Nowadays, more and more "foreigners and Internet celebrities" are thriving in China.
Most of them have one distinctive feature – they do not hide their love for China.
Some people even love too crazy and have broken through the boundaries of reason.
For example, the famous "patriotic foreigner" Vlaf, at one time his daily life was fancy praise for China.
Staring at the eyes, excitedly praising such as mobile payment, high-speed rail, domestic mobile phones and so on.
Well, as a Chinese I admit that you are right, and those are indeed great.
But pick up the cake that fell on the ground and eat it, just because it's a "Chinese cake", which... It's a bit too much.
Therefore, these "patriotic foreigners" have also caused some controversy.
That is, the "crooked nuts" who love "my country" so fiercely, do they come from the heart or have other plans?
After all, "foreigners praise China" belongs to the traffic password on the Internet.
Shouting I love China, it is easy to get millions of views, hundreds of thousands of likes.
And everyone knows that behind the traffic is wealth.
Therefore, some netizens said that while they were moved, they always felt that something was wrong.
What's wrong?
Let's take a look at the following four foreign Internet celebrities who have exploded in China.
The same is to love China, compared to their stories, you may know what is wrong.
Cao Cao of the United States: Married to a Beijing daughter-in-law and became a Beijing uncle
Who remembers this foreigner who played with Zheng Zeshi in the movie "Ip Man 3"?
His name was Jonathan Cosley, and Chinese name was very popular - "Cao Cao".
Both an actor and now an influencer with 5 million followers.
If you go through Cao Cao's videos, you will find that most of them record their daily lives.
Eat and drink, and even share parenting.
There are not many "foreigners" who are superficial and put "I love China" on their lips at any time and anywhere.
But Cao Cao's Chinese love, although not deliberate, can be seen in the details.
For example, once in Marrakech, Morocco, he met locals "slandering" China, and immediately started a fight with them.
In the video, moroccan brothers concluded that Chinese were very poor because Chinese tourists bought things and bargained, and they were not as rich as the Moroccans.
Cao Cao explained unconvincingly: People who can really live their lives know how to bargain.
The more the two talked, the more excited they became, and finally Cao Cao simply took out his mobile phone to give the little brother a science of China's total GDP and per capita GDP, and then compared it with Morocco's data.
Finally put the little brother in full breath.
Cao Cao also often took his foreign brothers abroad to eat hot pot and make Chinese loose bones.
Because of Cao Cao's long-term Amway, many foreigners began to slowly like things from China.
Look at the "Chinese cuisine" that foreigners generally love to sunbathe.
Cao Cao liked shabu lamb.
Even when he arrived in Barcelona, he would have to find a way to eat,
The family sits around a table, dipped in sesame sauce, leek flowers, chili oil, and accompanied by a mouthful of sauce-flavored liquor that foreigners are not accustomed to drinking.
Even the charcoal-burning copper pot for shabu-shabu was carried by him from Beijing thousands of miles away.
And the Russian guy Vlaf mentioned above.
He also said that he loves to eat hot pot.
But in one video, before the pot was turned on, he threw a piece of cabbage down.
Then hurriedly stuffed the half-cooked cabbage with red oil into his mouth.
Then, unsurprisingly, it was another meal of praise.
I don't know if you see the difference, who is more like enjoying hot pot?
In Cao Cao's video, we see that we are just a real ordinary person.
First of all, he was a father and a husband.
Will be troubled by the idea that the eldest daughter wants to beat the tongue ring.
The Dragon Boat Festival will accompany his wife and mother-in-law to wrap a bunch of rice dumplings and talk about Qu Yuan.
His empathy with Chinese stems from the act of "moisturizing and silent", not from slogans.
It's like staying in Bartharona for a few more days so that the 82-year-old mother, who came to visit them from the United States, could stay in Barthorone for a few more days.
Knowing that his mother liked art, he took the old lady to visit the "Holy Family Church" and used the beauty of art to persuade his mother.
This delicate filial piety Chinese seconds to understand.
Cao Cao came to China in 1996, married a Beijing girl, and gave birth to two girls.
In his words, he is an authentic American, an authentic Beijinger, and now 48 years old like a Beijing uncle.
His feelings for China have melted into his life, and he does not have to deliberately shout a voice every day.
Afu: Chinese see "non-mainstream" Germans
Are you sure that the Germans are tall and mighty, commonly known as chariots?
But this German named Afu is round and soft, weighing more than 200 pounds, looking like a cute treasure.
Originally known as Thomas Dexen, Ah Fu went to China twice as an exchange student to study.
Later, he also became a Shanghainese son-in-law, not only speaking Mandarin well, but also fluent in Shanghainese.
In 2016, Ah Fu began to make short videos.
The original content was all funny spit on his Shanghai father-in-law (the German guy was bold and fat, and his real name was spit on the old man).
From having a car and a house to a wedding bride price, the Chinese guys want to say what they dare not say.
But spit back to complain, Ah Fu and the old father-in-law actually have a very good relationship, he later also specially published a book to talk about the story of his father-in-law.
After the initial "awkward period", Afu began to iterate on his video content.
Focusing on sharing transnational experiences, such as eating habits and terroir culture, Ah Fu's wife also joined the video recording.
However, Afu's videos will adhere to one principle, that is, real communication.
Because his videos are not only Chinese, but also foreigners, especially Germans.
So he doesn't deliberately praise something, and sometimes he shares some of the pressures and hardships in the lives of ordinary Chinese people.
Let Germans who have the same pressures of life see and feel it.
For example, there is an issue about the challenges that a northeast guy with a monthly salary of 8,000 will face in Shanghai.
This is also the characteristic of Afu video, both German blonde beauty challenge snail powder such a funny "heavy mouth".
And you can see a lot of humanistic care things.
In particular, in a 2019 video, Afu screened a ride-hailing driver.
After getting on the bus, ask the driver to drive the car back to his hometown in Jiangxi, 700 kilometers away, and Afula pays the round-trip fare and all the expenses on the road.
After making sure that Ah Fu was not joking, the driver Xiao Zhou said in English: crazy, and then agreed.
Because Xiao Zhou had not seen the children of his hometown for six months.
Chatting on the road, Xiao Zhou said that he was very guilty, he said that he had seen many children in Shanghai who had received complete love from their parents.
From birth, his children were cared for by their parents in their hometown.
Finally, Ah Fu and his party successfully arrived at Xiao Zhou's hometown, and Xiao Zhou and his son hugged each other excitedly.
Many netizens were touched by this video.
Because of the video of Ah Fu's heart, it has promoted the understanding of each other's lives between the Chinese and German people.
He became a well-known sino-German cultural exchange friend.
The love for the two countries was expressed with practical actions.
By the way, to people who want to lose weight, ah fu has also been successful in slimming down.
Beauty cation: Love the countryside, only made a Chinese boyfriend
Unlike Afu shooting in the city.
This beautiful woman, whose online name is "Cation", often rides a bicycle through the rural paths.
The sister is from Virginia, USA, and has just graduated from Nanjing University.
My biggest hobby is visiting rural China.
Because the cation major is wastewater treatment, she pays great attention to the natural ecology, so she often goes to the countryside.
She likes the good air and simple folk customs in the countryside, and even recognized a "dry mother" in the countryside.
Cations are often a camera + a bicycle, wandering on country roads.
When you are hungry, you will solve a casual meal on the side of the road, and the green vegetable and egg noodles will be eaten with relish.
At first, she spoke Chinese the video, but later changed it to English because she had to upload it to the extranet for the world to see.
Cation videos touch every aspect of life in China: from universities, to cafeterias, to street food, subways, and the construction of China's new countryside.
Even the ethnic composition of China.
In one video, she detailed the life and current situation of the Orunchun people.
Compared to many foreigners who introduce China only to eat.
The video content of the cation undoubtedly has better breadth and depth, and spreads Chinese culture.
For example, the difference between the Orunchun and even the Evenk is that even many Chinese can't tell the difference.
Unsurprisingly, cationic videos also went viral on the extranet.
Because many foreigners have seen it and found that the real China is completely different from what they have heard.
Some foreigners even began to reflect on themselves as a result.
For example, a netizen from Australia who watched the video of cations introducing China's ethnic minorities and lamented that Australia should learn hard and what is a lasting multiculturalism.
When it comes to respecting multiculturalism, even Cation himself can't help but complain about his country.
Once, in an interaction with netizens, she was asked: American boyfriend and Chinese boyfriend who is more considerate.
Cation "helplessly" said that she had only had two boyfriends in her life, and all of them were Chinese.
Because her first boyfriend was from Shandong, the cationic Chinese dialect still has a bit of a Shandong accent.
"This is not spicy" Guo Jerry, a foreign Internet celebrity praised by CCTV
Jerry Guo is probably China's best-known "foreigner Internet celebrity."
He is famous for being able to eat spicy more spicy than Sichuan and Hunan people, and "this is not spicy" has become Guo Jerry's mantra.
Some people even laughed and said don't believe Guo Jerry's food reviews, after all, in his heart: spicy = delicious.
In addition to food, Jerry Guo's videos also have many contents that show the customs and customs of various countries and compare cultural differences.
And his style is real and objective.
For example, when I went to India, everyone said that the Indian diet was not hygienic.
Jerry Guo has no one to follow, he uses his body to experiment, eating all kinds of street food.
It turned out to be really diarrhea.
Compared with the China-India high-speed railway, he did not deliberately step on India, but calmly and objectively stated the facts he saw in front of him.
For example, there is a lack of staff and signage at the station.
For example, the platform on the bus is not fully flat, and it is inconvenient for passengers with heavy luggage.
When he learned that 800 kilometers needed to take 8 hours by car, Guo Jerry said with a little nostalgia that China's high-speed rail should only take 3 hours.
Look, he doesn't praise or maliciously belittle him, good is good, bad is bad.
At the same time, Guo Jerry is also a broadcaster with a conscience and a human touch.
At the Chernobyl ruins, other people take pictures to show off, and even wear bikinis to take photos.
He said silently: This is not good, because this is a very sad place, many people have died, we should dress appropriately.
Another time he went to Yunnan to shoot a video and found that the locals were growing coffee, but the income was not high.
So Guo Jierui used his influence to set up a business project to help local coffee grow outdoors, and even sold it to the United States to make more money.
The locals killed chickens to entertain Guo Jerry, and he was moved to cry.
This incident was later praised by CCTV and made into a documentary "I Help Yunnan Sell Coffee".
During the epidemic period, Guo Jerry's "Overseas Anti-epidemic Diary" was also recommended by CCTV as the "first line of global anti-epidemic".
In fact, it is not difficult to find out from the stories of the above four "foreigner Internet celebrities".
They didn't shout slogans to praise China.
Instead, it is to express love and support for this country with actions.
As Afu said:
"I love living in China and love Chinese culture and language.
But that doesn't mean I need to emphasize this all the time, I'm using my actions to prove that I really like this country, not that I love China in every video. ”
Through videos and their own words and deeds, they have played a role in introducing modern China and building bridges of communication.
Just like Jerry Guo said that when he was a child, he was very obsessed with the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and even thought that China was like the movie.
It wasn't until I grew up and came to China that I found that it was as modern and prosperous as the United States.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Cognitive deprivation can lead to misunderstandings.
Therefore, truly objective communication and communication is a constructive and positive action.
Compared to simply flattering and venting shouting "I love" to win attention, there is no doubt that the latter is more like true love.
Text/Porco Rosso Watch Movie Editorial Department: Ugly
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