Barrett visits a rural village outside of Yangshuo, a county under jurisdiction of Guilin City in Northeast Guangxi Province, where a young New Zealand-Chinese boy, Richard, grew up. Richard shows Barrett around the village, talks about growing up as the only Caucasian-Asian mixed boy in the villages. China’s efforts in developing its remote villages are also shown in the video. Richard takes Barrett to a courtyard that was old, falling apart, and “almost dead” several years ago. Now the area is beautified and there are new buildings built with the support of the Chinese government. The Chinese government also invests in other infrastructure such as building roads and bridges with the goal of improving the standard of living in these rural communities.

Matthew Tye, known online as laowhy86, is an American who has lived in China for 10 years. He has a Chinese wife with whom he has one daughter. Matthew begins the video by saying that China is a country which polarizes people's opinions, his included. He claims he is the first to correct someone who unfairly criticizes the country, but also to point out when overly optimistic visions of the country are plain wrong. Matthew describes how in the early 2010s when he began to explore China, sprawling Chinese development really contrasted the aging infrastructure in his hometown and other American cities such as New York. However, China began changing drastically and things for Matthew, he says, took a turn for the worse. The atmosphere in China became more political. Matthew's honeymoon period with China is over. Once the allure of a new country had faded, he was met with the reality that China, like any other, had its fair share of cons as well.

Victoria is a Russian citizen who studies and lived in China. In this video outlines the five major reasons which she believes is the cause for many foreigners not consider China a place to live long-term. According to Victoria, it is impossible to belong to China as a foreigner and because of this difficulty of being accepted into Chinese society, it is hard to build long term connections. Expats tend to stay within the expat community and form close relationships with those who speak the same native language. Since expats come and go, it is hard to form a close-knit support network or group of friends as a foreigner in China. A more prominent issues is the language barrier. Chinese is considered a very challenging language to learn with thousands of characters to memorize in order to read Chinese texts. Even as a foreigner who studied the language, reading Chinese legal and official documents can be a hinderance to long-term stay. Additionally, there is very little possibility of obtaining Chinese citizenship regardless of how long one lives in China.

Janae is an American who stayed in China for 2 years. She gives her story and multiple reasons for leaving China and her TESL job there. She was tired of being mistreated and being taken advantage of. She had only asked for sick leave twice, one of which only lasted one hour. The company wanted to deduct $150 USD from her salary for that one hour of leave. It was only after a lot of arguing about standing up for herself that the company withdrew the deduction. In another instance, she asked to travel to America for her sister's wedding. She notified the company about her plans in advance, and everything seemed fine. When time came around though, they wanted to put her freeze her salary and hold onto the paycheck until she returned to China.

Xiaoma interviews Jonathan, an American who grew up in Chengdu. Jonathan’s parents are college professors teaching at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics which brought Jonathan and his brother to China when he was three. Jonathan did not attend an international school like many foreigners who grow up in China, rather his parents decided to send him and his brothers to local elementary, middle and part of high school. The goal was to foster interest and love for Chinese people and culture through learning Chinese, rather than speaking English at an international school. Growing up as one of the few foreigner families in the city and one of the only foreigners in his school, Jonathan connected with locals through the local dialect and playing basketball. For Jonathan, speaking Sichuanese is part of his identity and he considers Chengdu his hometown. His experience growing up in China demonstrate the ability to completely acquire a language through years of immersion even if one has a totally different cultural heritage as well as the importance of language in building relationships and connection to people of different ethnicities and cultural background.

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Aleese is an American teaching ESL in China and has been there for two and a half years. She teaches Drama and Critical Thinking at an international school in Beijing. Aleese goes through what a school day for her likes it. Students have just come back from their 6-week New Year holiday break. Since she works at an international school, many of her students have lived overseas, and have a variety of accents when they speak English. At the beginning of every day, she walks through a sanitation tent before entering the school. Inside the school, there are vending machines for toilet paper, which is standard practice in China. Public restrooms usually do not provide paper. Being an American, Aleese remarks how during school ceremonies she always has no idea what is going on because the speakers only use Chinese. She also comments how there is only Chinese food available in the cafeteria. At the end of the video, she comments on teaching can be so exhausting as she has to repeat the same things to different groups of students throughout the day.