The Decline of Manners in Modern Chinese Society

Mainland Chinese behavior reflects a troubling normalization of selfishness and lack of manners shaped by cultural and political influences.

### The Decline of Manners in Contemporary Chinese Society
* 😠 A recent incident in a California matcha shop showcased a Chinese couple's **aggressive confrontation** with employees, highlighting a **troubling behavior pattern**.
* 🤔 This aggression can often be attributed to **societal pressures and evolving mannerisms** influenced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), affecting even **younger generations**.
* ⚽ A notable example occurred during a World Cup qualifier match in southern China, where a Japanese fan faced **mob harassment**, illustrating **nationalistic fervor** and a **sense of entitlement** among Chinese fans.
* 🚉 Instances of selfishness are prevalent, such as a woman refusing to yield her seat on public transport, indicating a **broader cultural normalization of such behavior**.
* 🌍 A foreigner observed a woman and her son discarding trash on the street, demonstrating a **disconnect from social norms**, as they argued their actions were **justified**.
* 🛒 Even in everyday scenarios, like shopping at Costco, behaviors such as **cutting in line and littering** are normalized, reflecting a **lack of awareness about societal expectations**.
* 🏬 Public spaces are often misused, with individuals **lying on the floor of stores to escape heat**, showcasing a **collective disregard for shared environments**.
* 📉 The erosion of traditional values in China, particularly post-Cultural Revolution, has led to a society where **individualism and competition overshadow** communal respect and cultural heritage.

World Star, this is a Chinese couple in a matcha shop in California. They somehow got mad and started flipping with the store employees. I mean, this is, this is a matcha shop, it's probably the most common place you can ever be at. I got some of

it, and this is another Chinese couple on the street. A street performer dressed as a tree pranks them, and their reaction is actual aggression. Chinese people from mainland China sometimes act like they're a fully drawn bull ready to fire at any given moment. A lot of this has to do with the

pressure that they built up throughout their lives, but another major aspect of this is the Chinese characteristic and their mannerism that has evolved since the CCP took over. Sometimes it manifests as a lack of manner, and other times is just straight up a strange behavior. Even though most of it happened to the

older generation that went through the cultural revolution, this does not just apply to them. This is a wide spectrum across the current population in [Music] China. And this was a recent case I covered for the World Cup qualifier match between China and Japan. This took

place in China, in southern China. Afterwards, a soccer fan wearing the Japanese team jersey was swarmed by a mob of Chinese fans demanding that he take it off and that he was a traitor. And later he was cornered and the police forced him to take off his

[Music] jersey. And here a woman refuses to give up the seat to the standing passenger and even put up her leg to occupy two [Music] seats. And in this video, an older woman wants to take off her shoes on the train

and place it on the younger woman's side of the seat. And after she refused to comply with the older woman's demand, well, the following ensued. You call it entitlement or selfishness, sometimes it's even just normalized. Now before we continue the video, if you haven't already, here's a

good time to subscribe to our channel, as because we put out content exploring the issues with current China and why the CCP causes most of them. And uh, so stay tuned, and the best way is to subscribe to our channel and make sure notification is turned on as we publish

many videos throughout the week. And also if you're interested in supporting China Insider and our mission to tell the story of Chinese people who don't have a voice in China, well then you can check out our donation link in the description. Here is a foreigner who's living in

China filming a woman and her son who threw garbage randomly onto the street near their apartment. And the foreigner says that they lack character and that they're as shameful for doing this. Yet you see the woman and her son seem thinking what they did was justified and

started to argue [Music] back. Other distinct behavior of Mainland Chinese people is talking loudly on their phone in public when people tell them to quiet down, while they double down on that behavior. And this man sits in the middle of the train and blocks the cart from going by.

He claims that his feet hurt, but he actually bought a standing ticket, which is in China, you buy a spot on the train, no seats for you, and you stand the entire trip. How about a decorative orange tree? Well, it's got no more oranges on it because all these Damas

came and took all of it even though these are not edible oranges so you see this idea of selfishness displayed, that it's all for me but not for others, right? If things are free, as I covered in my last video about free food or free things, if it's free it means it's free

for me, not for others, also means that it's free for only me because I will be taking most of it, and this lack of consideration for others also extends when they go on a foreign trip, like in Japan. This happens so often, one of the prime examples is during cherry blossom

season, these people would go and shake the trees, make the flower petals fall down like a rain, like a flower rain, take photos or climb onto the trees and essentially ruin the scenery for other people, uh, just because they want that one particular photo. You might be

watching this and thinking, well, Chinese people aren't the only ones doing certain number of these things, other cultures have people doing them too, right? That's absolutely correct, but it is a, you could say, a pattern, or a majority of the people doing this seems

to be Chinese people, and according to you guys's comments, you have some personal encounters that really brings me to the idea that they're doing this subconsciously. This is ingrained in their system already. This is something that they've been doing or they've been

taught to do since a very young age, and when you're in that society, when everybody around you seems to be okay with what they're doing, uh, then you know that really becomes the culture of the society. So I'll tell you my personal

experience with this happened recently I was at Costco shopping afterwards I went to get a hot dog and a drink which is $1.50 you know Costco go Costco um and while I was waiting in line for food and and that this older Chinese lady comes up to the cashier and wanted to take a

soda pop uh container and obviously people were telling her that the cashier says it's not free right so she takes money out of her pocket and wants to pay for it which is fine um as she's about to leave you know cuz all of us like me

and this other woman with her baby were all watching this thinking she just you know didn't speak English probably wanted a cup whatever uh then she was about to walk away looking for a straw and so me telling me and this other lady were telling her that you know like the

straw is next to the registry or register uh so she looks back she obviously doesn't understand English right so I tell her in in Mandarin I'm like you know like the so I tell her in Chinese right the straws over there uh she looks at me she

smiles she's very appreciative of what I just did for her you know translating tell her where the straw is she all this time she's still smiling at me then she proceeds to take the wrapper of the straw unwraps the straw throws the paper

wrapper on the floor still smiling at me you know thanking me for what you know helped her out with then she walks away with the drink and the straw and I would just seeing their super shocked I was flabbergasted at what just happened it

It wasn't just the fact that she walked up cutting lines, it wasn't the fact that she tried to take the cup, it wasn't the fact that she threw the paper on the floor, it wasn't even the fact that, you know, she was thanking me while she was

doing this, it was the fact that this entire step or sequence of steps was done so normally for her. Uh, it didn't, it never occurred to her that, you know, dropping garbage on the floor was bad. It never occurred to her that cutting in line was bad. It never occurred to her

that uh, things were supposed to be paid for, the cups, none of that. It was just, you know, I mean she probably didn't think that that something was wrong, and and well I was just standing there. I honestly felt a little bit embarrassed because um, yeah, I it was just really

bizarre to me. Now in our last video about the free stuff, we had a lot of people in the comments asking about this uh, the Ikea situation, right? Why are people sleeping on the couches and the beds um, like I mentioned, it's normalized. A lot of these things are normalized.

It's not just Ikea. People in trying to use malls in the summertime to use the free AC uh, that's normal, right? I mean you know when you get too hot in the summer, you have nowhere else to go, you go to the mall to shop. That's the

Western perspective, right? But in China, it's like you have people going to grocery stores. In this video here, this is from, I covered this as well, uh, they would lay on the floor shirtless, sometimes putting their feet up into like where they keep all the cold drinks.

so now every drink has a feet presence next to it now you have people straight up laying on the floor of grocery aisles how are other people supposed to get groceries doesn't apparently matter to them you got people sitting on the staircases of shopping malls just to you

know evade the heat which sure right not everybody has AC at home um which I think Chinese people should all have AC at home but they're trying to save electricity cost so they go to the mall so it's like all these ideas that you

not just have one or two people doing it it's an entire Society doing this we have to talk about another thing that's been normalized uh public toilets the public toilet situation and I'm not talking about how readily available public toilets in China are because

that's apparently what the CCP shows want you to believe that there's great infrastructure when it comes to public toilets no I'm not talking about that I'm talking about literally going to public toilets as they go to public uh toilets if you get what I mean okay I'll

show you some samples obviously here they have to be censored for the sake of YouTube they demonetized my last video about bullying uh cuz apparently you can't talk about important issues on YouTube you got the elevator situation you got the pre- elevator situation uh

you got the bushes is this what you do in your country this one is actually in another country so they took it to Ghana uh to do this you have the Tiananmen Square one which is absolutely ironic considering that's like the most sacred political place in Chinese Communist Party history

You have people doing it on the streets. It's just like everywhere. They have the audacity to do this, not feel embarrassed to, you know, just drop down and do that. You got to think what went wrong, right? What happened to the

confusion, um, culture of respect, the ideas of Buddhism and Daoism flowing through 5,000 years of Chinese history. Traditional values taught by all these scholars, all gone down the drain. Apparently, after the 1960s, 70s, cultural revolution, right, communism happened and

Mao decided that a new China needed to abandon all of those values. So that's very deliberate. Not a lot of people talk about this too, which is the reason why the CCP destroyed Chinese culture, the traditional stuff. One of the core reasons is because when you have a tradition,

when you celebrate traditional holidays like Christmas, Thanksgiving, or anything like that, or you know other cultures, they have their own religious holidays or not non-religious holidays. You are celebrating a connection to your ancestry. And when you have an ancestry, you are bound by moral restrictions and

barriers. And so you got to get rid of all of that. So the new stuff that you embrace is the CCP money and hyper-competition and just individual selfishness. 'Cause those are the only things you know now or you grew up with. Here I'll give you a pretty good

comparison. People, how they view the mainland Chinese versus Taiwanese people, right? Both are technically Chinese descendants. People have a much better perception of the Taiwanese people. In fact, the Taiwanese people don't want to be called Chinese people precisely for the reason what the mainlanders are.

doing around other countries and you expand that to East Asia right the Japanese the Koreans the Taiwanese how they differ in terms of this appearance of mannerism maybe in you know deep down they all hate the Americans who knows right but at least on the surface they

appear more civil they appear civilized and that's the big difference that Chinese people with the deepest culture in fact it you know kickstarted the other cultures at least massively influenced them in the old days have lost that originality of culture of identity of you know values and

self-worth and respect for themselves all of that's gone and uh that's my episode on why China doesn't have manners anymore if you enjoy the content leave a like comment below your thoughts on this particular topic if you have any personal experience like I did let me

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Chinese people lack manners explained

China Insider with David Zhang

Examples of Unmannerly Behavior by Mainland Chinese People

A Chinese couple fights with matcha shop employees in California.

Another Chinese couple reacts aggressively to a street performer's prank.

Chinese soccer fans mob a fan wearing a Japanese jersey after a match.

A woman refuses to give up her seat on a train.

An older woman tries to put her shoes on a younger woman's seat on a train.

A woman and her son litter on the street and argue with a foreigner who confronts them.

A man blocks a train cart, claiming his feet hurt despite having a standing ticket.

Analysis of the Root Causes of the Behavior

People take uneatable oranges from a decorative tree, showcasing selfishness.

The concept of 'free' often means taking as much as possible for oneself.

Tourists damage cherry blossoms in Japan to take photos.

While not exclusive to Chinese people, this behavior is prevalent among them.

The behavior is suggested to be ingrained from a young age and normalized within society.

An older Chinese woman takes a soda, pays for it, but throws the straw wrapper on the floor.

The narrator is shocked by the woman's lack of awareness of her actions.

The narrator felt embarrassed by the situation.

People sleeping on furniture in Ikea and using malls for air conditioning.

People lying on the floor of grocery stores and sitting on shopping mall staircases.

Issues with Public Toilets and Other Public Behaviors

Inappropriate behavior in public toilets (censored examples).

Examples of inappropriate behavior in elevators, on streets, and even in other countries.

The Impact of the Cultural Revolution and CCP Policies

The cultural revolution's role in the erosion of traditional Chinese values.

The CCP's destruction of traditional culture to eliminate moral restrictions.

Celebrating traditions connects people to their ancestry and moral values.

The contrast between the behavior of mainland Chinese and Taiwanese people.

Conclusion and Comparison with Other East Asian Cultures

The better perception of Taiwanese people compared to mainland Chinese.

Comparison of surface-level civility with Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese people.

Mainland Chinese people have lost their original culture, values, and self-worth.