0:05 Welcome back to another episode of Careful Boys. Today we're going to uh share a new Chinese word uh with Bart and I think he's going to like it a lot. >> Thank you. >> Do you know what? Do you know what the word bao is? >> Bul close to like bou, which is like white wine. >> Yeah. Oh, >> maybe that's >> by Joe. >> The Chinese have a term that perfectly describes the western woke left. >> Bao. >> Okay. That means white. >> White left. Literally white left. >> Yeah. Bisual. [laughter] >> Wow. So, it says it designates a naive or hypocritical western person advocating for peace and equality to satisfy a feeling of moral superiority without addressing real problems with pragmatic solutions. >> Oh, that's what my dad tried to call me. I think like he didn't have this term, but I remember in college I was so pro Obama. I was like, "We got to get Obama.
0:57 We never got a >> Why you want a communist, man? >> This really means America's being progressive." And he goes, "You don't know ████ [laughter] >> Stupid. You go to UCLA and you're so stupid." [laughter] >> That's a trans parent, right? >> Yeah. He's like, "You don't watch the news. You don't know ████ anything. You just have this stupid idealistic thing like, "Oh, cool. We got a black president. That means ████ taxes are taken care of. Homelessness, inflation, se like department of >> deportation, >> all the important things." I'm like, >> you know what what it is? >> I'm like, "Dad, that's racist." >> When we were all in college, we were pretty ████ [snorts] stupid like that, too. And we thought we knew everything cuz our teachers were like teaching us ████ We're like, "Well, you didn't go to college, so you don't ████ know." And I and I see this firsthand from like the college kids I
1:48 interact with like they'll be working on a legit project about like let's say immigration or whatever, right? And then like Hannah's going through the whole process. We know people that are like DACA. We know people that are going through the paperwork, right? But we're all dismissed because >> it's like we don't fit the profile of what they're trying to write about. >> And I'm like, >> yeah, but we know what that whole thing >> actual experience. >> Yeah. We're going through it right now. >> Not reading about it. >> Yeah. And we're we could teach you the legal immigration stuff and how it works cuz you have to write a report on it. It's like they actually don't want to get into the details is what I realized. >> Everything is just like um it's like Buzzfeed Buzzfeed activism. Like you just read a title and then you're just like, "Oh, ████ you." I'm like, "Damn, that's so weird." But I guess we were like that in college.
2:38 >> That was me. That was like I remember I remember lining up to go vote. Um, and we were like they set up like the the booths in um uh on Frat Row and everyone's in line like like it's Black Friday and you're just in like with other college kids, you know, like hey, who are you voting for? Obama. What about you? It's just a giant echo chamber. Everyone's like Obama, right? And then I go home and I'm like, who' you vote for, Dad? I forgot who he voted for. And then I was like, man, this guy's so racist, dude. I can't have a racist ████ dad, dude. [laughter] Vote for Mitt, dude. >> It's true. It's it's cuz that's it's like you look at it as a win for yourself. You're like you identify with Obama. >> My eyes were so ████ naive. I'm like, "Dad, look at your skin color. Are you closer to that person or this person? Like we're way closer to Obama." And that's how I was trying to vote. I was trying to vote based off like who looks closer to Obama. [laughter]
3:29 This word is pretty interesting because it I mean says like the bao is obsessed with themes such as ecology, anti-racism, LGBT rights, feminism, aid to immigrants. Arrogant and condescending, they like to pose as saviors and sometimes go so far as to import retrograde values into society to satisfy their multicultural vision. The case of the regressive left. How the heck did the Chinese make such a cool word? >> They nailed it. >> Yeah, white left. That's so good. They're just so literal with everything. >> Yeah, cuz if you're a little bit overweight, you're fat boy. [laughter] >> You're a little bit overweight. >> They are good at fat shaming. >> Yeah, they don't. >> They're so good. >> Are there other words that like when you're trying to find the English equivalent, it doesn't exist. So, you just have to not say nothing. >> A bunch in both uh like Mandarin and uh
4:19 some Taiwanese words like one of my favorite things. So like in Taiwanese food like a mouth feel is really important. So there's word called Q like like like the letter Q but they say like Q and that's what they're that's their version of saying how uh al dente something is. So even when they judge boba it's like oh like it's very like there's a specific chew you're supposed to get to it. But you can't really explain that in um American terms. You almost you have to go Italian. Oh it's like the boba is very al dente. It [laughter] doesn't really make sense either. >> Cuz there's no like mouth feel word in >> mouth feel. >> Mouth feel. Like the way something >> texture. >> Yeah. When it chew like there's a certain like chew that's not like mushy but it's not a pop either like a hot dog, you know? It's like >> it's right in the middle. >> Yeah. It's like a there's like little weird words. >> It's al dente. I like the way that like
5:10 a lot of Asian languages are so literal with uh even things like names for uncles and aunties. So instead of like because you don't address your uncles or auntie by like their first name or anything like that, that'd be supremely disrespectful. So then depending on where you are as a kid under your parent and where their parent is born in the line of kids, you address them like this is like like a number two, number three, number four, >> uncle number two, uncle number three and a four and a five, auntie number six. [laughter] >> We would say we would say big uncle, little uncle. That's what we would have. >> It's [clears throat] like their name though almost. >> It's like you don't there's no other version of their name that you can say. I didn't know you did it by numbers. >> By numbers >> and then and then it's like it's it's very specific. It's dependent on like
6:00 let's say for example my dad out of 12 brothers and sisters is number four. So everybody that's uh his brothers and sisters that are older than him, their children I have to call a certain way. But then the children that are even if they're older than me, but they were born uh for ████ brothers and sisters that are younger than my dad, they have to dress me a certain way because my dad's older >> cuz your dad's the older one. Yeah. >> It's all still like numerical and then like with just like some version of a a different >> five. So there's there's technically like let's say uncle, there's four different uncle terms because there's already if it's on your mom's side, there's a set of uncles you call them. So it would be like theo and then maybe the and then on this side if they're on your dad's side it's another set and if they're older or younger. So there's
6:50 four different uncle terms you have to learn and four different auntie terms. >> What the heck? >> It's just not like thea or uncle auntie. There's eight. That's the rule for every Chinese and Vietnamese family. It's like those are the four uncle sets and then depending on where you line up that's the name for each person. >> Damn. What about for Japanese? Some of them if they're like they're younger or whatever like let's say you meet a stranger you have to because they're not so like oh mom or dad's side you kind of have to figure out a way of how to call them which uncle and then oh they're like okay cool since they're younger then we'll make them the younger uncle and then all of a sudden they get married and then now you got to like okay then I'm going to switch that term to this. That's ████ confusing. >> But it's like it's literal though. There's like rules to it. Therefore that is your name. >> Yeah. [snorts] >> I don't know. Well, maybe formally, but like
7:41 um Japanese Americans just call everybody uncle, like Hawaiian style. >> So, if you're family friend, if you're actually related, >> it's just everyone's uncle and auntie. >> You guys are so white adjacent. >> It's one uncle term. There's not like four different uncle terms. >> There might be, but I I haven't used it in my family. And in my family, you just say like uncle whatever. Like uncle this, uncle that. Yeah. But then you don't really but you say it in Japanese or whatever like you don't you know that's it. There's no title. >> The generation above like um mine for Filipinos is interesting because it's like they don't know. I didn't know any uncle or aunt's first name because everyone has a nickname and then you're the your aunt you call her by the the auntie nickname. So if her nickname is baby >> we just baby. >> Auntie baby. >> Yeah. [laughter]
8:31 Yeah. Because it's like maybe she was the youngest in that family, so they call her that. >> That's so hip-hop, dude. >> But they don't call like I don't know. Like once I find out their names like like at a funeral and I'm like that's their name. I didn't know that. Like we just called them Uncle Boy. >> Patricia, she's dead. >> What are [laughter] some crazy nicknames that you've heard from your aunties and uncles and ████ >> I mean they they're all just like >> uncle slave. >> A lot of them they just take the first syllable of their name and they repeat it. >> So you be uncle Ray [laughter] >> kind of. Yeah. Uncle Right. Right. >> My my family nicknames Amboy. It's A M B O Y. >> That's you. >> How come Amboy? >> Cuz um >> like the burger place. >> There's like so many weird things to it, but like I guess when So you add boy to the end of your your name when you're like a kid. >> Uh >> they they just call me Ryan boy. And then the ba the babies of the family would try to say it and it would sound
9:22 like I'm boy because they would just couldn't talk right. And then uh the adults started copying what the babies were saying cuz I thought it was funny. So then there's just my nickname, >> Amboy. >> They call me that to this day. Like even my cousins that are like married and older now, they still call me Amboy. >> Hawaiian is that too actually. >> Yeah. And then like for aunts and uncles like I don't know. My aunts and uncles are named like Yeah. Like baby boy Bong. Bong is like one of But these aren't have nothing to do with their names. I don't know where they get them from. They're just we just call him Oh, it's Uncle Bong. Tito Bong. But then your his name's like his name's like Virgil. [laughter] >> What's lived as bong? >> Uncle first or last in the in the names >> first. >> Oh, so you'll be like cuz it's like is it low? Like low something or that's Cantonese. >> That's Cantonese, right? Low.
10:12 >> Yeah. Like low something. Low whatever. >> Oh, you say you say low at the end. >> Oh, I thought you were saying specifically the word uncle. >> Yeah, that's the word uncle, right? No, no. saying like the literal English word uncle like uncle said first. You don't go like, "Hey, Joe, uncle." [laughter] You go, "Uncle Joe." >> Like, he's asking you. >> No, but you're asking in other languages. >> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. Chinese. >> Yeah. We have We have four uncles. So, it depends cuz there's like uh >> How do you say it? How do you say it? >> On her mom's side. Older it's uh I believe it's uh Bo. >> Younger it's Suzu. Oh, no. Jojo. On her dad's side, I think it's like suzu and then >> bou or some ████ like I forgot. But there's four of them. And then the Cantonese >> call ringing a bell. >> Yeah. The Cantonese the Cantonese one is is uh I don't even know actually. >> You call your uncle Suzu?
11:02 >> We call him We call him We have older uncle. We call him Dauu. >> Dau. >> We just call him Dau. We just call him Sue. Now now that we're older and cool now, we just call him Sue. >> And then our younger uncle, we call him Shiau. >> How about poo poo? You got Uncle Poo poo. >> You got You got Shia Hangu. [laughter] >> I feel like you're making fun of me now.
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