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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