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0:02hey welcome back so we're talking about
0:06Walmart heard of heard of I saw bumper
0:08sticker once that says Walmart always
0:11low wages
0:13always yeah pretty crazy so Walmart
0:16wanteded to go to Germany we already
0:17talked about some of the reasons why
0:18they wanted to do it makes a lot of
0:21sense German government says
0:23nine we don't want you because what does
0:26Walmart do to local businesses they
0:30destroy them you can't keep you can't
0:33compete with Walmart right so if you
0:35have a local pharmacy and you have
0:37medicine you pay more for the medicine
0:40to sell than Walmart sells it
0:44for so you can't compete about against
0:48it and Germany is very sensitive to um
0:52having uh other having um unemployment
0:57so originally they said nine
1:00but then it turns out there was a chain
1:03of stores that sold very similar stuff
1:06to Walmart that was getting ready to go
1:08bankrupt now Germany can e the German
1:12government can either say well there go
1:14those jobs or they said hey Walmart
1:17would you like to buy this chain of
1:20stores I said but you have to understand
1:23something there's some requirements for
1:25you if you want to buy this store first
1:27off you need to keep the hour short
1:31right you can't have all night 24 hours
1:33and even late at night at all either so
1:37the German government says that uh
1:41businesses should close around six s
1:43o'clock right you should be home with
1:46your family instead of staying up and
1:49working at the company in fact if you go
1:50to Germany you'll notice that almost
1:52everything closes down the only things
1:53that open are bars and restaurants and
1:55everything else is pretty much closed
1:57down except for like they have 7-Elevens
1:58you you can go get groceries at the
2:017-Eleven but the problem with the
2:047-Eleven is you know that the price of
2:07milk at 7-Eleven is a lot more than it
2:10would be at a regular store
2:12so most people so they said you can't
2:15stay open all night you have to have
2:16shorter hours which is kind of against
2:18the Walmart
2:19idea they said also uh you can't fire
2:23anybody right so you in Germany when you
2:26get hired it's hard to get fired and so
2:29they said hey Walmart if you want to
2:31take over you have to keep the same all
2:34the same employees right and you have to
2:36keep the wages the same so Walmart
2:38Walmart loves to undercut paying their
2:41employees they just do fact you can be a
2:43full-time employee at Walmart working 40
2:46hours a week and still qualified for
2:48food
2:49stamps yeah
2:51yeah wow wow also we'd like you to pay
2:55extra taxes right so everybody else is
2:58taxed at a at a standard rate we want
3:01you to pay more than they do on
3:04taxes also you need to pay for this uh
3:09you need to pay a premium in other words
3:11if you want to buy this this series of
3:14stores you have to pay more than they're
3:17worth we know on our accountants figured
3:19out how much they're worth and you have
3:20to pay more than what they're
3:22worth oh and then the last thing you're
3:25not allowed to remodel it you can't put
3:27a big old sign up you can see for 12
3:30miles away that says Walmart you have to
3:31keep the same you can take down their
3:33sign and put up another sign the same
3:35size but you can't remodel either so
3:37there's not much room in the in the
3:39between the aisles in the in these
3:42stores so they have little arrows
3:44telling you what what you can't go the
3:46the back way you you stop you have to
3:48back out right so they Walmart doesn't
3:51like that Walmart want to expand they
3:53make it big so you have two or three
3:54rows going through the German government
3:57says no you can't remodel these things
3:59these things are kind of falling apart
4:00you got to keep keep them going now
4:03Walmart did the numbers and they found
4:06out that there was no way that they
4:09could make a profit by doing this they
4:12just said there's no way German
4:14government says take it or leave
4:16it Walmart says we'll take
4:20it even though they knew they were going
4:23to lose money they took
4:26it well that's pretty that's pretty
4:28stupid isn't it
4:30no it's not Walmart is not you don't
4:32become the number the largest company in
4:34the world by revenue or employees by
4:37being stupid you don't Walmart they are
4:39smart right so they bought the bit
4:42bought the Walmarts and I've been to the
4:44Walmart in Germany right here's what
4:47they look
4:49like yeah isn't that place a dump I mean
4:54does that look anything like our
4:56Walmarts here in the United States no
4:59wear dumps I mean that's
5:01just look at this thing and they said
5:03that's all that's the sign that could
5:05put up
5:08yeah
5:10yeah pretty crazy
5:12stuff now why would Walmart do this why
5:17would Walmart do this crazy crazy stuff
5:20well first
5:21off Walmart knew so so what's the
5:25purpose of
5:26Walmart it's not to give toasters
5:29what is the purpose of Walmart to make
5:34money that's the purpose of Walmart
5:36right so when they opened up this when
5:39they took over the buildings you say why
5:41would they do this and you can think of
5:43all sorts of nice reasons and we could
5:45list up all sorts of great reasons to do
5:47it but they knew that they're losing
5:49money and the purpose is to Lo is not to
5:52lose money it's to make money
5:56yet why would they do this why would
5:58they open stores in Germany if they knew
6:01they were going to lose money you say
6:03well maybe they'll make money later no
6:05no no they don't care about later right
6:07they care now now how could
6:12Walmart make money by losing money they
6:16say maybe it's taxes not has nothing to
6:18do with tax write offs or anything like
6:20that maybe it's currency exchange rates
6:22it's not currency exchange rates right
6:25it's they were making money right off
6:27the bat they started making money
6:30by losing money in
6:32Germany they think how can you how could
6:35they possibly do this let's think about
6:38the medicine right we know that Walmart
6:42can buy medicine and sell it at prices
6:46below what a local pharmacy can
6:49do how can they do
6:52this because Walmart Buys in bulk don't
6:55they they buy in bulk if you buy in bulk
6:59you get discounts on it don't you so
7:01let's say you go to a store and you say
7:04I want to buy a bottle of aspirin I have
7:08a headache right they say here's a
7:10bottle of aspirin and it's
7:14$2 if you went to that same store and
7:16say hey look I'll buy a thousand bottles
7:19of aspirin from you would they give you
7:21a
7:23discount yes they would so let's say if
7:26you say I'm going to buy a thousand
7:27bottles of aspirin they might say okay
7:29okay we'll sell it to you for
7:31$150 what if you said I'm going to buy a
7:34million bottles of
7:36aspirin would they give you an even
7:38bigger
7:39discount
7:41yes so that's how they made money so
7:45since now they have this whole chain of
7:47stores in Germany added to the all the
7:50rest of their stores
7:52worldwide Now by adding these more in
7:55Germany they added they made it so they
7:57buy things in larger buls don't they so
8:01e so they since they're bottling let's
8:03say say they bottle B they buy uh a
8:07million bottles of aspirin before and
8:08now they buy two million bottles of
8:10aspirin because they have all these
8:11German businesses going now that the
8:14manufacturer is going to lower their
8:15rates aren't they so think about this
8:19even though they're losing money in
8:22Germany by losing money in Germany that
8:26makes their operations around the world
8:28more profitable
8:30because they're buying in such larger
8:31bulk
8:33now now they're not losing very much
8:35money in Germany but even so they're
8:37losing a little bit of money in Germany
8:39but that makes all their other stores
8:41more profitable because they're buying
8:42in larger quantities and they're selling
8:44in larger quantities they're selling
8:46everything there's over a million
8:47different products at a Walmart so you
8:49take that so if you save two cents on
8:53everything and then you multiply that
8:56times how many Walmarts they have in the
8:58world
9:01how much stuff are they going to sell
9:03now now they're going to be able to buy
9:05in larger quantities which causes they
9:08get a discount when they buy in larger
9:10quantities which causes them to
9:12ultimately be profitable so even though
9:14they're losing money in Germany by
9:17losing money in Germany it's making them
9:21worldwide more
9:25profitable wow see we're learning how
9:28money Works aren't we who would think
9:31that by losing money in Germany you're
9:33making money and that's what they did
9:36right so now they can buy in even larger
9:39quantities it takes a while to get wrap
9:41your head around that I know this is a
9:43hard one since they're buying in larger
9:45quantities on everything their cost
9:48their their costs go down around the
9:50world and they're making money losing
9:53money by making
9:55money wow well pretty no it gets even
9:58more interesting
10:01because if you go to Germany right now
10:03you will not see any
10:06Walmarts they're
10:09gone Walmart leaves Germany they tried
10:13for a decade they couldn't make it
10:15because it was hard for them to undercut
10:18the local
10:19Discounters the customers were creeped
10:21out by the greeters you know those
10:22greeters right this but they they got
10:24usually it's old person and they they
10:26say hi welcome to Walmart hi
10:29and you think well they're greeting me
10:31this is the Germans said that's just
10:33creepy right welcoming me to a store
10:37that's just weird um you know why the
10:40greeters are there don't you it wasn't
10:43to make you feel warm and fuzzy it make
10:45there for security right they were there
10:47to make sure that people aren't bringing
10:49stuff in and saying that they bought it
10:51there or whatever they this is all
10:53security that's what by the way they've
10:55done away with greeters now in Walmarts
10:57and there's security every everybody
10:59knows the security but it's still like
11:02kind of weird right they also the the
11:05German employees did not like some of
11:07Walmart's strange ideas do you know
11:09Walmart quite of at a lot of stores they
11:12actually do cheers in the morning yeah
11:14they go wooo Walmart yay Walmart we're
11:18the best woo woo hey we're the best
11:20Walmart and the Germans said that is
11:22just
11:23creepy give me a w w give me an a he and
11:27the Germans are like
11:30what this this this is just just weird
11:32right and also the Germans um are
11:37allowed to flirt with each other in the
11:39workplace in the United States um it's
11:43not illegal but it's it's very there
11:46there's a high amount of risk and we
11:47will talk about that later about the
11:49risk involved with doing that and so
11:50they said nope you can't you have to
11:52just be now why would they do this why
11:55would they leave Germany if it's making
11:59a money they're still making money they
12:00were making money the whole time the
12:02whole 10 years they were there they're
12:03making money oh they pulled out of
12:05Germany they also pulled out of South
12:09Korea now think about Germany and South
12:11Korea a lot of similarities pretty darn
12:14High GDP pretty darn High gni lots of
12:18people consumer oriented makes all very
12:21centrally located for their makes a lot
12:23of sense they said nope nope we're out
12:26of there why would they ever do that
12:29because they decided to go to
12:32China yeah yeah so think about the the
12:35economy in Germany and South Korea it's
12:38wealthy country but it's been very flat
12:41right the growth is real flat what's the
12:43growth like in
12:45China going straight up isn't it yeah so
12:50they said let's go to China where they
12:51don't have all these silly little rules
12:53that we have to follow think about this
12:56when people say well why didn't they
12:57just expand into Germany into China and
13:00keep the Germans and the South Koreans
13:02because they give even larger quantities
13:04think of it this way if you have a
13:07million dollars do you want your million
13:09dollars in a bank account that gets 1%
13:11or that gives you
13:14eight% I want the 8% I'm GNA take all my
13:16stuff out of the 1% and put it in the 8%
13:19right same way said Germany that Walmart
13:22said we're GNA we're we're not making
13:24enough money here let's go to China now
13:27let's look at the Chinese Walmart
13:30let's compare that to a German
13:33Walmart yeah it's pretty crazy it's
13:37pretty crazy so you go to Walmart in um
13:40uh China I've been to one Walmart in
13:42China and you what's weird is you go to
13:46the parking lot it's full nice cars so
13:50in the United States poor people go to
13:52Walmart rich people go to Costco that's
13:55just it the average uh household income
13:59of a Costco Shopper is
14:04$150,000 you go to w Walmart and tell me
14:07that that's the average income it it's
14:09pretty obvious that that just driving
14:11parking lot you can pretty much figure
14:13that that's not
14:15correct so in China you go to a Walmart
14:19they're full of beautiful house
14:21beautiful
14:23cars it turns out in China rich people
14:26go to Walmart you know in United States
14:29that says always low prices cost good
14:32they the one I went to didn't have any
14:34of that stuff it just had it was just it
14:37was really wealthy right everybody only
14:39the rich people go there they had
14:41beautiful stuff right guys have all been
14:43to Ikea you know how it's hard to find
14:46your way out of
14:48Ikea this Walmart I went to was the same
14:51way you couldn't find yourself out of
14:53there in fact they had you trapped like
14:54a rat in a maze and they were really
14:57smart so what happened is so this one is
15:00like three stories tall this Walmart
15:02right here is like three stories
15:05tall so what happens is you walk into
15:08the Walmart and they give you a grocery
15:11basket give you a big grocery basket you
15:14take the grocery basket and you get on
15:16an
15:17escalator and as it puts as you get on
15:20the escalator the teeth there little
15:22teeth in the in the bottom of the
15:24escalator that grab your cart so it
15:27pulls you up so going up the escalator
15:30it's being you're basically being pulled
15:32up a rail right but here's where it gets
15:35great this is diabolical this is so so
15:39insane as you're going up you're
15:44shopping oh okay so as you're going up
15:46your shopping so let's say you want to
15:47buy you're thinking should I buy this
15:50how long do you have to make your buying
15:53decision so you going to say oh do I
15:56want that do I want that uh get
16:00oh now I can't put it back
16:02I'm so they trap you to buying stuff I
16:06mean it's insane isn't it and it takes
16:09you all the way up to the top and when
16:11you get up to the top uh of the the
16:13Walmart it's beautiful but this one this
16:16one was just beautiful expensive stuff
16:18like Gucci not knockoff Gucci real Gucci
16:21lots of expensive stuff nothing like can
16:24you imagine Gucci at a
16:26Walmart yeah but but they're real right
16:30and um uh then you start to try to find
16:33your way out and you start to work your
16:35way
16:36down work your way down and as you go
16:39down the prices of stuff starts to go
16:41down too so the top floor where you have
16:43to that's you you get off at the top
16:46floor then you say wow everything's so
16:48expensive oh no no and then you see PE
16:50prices that starts to get down and you
16:52go well that's a good deal that's
16:54cheaper because it was really expensive
16:55back there that's a good they're the
16:58social engineer in isn't it they're
16:59making you think that that you're
17:01getting better deals and then so at the
17:03bottom you're paying more for it because
17:06you you're just comparing everything to
17:08what was at the top
17:10floor yeah yeah now why do rich people
17:13go to Walmart and not poor people well
17:16if you've ever been to China you'll
17:17notice that their refrigerators are very
17:20different than they are in the United
17:21States inited states in Belgium I bet
17:25you some of you have refrigerators that
17:28are big enough for you to sleep in you
17:30know what I'm talking about right huge
17:32monster refrigerators in China they
17:34don't have those they fresh food a lot
17:37more than we do we don't they don't free
17:39stuff and they have tiny little
17:40refrigerators right they're not that
17:44big my cat could probably sleep in one
17:46of their refrigerators but that'd be
17:48about it I mean they're they're not very
17:49big who do you think has a big
17:52refrigerator the rich people and then
17:55the rich people shop at Walmart
18:03so let's take a
18:09look at shopping at
18:12Walmart so yes you can see some they
18:14have some different stuff this is at the
18:17bottom but look how how pretty that is
18:21look how pretty that is it's it's a it's
18:24different it's just different than way
18:27and yes they have alligators there that
18:28you can eat in eat in all sorts of stuff
18:34but if you've ever been to China you'll
18:36notice that this is actually a pretty
18:39fancy grocery store if youve ever been
18:41to most Asian grocery
18:43stores okay aaji is beautiful I got that
18:46but a lot of them
18:47aren't they're more like the German
18:50standard of Walmart than the Chinese
18:52standard of Walmart but you look at this
18:53I mean that's beautiful you don't see
18:55things like this in a lot of stores in
18:58all over
19:00yeah yeah so who can afford to shop here
19:02the rich
19:04people
19:21okay come
19:24on here's 15 weird things you'll find in
19:28Walmart in in
19:30China and so yeah always said the
19:33alligators you'll see all sorts of
19:34interesting foods and we'll talk about
19:36interesting Foods here in a little bit
19:37but you will see them and yeah it's it's
19:41it's kind of fun walking around it's
19:42like wow people can eat that yeah we'll
19:45talk more about that so yes they have
19:47the
19:48crocodiles with a grapefruit in their
19:51mouth I guess I don't
19:53know oh yeah just grab the meat this is
19:57actually more common in most countries
19:59of the world right everybody in the
20:00United States unless it's in a a plastic
20:04foam with plastic wrap on it people say
20:07ew it's gross most countries don't have
20:09that plastic foam it's really kind of
20:11useless isn't it especially if you're
20:12eating fresh food all the time there's
20:15no reason and so you will see I've
20:16traveled all over the world this is the
20:19model for how food is how meat is
20:22usually picked
20:23up
20:27yeah okay then you've got um here they
20:30packaged orange juice and corn oil
20:32together I have no idea what that why
20:36they would do that but they
20:38do turtles and frogs yep they have
20:42Turtles and frogs I've SP to lots of
20:44grocery stores with frogs in them and
20:47yep Andy have you ever eaten a frog yeah
20:49it's good how about a turtle I've never
20:53had a turtle now would
20:55I
20:57sure I wouldn't order it but sometimes
21:00you don't have a choice which we'll talk
21:03more about that here in a little bit
21:06okay uh Walmart branded Spirits this
21:10this stuff is kind of scary we'll talk
21:11about that here real quick rib cages so
21:15just get some
21:18ribs assorted dried reptile Parts
21:23imagine going to Walmart and getting
21:25some parts
21:29boxes of liquor and these are really
21:30expensive too they're really expensive
21:34and some more
21:36frogs and every type of Chopstick you
21:39could ever want to
21:42use and you can get some ducks just grab
21:49one uh hot and spicy beef granules I
21:53think this is for
21:55soup Pig
21:57faces yeah can imag you just go Walmart
22:00here in Belleview and say hey give me a
22:02couple Pig
22:08faces a male
22:11bikini yeah there's a TV there's a movie
22:14called Barat right I don't know and I
22:16guess they're coming up with a new one
22:17coming you should see that because
22:19that's even worse than than than this
22:22male
22:24bikini
22:26yeah he bulk rist
22:29yeah that's pretty
22:31common so you can see there's some
22:33interesting things there at the
22:35Walmart so now we're talking about we're
22:37talking about doing business in China
22:39now why do we care about China it's got
22:42a lot of people we've already talked
22:43about how many people it has nobody
22:45knows but we know it has a lot of people
22:47now a lot of people don't understand
22:50China they they to to do business in
22:53China you have to understand how the
22:55government works in China and you will
22:57never learn how the government Works in
22:59China by watching television it does not
23:01work that way it's everybody hears the
23:04Communist party and president G and all
23:07that no it doesn't work that way China
23:10actually has two governments I've had
23:13Chinese students come before me to they
23:15say Andy I'm from China I can tell you
23:19we only have one
23:23government here's a
23:25question just because you're from a
23:28country does that mean
23:30you
23:31understand everything about your
23:33country's government for
23:36instance president of the United
23:39States our president of the United
23:42States is are they are they popularly
23:45elected so whoever gets the most votes
23:47wins no no George Bush Jr lost the
23:51popular vote Donald Trump lost the
23:53popular
23:54vote so then we have What's called the
23:57electorial college okay so we have an
23:59electoral college that so we vote then
24:02the electorial college takes part of
24:04those numbers and then they have their
24:06own little vote but not all the
24:09delegates have the same voting power and
24:13authority and you have super delegates
24:15and secondary delegates and you got all
24:17these things and they have conventions
24:18and all that most Americans really don't
24:21know how our president is elected right
24:24is it that strange that there are people
24:26in China who don't understand this right
24:30so China has two governments the top
24:33government that everybody knows about is
24:35called the Communist Party the Communist
24:38party that's the one you hear about on
24:39television all the time and from a
24:42western perspective doing business in
24:44China it can be kind of difficult to
24:47predict what they're going to do so one
24:49day they might say something and then
24:50they can turn around the next day and
24:52say something completely different and
24:54there's
24:55no they can just they can change right
24:58then there's the lower level of
25:00government the lower level of government
25:02so it's like the the top and then the
25:04bottom right the top is the Communist
25:07Party the bottom is the Lo or local
25:10government is a better way to look at it
25:13so they have two so the bottom
25:14government is based off of the set of
25:16sets of rules and they're very stable
25:19those rules are locked in and they've
25:21been the same for a long long time right
25:25and so if you want to do business in
25:26China you can either go through top
25:28Communist party where you can go through
25:30the rules there's a problem these rules
25:32are some of them are over a hundred
25:34years old and technology has changed a
25:36lot in the last hundred years
25:40so it can be difficult to work through
25:43with the rules also if you have a friend
25:47who is a member of the Communist party
25:49or high up in the Communist party they
25:51can make life very easy for you for
25:55instance I was in Beijing a number of
25:57years ago
25:59and uh when I was in Beijing they opened
26:02up this brand new train that was going
26:05directly from Beijing to Las City Tibet
26:09right so basically the opposite side of
26:11the country this was a cool train right
26:14this is everybody had R it was super
26:16Hightech so for instance they had to go
26:19across the permafrost you know but they
26:21were up it goes up real high desert it
26:24goes up across permafrost which has to
26:27stay frozen
26:28but trains generate heat when they go
26:30over the tracks so they had to
26:32refrigerate the tracks so there's
26:34actually air conditioning on the tracks
26:36to keep it from melting then they have
26:39holes in the mountains right well the
26:40pro same thing they have to refrigerate
26:42these holes in the mountains also it
26:44goes up like 22,000 feet in the air you
26:47know Mount Rainer is 14 goes up 22,000
26:51feet well you can't function there right
26:54you can't right when I was in Los city
26:56that was 18 that was was tough 22 you
26:59can't do it so what they do is they pump
27:02in oxygen almost like an
27:05airplane and you're sitting there and
27:08you have oxygen you can put on the
27:10oxygen masks right as you're going
27:12riding this train through this high
27:14desert with no life it looks like you're
27:16on Mars it's really beautiful right and
27:19so you're going there and then you take
27:20off your mask and you decide you want to
27:22go to the
27:23bathroom I saw two people pass out
27:26walking to the bathroom just from
27:28getting up to walk to the bathroom so
27:30it's super Hightech and super cool and I
27:33wanted to go on this so they just opened
27:35it up when I was there I was talking to
27:37my friend I said hey I heard I've been
27:39reading about this train this looks
27:41really cool uh I'd like to to get on it
27:44he says oh no there's a two-year waiting
27:48list to go on that train right plus the
27:52first like six trains are only for
27:56members of the communist party you're
27:59Chinese Communist party you're not a
28:01member of the Chinese Communist party so
28:04you come back in a couple of years and
28:05maybe we can do something I said man
28:08that would have been fun to go on I
28:10really I've been reading up on this
28:11thing he
28:13says do you really want to go I said oh
28:18I'd love to go but I can't get in he
28:20says I'm in the Communist party and I'm
28:23fairly high up you really want to
28:27go and also at this time they closed L
28:30of to tourists right and because they
28:33wanted this train thing to go perfectly
28:35I
28:36said I'd love to go this would be
28:38amazing he says let me see what I can do
28:42next morning I'm have I'm having
28:44breakfast with him he pulls out the
28:45tickets he says I'm gonna go with you to
28:48to that and I was the first person that
28:51looked anything like this on the train I
28:53was the only person on the train that
28:55looked anything like this and so I got
28:57to go to the now how did I get to go to
28:59Tibet when it was closed and this
29:01beautiful train is all booked two years
29:03in
29:04advance because I have a friend who's
29:07high up in the Communist party right so
29:10they can make doing business very
29:13easy now what's interesting about China
29:16so United States we have multiple
29:18governments too we have the federal
29:19government and then we have the state
29:21government and then we have the County
29:23government and then we have the city
29:24government so we've got all these we've
29:26got multiple governments too
29:28but here's the difference between the
29:30United States and
29:32China if you look at the difference
29:34between the federal government and the
29:36state government anywhere in the United
29:39States it's all the
29:41same right we know what the role of the
29:43governor is the governor in Washington
29:46has the same rules and and job as a
29:50governor of Texas or
29:53Michigan right it's always the same in
29:57China
29:59the difference between those two
30:00governments
30:01moves depending on where you are so if
30:05you do business in
30:07Beijing the Communist Party does is very
30:11involved in your business you have to
30:13work with the com through the Communist
30:15party with them very closely to do
30:18business in Beijing it's just they
30:20control most of the government functions
30:22in Beijing are focused on the Communist
30:25party if you go to
30:29um
30:31chungu the Communist part's involved but
30:34local government has a lot of
30:36power if you go to Tibet the Communist
30:40part is not very involved in the daily
30:42basis they're a semi-autonomous region
30:45right and so they do basically the only
30:48thing the Communist Party really is
30:50active in on a daily basis is security
30:53you know the Army and the police and
30:54things like that but otherwise the
30:56locals kind of run most of the stuff
30:59right so that line between the two
31:02governments moves depending on where you
31:05are in China so if you do business in
31:09China you need to find out about the
31:11area you're going to to see where that
31:14line
31:15is so real good example of this that
31:18that you can see in on the TV right now
31:22is if you look at all the problems that
31:24Hong Kong is having so Hong Kong is part
31:27of China
31:29and but the Chinese government when they
31:31took Hong Kong back from the from the
31:34British they said okay the Communist
31:37part is only going to do a little bit
31:40we're going to let their their
31:42government stay the same that it was
31:44supposed to be and everybody agreed and
31:46they said that's fine right and they
31:48said after like 50 years we'll start to
31:51move it down right so after 50 years the
31:54the the Communist Party will have a lot
31:56more influence than they do at the
31:57beginning everybody says okay that
31:59sounds like a good idea then the Chinese
32:03major Chinese Communist Party said let's
32:06start to move that
32:08line and that's what all the protests
32:10are about they're moving the line
32:12between the local and the federal
32:15government they're just moving it and so
32:17everybody knew that they were going to
32:18move it the protesters said you're
32:20moving it too fast we want you to slow
32:23down moving the line between local and
32:27so that's that's what that all is about
32:29if the if one would if they would agree
32:31on where the the governments the
32:33different the two governments exist
32:36everybody be fine but that's that's kind
32:38of weird Okay so there's some things in
32:40China that when you're doing business
32:42that you need to kind of be aware
32:48of so some strange Customs by Western
32:51standards by our state by by people in
32:53the United States these are some things
32:55about
32:56Chinese that you need to be ready for
32:59right it's kind of like remember I told
33:00you about the little old lady who met me
33:02in Tibet
33:04goes yeah you can see how that could be
33:07a problem couldn't you if you weren't
33:09ready for it right so here are some
33:11things that you're going to be
33:12interested in
33:14spitting spitting is more common than it
33:16is in other parts of the world you'll
33:18see people spit just everywhere uh
33:22there's kind of a reason for it's not
33:25considered so bad it the government's
33:27trying to tell people to stop spit but
33:29you will see people spit a lot more than
33:31normal one of the reasons you have to
33:34spit in China is because the uh the air
33:37can be pretty dirty and it just gets in
33:40the back of your throat and uh you you
33:44just need to do to spit and blow your
33:46nose more than you do in other parts of
33:48the world uh and so that you you will
33:51see people spit a lot more than you
33:53expected but okay not a big
33:56deal yeah the food
33:58yeah China has some yummy yummy food
34:01they also eat some foods that
34:04are
34:05oh hard to eat by Western standards
34:10right and what's kind of weird is if you
34:12go to a meal with somebody
34:15important one of the things that they do
34:18to honor you as a visitor is to get some
34:22even
34:24more nonwestern traditional food which
34:29is usually
34:30expensive so now you're eating a
34:32business
34:33meal and they'll bring out something
34:36that you know what it is or you don't
34:39know what it is neither way you want to
34:42eat that this it's GNA happen right
34:45right you should try all the food
34:46because it's really it tastes way better
34:48than you'd be you'd be amazed at how
34:50good yummy some of that stuff is it's
34:52not like American Chinese restaurants
34:54it's really good but anyway they will
34:57bring some stuff to you that you really
35:00don't want to eat so what do you do you
35:04go ew I don't don't do that that will be
35:07it will be very very offended if you do
35:09that but here's how you get around it
35:12and this works really really well you
35:15say oh that looks really good I've never
35:18had I've never tried this before my
35:20tummy is I've been traveling and my
35:23tummy is kind of upset I think that that
35:26would upset my tummy know uh can I try
35:28it later on because I've been traveling
35:30now if you've ever done much traveling
35:32you always get an upset tummy no matter
35:35what you are going to get Tummy problems
35:38when you travel to other parts of the
35:39world and you go to you go to hotels and
35:42they go oh our water's safe to drink it
35:44is not safe to drink right water all
35:47over the world is not safe to drink
35:49right but it's safe but it's still gonna
35:52make you sick they said no they should
35:55it won't so what happens is
35:58in our water we have little bugs we
36:02do even in Belle Washington there are
36:04little bugs in there and they don't
36:07bother you at all because you've
36:09consumed these bugs they're all in your
36:11body and they're not bothered your
36:13body's used to them right but then when
36:16you go to other parts of the world even
36:18other parts of the country go from go to
36:21go to to Florida drink their water oh my
36:24gosh when you drink their water you will
36:27notice
36:28all of a sudden you start getting tummy
36:30problems it's not making them sick
36:32because they have different bugs
36:33different flora and fauna in their
36:36water so when you drink their water even
36:40though they say it's going to be fun
36:41you're going to get a tummy egg right we
36:43said well how how do I drink water I
36:45drink bottled water that's I'm exclusive
36:48on bottle water even when I go to Sweden
36:51or Germany or Singapore bottled water
36:56right and that helps it doesn't stop the
37:00problem but it helps so if they traveled
37:04very much you say my tummy doesn't feel
37:06so good then they'll go okay that's a
37:10legitimate concern and they'll you can
37:13get away with it not eating some of the
37:15some of the foods and people say do they
37:17really have all these yeah they really
37:19have all these
37:21Foods yeah frog lungs cow stomach well
37:25we eat cow stomach in the United States
37:27sometimes fish eyes yeah you'll see
37:28people eat fish eyes remember Pig faces
37:31yeah now the next one oh my gosh bu
37:36you
37:38yeah here it says think of the worst
37:41alcohol you can possibly imagine then
37:43add some more alcohol to make it taste
37:45worse it is terrible stuff ba you this
37:50is one of their National
37:52drinks very few people from outside of
37:54China like it okay and here's what
37:58happens you go to a business meeting and
38:01they're going to like a dinner or lunch
38:04they're going to say and this happens to
38:06you it's going they're going to do this
38:07to you they're GNA say would you like
38:09some white
38:11wine and you
38:13say sure I'd love to try some Chinese
38:16white wine right so they get you some
38:18Chinese white wine it is not white wine
38:20it's baiju so then they will hor
38:24everybody gets a cup and then they'll
38:26take theirs and go
38:28and just drink it all at once and then
38:30they will look at
38:31you it's like your turn right so then
38:36you think it's white wine it is not
38:38white wine it's bu you it's terrible
38:42stuff right so then you go you and they
38:45laugh and laugh and laugh and they've
38:48really got you right so I had this
38:52happen to me more than once I'm not very
38:54smart I guess right and so this happened
38:57to me and I kind of
38:59saw this coming so I was in another
39:02having another business meal with some
39:04other people and I they said would you
39:05like some white wine and I
39:09go sure right and they brought out the
39:12bu and I knew what was coming up right
39:15so then they take the shot and they go
39:17and then they're looking at me and I
39:20took my shot I
39:21go oh that's yummy can I have some more
39:25oh that's really good and they go like
39:28it it ruined their joke and so I learned
39:31after that that whenever they do that
39:34joke you fall for it every single time
39:37just and they it that is unending source
39:39of entertainment for them when you're
39:42going there and it's kind of so you go
39:44all get to laugh about it and yeah it's
39:48uh it's
39:50really in it it's really uh tough if you
39:54want to you can go to local uh Chinese
39:56grocery stores and get some B you take
39:58it home and try it um before you go see
40:02what to expect but it's kind of
40:03interesting um also they have red wine
40:09now the red wine is red wine right so
40:12the white
40:13wine be careful right the red
40:17wine is red wine but it doesn't taste
40:21like Western red wine so they they do
40:24that on purpose even really expensive
40:26like Great Wall wine they they make some
40:29bottles of Great Wall that are really
40:31cheap but they make some really
40:32expensive ones it doesn't taste like
40:34Western wine it's okay but it's designed
40:37more for people who are Chinese to like
40:40it than Western people so it's okay
40:42you'll drink it it's not like you're
40:43gonna go it's terrible but it's just it
40:46just be ready it's not exactly what you
40:49expect now manners the Chinese are very
40:53very polite people right and if you're
40:55rude they're not going to tell you they
40:57just won't do business with you again so
41:00you got to be real real careful right um
41:04uh and be as polite and be overly polite
41:07you just really overdo it on the
41:09politeness and you'll probably be
41:13uh
41:14better okay English is tough right
41:18English is tougher even the the people
41:20who so my wife was an English teacher in
41:24China A lot of times I never knew what
41:26was coming out of her them today I still
41:28don't sometimes right because it's a
41:31tough
41:32language so um they learn a lot of
41:35people learn a little bit of Chinese a
41:37little bit of English but they learn it
41:39from somebody who doesn't speak
41:42English so you might have like somebody
41:45who speaks English teaches another
41:47person who teaches another person
41:48teaches another person who teaches your
41:50friend how to speak English and you can
41:53see some problems getting translated uh
41:56trans translators are a good idea yeah
41:59translators just get get one uh to help
42:02you out and that that's also sometimes
42:04they'll give you their own translator
42:06don't bring your own
42:08translator okay um lines in personal
42:12space yeah it's different than it was so
42:15I was there in the first time I was in
42:17China was like 2004 I think something
42:20like that anyway um and there was no
42:24personal space people just jumped in
42:25front lines and everybody the
42:28cars they have Lanes nobody looked at it
42:32right now I've been back fairly recently
42:35people stand in lines a little bit not
42:37that much but they still a little they
42:39kind of get the idea of what a line's
42:41supposed to be and the uh when you're
42:44driving on the roads the they use it as
42:47a guide right as a suggestion they don't
42:50always follow the suggestions so my
42:52friend says would you like to drive and
42:54he like I will die they are very good
42:57drivers in China because they have to be
43:00in the United States we don't have to be
43:01good drivers because we follow the rules
43:03and you know that other guy's going to
43:05follow the rules pretty pretty sure and
43:07that's how we keep from getting wrecked
43:08they don't right so you have to be a
43:11real good driver there and I just said
43:13no way no way I'm I'm scared of this so
43:17um I went back to China with my wife a
43:20couple years ago and there's a um I I
43:24don't know a lot of you have seen the
43:26movie Avatar
43:27right and in the movie Avatar they have
43:29these floating mountains they really
43:32exist I've been there they're not
43:33floating but they look like because
43:35there's there's fog on the or fog or
43:38clouds at the bottom and it's like a
43:40stick right they're
43:42beautiful and so I went to see this and
43:46it it was it was really profoundly
43:49beautiful but what they did was this is
43:51something good to know they have glass
43:55walkways around these mountains in
43:58between the two and you look straight
44:00down and I'm you're talk you're looking
44:03a long ways maybe three4 of a mile
44:07straight down right and so one thing
44:10that they like to do so just get ready
44:11for this is this this these Glass Walls
44:15sometimes they will put a projector
44:17underneath there of the glass
44:20breaking yeah it wakes you up just be
44:23ready for that right so anyway I went
44:25went to to see these the city's called
44:28ja or something like that anyway I went
44:30to and walked through the mountains it
44:32was really really pretty but it started
44:33raining it was cold and so you can't
44:36take your your car there you have to get
44:37on a bus and so nobody wanted to stand
44:40out in the rain so they had one of those
44:42uh those sheds without the walls you
44:45know just like a top to keep the rain
44:46off of you and then they had pipes all
44:49the way through so to keep you standing
44:52in line so I go there everybody's
44:54standing in line I'm going okay this is
44:56great the Bus shows up that line went
44:59away everybody crawled through those
45:02pipes and rushed the bus and I'm just
45:04standing there going huh right they just
45:08all just it just went they had had a
45:11line and then all a sudden there was no
45:12line everybody rushed the bus and I
45:15asked my wife I said I heard about this
45:17but did they is this common she says oh
45:20yeah it's common okay so the next time
45:24so I went to the front right and so the
45:26for the for the next bus and when I saw
45:29the next bus I
45:31said and I ran out there to the bus and
45:34everybody's running behind me and
45:36they're trying to get on the bus but I
45:37held my arms out blocking them so I
45:40could get my family on the bus first see
45:42when you're a foreigner you could do
45:43some things that the locals can't do
45:45it's so am blocking it so my family can
45:48get in then we all go on the bus but it
45:50just it just get ready for
45:53it now bargaining
45:57yeah yeah yeah
46:02um all my friends tell me that I'm going
46:06to pay more for everything than they
46:08will because I look different and that's
46:11true to a certain
46:14extent so what I would do is I would go
46:18to a place and I have a one my friends
46:21would buy something so sometimes I say I
46:23I look around and then I go okay then I
46:25go to my friend way down down back I
46:27said go get this right maybe even take a
46:30picture of it go buy this for me and
46:32they could get me a better
46:33deal and it says here speak a little bit
46:36of the language I don't agree with that
46:39I think you should act dumb as a fox
46:43uh kind of walk away and
46:47offer and uh I've been fairly successful
46:51but they will charge you different rates
46:53for if you go to a restaurant they will
46:55charge you different rates they'll
46:57charge you different rate for hotel it's
46:59they're not supposed
47:01to they do it just get
47:04ready okay now I like to act kind of
47:07poor yeah yeah and walk away the walk
47:11away Works real well because they'll
47:13chase after you sometimes they will grab
47:15you just get ready they will grab your
47:17arm and pull you back into their stand
47:19it happens all the time you and people
47:22kind of a lot of Americans freak out
47:23about that it's just kind of what they
47:25do yelling
47:27now the
47:28Chinese when they talk quite often it's
47:32loud right and it's loud for a couple
47:35reasons one is when you hear a foreign
47:38language it usually sounds a little
47:40louder it's just because you're not used
47:42to it so I was in Paris and I was on the
47:45subway I'm was talking to with my mom
47:47and I'm was talking to my mom in English
47:49everybody just looked at me it's like oh
47:53so then we shipped it to French and they
47:55all kind of forgot because it was
47:57different it's just a different my
47:58French is terrible terrible but anyway I
48:01can I can get by in French okay but then
48:05also in China people yell at each other
48:08it's and it doesn't mean that they're
48:09fighting they can be very good friends
48:10and they can yell at each other so when
48:12I first went to
48:14Shanghai uh my guide said listen when
48:17you hear people yelling at each other
48:19they're not fighting just that they're
48:22not fighting I said well then how do you
48:23tell when they're they're mad they said
48:25it sounds like nuclear war and I did see
48:28two people get in a fight and it sounded
48:31like nuclear war right so they just
48:34they're it's kind of interesting so I
48:36have a friend and she teaches at bayw
48:39which is Beijing Foreign Studies
48:40University it's a very good school in
48:42Beijing and she teaches English and her
48:45English is perfect spot on but when you
48:48talk to her she talks like this she's
48:51very clear and very slow and she's
48:54usually kind of quiet and so I asked her
48:57I said how do you say this in Chinese
48:59and she says let me think you it's like
49:03whoa whoa what just happen she says well
49:05that's how you say that right well that
49:08was awfully so she's so unaggressive and
49:11then she came out with that she says
49:12when you say this you're supposed to be
49:14kind of aggressive and she was a freak M
49:16and I travel with her all over China and
49:20I would notice that sometimes she'd
49:21speak Chinese normal and sometimes I'm
49:23like going man you're mad at it she says
49:25no that's how you're supposed to say
49:26that that sort of thing so just kind of
49:28get get ready for it it's it's kind of
49:31fun and have some fun you're going to
49:33have a lot of fun there's so much stuff
49:35to do and see and the people are really
49:38beautiful
49:39people okay now there's some things that
49:42are a little different than you might
49:44expect and one of them is called the
49:48swasa so here's a
49:51swastika I bet you most people have seen
49:53this swastika right this is
49:57white
49:58supremist uh
50:00Nazis uh right-wing people this is one
50:03of their symbols this is Hitler during
50:07World War II had the swastika right and
50:10I had a former uh Chinese student in my
50:13belie business 101 class and he wore a
50:17swasa to class every
50:20day kind of interesting now I knew about
50:23the swasa but when you first see him you
50:26go wow
50:27a Nazi Chinese person he wasn't a Nazi
50:30Chinese person this guy is not a Nazi
50:34right you will see swastikas all over
50:36the place and the farther west you go in
50:40China the more you see the the swasti
50:43now the
50:44swasa in Chinese culture is a sign of
50:47peace and love and harmony it's the
50:51exact opposite of what it means in the
50:53west right and some people say well it's
50:56turn around differently no it's not they
50:58put it all different ways you're going
51:00to see swas all over the place and it's
51:02kind of fun especially when you start to
51:04go um farther west you're just looking
51:06for them because they are everywhere
51:08you're just see it's a good luck symbol
51:09it's a it's it's so no this is not a
51:12Nazi
51:14Buddha yeah because Buddhism is about as
51:17opposite as you can get from from
51:20national
51:21socialism so um you you'll see it and
51:24just kind of get know I I was in uh in
51:27Chongqing China which we pronounce it
51:29Chongqing Chongqing
51:31anyway I was there and I was shopping
51:35and I saw this really cool coffee mug in
51:39the shape of a
51:40chicken now if you notice anything if
51:42you look at a map of China it kind of
51:45looks like a chicken and a lot of times
51:48when people uh I talk to people who are
51:50from China I said where are you from in
51:52China and they say well you know the
51:54chicken's neck
51:56that's be well above the chicken's neck
51:58by the beak it's like you know where the
52:00chicken's butt is they use the chicken
52:03analogy right so they had this really
52:05cool coffee cup in the shape of a
52:06chicken and it had a swastika on
52:10it now I thought to myself man that's a
52:13cool coffee cup and then I also thought
52:16about it should somebody with this face
52:20have a coffee cup with a swastika on it
52:24what does that say what's your first
52:27guess if somebody with this face has a
52:31swastika uh on tattoo or something like
52:34yeah and so I didn't get it which was
52:38pretty smart
52:44probably
52:46okay
52:49down yeah now I had some had a real
52:53interesting experience when I was in
52:54Chongqing
52:56I went to a restaurant and I had Hot Pot
52:58first time I've ever had Hot Pot it was
53:01wonderful it was really really good and
53:04if you've never had Hot Pot you need to
53:06there's a real good restaurant in Belle
53:07called the goat you should go there I
53:09love Hot Pot anyway I never had hot pot
53:12and so I go to this restaurant which was
53:14a fairly nice
53:16restaurant right and they give hot pot
53:20and I'm eating hot pot I'm like going oh
53:22yeah I can eat this all day long I see a
53:25guy next to me
53:27he takes his Chopsticks grabs a piece of
53:30meat puts meat in his mouth goes like
53:33this
53:34goes so he's getting all the meat off
53:36the
53:37bone then he swallows the meat guess
53:40what he did with the
53:43bone he
53:45goes on the floor I'm sitting there and
53:48I'm
53:49going that dude just spit Bones on the
53:54floor right I'm like going holy cow
53:58because you don't expect that right
53:59maybe if it's a a bad restaurant or
54:02something no this is a nice restaurant
54:04he's spitting Bones on the floor I look
54:06around I see other people spitting Bones
54:08on the floor I'm not going people are
54:11spitting Bones on the floor so you know
54:13what I did don't you I spit my bones on
54:15the floor too now uh it's they have a
54:19dude whose job and he has a push push
54:23mop and all he does all day long is go
54:25through the restaurant and sweep up
54:27Bones on the floor right that's all he
54:30does right uh it's kind of like in some
54:32American restaurants you can go to some
54:34American restaurants and they give you
54:35peanuts and you're supposed to take
54:36peanut shelves and throw them on the
54:37ground same thing but it's bones and
54:40they would spit them on the
54:42floor it was really I did not expect
54:45that I've had students come to me and
54:47they said Andy I'm from China we don't
54:51spit Bones on the floor and I usually
54:54say where in China are you from
54:56and they always say Shanghai or Beijing
55:00it's usually Beijing or some place like
55:02that and I go this wasn't shangai or
55:05Beijing this was in Chongqing which if
55:07you look on the the chicken it's towards
55:09the back of the chicken it's a long way
55:11from Beijing are people different in the
55:14United States in different
55:15parts oh yeah you want a cultural shock
55:19go to Texas you want a bigger shock go
55:22to
55:23Alabama right you they are nothing they
55:26their cultures are so different than
55:28than it is up here in the Pacific
55:30Northwest right so just because do they
55:34do some really weird stuff do they eat
55:35some weird foods down south posum oh my
55:40gosh yeah they they eat some chitlins I
55:45don't never need to eat chitlins I if
55:47you don't know what it is Google it
55:48you'll see yeah but and so they just do
55:53they they're different and different
55:55parts of China are different so a lot of
55:57people say well we're all the same we're
55:59not all the same they're they're very
56:00different you go to East Coast and West
56:02Coast you go to East part of China and
56:04the West part of China they are very
56:06different so I've been in China for a
56:09while and I decided to go to
56:13KFC in Shanghai so they had a KFC in
56:17Shanghai KFC we all know KFC Kentucky
56:21Fried Chicken that's what KFC stands for
56:25Kentucky Fried Chicken so I'd been in
56:29China for a while for like a month at
56:31this time and I wanted some American
56:34food you know what it's like you you
56:35want food from home once a while even
56:37though the Chinese food is super yummy
56:39and I mean real good I still wanted some
56:42American
56:44food
56:45so I go to the KFC and I say I'd like
56:49some fried
56:50chicken because they looked at me and
56:52they
56:52said what would you like in English and
56:55so I figured
56:57take talk to them and I'd like some
56:58fried chicken and they looked at me like
57:00I was on
57:02drugs and I they said they said we don't
57:05have fried chicken and I
57:08thought okay it's a language issue right
57:11because it's Kentucky Fried Chicken
57:13they've got to have Fried Chicken so I
57:14asked my friend who's Chinese I said
57:16would you tell them I'd like to have
57:17some fried chicken please maybe a couple
57:20drumsticks and he talks to them for a
57:23little bit in Chinese he turns to me he
57:24says they don't have any Fried Chicken
57:26here I go they don't have fried chicken
57:30at Kentucky Fried Chicken he says nope
57:33no fried chicken I
57:36said if they don't have fried chicken at
57:40Kentucky Fried Chicken what do they have
57:45so they bring out this little uh little
57:48picture menu you know the type where you
57:51just go uh uh uh you know you don't have
57:54to don't anything you just point and
57:56then that's what you get so I ordered a
57:58chicken sandwich right we all know what
58:01a chicken sandwich is right it's a
58:03chicken sandwich we've all had it it's
58:05chicken that's breaded deep fried they
58:09put it on a bun with a little mayonnaise
58:12and a piece of lettuce and Away you go
58:14we've all eaten the
58:16sandwich no you haven't because this is
58:19what I
58:21got you'll notice it is a chicken
58:24sandwich yep it's it's chicken sandwich
58:27but it also had
58:29corn carrots and lime of beans in the
58:35sandwich now it was okay I mean it
58:39tasted like a chicken sandwich with corn
58:41carrots and lime beans in it right it
58:43was it was
58:44fine but it sure wasn't what I was
58:46expecting right you know you get an an
58:49idea of what you're supposed to get at a
58:51place when you order chicken sandwich
58:52you don't expect lime of beans in it I
58:54bet you nobody listening to this
58:57video has ever had a chicken sandwich
59:00with lime of beans in the united served
59:04at a restaurant in the United States I
59:06can I can guarantee no restaurant in the
59:09United States serves Li of beans in
59:11their chicken
59:12sandwiches it wasn't bad but it was a
59:15little
59:19different
59:21now Pizza Hut yeah I went to Pizza Hut
59:25right
59:26the Pizza Huts in China are not Huts
59:29there is no Hut in Pizza Hut in China
59:33they are they should call them Pizza
59:35palaces because this is what they look
59:40like does that look like a Hut to you
59:45whoops does that look like a Hut to you
59:48it doesn't to me either there's no Huts
59:51but there are some differences but
59:53besides they have a beautiful building
59:55there's some differ differ and I'll tell
59:56you that one later hey thanks a lot for
59:58coming have a good day

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