Peng Ci, as the Chinese call it, is a scam where a person will go out in public, pretend to be injured by another person’s clumsiness, and then try to extract money or favors from the person they accuse of injuring them. I’m sure it’s not only a Chinese thing – in fact, I suspect it even explains an odd public interaction my wife and I were confronted with right here in the US a few years ago – but this American living in China was inspired to make what is actually a pretty catchy tune out of it.
Category Archives: International Culture
Bald and Bankrupt.
Some travel videos carry the message of “you should come here someday and here are the things you should do,” and others carry the message of “we go here so you don’t have to.” I suspect most people would put Benjamin Rich’s videos through what we used to call Soviet Central Asia (think countries ending in -stan) in the latter category. And he’s up to the job… in fact at times he’s downright controversial.
Ew, only an American would eat that!
Mrs. Eats will show you America through the eyes of a Japanese woman. A zany, lighthearted and somewhat unpredictable Japanese woman. Hold on tight.
An American abroad.
Feli from Germany.
This girl does a great job of comparing the cultures of Germany and the US. She’s fun, and have you ever heard anyone who grew up in Germany but speaks English with a more perfect American accent?
Baseball in the winter.
Sometimes I think it’s easier to watch baseball in the winter because I don’t have as many outdoor chores and activities. The choices on YouTube vary from winter to winter. This link here is to Nicaraguan baseball but I’ve found Venezuelan, Dominican, Puerto Rican and Mexican at times. Do a search for “beisbol en vivo.” Did I mention it’s all in Spanish?
The Confederate South that moved farther south.
A certain percentage of humanity is migratory. I’m a homebody and tend to forget that, so I have a natural curiosity about the stories of people who pull up stakes and moved everything they had to places you wouldn’t expect them to show up, especially back in the days when if you made a mistake, it wasn’t so easy to turn around and go back home.
Poverty.
A reminder of how good most of us have it.
An interesting life to live.
This channel is for people interested in English history, home decor and architecture, cooking, and culture among other topics. American girl falls in love with British aristocrat and has to take a crash course in all of the above.
The China-North Korea Border.
Another one of my videos about creepy, forsaken corners of the earth.