What do I REALLY Think About China? Who In The World Hates Americans? Where Do I Want To Retire? Q & A Part 2!
Added 2025-08-07 06:02:34 +0000 UTCMeant to post this right after the Youtube drop--my bad. Been on the road filming. Enjoy
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Thanks Tommy you are a credit for YouTube and representing us Americans. You are showing the world how we are all just ppl. I don’t think I could eat maggots though!
Douglas Drews
2025-10-29 19:37:19 +0000 UTCTDS on full display 🤣🤣
Michele McDermott
2025-09-28 03:51:22 +0000 UTCLol, Trump admin is like 🤏 this close to arresting people for what they post online. Next couple months I'd say it's gonna happen.
Yoyo -
2025-09-03 17:30:58 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed your Q+A part 1 on YT this Friday evening, throughout five countries! Very entertaining. Getting so close to 1M subscribers now. You need to go somewhere superbly extravagant and take us all with you to celebrate when you do!
Phil Chatterton
2025-08-22 22:22:03 +0000 UTCFirst of all, it is very rare for people to say they hate you to your face. When they do, it's mostly because they are American. lol
Dom Spun
2025-08-15 03:02:25 +0000 UTCI love watching your videos, Tommy. I get to travel through you exactly the way I would if I could. Going off in a random direction just to see what's there. Learning languages. I love your perspective. Thanks for posting more content here!
Diane Fisher
2025-08-08 16:21:03 +0000 UTCHi Tommy ! We'll done as always. Stay safe. A MINEOLA FAN
Sarah Tyson
2025-08-07 18:16:17 +0000 UTCI lived and worked in China back in 1988-89, when a lot fewer foreigners had been in China. I was the only foreigner in Jiaxing, while I was teaching there. I had a wonderful time. Most people were friendly, many people were fascinated by my reddish hair, blue eyes, pale skin, and freckles. I never felt in danger when I traveled, and being a "foreign expert", I had more access than tourists and could travel on my own. This was before the Internet. Before Hong Kong was returned to China. I left right after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. I watched my students protest during the Democracy Movement, including marching to the local communist party headquarters. And I saw everyone shut down towards me, without my understanding why at first, after the massacre. I know things have changed in China since my time there, but I will never forget what happened while I was there. Oh, and people are getting arrested in England for posting things the government doesn't like on the internet.
Jeannette Solimine
2025-08-07 16:26:38 +0000 UTCKorea and Japan, wonderful people!! I lived in Korea between 1998-2000 and it was unreal. People were amazing. I went back last year after not having visited for 17 years and their demeanor hadn't changed. Especially the older people, so very lovely. Conversely, I lived in Germany from 1989-1998 and most older people (that remembered war times) were very kind. Europeans (minus Italians and Belgian in my experience) were a little bit standoffish, but tolerable when you understood their culture. Went to Germany 2 years ago for 2 weeks and the cold attitudes emanated from the people despite me doing well with speaking German respecting cultural rules. It tainted my earlier memories a bit.
Thomas 'Tonepoet' Lindsey
2025-08-07 15:05:34 +0000 UTCSpeaking as a Catholic - I know what’s been done to Catholics in China. Look up Cardinal Joseph Zen - very sad what they’ve done to him🙏 I love traveling “with” you - thank you so much. I’m 77 and have never traveled outside of the U.S. stay safe!
Michele McDermott
2025-08-07 14:47:21 +0000 UTCI am in Australia and I find myself trying to "defend" America in the same way. I have never been to mainland America but the example getting of getting arrested for posting a criticism on the government is one point I bring up when they compare the US to China. In terms of China my concern is the rule of law, for example when people protest losing money to a bank or property developers (that do leak through from time to time via the interwebs). I am not personally affected but I know of people who have. There is a habit of the government sweeping the issues under carpet (even more so than the west). So I worry that due to censorship you never get a full picture of the problems in China, shortcuts on construction, car accidents etc. As you say it is safe I have been there and felt safe, but at the same time they don't have a free press you don't always see the bad news in China. So you often don't know if crimes occur even in the same suburb. The mainland Chinese people I have met who have children are really very protective of their kids for often good reason. There is very much lower trust level with 外地人 (for example Beijng people not trusting people from outside of Beijing). They would not dare to lose sight of the little ones in public. Maybe one could argue an irrational fear or paranoia or could be a real concern. Here yes we keep an eye on the kids but it is certainly more relaxed. Other big examples, The whole milk powder incident, recenty lead poisoning and other examples where corners were cut mostly to make money and at the expense of a child's wellbeing. The kicker in all of this if someone who has power commits a crime they probably can get special advantages versus the normal people (老百姓人). This is dangerous. Remember that a famous female tennis player had that issue with an official and she had kind of disappeared. The list goes on. So in my view it isn't "that" safe but maybe for different reasons to America. The lack of transparency, it is almost like a fear of the unknown. When I see their "great" cars I then think what could they be hiding as we won't see official bad news , have seen some short clips of officials removing car badges when it is a Chinese EV that was on fire . This is my natural reaction (maybe a bit unfair), So sorry for the essay... This is where I think America and my home country have the edge.. There are cover ups here but nowhere near the same degree as China. I do like China and have been there a few times (mostly in the 2000s) and had a great time there. Bad things happen everywhere, but a system of covering up these problems is not the way and I truly believe that. Enjoy your videos.
Matthew Galeano
2025-08-07 06:21:56 +0000 UTC
