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What is the Asian Culture Like in Australia?

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0:00 like a boy dad Mo say that one more time like a boy dead I don't know what she said but the but the tone sounds like is you gay [Laughter] [Music] ████ all right y'all welcome back to another really great episode of JK news today we're going to be talking to Roxy who happens to be from Australia we're going to ask her about what are the Asians like out there what's the Asian culture and why do they talk so far weird why is it weird weirder than this no this is cool oh really yeah why yeah what's yeah what's the Asian culture like you see that someone thinks I'm cool yeah you grew up around Asians all your life right pretty much pretty

0:50 much I mean when I was in primary school I don't know what you guys call it but like Primary Elementary School um I went to a Catholic Elementary School I was only Asian I think it was me and like these other were the only Asian in the entire school so I grew up around around oh my God my accent now you don't have any accent at all um so I grew up like around white people pretty much and then when I went to high school um there was a few of us Asians and it was just like Asian group Asians Stick Together Asian everything like white people we like all just stuck together that's in Melbourne in Melbourne yeah cuz then we'd get bullied by the white people cuz we were the minority how would they bully you over there what would they do what was like some Australian an like all that people baby yeah but I didn't care but then like it hurt my friends cuz they don't

1:42 do that type of stuff but for me I'm like haha funny don't care but um for my friends it it hurt a lot of them so it's pretty much just bullying and then we always just stuck together like the Asian groups you always see a bunch of Asians just walking together all the time um but now the school's all Asians like we have so many Asians now but we were the only white people and now there's just sections of pockets in Melbourne where it's like we have boxill which is all the Chinese we have Springville which is all the Vietnamese like so there's different sections of like different cultures when I went there I thought there was so many Asians in general it's pretty diverse probably because our tour was like all Asian performers so all the fans attracting the Asians it's even more like down like Swanson Street which is like the main street of the city um that's even more like Chinatown than

2:33 Chinatown is now damn Thai everything like it's just all Asian restaurants was it further divided between like Chinese phillow pH like was that like there like groups when I was younger just made up as n is that what they really call him like we don't really have though we don't have a just use that word huh yeah fer fers um when I was younger no because there wasn't a lot of us so no matter what as you had together cuz I grew up like I grew up going to Raves I started drinking young allegedly PS and dropping at Braves and whatever the ████ and there's a lot of gangs like Asian gangs Asian gang there too that's pretty cool yeah so was more

3:24 cities so depending on what area you are then you're with them M that's crazy that's like International Universal experience when you tell your stories about like you raving and everything I was like yeah me too like exactly the same doing all that stuff that's funny ecstasy tastes and feels the same everywhere I don't think you do this but when those Euros came over they hit different they do hit pretty hard turn off the Blue Dolphin favorite what's Asian dating like in Melvin I wouldn't know you never dated any Asian no I have I only I dated Asians throughout like my teens because Asian stuck together and there was always that one like white token guy that thinks he's Asian in like every group there always that one token guy um but I dated like Chinese love cambodians Vietnamese as well and then it just got

4:16 to a point where I don't know I just stopped finding them attractive and I started dating white guys and I didn't even realize I was until my friends told me they told you hey you know you're dating a white guy yeah no but they're like you haven't dated like an Asian do you not I'm like oh ████ it's been years and I just realized I haven't even like gone on a date with thetion it's just changed over time okay yeah fair enough interesting what other different things were their Asian culture what's uh which Asian chick in Australia is the craziest oh that's a good question oh like ethnicity ethnicity who's the most cuckoo ████ Filipinos and we we call them what jungle Asians all the jungle Asians are crazy o Vietnam Falls in that yeah the Vietnamese Cambodian the Cambodian Filipino chicks are considered crazy Filipino chicks can they're like they're like the Asian they're dramatic they're

5:06 they're like the Asian what but they're not violent though aren't they are they violent they they know they're more like Twisted in their brain Twisted in the brain twied in the way they think Ryan kind of thinks cheating lying Stu like that but the Vietnamese will smack you across the face Gucci bag and just what are Korean guys like out there don't uh are Korean guys they're more kpoy or are they more American Korean well the white people they are more k- poopy now no way we we don't have a crazy big population of Koreans there is more now like we're actually starting to get like a Korean town really we never had one it's like it's tiny there's like maybe like four Korean stores like restaurants next to in the city and they're starting to call it like K town now like we're starting to grow already

5:58 now I see and we have like no um like went to San Diego I was so shocked cuz we have no Mexicans oh cuz so far yeah but I mean it's far from Africa and India and you guys have like we have so many Indians cuz we just let them in oh yeah I don't know me Mexicans in California is like packing material what like you know when you order something from Amazon so you have the main stuff right like oh I ordered this from Amazon and and then how do I fill the space there Mexicans see that's my mom my mom and my dad are packaging stuff warehouses like still Chinese that's what you fill the state with you know what I mean we're so ches like there's the main stuff like okay here's K Town oh ████ we got to fill ████ Wilshire and just put some

6:50 sprinkles of Mexicans around like every single City way dude yeah Armenians and Mexicans and then close the Box okay done ship it out we're still Chinese like Chinese that's Australia is the my parents do that so what do you think of uh what do you think of Mexicans now you've seen some you fans I love the ████ food it's legit huh like we have tacos like we do have Mexican spots but no no we only have one franchise that's kind of like McDonald's in a way it's called Guzman umman that's like the um it's a franchise or no in a way and then white people are like oh this is the best Mexican it's so good I'll take you to this spot like the amount of dates I've had there what cuz they like I'll take you to a Mexican

7:40 SWAT like you get good tacos and burritos yeah yeah and there's only tacos and burritos that's all there is on the menu not even alcohol no they do they do like a frozen margarita like a frozen but it's a fast food that's crazy yeah so it's probably like trying to be Chipotle or some kind of tax Mex stuff yeah we have like a Ted Mex as well but like it's small but like the quality is not this like you can choose beef there's no different types of beef it's just beef it's not even called carada it's called Beef Pork and that's it chicken now that You' kind of been around how does the Asian food measure up to like the Asian food you're used to back home melin's brother no ████ way you I haven't I didn't I didn't go to like the Pockets

8:30 here of where all the Asians are that makes sense I remember I've been going to like the main tourist spots pretty damn good when we went to when we went to the restaurants out there I was pretty surprised of the Korean barbecue of the Chinese food remember we got those F Curry fish balls oh yeah how long ago was that now it's like it's actually Japanese restaurants are Japanese people you hear them at the back Tai is Koreans are actually Korean people I believe interesting like surprisingly um I don't know the history of like Australia that well but is um is there like are all the Asians new imigrants or are there like Asian communities there that's been around uh not the way it is here it's mostly new I see oh okay mostly new cuz me coming in I moved to a I was born in Australia

9:22 but I lived in Hong Kong moved back in 2000 and I was the only Asian in the elementary school damn so there wasn't really pockets yet as of much and that's Melbourne too which is a big city Sydney's worse Sydney is called the second China now second China second China everyone that goes there is like I'm just in China but is it like Mainland Chinese or like what kind oh okay o the population like it's Smokey when you go there like it's actually like even Melbourne it's starting to get quite Chinese Chinese how do you feel about that BM or what get the ████ out get the ████ out of my country go back to your country put a limit on it huh are you bumed that's the funniest ████ though I hear is like Chinese people here like cuz we're in a super Chinese neighborhood they're like tell the Chinese to stop coming here man and I'm all like you're Chinese he go nah I'm

10:12 not like those uncultured ████ we got love Indians like Indian is always on par with like the Chinese oh in terms of like alth my neighbors are just Indians so are they cool yeah but they keep to themselves they keep quiet I wonder if the Indian food out there's fire like the UK what's funny that Malaysian restaurant Mok yes that's probably the best Malaysian food I've ever had and I worked in Malaysia for months this restaurant was better than anything I had it's in Australia only it's like in a real touristy area too and there's multiples you know what I think Australian like produce is is is really good yeah cuz the beef like every time we went to Korean barbecue I was like this is why people import Australian beef it's so ████ goodr beef is the best and I think there's like regulations that we don't got to

11:02 keep their food like very strict on everything very very strict oh yeah and we care about like our farmers and what not cuz we have a lot of them all all we care about is the is money so America we're good at factory farming that's our probably best thing you ever see like Doritos bags and you look at the ingredients from different countries ours is like this cuz it's like 20 chemicals and other people is like fried tortilla whatever Ranch flavoring everyone's like under 10 ingredients only ours is like 20 30 bang better though bang bang better though yeah you could taste the Ribble Flav ours get ADHD way better you guys have sugar is Boba a huge thing over there yeah oh yeah yeah huge or bubble tea you guys have too much sugar he everything we have is like way too much sugar huh way too much bread oh yeah bread that's true all the bread here is full of sugar yeah

11:53 everything's too sweet I remember we went and got breakfast out there and like we ordered like a dish we got pancakes we got something else and then the lady looked at us like oh you're over ordering and we cleaned up and they're just like damn Americans can eat Americans are pigs I was like we don't eat that much when you hear stories that like we tell on this channel about how we were brought up or how our parents were strict or beat us are there similarities with how you grew up and how the Asians there like it's kind of the same pretty much the same huh well for me it is because my parents were born and raised in like Hong Kong and China and then I was born in Australia so the way they bought me up was like the same old so with all your Asian friends too they're all getting the ass beats and stuff most

12:44 most are as are you in the Asian parts of town are parents allowed to smack kids in public oh interesting I mean you still see it yes you still see it does anybody step in and go don't do that no but you do see like the Aussie is just like giving the r and they're just looking but they won't like say anything like they won't say anything even where I even where I work I see it happen oh I work like in a mall so like you just see people yeah you see it happened Indians is you just see it oh Indians don't give a ████ I think yeah I mean I see it and I'm like H cuz the kids is just screaming the whole time but then my colleagues who are like obviously white they're like my God you can't do that to the kid in my hair I was like I got worse I got way ████ worse as a kid did the Asians in school get the best grades

13:34 too yes ████ yeah Asians and Indians up with that Indians Asian Indians the top of a class every time or then they'll be like that one one white guy that was just really smart for no reason are there a lot he's a genius there are there a lot of Indian doctors yeah oh my area is all clinics in my area where I live is mostly Indians so when you go to the hospital the staff is like tons of Asian and Indians cuz it's sort of like that I like Hospital much oh okay like in mixture I would still say mixt in Filipino nurses yeah there's a not that much not that much filipin we don't have that many Filipinos oh in general not that I actually bump into no interesting there is but like yeah like one of the guys I go gym with he's Filipino but that's it I don't really have any other Phil friends it's mostly

14:26 Vietnamese Vietnamese Chinese new yeah I thought yeah when we went and did shows out there almost everyone we ran into was like that was Asian that was Vietnamese it's such a big ass Community yeah Chinese too maybe that's back when they thought you guys were Vietnamese I don't know we went with a dance group too and then so there was a lot of Just Dance Community people coming out oh yeah yeah like who like Justice Crew oh my God Justice Crew porotic yeah and probably Vietnam so close to Australia I think yeah went closer to like Asia than you guys are yeah way closer yeah but the population is like pretty small if you think about the size of Australia yeah well I guess the it's a crazy thing that they're in such key areas when they are there like Sydney yeah like if it's that full of Chinese people even though it's a small

15:17 percentage they're in the a main spot I just thought for big cities everything closed so early when I was out there it does yeah it's Shar like that too worse Clos everything's like Clos at 5 or something yeah I was like wa like still the same everyone's just is there a logic behind that why they closing early which're just dumb it's just dumb like everyone works 9 to 5 yeah yeah either you're office worker or like I work in a mall like in a clinic it's all 9 to5 so how are people are going to do after you have to take time off work you to take a sick leave or we call annual leave so you have to take a day off to do something do you guys have that one day of the week where it's like night shopping or late shopping Thursdays and Friday night so I work till 9:00 p.m. on those days and M are open to 9:00 p.m. it's called

16:07 late night shopping late night give you a chance to do all that stuff wow and that's because your your place is located in a plaza that has to the whole Plaza has to stay all plazas um close at like 9: oh in Melbourne is the goal to have people spend time with their families like go home yeah that's kind of what I assume is that what the goal is like don't be hanging around outside I feel like nobody works as hard as America and Asia yeah I figured it was a social infrastructure thing that kind of motivated things to go in a certain direction you know like the more things are open in the city the more people are just like out causing trouble maybe it had something to do with that maybe it's working whatever they're doing yeah cuz that's how Sacramento is they close the whole town shuts down at 5: cuz it's a government City and and then so like I'll be out there like if I go out and visit silent Mike if it's like 6:00 p.m. you could literally walk across like you

16:57 could just jwalk cuz you're not even worried about a car running you over and no one's in the downtown and it feels peaceful you're like oh ████ when a city shuts down it actually feels peaceful maybe it's cuz I'm ████ old and I like that ████ I know sounds like there's so many parallels with Asian culture is there something that sticks out to you as a really big major difference in the stuff that we talk about versus your experience no you see a lot of similarities yeah it's the same that's pretty interesting that you end up with even the same experience Asian gangs yeah yeah yeah the Asian gang that's hilarious makes feel like we're not all that different crazy jungle Asians did your parents force you to play piano or some ████ I did what a i i rebelled pretty hard cuz my brother did my brother's 2 years

17:47 older than me he's in and out of jail so whatever um you got Asians in jail so he's in that he's in that scene so he hasn't grown up um but yeah like Mom did try to pay but then I was like I'm not learning I'm not doing it Chinese School on Saturdays we just go and learn Chinese oh yeah it has Chinese School too I wagged every ████ class what do you what's a wag yeah I was wagging like ditching ditching yeah I just walk out and you still speak fluent I speak Cantonese but it was to mandar talk to B talk to b b I'm K is his Mandarin I know just try it anyway do you speak Mandarin I speak Mandarin I can understand it but I can't reply you fun that means you're going to go to sleep right yeah see you understand suck my dick ████ let me see I want to see if he can he can make out what you're saying I could I I understand a little bit of can give me a sentence to say say something

18:37 uh say that that he doesn't look very strong what that's not bad so the thing about K is because it's made out of slangs uhuh it end up having like a word in between where it'll be very obvious to what say that's even better that's even better H let me try and make it so it doesn't like give you anything give you any I'm not that good I think I have the cantones I have the cantones level of like a two-month old two month the f██████ two mon that's cuz it's not even first grade it's not even first grade yet you can't even comprehend language at two months wait what it's not even like a cuz your mine's fluent I'm pretty good with mandarin but cantones is like cuz he can speak yeah he speaks you

19:29 sping some speak to this speak to this table my mom USS canese but I don't speak can what do you speak then Singaporean barely English D second grade English is what I speak tell tell him the sentence I told you to yeah say say it just say it you straight make it doesn't sound like Ming cuz some words are like very very similar [Music] um give me another one that one's not give me okay uh damn that was that's the only thing I could think of um okay here just swear say yeah tell them [Laughter] uh like a boy say that one more time like a boy I don't know what she said but the

20:20 but the tone sounds like is you gay ████ that's what the I was like it sounds like she's dissing you that's that's the tone sounds like she saying something all I said was Lego which is your Bo your back your back why is it so weak same thing dude is you gay an just sounds so angry I love how it sounds man it's sound so angry cuz it's full it's it's the most ghettoest language in thee it's so good like what is that you're so pretty waa fight yeah you're so pretty and that's that's the tone that you would use if you're compling yeah I mean I think you can say it nicer and

21:10 softer Auntie like the words are so it's like Chinese aonic it's ████ ghetto as Hood as ████ I get I'm just saying she's saying hella Hood she's like you're pretty that's my face too I have a ████ ass face I have a ████ ass ████ face is you gay ████ I was watching this real and then it was saying like um if you're if you're like going across the street the Cantonese way of saying oh can you please scoot over is so you own the street you think you own the street what that's the way to say it yeah how do you say that like to move yeah can you please scoot over or move is oh you think you the short way just like de like Deo out here Deo it's like more

22:00 rude like Ro ████ like Deo should move out the way or Dare it's just be like move please like move damn Y what Tik Tok you watching dude yeah I mean I've been I grew up around CES but Hong Kong people are ████ you see those videos to like Hong Kong bus drivers and stuff I got cussed out by a grandma swearing at each other what because I bumped into her an escalator oh dude why you bumping how dare you is you gay ████ for

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