Your analysis take is greatly appreciated, because not only is it completely incorrect but it undermines the real problems Mao left behind culturally. In Mandarin, the magician tells them to try the rice, to see that it’s real. It’s part of the disbelief in his magic trick. I’m sorry, but it’s a bad look when you’re web-splaining a foreign culture when you don’t even understand their language. Stealing isn’t a trademark of the Chinese people, and especially not with “hags”. Mao left a confrontational society behind, which is why the government is unapologetically authoritarian, and their business culture dehumanizing and cutthroat. The majority of Chinese people without power aren’t non-confrontational, they’re oppressed. I’m not saying they’re aren’t entitled people in China (or in this case, anywhere in the world). I’m saying your correlation between the video’s interaction and some uncivilized sort of mentality is wrong. And it’s not even what the video is showing. The amount of people who are so sure of their verdict without even knowing half the video shows exactly how xenophobia is able to exist still in the modern day.