I Pretended To Be Chinese on a Blindfolded Game Show (IT WORKED)

I Pretended To Be Chinese on a Blindfolded Game Show (IT WORKED)


I went on a game show with @jubilee where I pretended to be Chinese to win $$$. Time to really put my Mandarin skills to the test! This was for their Odd One Out video “6 Asians Vs 1 Secret White Guy (ft. Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约)” which you can see in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6vdzeLG8S4

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  1. white is a color in which any ethnicity can be for black people you'd have to be albino thats the only way but what's really grinding my gears is when people are saying "black and white" and then say "asian" which is not a color. just use the proper terminology instead, caucasian, asian, black people are a little trickier i guess since you need to add like "african american" etc.

    this is a huge pet peeve of mine. lol

  2. It’s a shame they didn’t get you to talk more in chinese, I mean what’s the point to bring an American who speaks chinese if he doesn’t talk? 🤔

  3. Native mandarin speaker generally has the ability to interpret what you’re saying even if you pronounce badly, as long as you can link it up into a proper sentence.

    Xiao Ma has good standard of Chinese by proper training. He will sound Chinese to Asian Americans for sure, especially those who are beyond second generations.

    But to a native Chinese speaker, there is still an accent, pronunciation and structuring gap. If you are not a native speaker, you tend to speak more formal, and it’s very hard to speak casual. The slangs will feel forced in, and here and there you will add in extra words that natives sometimes would skip etc.

    I’m not someone who will praise another just cos they “speak the language”. Because I’m trying to learn Thai now and I know I often sound like a joke 😂 Saw a reply to a comment, I think Asian Mother tongue is disappearing/ became less important. So in general, older generations people will be very happy to see you speaking their language. Even if you said “ni hao” they’ll be happy and say good job.

    But I would say for Xiao Ma, his pronunciation while still “white” is pretty good. Can tell he makes an effort to sound native/chinese. He doesn’t “sh” too much. Example, many “white” ppl who speaks Chinese (claimed fluently) would have pronounced “shiao ma” and I can see he attempts to prevent it from peeking through. But also because of that, his sentence sounds a bit too intentional to be local.

    Being multi-lingual is a hard-earned benefit. It’s good enough for those who speaks only their language to understand you. Let’s not be obsessed about sounding “local/native”. It may not always benefit you to seem local anyway. 🤷🏻‍♀️

  4. Wait, I just wanted to say about the "You're look fatter" comment is, most of the time, said in goodwill as a way to comment on how the person they're talking to looks like they've been taking care of themselves and basically it's trying to say "Oh, I care about you". While I do think maybe since times have changed a bit and just saying it like that is a bit crude to some people, I think it's a cultural thing which most people who didn't fully grow up there would get.
    if that makes sense?

  5. As an Asian, your biggest mistake is to praise China. Anyone from China loathed China that's why they left. They only go back to visit relatives but they are not awed by all the development or the achievement, they couldn't care less because whatever it is, not being in China is always much better for most overseas Chinese.

  6. The women just eliminated the men 1×1. This is kind of funny, because my wife is Indian-American, I am a mix of Ukrainian-American and Irish-American, and she says I am more Indian than most Americanized Indians. Maybe Asian women think the men aren't Asian enough for them?