Crossing America With No Map

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]There is one thing I wanted to watch, actually. Somebody uploaded a video on my Reddit. It's called reverse tip-to-tip experience. And it's a Chinese guy who went around the states, and this is just a short clip from it. I figured we'd watch it together. I don't really know if it was like a full tip-to-tip [music] or just like literally a Chinese person walking around, but like let's watch anyway.

[00:00:27]Okay, so I'm sorry. The first thing you try to do in America is to do fare evasion? You're trying to get a free metro ticket. Just Okay. All right.

[00:00:39]Based.

[00:00:49]Uh yeah, you should just be able to tap it there.

[00:00:52]Yep, just hold it over.

[00:00:54]Oh.

[00:00:58]Not even trying [laughter] to speak English.

[00:01:00]Is fire. That is literally [ __ ] we would do. That is funny seeing it the other way. Nailed it though. Nailed it to be clear. I mean, the the the military dude got it perfectly. Just based off vibes.

[00:01:13]I would be terrified. I'm not going to lie though. If there's a Chinese military dude posted up in full gear, I'm not saying, "Hey bro, how do I use the metro?" I'm avoiding eye contact.

[00:01:27]That ain't a cop, bro. That is not a cop. That guy's in the army. He's in the army.

[00:01:41]This [laughter] is insane.

[00:01:50]>> [laughter] >> I knew more Chinese than this dude knows English.

[00:01:56]It's here. This is the next train.

[00:01:59]Okay.

[00:02:02]Okay, it seems like this guy just understands English. Am I crazy? It seems like he just understands English and he's just speaking Chinese for the lols.

[00:02:17]You like my glasses? Yes, yes, yes.

[00:02:19]Dude, that's crazy. You a vibes-based communication, you know, everyone called it my alt. It's so effective. It's so effective. Look at that. There's no universe this guy knows how to say glasses in Chinese. I don't.

[00:02:31]>> Thank you. I appreciate it.

[00:02:35]You want coffee?

[00:02:37]coffee That is Wait, did she get this? Cuz that's a crazy play. Pointing to the sweatshirt and saying black is crazy.

[00:02:57]You want the black? That's crazy tech.

[00:03:00]That's actually crazy tech. And black?

[00:03:04]Not cream, milk, anything. Only black?

[00:03:18]>> [laughter] >> Then why would you say black, bro? You can't say black and then get it and then go, but with milk. That's not black anymore. You have removed the very thing you communicated.

[00:03:31]I'd like a black coffee with milk. Yeah, please. I want it to be black coffee, but with a lot of milk in it.

[00:03:41]You want this one?

[00:03:43]And this size?

[00:03:49]Uh, $3.59.

[00:03:54]Thank you.

[00:03:57]Really?

[00:03:59]Thank you.

[00:04:00]I I don't think she got that, right?

[00:04:02]There's no universe unless he pointed to his eyes. She must have just thought he was saying you're pretty, for sure, right?

[00:04:08]Yeah.

[00:04:15]>> [laughter] >> Kid Town American Kid Town. I do appreciate the blur here even though he's definitely miming it out. That's respectful.

[00:04:25]What's up?

[00:04:35]He's got a 100,000 followers. Hell yeah.

[00:04:39]Yeah, you like it? You want it? Keep it.

[00:04:42]It's a gift to you.

[00:04:52]>> [laughter] >> Here you go, children. It's Chinese customs to give cigarettes to people who are nice to you.

[00:05:02]Low-key racist, okay? Not super not our best not our best performance.

[00:05:08]The deep bow with the hands little bit Okay, it's kids kids will be kids. Kids will be kids.

[00:05:15]Are we friends? Friends. Buddies.

[00:05:17]Yeah.

[00:05:22]There's Wait, okay, they think be sure that means friends. It's not it.

[00:05:28]>> [laughter] >> He's just saying [ __ ] bro. He's just saying this is genuinely like me going up and they go, "What's your name?" and I go, "I'm the Crimson Blur." Swag swag swag and they go, "Swag swag swag." And I'm like, "Yeah."

[00:05:47]Handsome. He's handsome.

[00:06:06]This is the equivalent is the equivalent of us going to McDonald's. When you're away from home, you want a taste of home. We went to McDonald's, he goes to Chinatown.

[00:06:17]Chinatown food is so much different than Chinese food though.

[00:06:22]This is DC, right? This is Washington DC. I don't know how the food is in Chinatown. I don't know how the Chinatown is in DC. It's def Is it top three? Probably not. I'm assuming it's kind of ass. Chinatown DC's awesome? All right, I didn't know that. I feel like SF Chinatown number one, not close.

[00:07:05]In a Chinese restaurant, you didn't expect foreigners? To be clear, they're not foreigners, they're Americans. It's not like you go to a Chinatown restaurant and there's only Chinese people there. That's like going into the McDonald's in China and being like, "What the [ __ ] What are these Chinese people doing here?"

[00:07:20]Where are my gua bao buns? This isn't correct.

[00:07:34]So expensive. That is so expensive if you were coming from China. $37, 200 I mean, it's it's America, that's like whatever, That's par. That's standard. That's not crazy. That's [ __ ] standard. He got like two dishes. It seems like one dish was $19.99. He got a side for another I can't really tell. Maybe a drink for another five, and then tax. That's fine.

[00:07:54]That's normal. But, if you're from China, that's like 231 yuan. That's like a hotel. That's expensive. I mean, brother, it's What do you mean? Washington, D.C.

[00:08:05][ __ ] dinner where you got a meal, a side, and a drink? Yeah, it's going to What are you talking about? What do you What price do you expect? Are we Are we living in the same America? That's not $20 anymore. There's only standard prices for LA. He's not in LA. He's in D.C. Wait, he's in D.C., bro. Oh, I wonder if he tips.

[00:08:23]Oh, and it ends. It ends. Wait, who is this person? This is a re-upload of the actual channel. I guess maybe they're only on Bilibili. That YouTuber seems awesome, though. That was funny. I want to see a full adventure of someone doing tip-to-tip from China and America. We talked a bit about it in the Chinese comments were like, "You would get [ __ ] shot in the streets." You wouldn't. It's It's gross exaggeration.

[00:08:44]I actually think, in the same way that people have negative perceptions of your experience coming into America, or maybe sorry, Americans have a negative a negative maybe thought of what it'd be like in China. I I think Americans, pound for pound, would treat foreigners super well. I think very hospitable, very kind. I think most Americans are. And I don't think I'm crazy for saying that.

[00:09:02]Like, yeah, is our government [ __ ] the bed? Of course. But, I think the people in the country are generally pretty hospitable. What about down south? I think that's also a a false idea that you have. They're more hospitable down south. Like, are there racist people? Yeah, of course. Are there people who are going to be [ __ ] Of course. But, I would expect, if you were to do a trip across America, to go down south, that they would be nicer than if you were to do it up north. I think they'd be much colder up north. Like, the worst experience you probably have is in like major cities, I'm assuming. If you're like New York [ __ ] city, cuz they don't give a [ __ ] Maybe Florida be bad. I'm not white. I'm not going through the South.

[00:09:38]I get your concern, but I actually think it would be a better time going through the South. Now, there are bad neck of the woods. Absolutely.

[00:09:47]Don't Don't get me wrong. There are bad neck of the woods, but it's also it's not like there I think there are more white people in the north than the south if you were to look at the demographics of America, like percentage-wise. The South is more diverse, just to be clear. I've only gone on the Eastern Coast. So, I the I've been across and obviously my experience is unique to my life, but I've gone New Hampshire to Florida. So, the whole East Coast. The number one KKK town is in Pennsylvania. Major cities are the most diverse. Yeah, of course.

[00:10:15]I'm talking I guess state by state. Uh states by diversity. Racial and ethnic diversity in the states. Oh, there's a [ __ ] census coming up, isn't there?

[00:10:23]Yeah, okay. This is exactly what I thought it was. The whitest part of the US is Maine, West Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, which I knew because I'm from New Hampshire, bro, and it's 87% white.

[00:10:34]That [ __ ] is white as [ __ ] The least white is Hawaii, California, New Mexico, DC, Texas, Nevada, Maryland, Georgia, Florida, Jersey, New York, Arizona.

[00:10:46]Yeah, that makes sense. So, basically major cities in the South. Major cities in the South. That adds up.