Love it! Who of us that know something about anything haven't gone to an MLM meeting or two! You forgot to mention the bit about how at some point during the session the presenter speaks glowingly to the audience how "you're such a great audience and so intelligent..." and "I don't think I've yet had such a motivated audience; you guys clearly have an edge..." blah blah (add further "you're special" ingredients here to work the room up into a "yes" frenzy) blah blah. When I was in my late teens I got involved in a "business opportunity" week long training on how to sell time-share (back in the eighties when it had first started). I remember one particularly dubious character taught us all to (in his words) "work that f^*~ing hinge" meaning to keeping nodding continuously in front of your prospective buyers as the non-stop nodding will be infectious and they will nod their way to signing up. I remember at the time feeling intensely uncomfortable and fake-as (and I think around day 3 of the "training" I bailed before my soul was totally sold out).
Here's a supposed translation of that video from another thread where the poster claims to be a native Mandarin speaker:
There's absolutely no mention of Dash and, even without the translation, I think you'd hear the guy actually say "Dash" as my experience of doing business in HK & Taiwan is that at presentations in their native language, product names will often be heard in amongst a continual stream of (to me and most westerners) indecipherable sound. I've noticed this at meetings where a Microsoft rep will be presenting and you'll hear the MS product names being mentioned in perfect sounding English.
I really think that little pump we saw for Dash was purely based on the speculation doing the rounds that "Dash is next". I don't think these Chinese running this pyramid scheme are onto Dash and (hopefully) won't touch it as it's clearly hugely damaging. No one will trust another Litecoin run-up now.
Thanks so much for taking the time to post the translation, RenegadeMan! It was very interesting to compare my comprehension of it with somone else's.
Glad to hear that you wisely chose to exclude yourself from that vicious soul-sucking world. Your descriptions were hilarious and spot-on, BTW.
The awkwardness for me was exacerbated by continual pressure from friends to join and in turn sign-up my own friends. Monetizing one's friends can never end well, as it pretty much destroys that tacit bond of trust which underscores all friendships. That being said, we are breaking new ground in this area with social networking like Facebook, where counter-productive relationships are encouraged and real friendships are exploited and monetized by third parties.
I know what you mean about the Chinese insertion of English pronouns amidst their stream of 99% Chinese words. While this is definintely true in the tech sector of Taiwan, I'm not so sure it holds true in Mainland China. The mainlanders seem to be less enamored with English-speaking cultures than their offshore Chinese counterparts, and usually prefer to use full Chinese transliterations for all foreign proper nouns. For example, in Taiwan Google is simply said in English "Google," but in China they translate the name into the Chinese words Gu-Ge which literally means "valley brother."
In the video, the speaker does actually say litecoin a few times, but only in Chinese as "Lai-Te Currency." I am aware of the various Chinese monikers used for Dash and Darkcoin previously (yes even the "devil" one), and was keenly listening for anything that even remotely sounded like it. Like others have speculated, I doubt there will be any huge influx of Chinese money into Dash without some easily accessible Dash/CNY trading pairs for them. We would pretty much need the equivalent of a 2013 OKCoin, except for Dash. I strongly believe this will ultimately happen, as truly tech-savvy and economic-minded individuals cannot help but notice the monetary advantages of Dash over bitcoin. We certainly have no problem attracting smart money. The stupid (and orders of magnitude larger in quantity) money will eventually follow.