this half mile deep lithium mine at the end of my garden?

As an African, the Chinese man is speaking the truth. In my country, we can not even maintain a good road that was built less than ten years ago.

Holy crap. His face is full of anger, but also complete admission to the truth. That is a rare facial expression.

*Rhodesia used the be called the "Breadbasket of Africa" because it produced enough food to feed the entire African contintent and still have surplus. Then they kicked out all the British people...and "Zimbabwe" starved under Mugabe*

And after 7 years, this video is more relevant today than it was 7 years ago. Very little changes in Africa. Ugandan Economist and Author: Elly Twineyo-Kamigusha couldn’t have said it better! When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount, bury the horse and get a living horse. However, in Africa more advanced strategies are often employed, such as; - Buying a stronger whip - Appointing a committee to study the horse - Changing riders - Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses. - Lowering the standards so that the dead horse can be included. - Re-classifying the dead horse as "living impaired". - Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse. - Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed. - Providing additional funding to increase dead horse's performance. - Rewriting the expected performance requirement for all horses. - Promoting the dead horse to supervisory position..................

You want a real good laugh..... come have a look at South Africa, its hilarious how fast its going backwards

He could speak many languages, but he decided to speak the truth

Anyone is 2024 watching this? I’ve never seen it before and laughed out loud harder than anything I’ve seen this year 😂

I passed around this video in first or second years of the pandemic and this popped out again with more newer comments, mostly highlighted the reverse racism if this was done from a westerner. Didn't understand why that was being much pushed, while the topic is us Asians and Africans discussing national development. And my reaction as a disflourished Islander Southeast Asian and Indonesian to the video is still the same. The Chinese didn't consider the starting point of DR Congolese societal condition enough. The Chinese can't understand why the Congolese cannot get things properly from their colonial masters whlie their people are pretty much disfranchised and their borders are hand drawn by the Europeans for their resources. China have been around literally before Roman empire and able to unify and risen from destruction by themselves by their monolithic virtues. Dissolution of a dynasty and a civil war following, the foreign invasions and bad harvest and natural disasters that kills many millions and, they learn past that and survives as an entity. A century of humiliation from the English and other Europeans and the savage invasion from Japanese hit them hard in the modern era so that they learn hard to adopt modernism. The disastrous Mao policies taught them hard how to step properly forwards so that we get how the Chinese now advanced this fast whlie the DR Congolese are pretty much still in languish in the same time. DR Congolese, or much Sub-Saharan Africans didn't have any of that. Their leaders before colonisation literally sold their people to foreigners for personal gain. They wars among themselves and never really at higher point where they can stood high to foreigners who are visiting in recent centuries. They modern border are hand drawn without much considerations of native demographics that pretty much are still being influential in people's life amd mind. And when they somehow managed to did just that and want to modernise themselves some foreigner exercise some influences to put down that, either with assassinations or just burt out proxy war so that their power and resources line didn't disturbed. So there's that: the DR Congo border is made for resources exploitation and it still is, just it actors is inherited from the Belgians (and that dreadful Leopold II), and Europeans to local warlords. I don't think the Chinese put enough account into that. Though as bad as the Congolese being slapped unfairly is, the Chinese here still did good to him. Now he now that the Congolese state is ruined from the start and pretty much will be like that to the future. The Chinese bring cheap technologies and developments to easen people's life surely yes but if those mad warlords is still around they won't get enough past that. The Chinese may won't interfere with their politics so that they can develop internally but idk how much they can gain from that, especially when the ruling class establishment can ask for tech of information barrier for the people. While what the Chinese did to the Congolese is great, I think it was a shame that the West within their legacy as their former colonial master and cornerstone of democracy and human rights - if they really think they is - cannot do the same to the Congolese, instead of pertaining their influence behind the ruling establishment and warlords. Development with human rights values if done well is much better than the Chinese monolithic views. But things wont turn around like that easily, it will never. At last, as someone who works with the Chinese and knew their language, if I were the Congo man here I will hop into him instead and follow him to live in China. Guaranteed it will much serves him and his families much well that what they will ever achieve in their land. Wild thought.

Just to be clear to everyone, as a fellow Asian, this is how we show our genuine care.

I had a chinese friend who was so brutal with his honesty to me that I was always pissed. But now I realized how right he was

The sarcasm is top notch at the end.

I'm from haiti where the mentality is way too close to africa's, and all i can say is this man speak nothing but the truth.

I had a friend who went to Africa with an organization that mainly repairs and provides wheelchairs to people in Africa. They also built a shed with a workbench and 5000€ worth of brand new tools. It was for the entire village to share so they can fix their stuff etc.. after 4 days every single tool was gone. They take it and don't bring it back. They had No concept of that.

I watched this whole documentary and can truly say I have a lot of respect for the Congolese man. He works hard for his countries cause and puts up with quite a bit of criticism from the Chinese man. But the Chinese man is correct in regards to what is going on in the country and I think it hurts the Congolese man in a way because he knows it’s true. Great documentary I advise anyone with the time to watch it.

Society still isn’t ready for this movie or this conversation, this movie would never be released today.

I think he's right but a lot of things are still in the shadow, colonialism has created a lot of social consequences and the shift to another culture is not that simple

The full Asian Dad experience

Chinese man is simply right. If you don't change anything, nothing will change.

The Chinaman isn't even supporting colonialism, he's just bewildered why the government or people did not tske care of the colonial infrastructure at all.

Inheriting infrastructures meant to exploit your country instead of making it better and having to deal with a compiacent and corrupt educated "new" ruling class and having to deal with post-colonial interference and cold war entanglement did not help -also remember boys, it is not colonialism if it is not done by europeans-

But but but, what about Wakanda? We wuz kangs. Shiiiiiiieeeeettttttt

Chinese dude isn't making a point in defense of colonialism, he just says they should've kept and improved the good parts like technology and medicine.

62 years is the (improved) average life expectancy of a person living in Uganda. So he’s asking him why they didn’t learn everything about the technology of the people who colonised them in essentially one person’s lifespan… Also the people who were supposed to be learning about (e.g., the Ugandan railway) were indentured servants/slaves living in terrible conditions… Also this period saw hundreds of thousands of people dying from widespread diseases like the sleeping sickness epidemic… Truly, just an absolutely wild series of statements.

This is one of greatest mic drops of all time, ends with… “it’s wonderful”. Being the biggest smartass you can be 😂

I am a Taiwanese. There are a lot of Eswatini students studying at my university. The Taiwanese government pays their tuition and dorm fees, gives them a stipend every single month just because Eswatini is one of the few countries to recognize Taiwan as an independent country. Those students should be grateful and working hard to become a better person to develop their country. But they don't. They barely study, don't learn Chinese. Some of them don't even bother to learn basic chinese. Some of them don't even come to class. So much wasted resources, so many wasted opportunities. Shame

Hahaha I agree with the Chinese man, it's insane Africa is still in the stone age

50 years is long enough.almost as long as most develop asian cities take from a backwater to a world class

The Chinese guy talks to the African like equals. And of course then he is honest. We only can respect that.

What did the colonizers do for them other than steal their land, resources and children? "WhY yOu nO LeArN?"

The Europeans built railroad and roads in many African countries, after they left , none of it has been taken care of or rebuilt.

My father always said... Your true friend always said the bitter truth, but it is always better than sweet lying.

This whole show was really entertaining. They had some good banter both ways😂

The Chinese guy "I am smiling. *But I am furious* "

“It’s wonderful.” That ending line is savage 😂

The Europeans did their absolute best to prevent any sort of this education and „learning“ from them. It would have meant that the colonial areas could have rebelled a lot easier. Also there is gross neglect of the fact that a lot of african borders were drawn without keeping any ethnic/cultural criteria in mind. So the people within the country did not feel like one people

When you have high expectations for someone, instead of just treating them as an incapable victim.

"You were colonized by europeans but you learned nothing...so , we will colonize you now" -Chinese man to African man

Im Filipino and it sucks many of my people have the mindset of the Congolese: many Filipinos squander their money instead of investing, reject foreign capitals/investments/foreign ownership of businesses all cuz of "Filipino first/pride", disdain for education, crabs in a bucket mentality etc. The smart Filipinos just leave and go to countries where they are best treated and can have the best opportunity to create and maintain wealth

Chinese know to treat foreigners like foreigners. And guess what, it works.

Chinese man has right, but he should be kind to him, because Congolese guy show some discipline and hardworking when he learn chinese. And look like good and sensitive guy.

Looking at the state of that country one has to wonder why they would celebrate independence.

LOL, the last Chinese dude comment "They twerked their asses. It's wonderful here".

How the Chinese honestly view Africa and Africans which is why they don't employ any Africans in their mining plants unless its low skilled.

This man speaks the truth.

Wow. As much as the truth hurts. It needs to be said. Well spoken.

"Bro, you fucked up big time when you told the Europeans to leave. They built roads, railways and an electric grid and you've let it all go to shit." 😂😂

Reminder that colonialism brought so much medicine and food that it actually saved more lives than it killed They should be thanking euros

As an a citizen of the African continent, I never get tired of this video.

I'm from Belgium, one of my teacher was very involved in humanitarian aid to Africa. Man the story he told us... They sent bags of seeds so the africans could plant them. They sang and danced and celebrated but the next day they ate the seeds from the bags instead of planting them. My teacher's team sent furniture for the local school, the africans sang and danced and celebrated but they never assembled the furniture and ended up using the planks as firewood. They sent a motorcycle to help them travel long distances to other villages, they sang and danced and celebrated but one of them took the wheels for his handcart. Finally they sent a solar powered pump for the well, they sang and danced and celebrated but at some point the button became disloged and fell into the command box. All they had to to was open the box and put the button back in place. They never did. Those are people who do not plan further than the next half hour, as such they will always need help and will never progress.

He's totally right. China was far more in ruins After Mao's death than Africa. Discipline and dedication made them what they are now. Same goes for Vietnam, India and more.

Collective IQ in that part of the world explains everything. Reality is unkind.

Among the (mainland) Chinese, there is no such thing as being political correct. They say whatever they want about other people (unless it e.g. concerns their own government or other people holding the purse strings who are higher up). This also makes them terribly direct and honest. This is the characteristic about that, which I can appreciate. People sometimes need to be confronted.

" You went backwards instead of forwards " Yup, that's pretty much describes the progress of Africa

It’s like getting a lecture from my dad😂

You can tell just by looking at these comments who were colonized and who were not. The fact that you think our colonizers just peacefully left and left these “advancements” for us to prosper is a sign that your education systems did not teach you half of the truth of what took place in those colonized countries.

"Shaking their behinds..." 🤣

I would pay to watch a sitcom with these two as main characters 😂

That “It’s wonderful” at the end

The Chinese tells the truth!!! If they cant take such feedback..no wonder they nvr improve

Had a friend exactly like this many years ago.. They don't hold back, they tell it like it is They will point out your mistakes with a smile, in a well meaning way. If you're lucky they'll show up as you're making mistakes.. not after

As a colonial power, wasn't the Belgian's particularly brutal?

The documentary is called Empire of Dust (2011).

This may explain what happened in South Africa, Mandela ended apartheid yet at the same time turned it into the hellhole it is today.

As a white South African, I feel this.

The guy can speak Chinese tho, that’s massive !

Did this just popped in randomly in your recommended page?

Truth hurts. Congo in particular was handed some of Africa's finest civil infrastructure in the 1960's, including very good medical and educational institutions. They collapsed almost immediately once the Belgians left the country. It is a story very common across Sub-Saharan Africa today with very few outliers...

Its about time africa looks at itself for its failure's instead of blaming the white man from europe...they had the infrastructure but corruption damaged that .

50 years is still a long time this dude brah his still trying to be a victim, nah that chinese dude is absolutly on point