Oh boy, do I get that question a whole lot and to show you some of these differences

Culturally speaking my friend miss

So came to visit me here in Taiwan and she went and broke just about every single rule in Taiwan that you can which really

Surprised me for a lot of different reasons that I'll get into in this video now

I'm kind of conflicted with this video whether I want to release it or not because I know it's going to cause a huge

Discussion just like in my last video and being a youtuber, you know

We film almost everything we do and so we get the power of retrospect

We're able to go back and watch videos and see things again

And you start to catch things that you didn't necessarily catch when you film them so a lot of the times you realize that you're just not as nice of a person as you think you are and

That's why I started off this video by making fun of my friend's hat

Yeah, that's your first time

I'm with my 63 year old IE here. I found it funny when you were like so many scooters parked outside and no one steals them

Yeah, let's see if you know how to

This is called making a line or queuing up so as you can see

She was having none of that and went up the left side of the escalator to get all the way to the front of the

Line, which you are allowed to do in Taiwan. That's not considered rude

I just found it really funny how she just refuses to line up and why don't Chinese people line up?

Well, I think that comes in large part just due to the population

China has a ton of people and so they don't really line up for things

They tend to just kind of get to the front as fast as possible

Sometimes where there are situations where you have to line up like buying a train ticket they have these like

Stainless steel guardrails that I set up so that people have to form a line and even then I remember when I was in China

It was my first year. I didn't speak very much Chinese

I was trying to get a train ticket from

Kaifeng to

Zhengzhou and I was having a hard time explaining to the lady at the counter what I wanted and it took me too long and

So the people behind me just started reaching over my shoulder and ordering their own train tickets and she was giving them what they needed and I was just kind of forced out of the line and

I had to go all the way to the back of the line wait and then get to the front of the line same thing kept

Happening like two or three times and it ended up taking me like two hours just to get a train ticket

And that was a lesson learned. You just kind of have to get there first

Otherwise, it's gonna take you way too long to do anything. There's just too many people

That's right

No, you can try you can push and shove your way into a train

People here like

They train

You serious train they don't practice lining up. It's just people are considerate

To the train to line up

It's that it's not a man it's totally different you have

Goutier in China, but it's not like this. No, this is Japanese

The number one rule on a Taiwanese train to be very quiet

Train is the loudest place in China

I

Ever was quiet

You have even sat down yet

I

Obviously the HSR was a lot more comfortable than she thought because she slept the entire way up to Taipei

How's your first Taiwanese Gautier experience?

What you say

This looks about the title doesn't

And you look like you're a hundred years old or six months old

I'm I will have it. I'm not

Did you notice that you didn't have to put your bag through the security you don't do that in Taiwan

I

China's the only place I think that has

Sure, and again you have to line up you don't I do it

Yeah, this is our pie doing that

This is Taiwan, okay

D-eagle said I'd wait the other so shut the fuck up

I

Don't say DTN Taiwan

Forget I still call it DTN and then everyone in Taiwan yells at me because it's not a DTN

Blue this blue one that one is for all people

But

You're IE so maybe you can sit there in China you have these seats, but just no one gives a shit

Why did she sit in the priority seating when she could have sat anywhere else on the train?

Well, like she explained they have priority seating in China, but nobody really cares about it there

I have seen some Chinese people give up their seat for someone who is elderly it has happened

But for the most part again, there's so many people on the trains that you just take a seat wherever you can

You know, every country is different

You can let me know in the comments what the culture is around seating in your country some countries people will sit in priority seating

If the train is packed and then if they see someone get on the train who clearly needs the priority seat

Then they'll get up and let them sit there

There are other countries where no one will sit in priority seating no matter how packed the train is

Because they know that that seat is for people who need it

I know in Taiwan they take seat priority rather

Seriously, and even in non priority seating like just the regular seats people will stand up and give their seat to someone who is elderly

Do be careful of this if you're a foreigner and you want to be nice and give your seat up to someone who looks like

They're old because if that person doesn't feel like they're old enough to be given a seat you might get yelled at

Speaking from experience. Sometimes it's hard for foreigners to tell how old the Taiwanese person actually is in Taiwan

Just make sure that priority seating is respected because they do care very much about this

But in China, they don't care at all. You're getting so good at

Paid away for everything you want to drink from a new t-shirt

You know, I do it. I want to take the gout here. You know, I do it you want to go to a restaurant

Hi, do you want to be my girlfriend?

Looks like Hong Kong

Typehead friends all the time. Just like you. Yeah. Welcome to semen. You want to cross the street?

Hi day in Taipei, it's better than Taichung the buildings

Oh

You want to try a while I see put the money in and

Then you use the ball and then when you're finished you push the button to catch one

Good luck. Oh

Oh

My god, it's young quiet

So come to a new old man restaurant and what do we need to do before we eat

What are you eating

So you don't have this in China

Trash

It's probably the most famous Taiwan dish they're very proud of this

You're a man

No Taiwanese person puts their chopsticks into their noodles like that

Nobody does that

Bully mom

Because it's like a funeral it looks like incense

Okay, you didn't try the noodles no this one isn't a different soup

Oh

My god, this is Taiwan's most special dish

No, they're all very quiet when they eat remember the eagles a pathway the others

Shut up

How funny soo

Oh

There we go

Took a job. Oh sure. Take a picture. Oh sure. Duh

And you're from Guangdong you're not even like northern people you speak so thick

Everyone everyone can tell your Chinese

I'm not even a native speaker. I can hear you

You think people can't hear that

Now this this one shocked me a lot

So like I explained you don't put your chopsticks directly in your food sticking out

You don't do this because it looks like incense

During a funeral and so I don't know if it's considered

Rude per se maybe it is I think it's more inappropriate, but it might be rude

I don't know Taiwanese people can let me know in the comments below

But which shocked me because I thought that this rule came from China

Taiwan is heavily influenced by Chinese culture and so I thought a lot of these little rules that Taiwan has came from China and maybe I'm wrong or

Maybe Chinese people don't follow that rule anymore because China and Taiwan went on two very different paths

When it comes to following Chinese traditions and cultures

I mean, they are two different places with two different cultures

So that makes sense

But that that that one really shocked me and I think I probably could have explained it to her in a nicer way but I was just like so surprised and

Honestly, okay. This is where I feel really conflicted with this video on one hand

I really want to release it because I'm really interested in cultural differences and all of the things that come along with that

Why are we the way we are?

It's a big focus of this channel, but on the other hand I felt kind of

Embarrassed I think walking around with a Chinese person in Taiwan

Mostly because she was just I don't know

She was just breaking all these rules that seemed so obvious to me and other Taiwanese people

But then again, who am I to feel embarrassed or offended on behalf of Taiwanese people?

I'm not Taiwanese. This isn't my culture. This isn't my country. She should just be able to do whatever she wants

I mean if she was American or

Australian or some other foreigner would I care as much what I feel exactly the same way or is it the fact that she's Chinese

Is what's giving me this kind of feeling of like embarrassment?

I also think that my upbringing has a big part to play in it

My father is French Canadian and in my experience anyway French Canadians are very

Strict when it comes to manners. So for example table manners was a huge thing in my house

My father took that very seriously right? No elbows on the table. No chewing with your mouth open

No talking with your mouth open don't make any noise with food in general

Make sure you know how to use a knife properly so that your knife doesn't slip off

Whatever you're cutting and make that horrible scratching noise on your plate

Don't reach for things that are too far away always ask for someone to pass it to you

Like there's just tons of rules and it was taken extremely seriously in my house, which makes sense

I'm glad I was raised with the proper etiquette, I guess

So that you know when your kids go off to someone else's house for dinner

They don't look like they were raised by animals but the bad side is like now I'm filled with all these like inhibitions and this anxiety and like I'm always super careful about

Making mistakes in front of other people and try my best to learn the rules and

That's why I like I've never been to like a Taiwanese wedding or something a little bit more formal

Well one because I've never been invited to one but two

I'm also like I just don't know if there are rules

There that I don't know and then I break those rules and I would just feel so embarrassed

I hate that feeling

And I but I also don't want to use that as an excuse for not being nice to my friend

And again because I filmed it I got to see it and retroactively

Understand that I don't think I was being as nice to my friend as I could have been I could have been a little bit more gentle in

Telling her how things are in Taiwan without having to feel embarrassed or maybe a little bit angry or just shocked that she doesn't know these things, but I

Don't know I guess I the only person I have to apologize to is her, you know

I always knew that there were differences between Taiwanese people and Chinese people because I've lived in both countries and I've got to experience both cultures, but I was just shocked at just how apparent they were in

Person and it makes sense

I mean

I think the biggest difference and the reason why she was

The way she was when she was here is that Chinese people have the amazing ability to feel at home

Wherever they are in the world and

Also to Chinese people Taiwan is a part of their country and so they feel very much at home here

And so they're able to just do things without having to consider how other people feel

So if that means like getting in other people's way or not lining up or whatever to them, it's fine

They're just supposed to be

You know at home and that I think is a large reason why the Chinese people are considered so incredibly rude

You've probably heard stories of Chinese tourists going abroad and causing trouble and being rude. But the reality is

Once you live in China and you learn, you know, how things are done there

It's kind of it's really hard to explain but they are just very comfortable with wherever they are when you go to dinner with Chinese

People they're loud and they want to have fun and they don't want to care about, you know, making too much noise or whatever

It's a very lively place and if you can kind of vibe with that

Then you also feel very relaxed and at home and you don't have to care what other people think it's kind of freeing in a way

But you know, you also have to understand why that's considered rude by other cultures and other people

I mean, I'm not Taiwanese, but at the same time this is still my home

So I do hope that when people come here

They try and learn the rules and try to respect the way things run here. Not that they're even like all that strict