Mike Sui,a person of China-U.S. mixed blood, is enjoying an extreme popularity! Recently, a nine-minute comic video made by him has become very hot on micro-blogs of sina.com.

By the noon of May 7, it had been re-published more than 420,000 times, received more than 90,000 comments, with the number of fans skyrocketing to more than 420,000.

One person plays 12 roles

What does it look like that one person plays 12 roles in a video, including a Beijing guy wearing the jersey of the Guoan soccer team, a drunk Russian wearing a fur hat, an African singing rap and a Hong Kong guy wearing glasses and a business suit? You will find the answer if you watch the video made by Mike Sui.

The content of the video is very simple. It is a Chinese guy Li Lei drinking and chatting with several guys from different countries and regions in a wine bar of Beijing. The highlight of the video is the different English and Chinese accents spoken by them.

For example, the Beijing guy speaks mandarin with a heavy Beijing accent, "Any business? I am drinking with a batch of foreigners." The Hong Kong guy speaks both Chinese and English in a sentence, "My name is Tony." The Japanese guy is always polite but strained while speaking. The Taiwan guy's Taiwan accent is very genuine and funny. All the roles played by him are extremely vivid, and his acting is highly praised by netizens.

In the video, Sui played Li Lei, one that Chinese netizens, especially the post-1980s, are most familiar with, who is a character in China's English text books of 1990s. In the video, he is a real person. Like many Chinese who have studied English for years, he speaks every English sentence with strict grammar. Mike Sui plays this role vividly and wonderfully.

Mike Sui's Chinese name is Sui Kai. His father is a local of Beijing and his mother is a local of Chicago. Sui is a person of mixed blood, but because his father does not speak Chinese at home, his first language is still English.

Sui did not learn Chinese until he went to China and start studying in an elementary school in 1993. His American accent had not disappeared until his first year in the junior high school. Sui said, "It was a very long course."

Later, Sui went back to the United States to study. In order to maintain his Chinese language level, he used to talk with his Chinese friends on the phone and sometimes read Chinese novels written by Jin Yong (Louis Cha). These are tips for him to maintain his fluent Chinese.

It could be said that Sui is a Chinese with a foreign face. He participates in Chinese reality TV shows, acts in Chinese movies, hosts Chinese programs sometimes, and teaches English in Chinese universities. When he is shopping in Beijing, his bargaining is not worse than that of a Chinese at all.

"Chinese people like people with the language talent and a strong desire to perform." The sudden popularity made him come to such a conclusion.

Cultural differences

In addition to language differences, Sui believes that China and the United States also have many cultural differences. A typical character of the Chinese culture is "being indirect," but the U.S. culture is bold, strong and penetrating. In his opinion, being indirect is sometimes not good because it is not frank enough, but most of the time, being indirect means being polite and steady. The U.S. culture has a strong influence, but sometimes, its strong penetrating power makes people feel that it forces them to accept something.

Despite of the differences, people can see the combination of the two cultures of the free and bold U.S. culture and the implicative and indirect Chinese culture on Sui in the video.

Sui said that he will not think what differences of the two cultures could be seen on him in the video, because both cultures have turned into a part of him.