0:00 I think that Vietnamese people had uh was a French colony and then the French came and brought their Catholicism. They go, "You don't know how to read, you goddamn savage. Look at this Bible." Oh. And then they go, "No, man." They go, "No." [Music] Welcome back to the employment hub of Just Kidding News, where us employees are here to report not so much news, but double news. Thank you, Joe. Now, we're going to make something stretch for 18 minutes, and Joe brought up something. What was your question? How come uh Vietnamese people are all Catholic or Buddhist and then a bunch Korean people are all Protestants? Cuz I noticed that. Are we focusing
0:51 specifically on like uh Asian-Americans? Yeah. Yeah. Or As Well, in Vietnam, everyone's a communist. That's not a religion. I mean, like, well, communists are uh uh they're they're atheists. They're atheists. Are they? Oh, really? Yeah. There's a lot of Buddhists out there. Yes. Yeah. But that's cuz the the Let's focus on Asian-Americans. Yeah. Cuz like, now I think about it, I'm like, I don't know one Catholic Korean. That's what I'm saying. I know a couple, but I I know what he's talking about. the general is mostly Christian. Generally, it's Christian. Generally, it's Catholic. I I heard something like um that it it's like whoever is the president at the time, they're going to push their thing. And I think Kennedy maybe was during Vietnam and he was Irish Catholic, so that's why Oh, yeah. I heard it was something about the time when they were taking in immigrants and
1:42 the only places that would accept them were churches and communities. But it was only the Catholic church or you mean the Koreans in general like for both groups. Like certain like for example like if the Koreans were coming over from like a war or something um there would already be a community just down that's down to take them in and it just so happened to be Christian. No, that's true because it had to be they had to be sponsored. Yes. But in a lot of churches, they were just like, "Hey, dude, all these refugees are coming. Let's do our part and like sponsor them." Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like that one white lady that also kind of taught Vietnamese how to do the nails and stuff, too. Oh, is that is that the history? Wait, for real? Yeah. It's like during the whole time where it's like there's there's a specific reason why there's hella Vietnamese and like Westminster, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach. And it's like during that period
2:32 and then there was I think like a she was like this white lady that was like a movie star and I think she sponsored one of them and then something to do with nails and she got good taught her about the whole business of it and so she the Vietnamese lady now passed that on and that's how became like the Vietnamese business. We had a bunch of um random Cambodians at our church and um that priest was a donut man. I know he's a fat priest just like donuts. But when uh the I guess the Vietnam war happened and stuff like that and then we had the refugees a lot of um the uh I think first they had to go to the camp and then from the camp they were educated about America whatever whatever and they waited for their different sponsors but once they got out of that and started uh like living and
3:23 working in America a lot of churches created like work programs to teach them And what my church did is a lot of them I think they they taught uh Vietnamese people mechanic stuff like how to fix cars and some other work program. But I just remember that I have a I have a uh Google AI answer for this specific question. Oh, sick. Oh, can I can I can I see if one of if if my guess was true about the French is is is Yeah. Yes, you can. But you didn't specifically say that on camera. You said it's because of a president that influenced the Catholicism and the sponsorship of specific churches. But I also said French people. You said that before the camera was on. So you can say it now so you could seem right when I say you could lock it in at the be you lock it in before he tells. Yeah. Final answer. All right. Lock in your answer, Joe.
4:13 Quick. Okay. Uh I think that Vietnamese people had uh was a French colony and then the French came and brought their Catholicism. That's my answer. Okay, good. because I wanted that to be explicitly said versus thinking that Kennedy is the reason why Vietnamese Americans are Catholic. I'm pretty sure their faith has a longer history than just wartime. Yeah, it's usually some sort of colonization they bring. They go, "You don't know how to ████ read, you goddamn savage. Look at this Bible. Read this." And then they go, "No, man." They go, "No, [Laughter] National Eucharist man. Vietnamese Catholicism is rooted in French colonial influence while Korean Protestantism
5:04 gained traction through missionary efforts and a unique intellectual firmament in the 18th century. 18th century the Koreans are Christian from the 18th century. Damn, it's deep rooted though. Protestant mission. That might be the OG, but like when did it get popular? Like I'm pretty sure that's Wait, let's How did you say it like that? Cuz like All right. Why' you sound so sassy right there? Because like Chad GBT is kind of being weird, right? Cuz it's like, yes, we know when it's when it got its foot in the door. But that's not when it got popular. But that wasn't the original question either. When did Korean Protestant become popular? I'm pretty sure Buddhism there was more Buddhist in the 18th century than Christians in Korea. Yeah, I know. That's that's why the missionaries went there because they
5:54 were more Buddhists. So, they were spreading Christianity. But when did it become a majority? I think 18th century. 18th century means the 1700, right? Yeah. But when did it become a majority religion? No. No. Yeah. Yeah. It's Yeah. If it's in the 1700s, it's the 18th century. But it trips me out that there's missionaries going to Korea during that time. Okay. missionary efforts. Protestant missionaries, particularly those from the United States, played a significant role in spreading Christianity in Korea. Oh, in the 18th century, we didn't even have America yet. Hold on. Those are missionary efforts. Intellectual firmament. The 18th century in Korea was a time of intellectual ferment which created environment conducive to the spread of new ideas including Christianity. And then books, not missionaries. The Catholic doctrine began to spread in Korea through books, not missionaries. In the late 18th century, Catholic. Wow. Korean people were like, "I don't want to read a
6:45 s███." And then uh a Protestant guy was like, "He's a missionary." He goes, "Oh, you're here in your person." And then Protestantism is a major religion in South Korea currently with a significant number of Catholics. But of course, like you said, Chad GP could be kind of weird. Sometimes they're a little not so specific. I will say there's a lot of the Filipinos that are Catholic as well. Oh, yeah. It's like colonialism. I think that's a Spanish that's Spanish. Anything that was like mainly uh old European colonialism I guess would be into the Catholic. There's a ████ ton of Christian cuz the Hispanics are like that too, right? With the Spanish uh concisadors and stuff that a lot of the Christian values are they're almost embedded into the culture, the Christianity. So, you know how like some I I feel like some cultures it's like
7:35 this is the culture and this is religion and then um the longer they they are then it's like this. So like I feel like Spanish and Catholicism are almost it's one one like when you say like idios or like a lot of those phrases are just straight up like or they name everybody Jesus. Yeah. It's like religious phrases you know. It's like China and Confucian, bro. When we went to the the Basilica in Mexico City and you see like how like how much time and effort they spent in just building all these giant churches everywhere. You're like, "Yeah, Mexico City's fire, dude." Yeah. You feel like you're in the ████ Vatican. You're like, "Oh, this is like our version of the Vatican." You ever been to the Vatican? No. It is insane. I'm like, "Dude, if this is blowing my brains and this is like 2000, Imag the
8:27 way they first built it. There's these It's gigantic. There's these huge ████ windows. They make it the way where like when the sun comes in, it's like like a beam of light just comes down on like this throne. ████ epic. It's like like that epic feeling, right? For real. Like you're in there, you're just like, "Oh my god, God, I have sinned. I have ████ sinned." Oh my god. Did you want to be Catholic? I want to be Catholic so ████ Do you guys want to be Catholic now or what do you want to be? Oh, well it's a spiritual feeling when you go in there. Yeah. But then now imagine imagine I think my answer is actually not. It would be I'd go Muslim I think. Oh I think I would go Muslim for real. For real. Russian Muslim. Yeah. Get the beard out. Start wrestling. Oh because of Is it because of MMA? Yeah. I think I would lean towards Muslim. Bro. So I got multiple You're Singaporean. I'm saying you're
9:18 Singaporean. Your neighbor Malaysia is already Muslim. So, I think I would just But then but then don't you have to fast during Ramadan? Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. Hey, but it's it's intermittent fasting cuz you could eat after sunset. It's not like a full fast. The not drinking water is crazier to me throughout the day. That is pretty. But can you drink soda? No. Wait. Loophole. Loophole. No liquid. But I heard that you could do breakfast before before the sun comes up. So you could load up and then you just have the rest of the day and then at no water during the day is crazy still with loading up and you load up on water. You could probably Oh carbo load. Don't you also got to car in the morning? Don't you got to pray five times a day? Yeah, that's crazy. You got to pray a lot. I don't got that kind of time. Yeah, it makes you very spiritual. I think I think it makes you holier person. Catholicism and uh you know
10:10 Muslim they're it's a lot of ritual, a lot of discipline. I do like Protestantism cuz it's like perfect for being an American. It's like just tell me what I want to hear. And there's a rock band. Yeah. They got better rock. The Christians I think they're better at marketing across the board. Hands down. Christians is like entertainment center. That's what I'm saying. They they made it fun and ████ They keep on stealing their money and splitting up the church. Or somebody like starts dating somebody in the church and they have to make another church and they just keep spreading and splitting. Someone described Christianity to me as like it's kind of like all uh like Catholicism, but it's more focused on love and free will and not so much of like, oh, you got to pray every day, you got to do this every day. It's more so of like you're free to do what you want, but here are the guidelines. Yeah. Well, Catholicism has such a sanctity of traditions and like, you know, ritual. I
11:01 do like it though. Yeah, it looks cool. It's ████ cool. You guys ever been to like um did you go to Notre Dame or Notraam? Whatever France Notredam like when you see like a actual Catholic service from like where the fool's ████ walking around with the incense and ████ and then he has that giant ████ book. You're like ████ this place feels holy as a ████ You're just like everybody just like comes down on the ████ little thing and you could just hear the echoes. There's doves flying and stuff like that. Dude, if I was ████ surf during this time, I'm like, dude, I'll sacrifice my daughter to ████ get a taste of heaven. See, you know what? When I see that, you haven't done that. I It makes me feel the opposite. Yeah. It makes me feel like freak you out. Yeah. No way. It makes me creeped out.
11:51 It's a thing. It's not even a cult thing. It just makes me feel uncomfortable. Maybe I just I just can't help but to separate like the bang bang bang bang bang. Yeah. I maybe it's just my like how I how I came into uncomfort growth is at the wall and edge of uncomfort. That's what I'm saying. But part of me is like when I see a bunch of Muslim dudes praying on their knees and I'm like I can get with that. Like I can see myself doing that. Comfortable on your knees, huh? You know what I'm saying? Bent over looking back. No, I'm not saying that. Okay. But then they also have they're brand new for sure. For sure. A different type of bang. Yeah, exactly. 100%. Oh, no. Oh, never mind. Not 100%. Different bangs. There's different bangs in different topics. There's different bangs. Those are extremists. Okay, Bart. So, are these Aren't these extremists, too? I don't
12:41 know if they're you would call them extremists. They would be just more common. Pretty extremists. Those That's just I I don't want to say it's common practice, but like are we talking about like a per capita like a like one out of I think it's just those people. Yeah. I'll say this, but those people are everywhere. If you're a priest, it's probably easier for you to molest a lot more kids than somebody blowing up a building. Very true. You know, like just the Very true. It's a little different. What do you think the molester to blow up ratio is? It's way higher, dude. It's way It's like ████ I think it's this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's just easier to But there's no there's none of the molesty in the other. I thought they have that in everything. Well, they do. They do. the death of sin if like the molester molests like a terrorist or like if a terrorist blows up a mole. Honestly, that's in God's hands. That's not that's ████ Fox and Machine Gun
13:31 Gun Kelly coming together. How did you put that together right now? I don't know. They're two sides of the spectrum or something. I don't know. My crazy, dude. I She could kill I'm mind blown right now. How come you guys don't have Buddhism in the picture? Is it cuz it's too familiar? What am I going to sit under a tree? I didn't even answer the question. I'm going to sit under a tree like Buddha. First of all, I ████ with Buddhist ideology and practice. Um, but I grew up mainly Buddhist in my house, but yet we still went to so much Catholic church because like friends and family Vietnamese culture. Well, cuz they invited you to the church. So, I'm like I'm like a little kid and I'm still like that's not Jesus's body, is it? That looks like a cookie. You know, you're just down for that. And I'm like, "Give me give me the blood. Give me They're like, "No, you
14:21 don't get that one." I'm like, "What the heck?" You get the Welches. I heard you have to do like communion. You have to do a bunch of ceremonies before you could even like eat the cracker. Yeah. Sometimes they just let the kids do it. Yeah. You just got to get baptized and then you got to get confirmed. So, who grew up Cath You guys grew up Catholic? No. No. I grew up Buddhist, but ironically, uh, Catholicism is like still prevalent in my family. Like even for example, all of my nieces and nephews had to get baptized because me and my sister were like, "Hey, we're going to get Filipino significant others, both of us." So like same thing like my entire like Nah's whole side is technically Catholic even though she don't like super practice it. But like chances are if we have children, they probably will need to be baptized as well. So like it's just in the family. See, that's the thing about Tiff. Like her family, she got baptized, but she don't go to church, right? Like I think they they had all their first She's still saved, bro. You still just during
15:12 big events or something. Yeah. Like they only go but even on big events I don't even go like usually we go for like deaths if like a family friend. That's a big event. Yeah. Like that's probably the only big event. I'm thinking Easter for some reason. I'm thinking like Easter and like Christmas and ████ But I'm like oh yeah Deaths too. That's probably the most common time we go. Weddings. Do we do weddings? No. Ours is deaths is like the the number one hit. That's the ones we go to. I went to a wedding in Ecuador in a big Catholic church. It was sick, dude. It was so like it was like everything's gold, you know? See, but like when I'm in a a Catholic ceremony, I I feel like every 5year-old kid that had to go to church. No, every 5-year-old kid that had to go to church and like Catholic church and they'd just be sitting there like, "Oh my god, when is this going to be over?" Exactly. Have you been to a Buddhist one, though? I I would imagine I feel
16:03 the same way. But you're not allowed to make any noise. Buddhist ceremonies are like when I went to the first Catholic service, she was like, "Oh, you're going to be here for so long." I'm like, "Oh, for real?" And afterwards, I'm like, "Dude, that's ████ nothing." I'm like, "Imagine being on your knees for an hour." Hey, have you been to a Japanese Buddhist one, though? No. What's that like? You seen Japanese Buddhist services? Those honestly are way more exciting and intense. Why? What do they do? It's exciting. It's Zen Buddhism. Oh, and everybody, if you don't memorize it already, have like like this long chance. If you don't memorize it, then you like pull out your little booklet and everybody chants in the same tone in the same like BPM and you actually feel vibration start to feel Yeah. like vibration and they just keep saying that over keeps going it's really fast. You ever do that at a at a funeral or you ever hear that at a funeral Catholic church? Do at a wedding where everyone says all
16:53 the the rosaries and stuff. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. and they be saying in Spanish and then like the ones I've been to there's always a couple people that like know their ████ better than everyone else and they're like they're finishing it before everyone else and they're just like out there loud saying the whole prayer just so like flex it's always the older ladies on the other older ladies who are like not saying it as loud that's me dude I grew up crazy Buddhist so there's this one uh um there's a bunch of chants that one of them it's like a whole like book and it's like a 30 minute chant I memorize it by heart. Do you remember any of it right now? I do. I know one of them. So, one of them it goes and this is when you're supposed to say when someone passes away and you say this like 30 times or some ████ like that. That's one of them. But I went to
17:43 the the Buddhist temple so much. There's one that's literally ████ like a book. And to go from front to back at that speed is 30 minutes. And I had the whole thing memorized with my mom so much. So, I think that's why for Buddhism, I'm kind of like burnt out. Yeah, you're good. You're good. Let me try some other ████ I'm kind of burnt out, man. There's so many There's so many different versions of Buddhism. There's some where you don't have to do anything. The Shaolin one is kind of tight. What's the Shaolin Buddhism? You end with you just punch you ████ do this. You get your ████ nut kicked all day. You Yeah. You fight like a monkey. You fight like a crane. You find Nirvana through other means. That's tight. Yeah, that's more our style. But then you don't get no protein though. No vegetarian. You're a vegetarian.
18:34 Got to eat mung beans for the rest of my life.
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