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The Asian American Dream, Then and Now

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0:00 yeah like if you go to China and it's like a black person who was like born there and they're speaking Chinese they're like I'm Chinese the Chinese lady is still going to be like no you're not too [Music] good welcome back to another phenomenal episode of the careful boys where today we have Jason chenny with us again Jason Jason Jason Jason Jason what's your Chinese name yeah how do you know that was it wait what ethnic background what Korean oh Korean ████ my bad Nick he a kimchi guyon hey man you know people look at us

0:50 and go you guys have no diversity ████ we are a collection of people that's been Waring for thousands of years that just got together this is diversity ████ yeah yeah we would all have different it's because you're ignorant atics everybody's Chinese in this room and we would all have different passports if it was from our homeland yep yeah yeah seriously we got a except for me and him well you guys kind of but he's a guest it depends if you go on your dad's side or your mom's side right no that's true and then you're full Taiwanese or full okay so he would be the Taiwanese representative you could be Hong Kong or mainland China or I'd probably be mainland China dude I thought you were Singapore I thought I know but you look at my my ancestry it says ████ China well goes everybody's ancestry goes over there yeah guess what

1:41 that means all four you guys would be Chinese then wait all four one two three you're Chinese too what' you think Vietnam Le could be yeah cuz you do a lot of Vietnamese things so maybe you're all ████ Chinese escapes oh you're ████ Chinese why we got to be ████ Chinese he's culturally Vietnamese though but genetically his family ran away from China too all you guys ran away from China a lot of a lot of our you had you guys got kicked out of China it's different wrong we just we just didn't want to overstay you guys are currently surrounded by Chinese warships like how about that that's not true they were half there not surrounded they're not in the full circle he I thought they were it said all naval ships are surrounded but they say stuff all the time I was saying that I ate a okay all right so yeah my grand parents moved to Vietnam from China

2:33 escaping communism my parents were born there and then they moved to America a refugee here escaping communism see y'all are Chinese America's becoming communist oh oh wait do you speak with me though my mom my mom didn't Escape my dad tricked her whoa how my mom really liked Taiwan she was going to stay there forever she had a good job but my dad was like come to America it's going to be better wow and then my mom came that's so do you do you say trick because she doesn't like it here well my mom told me when she first came she thought America was ghetto so she was like what the ████ I thought I was supposed to be better but it's not better oh does she still feel that she's a lady so you can't trust anything she says my mom it changes all

3:23 the time sure words have never been spoken dude my mom was shocked when she came here she was like I thought America was going to be like Rich mhm and then cuz Japan was doing way better in like the'80s and then when she came here she was like but what's there's so many ████ broke ass poor people in like I don't know where she was but maybe in that City but well like no they did road trips to get to know America like but their image of like they would watch movies right like they don't have poverty like the way that they have in America there's so she she never seen like crackheads burning around a trash can like like and then trying to stay warm Community yeah like downtown she's never seen like crackheads in a tent like

4:15 she's like there's homeless people in Japan but she's like but it's different like she's like they actually like set up a thing and you can't really tell they're homeless it looks like people are just like poor yeah it's not like streets full of homeless people no and then they're working they're just like down and out but like once in a while you'll see a crazy dude that's like got dreadlocks in Japan and like he's like never showered right but she's like that's like one guy out of millions right so when she was here she's like what the hell and then another thing she was like there's shirtless guys running everywhere cuz jogging wasn't a thing yet in Japan and then guys wouldn't do shirtless she was just I think she was like thirsting but cuz she was like oh my God there's so many shirtless guys so strong you know so American body body meat look at that 6

5:06 feet John Jones and the short shorts the ████ tube socks and ████ that was that era dude yeah High shorts beard mustache she's probably like yo they got hair on their face Japanese people got hair on their face yeah you're right but look those was on a 6 feet white blonde dude with the hair slow motion and they live like yeah they're by the beach right you know yeah they live by the beach pit viper glasses Vibes American flag ████ headphones and ████ Walkman yeah looking like that one pool boy from ████ stranger things yeah pulling up in a Mustang big titty roller blades oh that sounds fire a little sweat under her chest yeah we had classic American cars

5:56 too the chest remember we used to have porn theaters on Hollywood Boulevard I remember that D really yeah have you guys been that's where PB Herman got my my dad said when he first came here like hookers on Hollywood Boulevard was normal and then that was kind of like the porn place so he had to bang a hooker cuz he was like wanted to know what how a vagina hooker feels vagina hooker feels like and I think he watched a porno oh at Hollywood Boulevard he's a do should you watch a porno first then get horny and then maybe he did it wrong but he that was his 70s American experience and then after he goes and Cooks in the back of a Chinese restaurant that's that's a good life that sounds pretty tight actually yeah that's yeah you know what's crazy to think is back in the day your your your dream in America was to live the American dream which is just to work be

6:48 stable just to have a job just to have a job and be an American yeah now it's so hard now people don't even want jobs no you got they want to do whatever they want to do as their job which is fine but it's just like I guess it's so simple back to the through line is freedom you know what I mean I think it's just a different version of it now I'm not saying it's better it's just just in response to the difficulty of the times no I think it's just freedom I think everybody just continues to want freedom you know cuz I think all those makes sense people that came here their countries aren't ████ up anymore so like think about Japanese Chinese Vietnam like all of Asia Asia's th right now there's no reason to come to America rather other than like they're not thriving in Vietnam so they're like well

7:38 I need to come to America and like maybe try something else but they're actually like booming in Southeast Asia so the immigration slowing down but back in the day they didn't have ████ and America was like well they got food so I want to go there and get some you think there's more opportunity Now in America or before I think there's more opportunity in the world now for people of a lower class y so like back then the only way for people to make it past their class was education yeah so you had to go to school you had to crush it in University you had to try your best to become a doctor lawyer engineer that's why most Asian parents that are from poverty they go you got to be a doctor you got that was their only way to surpass a class oh

8:29 you have sex with the princess or you ████ a princess if you can find one also though like even though there's cuz I agree with Joe there's just more opportunity in general so especially if we're talking about Asians like what Asian opportunities were uh in those countries back then was like not so much right so that's why people wanted to come here because for the most part there was kind of an equal playing field now I think kids born in today's generation Asians specifically have just as much opportunity in all those other countries as well but if you happen to make it in your industry in America everywhere knows you're you're especially because of the economic standard it's like you're probably getting paid more so if you did decide to go back to your home mother country or something like that you're in a better situation if you at the same level let's say in your home country and you came here you would still start at a lower level you know either the the the

9:21 strength of your uh your dollar your economy or just like the the nature of like how you can communicate with people just the working whatever it is people who succeed in America in your craft have a better shot of succeeding in their mother country in that same industry dude this is such a good podcast man hell yeah that's that's why I've been around for a long time yeah but yeah this is this is nice except unless you're that one Japanese dude who wide bodies Porsches oh that guy he travels the world and he's just like that sick all yeah all he just if you're an anomaly you're an anomaly that's that's true a freak it it don't matter your $100,000 in Japan is $100,000 yeah your $100,000 in America is $100,000 whatever it is what's up guys

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11:01 if you like what we do and what we've been doing for the past 10 years please support our patreon and click the link below to get all the details there's so many different tiers you can see it when you click that so even if it's the same opportunity America is still like looked as the tip of the spear especially as an Asian we're talking about entertainment as well so being being the entertainment capital of the world if you're an Asian-American and you make it an entertainment in America you're on a whole different pedestal when you go back to Asia my dad my dad always told me to go back to Taiwan like years and all the time but um but it it is where is he is he here or in he's in Tai one oh he say come back yeah he's said come back it's going to be great like more opportunity and especially you speak English maybe they'll use you more as a

11:51 translator huh what if they were to use you more if you had to like start from the bottom cuz with your English you can be a translator if you wanted but I do think that's a good job the difficulty in Asia the difficulty in Asia is um what do you call it like it's a small group of people that are successful in their families and they have a control of everything like they would say that about America which is true but there's still a lot of opportunity for like a person to be self-made I think out there you just have these strong ████ families that own everything and then like it's like so if you can come up but is just less is is is is um it's like we have the same things in America but

12:42 there's so much more that like you'll be under the radar over there they're going to notice and then it's just highly competitive you think we would ow you think America will how much longer do you think we would be the tip of the spear in most of the industries and who do you think is the next country that might take over the status of that I think China's trying really hard too oh do you think you're trying really hard I think China is probably second place but I think they're trying really really hard in which industry well I think the I think all Industries is first controlled by entertainment then I think Korea cuz that's the that's the message well but America studios aren't trying to get their movies played in Korea they're trying to get their movies played in China so I feel like if you control people's minds you control control the world oh my God this is such

13:33 a good podcast man no that's that's how it is right like that's why people have the American dream or like patriotism like all these things are that's why movie first yeah yeah yeah yeah oh my God you see Armageddon huh you ever see Armageddon i' I've heard of arm like wolf on Wall Street you know ████ like that the whole like American Dream racks to riches it's like it's because we've made so much content like that so the world sees America a certain way and anyone that aspires to be that like all the best of the World they come here that's why that's why Joe was saying that like um The American Dream thing people come and they're like this is not the thing but then we uh Market it as like this is the best it doesn't matter what's real what matters what people think it is what's real though it's just the difference in America as opposed to so many other countries is you really do have a chance to be like the most gangster mobile here but at the same time if you fail nobody's going to help you no yeah yeah like if you're the

14:23 smartest engineer in India you're probably amongst like a thousand other people just as smart you come here and you like destroy a classroom in USC you're going you're going to work at Apple and then you're set for life you're you're definitely the president of some tech company in Silicon Val that's true my mom calls America the country of many mistakes like so she like she's like you can make a lot of mistakes and still make it oh yeah for sure cuz like and we're the brain drain for all other countries so like all the smartest all everyone comes here because they're like well if I stay in my home country you know there's like I'm not going to get paid as as much I'm not going to and they're a genius in their home country but there just everyone else is also a genius but we have so many dumb asses here that their genius is crazy sounds like we're good at recruiting dude we are we're the best recruiter recruit we sell the best we're

15:13 the best salesman of the world and as and then if we can control that and if we could stay being the best bouncers which is what we are too then I think we stay up top for a long for a long long time I think the definition is always changing too because like our marketing is like Hey we're of immigrants right I would say like maybe up until 20 years ago it was it was like angl at the Forefront but then now the definition is changing of what an American is like it's always been hey if you come here you work and then you follow into the culture you're an American depend doesn't matter what race you are but I think like now it's even more true than when I was growing up cuz when I was growing up it was like um people already automatically assume you're a foreigner because they don't

16:03 look at you as like oh you're an actual American they'll be like oh where you from it's like ████ do you sound do you hear a ████ accent when I speak right but they're just ignorant cuz they live in a bubble but now they won't question the fact like especially from the right like back in the day Republicans were just more like Ang Anglo dominant culture right but if you're I saw this clip of a Chinese immigrant lady talking talking about how she's not going to give up her guns because she grew up in communist China and she goes can you guarantee she was talking to a politician she was like can you guarantee to me that the American government will never turn on us like the Communist like communist China and then the politician was like I can't and she goes then why the ████ would I give away my guns and then so I was like and then all in the comments were like

16:53 that's an American that's a true blooded American and I was like I would have never thought that there would be a day where a Chinese lady with a thick ass accent and all these like white dudes are like saying like oh that's a full-blooded American right there that is the cool thing about America is that it's actually if you think about the purest definition it is driven by a ethos rather than by what it looks like you know like what what what it means to be American you control your own ████ you're in charge of your own life and so you can be a Chinese lady with a crazy accent that literally came here yesterday but you could be more American than someone that's fourth generation who ████ hates this country like the college kids yeah blue hair all that yeah they're not American they got to go and then there's uh and then when you think about other countries their country is tied to

17:45 ethnicity so like mhm it's going to be hard as ████ for like a white or black kid that was born and raised in Japan for Japanese people to look at them and go oh you're Japanese M you know what I mean like they don't even look at me as Japanese totally yeah like if you go to China and it's like a black person who was like born there and they're speaking Chinese they're like I'm Chinese the Chinese lady still going to be like no you're not to I follow one of them that's like that and he just straight up goes into like those uh Street Food Shops and he just orders random food and all the grandmas were like what the there's no hate there's no discrimination W yeah yeah yeah yeah he's a black dude with the black dude with the crazy accent too like the the Chinese that have but hey do we get the

18:35 same treatment when white people do they go you can't speak English you know like we don't get the ████ same no they know right off what you drive and what you wear sometimes a truck they're going to be like H American certified check one you start wearing like boots or you know Vans and they like H he came up from a white country I mean I mean more like a white people high school check tool and then they see if you have a Glock like American that's a check he's an American all what's like Foreigner what are they wearing what are they driving yeah what are they pulling up in first what kind of car what's a foreigner yeah here we go you guys ready for this one let's go they pull up in the hyai ding

19:30 I can't go anywhere with this I don't know what I'm talking about you know I really don't know what a foreigner is anymore yeah these days it's these days it's hard it's very mixed a Chinese Foreigner they pull up in a Bugatti and you're like oh ████ they come out they're wearing like suprem social shirt offwhite Louis Vuitton collab everything none of it matches but it's all expensive but sometimes foreigners love America way more than the people that were born here oh yeah for sure I got a foreigner now they pull up in the convertible Mustang obviously it's rented from Enterprise or hers second you think about the on in Hawaii no no no no they pull up in a a convertible Mustang and they're wearing a Ferrari outfit Ferrari Shoes right and they're wearing a ████ saddle bag like yo that ████ out of date of that and you nailed it look at their shoes it's a

20:21 soccer shoes like the super skinny one with looks like McDon that's a foreigner right soccer shoes soccer shoes this is the like I guess I don't know if the word is equality that we've ever seen because like let's say if Tulsi gabard did become president I can see her being the face of America where maybe even 10 years ago or 20 years ago that would be unfathomable no you had to be white you had to be yeah so that's that's pretty crazy I think even like uh Andrew Yang like if he was um or Vic if they were to become president I'm like oh I could see that where like just even 20 years ago I'd be like dude that's impossible yeah I think it's crazy that we're seeing more nonwhites being accepted as the face of America yeah because um well one I think when it comes to branding Democrats did a better job for a long

21:13 time of being like hey dude ████ that racism stuff right and we can go back and forth about the like true like who the true racist is but just image wise Republicans never played the identity politics game so they kind of just accepted that they're the racist Camp they never fought against it they never even though there were like black members in the Republican party or even like nonwhite but it was always this image of like we are the uh Anglo party and that makesense you know what I mean and then like and then the Democrats did also a good job of if you vote with them you're also a race Trader mhm you're no longer a minority you're no longer backing up your own like race now you're like

22:04 jumping on and being a white person's pet so I was like that that makes sense that's been I think a lot of people actually think that and believe that cuz it used to be a thing yeah no that makes sense that but the whole time they're just protecting the American citizens yeah well I don't know I think the party keeps changing because the people and the groups change right cuz the if you think about the right and the left like the groups that were in power they die and then new ideas and new people come in so like think about who represents the Republican party today like Ben chapiro he's a Jewish guy I never would have thought a Jewish guy would be the face of Republican party they're usually liberal right you have uh like the face of the NRA uh Colin uh yeah black dude yeah you never would have thought that uh Candace Owens a black girl that's

22:55 like a big voice yeah conservative like and then and then it's like it's a different I think it's a different party now because the Democrats were they used to be for the working party like the working class so like fire uh police like fire like Dock Workers uh manufacturing they used to be leftwing but then now it's like with defund the police and everybody they're like we're going to go Republican 30 40 years ago I wouldn't ever think that cops would be Republican because they were always the party of like the working class mhm and then now they don't represent the working class now they represent like University students and like you know I don't know I think so I think it's going

23:45 to keep changing Evolution different yeah cuz like think about the Republicans right like in Hawaii the Republicans were the rich uh plantation owners and the only way to battle the plantation owners was be a Democrat and then I think that was the first party that let Asians kind of have a voice and fight against the white plantation owners and that's why there's a lot of loyalty for the Asians there with the Democratic party cuz that's where they got their foot in the door mhm but I'm saying like there's like ████ like that and it keeps changing yeah this is a good podcast though yeah it's a nice one would you subscribe listen to it I I do how often do you listen to um

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