Liz Tuccillo: What’s the biggest criticism about Chinese men? Go.
Female: Being honest.
Liz Tuccillo: They are not honest?
Female: They are not just attractive to me. Just get their grooming, get it sorted.
Chen Chang: They’ve been so spoiled because men carry on the family name. They’re emperors.
Liz Tuccillo: Do you think you’re spoiled?
Male: Yeah. I have an apartment supported by my family. I just don’t pay any rent. I have no pressure and I keep shopping.
Liz Tuccillo: You are spoiled.
Male: Yeah.
Liz Tuccillo: That sort of translates on how they behave and how they treat women.
Female: Yeah.
Liz Tuccillo: Are they romantic at all?
Female: Hard to say because most of the time they are not.
Liz Tuccillo: Are you romantic?
Male: Yeah, I think I’m beyond average.
Liz Tuccillo: Oh yeah and how are you romantic.
Male: I bought my first apartment in Beijing and I was dating someone and I gave her my house key to her as a Valentine’s Day present.
Liz Tuccillo: Okay.
Male: Later on, when I have more money, I want my girl to have my most beautiful thing on earth.
Liz Tuccillo: Like what?
Male: Happiness.
Liz Tuccillo: Money doesn’t buy happiness.
Male: Money can buy diamonds.
Liz Tuccillo: Are you romantic?
Male: Of course.
Liz Tuccillo: Of course you are. What do you do? Do when you really try to impress a lady?
Male: We can have some walking around the Forbidden City. The river around the Forbidden City with the moon is very beautiful.
Liz Tuccillo: I feel like I’m talking to a French man. This is crazy how romantic you are like. Wow! Maybe Chinese men are romantic.
Female: A Chinese man talks a lot about love, romance, and sex.
Liz Tuccillo: He’s lived somewhere else.
Female: Probably he’s lying.
Liz Tuccillo: He’s lying.
Chen Chang: They do love women but they can’t tell people their feeling. You can’t lose face especially men. If they tell someone “I like you”. How about if the girl says, “I don’t like you?”
Liz Tuccillo: I heard a theory that that’s why karaoke is very popular here that’s where the chance that man have to actually say how they really feel and the romantic comes out.
Chen Chang: That’s how we have so many songs about just the one sentence “I like you.” Maybe I like you yesterday. Maybe I will like you tomorrow. If you and someone start flirting or something going on between you guys, go karaoke and you can find it straight away. And you will sing back.
Liz Tuccillo: High drum and the karaoke parties. My God, so maybe karaoke does help the Chinese men unleash his hidden Romeo. Or maybe some things never change.
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