Exploring Cultural Differences: Content Creator Hasani Arnold's Move from America to China

Hello tea friends! On this Teatime with Jesse, I hang out with Hasani Arnold at the Beijing Tea Market.

Hasani Arnold is a content creator and Global Strategy Insight Manager. In this episode, we cover a lot! Hasani talks about growing up in New York and the cultural differences between the ethnic enclaves. We also discuss the challenges and opportunities of learning a foreign language and how policies have shaped public infrastructure in the China vs. US. Join us while we sip on some Ancient Tree White Tea and Qimen Red Tea.

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00:00:29 Meet Hasani Arnold

00:00:50 Duidui’s White tea

00:01:33 Hasani’s Journey from New York, USA to Beijing, China

00:02:42 Bilingual subtitling on social media

00:03:13 The Chinese community in Flushing, Queens

00:05:00 Disparate cultures in NYC

00:06:50 Cultural differences at school vs. local neighborhoods in NYC

00:07:29 Sensationalism in the media

00:08:30 Chinese populations in American school

00:09:29 Hasani’s first time abroad in Korea

00:10:38 Feeling safe in Asia

00:11:07 A foreigner experience in China

00:11:38 Shanghai is Hasani’s favorite city

00:13:44 Freedom of expression in New York

00:15:00 New yorkers breaking out of their shell

00:15:15 People in Los Angeles are fashionable

00:15:54 Pushing the envelope in Shanghai

00:16:25 Stop caring about what other people think

00:16:50 Improv and “failing big”

00:17:30 Changing lives through improv

00:18:00 It’s hard to fight in the tea room

00:19:00 Coffee and tea

00:19:16 Hasani’s favorite tea: darjeeling white tea

00:19:44 Chinese approach to coffee and tea

00:21:33 Flattening tea

00:22:09 Public infrastructure in China vs. America

00:22:34 Accessibility in China

00:24:23 Tea farmers are successful businesspeople

00:27:25 Access to chargers and batteries

00:28:38 Portable charging stations in China

00:31:00 Perceptions of the self and community in China vs. America

00:32:44 Communism and collectivism

00:33:16 Wealth and individualism

00:36:15 Racism in China vs. America

00:36:40 Racism and public services in America

00:37:12 The nature of democracy

00:39:15 Policies and public parks

00:41:45 Society and balance

00:42:15 Extremism and balance

00:42:33 The goals of China’s government

00:43:00 The Cultural Revolution in China

00:44:58 Bureaucracy and policy

00:46:06 China’s stability and yearly innovation

00:46:46 Understanding someone else’s opinion

00:47:29 Acrimony in American

00:48:28 Breaking the timeline

00:49:48 Having all the information

00:50:30 Getting into content creation

00:51:07 Racial phenotypes

00:53:00 Types of ignorance

00:53:09 Hair in the Black community

00:55:38 Race in China vs. America

00:57:00 Qimen red tea

00:54:14 The obligation of education

01:02:05 Learning involves messing up

01:02:34 Intent vs. impact

01:03:03 The role of patience in understanding different perspectives

01:04:00 There’s always something you don’t know

01:05:00 Productive conversations

01:06:18 Absurdist memes

01:07:38 Donghua Jinlong industrial grade glycine and Tiktok

01:10:30 Outsourcing marketing for advertising

01:11:57 Make content!! Be yourself, just do it

01:13:59 Media and the relationship between Asian American and Black American communities

01:23:00 Dating abroad

01:23:58 Addressing cultural stereotypes

01:25:00 Connecting through language

01:26:30 Lightning round

01:27:20 Incorporating fashion in content creation

01:28:43 Resources to learn Chinese

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