Why Chinese Culture Is Rebranded As Korean

why does Chinese culture keep getting rebranded as a different Asian culture on the internet let's delve into the reasons why yeah they just took the Monkey King and then they turned it into the massively popular Dragon Ball Z what's going on we got to talk about it Andrew let's just run some clips from this brand new YouTube video saying the rebranding of Chinese culture did you know that this this and also this actually isn't Chinese at least that's what the people on Tik Tok are saying you've probably already heard about the conversation about Chinese things being rebranded as other nations things especially Japanese and Korean a very big thing was the Doan makeup when that became trendy people were rebranding it as Japanese makeup or Korean [Music] makeup the same thing has happened with the brand flower noose people assume that it's Japanese because it looks cute so it must be Japanese the famous Northern Chinese snack Tulu which is traditionally supposed to be Hawthorn covered in sugar and today you cover all kinds of fruit with it but all of these things have been rebranded a little bit or at least people are saying that it's not Chinese and then people are having to correct people and I think the wildest thing is it's even gone as far as people posting this is why Korea is great and they're posting pictures of Chinese women with their literal shiau ID name in the picture it's so crazy the traditional clothes that Japan and Korea has today came from China originally and of course Korea and Japan both adapted it to their lifestyle but that's why they'll they'll always look a little bit similar because they have a a natural historical tie with each other I think it's because westerners know kimono and hul first yeah so they assume that's the origin of the culture which is not like kimono you like it's called Wu is from the woo area this region yeah yeah when you see things that are Asian and it says that it's Chinese maybe instead of attacking it right away and saying that Chinese people are stealing and spreading this actually very xenophobic stereotype maybe do a little bit of digging into the history behind things because a lot of things one are shared but also again this is a mother culture in its own region so it's very likely that it's either a Sher thing or that it actually originated here boom he listen I just got one more video this is talking about the prominence of Tang Hulu being sold as a street food in Soul is this becoming an actual problem in Korea or are people just overreacting within this year in Korea the popularity of Tang huru skyrocketed comparing January to July the number of people who searched Tang huru on the food delivery app in Korea increased 47.3% kanguru is a traditional Northern Chinese snack and it's simply fruit that's sugarcoated hudu has been around in Korea for decades but while the popularity did go down at one point possibly because of ASMR channels now the popularity of tangu is just simply incomparable Health officials have voiced their concerns over this super high in sugar treat it's also becoming a waste problem the sugar is attracting a lot of bugs as well it's also causing a lot of people to break their teeth do you guys think tangu is going to be a quick comeand go think or is it here to say oh man this is a classic topic it's very interesting to see Andrew other people address it we made a video two years ago that uh got 120,000 views and basically Andrew a lot of people constantly Wonder this issue in some form or another over the past decade or so yeah and I think that especially with the birth of social media and not just the birth of it but just how much information is going around I always mention the misinformation about a lot of other things on the internet and one of them being Chinese stuff because a lot of people have a lot of different feelings about something being Chinese you know so we want to go through the reasons why we're going to break it down you guys let us know in the comments down below we're also going to go through some of the popular comments on some of these videos and post so yeah let's get into it guys Point Number One China is not considered cool or sexy or good-looking so people just do not want to give them the credit in their mind yeah I mean as we talk about we've mentioned before on this channel that China it's a big place it's a big country and the government does a lot of things and a lot of Chinese people do a lot of things so there's good and bad but essentially China is not considered cool there's a lot of videos and articles about this actually written by like very smart people wondering and trying to break down why China isn't considered cool and there's a number of reasons for that but we're not going to get into it because that's a different video uh I think it also has to do with the proliferation of Asian culture so let's say for example Andrew nobody in the world knew knew what Tang Hulu was right it's been around ten Jin for like let's just say a 100 years South Korea's had it for 10 years right but then South Korea they have the they have the ears of the world so when the ears of the world hear it like you're average like basic person they hear it as a Korean thing so even if they go get the history later they just can't accept that Tang Hulu came from like the evil place even though it went to the place that they love yeah and it's so easy to Brand something as something else if there's just a viral Tik Tok that says oh this new treat from Korea is is is candied berries and candied oranges on a stick and it's called Tong Hulu and it's Korean then everybody who's un who doesn't know about that already is considers it uh Korean but I will say this I feel like there is some sexy Chinese stuff but it's it's kind of like there's not a lot like you know what what please tell us red you know like Red Lanterns red cheap house women in cheap house those are sexy those are sexier than you're talking about a lot of Shanghai 1930s bun imagery that uh the stuff in everything everywhere all at once when they're having the Retro Retro Wong car wiene there are some sexy stuff about Chinese culture but not as much anyways right right number two there are is too much emphasis on the bad sides of China that it outweighs the good side but to be fair maybe depending on your perception and where your news source pools that you're like sipping from are there's a lot of bad ammo I mean if you think about it everybody from around the world is consuming these Tik toks about Tong Hulu for example now this is just one snack like this is really not the biggest deal but it is important that it is not like something that is originally from CH and came to Korea like hundreds of years ago and morphed into something else it is literally just poured over directly it's not like Ramen okay Ramen you know Japanese ramen like I will say this the concept of ramen is from China lamen right noodle soup that's Chinese Japanese will say it themselves Japanese all know that it came from China but they morphed it they morphed it tonkotsu tonkotsu like the the pork broth and like the way it's done now it it's essentially you know they made it their own you know interestingly enough the inventor of instant noodles was Taiwanese Japanese muku Ando actually still was Chinese in a way I mean listen they call it chachu but anyways what I'm saying is that there's just so much bad stuff coming out of China whether it's the SPL demic it's the it's the geopolitics it's the the spying software Internet it's the de camps or whatever the I like there's just so much bad stuff that is going to overpower any sort of good stuff because hate is stronger than love D know this well Andrew you are basically going against every sort of blue pill Disney movie ever by saying that by the way no hate on the internet negativity on the internet will always overshadow the positive I will say this hate is certainly more explosive than love I don't care what movies tell you um Point number three uh people have an emotional response to Chinese and it's usually bad David what's a recent story that you can tell this is just recent oh my God okay so I I call her Uber in the guy's nepes right so I see his name and I immediately just said oh yeah are you Tibetan and he's like very very similar I'm I'm nepales and then I was like oh yeah and then he starts talking about the food he's like you know all the food in the the Himalayas is similar similar and I was like oh yeah I you know cuz I had just had some Tibetan food recently but it was from a region of Tibet that is close to suchan so it's tasted kind of like suchan food so I was wait wait Tibetan food is similar to Chinese food and he said no no no no no no that no no Tibetan and nepales no Chinese no Chinese so he basically flipped out yeah yeah and this is not the first time that if you ask a question if something is Chinese or are you part Chinese or is this thing inspired by China you know people don't want to give Chinese things credit and I'm not saying that they need to be like oh yes and thank you to the Chinese for giving me this no no know but I do think you got to acknowledge that the emotional response is a little strong a little too strong it probably reminded me of what brown Daisy people felt like it was saying they were they were Muslim after 9/11 right and feeling like people's like visceral I don't know some sort of shoulder roll you know what it is in my opinion I think it's the idea people a lot of people and maybe particularly they're like not the most uh Global or educated people but they're always like they jump to this conclusion that like if I give Chinese credit then China's going to take over and especially if you are to be honest like a smaller country in Asia like a Vietnam or an or uh well Vietnam's actually kind of a big small count but then like Nepal or or obviously to bet it's like China yeah China could I guess in theory take over you know what I mean I'm sure that that's what they're they that's a thought in their mind yeah it's a worry you know like you know uh even though maybe it is or is not going to happen but see I think I'm for me I was able to continue the conversation and not be thrown off by that but maybe other Chinese Americans who are not used to being this educated or having that thick of skin they might have been like oh oh I feel like demonized right right so Point number four for even the good sides or the cool things that exist in China the Chinese themselves may not know how to Market it or push it out to the world because Andrew they had tangu for a 100 years in northern China but it took South Korean influencers to make it pop globally on the internet well maybe the South Koreans they just found the beauty in it you know like maybe the Chinese they didn't know how good a Tang Hulu could be like they don't know they don't know they picking dirty fruits over there fruits in hung is more cleaner so what we do is we take the Chinese idea but we take the Korean fruit and then we make a Tong Hulu and it's way better it's way better like no it's possible like that's a joke but like yeah I mean I do think Chinese are not good at marketing let's just be honest that's not a marketing it's not a strength in Chinese might be understatement Andrew they might be really bad at it yeah Chinese like they call it like yeah check out this a fruit stick and then Koreans are like no but like it sounds better if we say Tong Hulu so we just say Tong Hulu and it's a Tong Hulu you know well it's almost like Tang Hulu is just Mandarin but the people who actually speak Mandarin might have just called it fruit stick when they met it's almost like cuz they just didn't even understand what from their language sounds cool to Western ears I mean I know this all the time David we you know I feel like we've been making videos for like so long and then people still sometimes ask us if we're Korean while we're like doing Chinatown videos our last name is fun we talk like I'm not saying we don't talk about other cultures but like I feel like it's logical that we're Chinese but everybody still doubts it because they're like I don't know these guys are like I think they're kind of cool so they can't be Chinese and I think even like it's crazy that sometimes Chinese even think that about themselves to be honest uh I don't know guys listen there's a bunch of other things we're going to get into Point number five Andrew is it because China periodically forgot a lot of its ancient culture because it's like a complex white board that is constantly wiped out by 60 to 70% every new Dynasty whereas Japan and Korea they almost exported like one of the really good white boards that somebody drew which is like a dynasty whereas China kept wiping its own board so it doesn't even know what was Chinese anymore right well and then also like the cultural revolution might have taken out a lot of the kind of ornamental I guess like you know Chinese culture so I think yeah I think that is kind of partially true that China it's like you export the Han food and the Han Dynasty or the sun Dynasty or the kimono Styles at some one of the dynasties from way back and then there's like way other you know Mongolian Manchurian dynasties that come in that influence you know what I mean they just wipe everything have you ever hit the refresh page on a browser and then the page turned into something that you didn't want it to be Chinese culture is super complicated guys it's just like it's I don't even know man it just changed so much so many times um Point number six maybe the good aspects of Chinese culture are just too technical for most basic people to grasp like what for example for example let's just say for example in the video they said that China's like the Rome what Rome was to Europe China was to East Asia or even southeast Asia to a lesser extent like what does that even mean do people care about Rome in 2024 maybe older people do who are in history but people just care about what you have done for me lately when it comes to basic things you know like not everybody thinks like a historian right well like one of basic things like food or or just fun culture activities in general well who cares where Ramen came from I'm saying like in a way you're a basic person who cares it doesn't matter no that that is a legit question like why do we need to still argue about where Ramen originated from even bonai trees originally come from well the best ones are in Japan I mean that's probably without a doubt you know what it is it's that it might have originally obviously a lot of stuff originally came from China but China it's about who does it the best right kind of that's essentially in modern day who does it the best and if Japanese do their Ramen the best and they do bonsai trees the best and they do uh even the artwork and the and the and the tapestry the best the vietnames got the best fried egg roll right now would you agree right I wouldn't say Vietnamese invented the egg the spring roll but yeah I mean they they got the best one I'm just saying let me know but you know history and matters because you know we still have to get the credit I could see that perspective too yeah but man do you expect an average person to always give credit to like 500 years ago right I guess do people give uh credit to like the Roman alphabet or Roman Roman numerals or Americans to give credit to the British all the time it's like almost everything comes from them America's really really inspired by England but people do not like to think about it Point number seven China is so diverse we ourselves might not be even aware of what was created outside of our own ancestors provincial area like a lot of kantos probably never even had Tang Hulu before right yeah yeah honestly I didn't even know bonsai trees were Chinese until I watch that video I mean it makes sense because I think if you look at Ancient Gardens from like different Dynasty they all all the East Asian ones look the same because they're based off the Chinese Garden you know but I didn't know cuz I we were just using Bonsai is a Japanese word right so we're using the Japanese word right and they just got the most fire looking Gardens if they got the coolest looking Gardens then yeah but yeah it's true that in a way yeah China does deserve the credit and people don't want to give it to but at the same times it doesn't matter from a marketing standpoint how come Chinese where are all the great Chinese gardens and how come they didn't up keep them well there's still there's like still I would say of East Asia Chinese gardens ranked number two Japan ranks number one but if China had great Gardens and then tore them down at some point and then Japan's Gardens just kept getting better and better then Japan do they get some credit for upkeeping the gardens yeah but I guess people want to parse out the credit to give the crit the historical credit to to the maintenance to Innovation credit but most people do not have enough brain space right for that nuance and for that level of detail let's go through some comments let's get into the comment section Andrew do you think it's this Andrew China supporters are saying yah we're just lagging behind the economics don't worry the soft Power is coming other people are saying no you guys will never have it because like CCP makes you guys uncool and then there there a whole other aspect where China maybe just being such a large civilization was it ever as cool I'm not saying it didn't originate a lot of stuff but was it ever as cool whatever cool means it's a lot easier for a smaller place to be considered good or cool and the reason is because as a smaller country and even Joe Japan is actually a big small country it's pretty big still but essentially like let's say South Korea which is a small tiny country compared to China it's like all their good is going to get highlighted and then their bad is not that bad because even if they do bad things it can't really affect the rest of the world anyways yeah it's just the volume is not there yeah so the good media spreads further and any negative impacts it's easier to hide because it's small but since China is so big every impact that China has is huge and right now most of the impact that you see is going to be framed as negative and or is negative right right and also I do think like a lot of the heavy heavy benefit is almost more like in the third world too maybe first world feels like I don't know I just know the first world doesn't really count the cheap Goods on Amazon and Etc as a benefit even though it is a benefit I just know they don't care you know they just don't count it um somebody was saying you know I went to All You Can Eat Hot Pot uh with my buddies and one of them called it Korean food because they also have Korean barbecue there but we all went for the hot pot I told them we're actually going to do Chinese hot pot and he went on to basically say uh no no we're not a lot lot of culturs do it I'm not getting Chinese hot pop maybe you are basically his friend was so against getting anything Chinese dang I wonder what Race's friend was yeah of course generally guys by the way the Hot Pot that most people eat is the Chinese style it is it is it's inspired now there might be a Korean flavor broth that you can get and I'm not saying that uh Shabu isn't like higher class in a way but it doesn't taste as good yeah you what you're just going to dip dip all the meat and Yuzu panu um I'll say this uh a lot of people are talking about Bonsai obviously the Korean flag is driven from a lot of Dos things from the Shango Dynasty a lot of people are talking about t Andrew the word t was uh brought by European traders who met a bunch of people that were Hulen in hoken T is TE so other word other dialects it's cha obviously cha te t uh ketchup ketchup was G up Kanto hulin sounds you know it was some sort of fish paste that was brought by Chinese to Vietnam the Europeans met the Chinese in Vietnam that's how it came about um a lot of people were just saying that in Japan people talk about the history a lot of it being driven from China but in Korea they don't as much I just think different cultures process it differently I think K Japan is really confident in its ability to make something better so they don't mind acknowledging the original roots of like Castilla cake being from Portugal and things like that it does not matter where it comes from but the Japanese version is a better yeah I feel like that's how Japanese people think about a lot of things um somebody said it's because China doesn't export entertainment it just exports everything else China has its own cultural sphere that is almost incomprehensible to a western audience inscrutable somebody said why does China need to be cool cool is from the West for example we have not we have to focus on material life force before there is more room for cultural reciprocity it is not a fair comparison you know why being cool is important because being cool makes the individual life better it makes your life better when you're cool or sexy well doesn't it impact the way that people will treat you on a day-to-day basis yeah it does a little bit and that's why being cool or or having your group being viewed as cool right yeah that's why being having your group be branded as cool does help right your life a little bit but of course it does matter what I guess uh slices of the population you're having heavy daily exposure to cuz some people do not know the difference between Asians at all right last but not least Andrew somebody said it's the Chinese tonal language that is not as good sounding or not as cool and of course you know this was an argument back and forth ultimately I'll say this man I think after a lot of heavy research that is unbiased I do think a lot of stuff in East Asia and to a lesser extent southeast Asia May have some roots in ancient China but I'll tell you this I don't think it means anything but to a lot of people on the internet for some reason after this debate on either side it means a lot because just because you originated something doesn't mean that you kept maintaining it or innovating it or or I guess it doesn't mean that the people who have you know people have taken it and making their own what does it mean right yeah so I guess I don't know is that a very moderate perspective Andrew what's your perspective on this what do you think about Tang Hulu just being the last example of something that had to be come from China but then it was never going to pop if it would just stay Chinese and it's filtered through Japan or Korea man I think Chinese just got to get the marketing up man if you got the things you got all the stuff like you got you made the stuff a lot a lot of the stuff originated from someone in China a long time ago so that's good but you got to get your marketing up so this is just a lesson to me me this is just a message to be like hey Chinese just so you know some of your stuff will get rebranded unless you push forward and tell people and make it cool so this is a message to Chinese people to help make things cool Chinese people got to be cool I mean listen guys cool Power works like any other power like Whoever has more power in the cool metric I'm not talking about macroeconomic GDP whatever metric I'm talking about the cool metric just got more power so they just going to just get all the trappings that come with more power I mean China didn't invent the EV but they're about to dominate that space globally for the next like 100 years or what but they're not cool they're not cool EVS huh are they some of them I'd say the top 10% are some of them look cool all right anyways guys you let me know in the comments down below what you guys think about all this um lot to take in you know yeah too bad that people you know it's complicated as we say the word Chinese will have a May provoke an emotional response from some people for uh some years to come so anyways let us know in the comments down below and until next time we out peace