Chinese people's toxic stealing habit

This video shows farmers defending their corn harvest from freeloaders with firework. This happens way too often in China, where people think it's their right to steal, pick, or rob people of their hard work. Believe me, I know because when I was a kid, I did this too in China. I went to people's garden, I took out their carrots and fruits, and I basically stole some. This video is from Flushing, New York. Chinese people saw fruits on one of the trees and decided to get some for themselves. What's so unique about stealing fruits and vegetables and why do Chinese people do it? Well, they don't consider this stealing because it's actually so common in China. And this, unfortunately, has been exported outside of China. And this also extends to not just stealing when it comes to free things or when it comes to supermarket sales, toilet papers, bags, By the way, I should explain something. You see a lot of the videos I show are these older women, right? This actually has become a culture of some sort. It's called Dama culture or basically old auntie culture. And a lot of it contains this political connotation, which this article from the New York Times actually talks about back in 2014. And what it essentially is, is this idea of them going anywhere they go, they ruin things. When they go to Japan, they're like shaking the sakura, the trees, the leaves, the petals. And so it's a really negative connotation to be called a Dama in Chinese or, you know, old auntie. Or free ice cream. This nationalistic influencer was mad that BMW at an auto show didn't give Chinese people ice cream and he gave them out for free. Unfortunately, an older lady came and took about five or six with her. Sometimes it gets chaotic. Older people, they always say they're tired. But then when it comes to free things, they suddenly have energy. This video is for free umbrellas. And this one is for a free test ride in a subway car. This video shows them stealing from a truck during a red light stop. Or when a truck driver is resting on the road and he sees apple trees, he goes to pick an apple from somebody else's orchard. Unfortunately, he got caught. And last year, there was a music festival in Henan and people came out to camp in tents. And I guess it was kind of like the Burning Man of China. When they came back from their wet festival, their belongings had all been taken by these local grandmas. If you enjoy watching content about China or like what I'm doing with the channel, considering subscribing to the channel. And as we have new videos in the form of shorts every day, and typically three long form videos per week. In this video on October 13th in northern China, elderly people were picking corn in someone else's field. They were caught by the farmer and a conflict broke out between the two parties, resulting in one injury and one unalived. The daughter of the victim said that the corn had been harvested and many villagers were picking corns in the field. Her mother broke off a few corns and she was beaten by the landowner. The father was unalive by the farmer, and she believed that her father's end was unjust and hoped to seek justice. So yeah, sometimes it causes a lot of misery. The key reason why Chinese people do this is that the older generation came from a period of starvation, especially in the countryside in rural area. It became a part of childhood education that you have to fend for yourself, you have to get as much, you know, get fed, not be hungry and get personal gains. And a lot of that has been ingrained in the boomers generation. And that's why a lot of these videos, there are older people doing this. During their youth, the boomers in China actually went through real hunger, the Great Famine, right? And much of the pre-reform and opening up era under Mao Zedong. So they know what real hunger, starvation, and just the danger of survival is like. When the Cultural Revolution happened, it subsequently broke the spirit side of the Chinese people. Mao promoted the ideas of getting dirty and getting low, right? To mark the status of peasants. What he was calling was the collective ownership of things. People really have no moral restrictions to not take from others. You know, this whole communism thing, right? Your food is our food. And so, of course, seeing that food itself is a key for survival, you have the previous experience, the trauma of hunger. Also not considering it as too valuable, right? The idea is that they don't feel like they're stealing because they're not stealing, you know, a million dollar watch or, you know, jewelries of that sort. They're just borrowing. And that's where this common saying of, quote, Which is basically the mentality, like, if it's free for us to use, like those plastic bags in the grocery store for your, you know, fresh produce or toilet paper in a public bathroom, or even fruits and veggies laying on the ground, or what essentially manifested is that any little advantage people can gain, even if it means, you know, fruits and veggies or free bags, that's considered a win over others. So this is a skit. And of course, it became a meme on Chinese social media. The veggies planted by the owner, the girl here filming, she comes back to ask the owner to pay as her son got sick from eating the veggies. Ridiculous, right? You stole the vegetable from this person, and then now you're asking them to pay for your kid's health fees. Well, this actually happened in China. In 2016, an old granny stole daffodils from her neighbors to make dumplings for her grandson, which got her grandson sick. And then she went back and tried to ask for compensation from her neighbor, even though she was the one who stole stuff from her. So sometimes these people, they're super nonchalant about it, right? Like this one here, she was caught stealing cabbage, and she just acted as if she's in the right. Or this one here, the group of grannies attacking the man for catching them in the act. In this video, you have a college grad who went back to his hometown after graduation to start a shrimp farm. And then people came to first steal some small fishes or shrimps. But later on, more and more people came, knowing the fact that, well, the farmer can't do anything to stop them or catch them all. So they took it all from the farmer. Now, to me, it's unheard of that people would steal things like veggies and fruits. Now that I've, you know, grown up in the West. Sure, you know, again, stealing is bad, right? Stealing anything, that's a crime. But if you're stealing expensive stuff like jewelry or watches or, you know, whatever luxury item, bags, that's an actual criminal behavior, right? But sure, like stealing fruit is still considered a criminal behavior. But to me, it just seems like the nature of it, it's more bizarre than an actual crime in itself, you know? But this video here shows a man taking 30 watermelons from someone's farm into his car. Another melon farmer, this is a different story. He was trying to catch the melon thieves. And in the process, I guess he injured one of them. And he had to pay them 300 yuan for the compensation of injury. Although later, allegedly, the parties resolved it. The party that stole returned the $300 and the two sides reached an agreement. From the flushing video, we also know that they've taken this outside of China. This is in Japan. Two Chinese technical intern trainees arrested for allegedly stealing 20 watermelons from a field in Japan. And this headline also from Japan. This was revealed by Japan's Fuji TV. 60% of Chinese tourists steal items from Japanese hotel rooms. There's also other cases of stealing in the U.S. as well, you know, from Chinese people. But the point is that they aren't going around stealing high valuable goods, like a good thief would. But what they're doing is the pettiest of petty crime. All right, that's it today for the episode on there seems to be a habit of Chinese people stealing fruits and vegetables and everything else that's free. If you enjoy the content, leave a like, comment, give your thoughts and subscribe to our channel. Until next time, bye-bye.