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Off The Record: Comparing Asian Immigrants to Mexican Immigrants

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0:00 fo I remember I blew my nose on a Kleenex not a napkin a Kleenex I open the r my D Bean she gayy he ripped me up when he saw a Band-Aid on my body like please don't DT because someone's going to me [Laughter] [Music] what's welcome back to another episode of careful boys today we have Jesus back with us yes sir welcome back to thing this is not a thing welcome back back all let's compare yeah take sizes oh no no careful boys careful boys careful boys wait I got to get hard first oh yeah dude I dude I walk around hard all right turn off AC let's compare the experience yeah

0:52 of Asian illegal immigrants versus Mexican illegal immigrants compare compare compare well Asian illegal immigrants typically come in containers oh do they really get the ████ out of here you guys come containers you guys now you guys you think that's luxurious yeah dude you guys I mean you guys got again but nowadays most of them come the same way as Mexicans because we don't have a secure border wait is that a thing did come in boats Is that real his people did I could tell you I could tell you my dad's story so my dad's actual story he fled China to go to Hong Kong and Hong Kong was uh British territory at the time uh don't don't be mad I won't be where is Hong Kong is that China it's isn't it is it a island Hong Kong and China or Japan it's

1:44 part of China part of China it's part of China continue hey is it is it a island I always thought it was Japan that's why I said wait a minute so did you go to Japan so I was like wait a minute I don't even know Hong Kong is not Japanese no so it's Trina okay it's off the coast of China um and so yeah one was Communist ran one was owned by uh Britain and then when it was Communist ran it's like in the the not the capitalistic communis that we know now it was like literally like I remember my dad telling me like in junior high everyone just comes and just gets like a sheet that tells them what their job's going to be oh ████ so like this guy could be getting A+ in math and he should probably be some sort of scientist they're like oh you're an agriculture you're do whatever whatever so it's just doesn't matter what your interests are what your talents are anything it's just whatever the government needs you random assignment a

2:34 lot of you guys got picked the donut shop owners cuz ████ that's Cambodian yeah oh okay what's the difference they got a big package dude did you not spread it out No I gave it to the I gave it to all of them like supposed to shuffle it mine's all B re dude and they're all going to La son of a ████ dude sorry donut donut donut so yeah my dad was like okay I'm out of here this place ████ sucks they're burning down schools all that and I think there's two ways that most people go to China I going I go to Hong Kong they either flee through the mountains cuz I believe there is one I was going to say too how do you leave yeah there's a there's a part where it's connected or people like to float through the ocean so my dad went like the forest route hey so much for the Great Wall he ████ jumped out of that Great Wall whack ass Great Wall completely different region okay oh sorry and then

3:26 uh yeah he went with damn I need to start reading he went with seven homies he was 15 one of them was his girlfriend one got shot by a guard yeah one got shot by a guard girlfriend and then uh one got bit by a snake in the mountains so they died and then this poisonous snakes they got ████ rattlesnakes in China communist snakes communist snakes so I think it took them two or three tries to make it cuz you don't just get it on the first try damn bro when he got into prom night yeah when he got into Hong Kong he found a job at a restaurant that let him uh sleep in the restaurant after they they close ████ dude what a story yeah so he would like wash dishes and do whatever and then I think in Hong Kong they have kind of like that policy where like if you're here for a certain amount of time you could apply for citizenship so I think once he got the Hong Kong citizenship then he was able to apply for it over here because now it's like two English speaking countries

4:16 get out of here so so from Hong Kong to here he didn't have to do the container route whereas uh cuz he just did the mountain R that's beneath me yeah so how old was he when all this is going out he's like 10 well he was 15 when he went to Hong Kong and then close ████ close like 20 something when he came from Hong Kong to to the US dude my brother can't even cook an egg and he's like ████ 18 I'm like God damn I'm still cooking for you like yeah ████ that ████ ████ and this fo's already dodging bullets at 14 swimming across running away from communist sucking snake venom out of there's a lot of differences between the immigrants but there's one thing that we they we have in common every immigrant kid every immigrant kid has the same thing we hear these stories every ████ di they tell us how they got here every day and how we're not taking advantage of the opportunity every day and I was like not

5:07 my parents bro just cuz I want to go to skate park they're just like you know what's ████ crazy though my parents my both of my parents are immigrants but their philosophies are way different who what do you mean so my mom was college educated she came here like the regular way or whatever and then so she's part of like a certain class my dad would be considered like lower class and when I eat at home my mom is the type that's like you better finish all your ████ food because there's all these people in other countries that can't afford food right so he's she's like that my dad's like if I'm at a restaurant like I don't like it he goes don't eat it get something else we're in a new country now you can make these choices that's dope and I was like it's ████ it was just crazy that even they're both Asian they're both immigrants but even their philosophies based off how they were raised are way that's crazy you're like who do I listen to well that's why they're divorced so it do oh that makes a lot of sense but

5:59 your parents were like that you said they were no they came on Japan's a wealthy country dude oh so this guy oh sorry Mr ████ ponytail man no what re I here ████ Mr fancy they come in airplanes and ████ bro yeah you're that guy here like this like ready to work gu here like oh ████ the broke ones came here like cowboy days oh yeah the cowboy days so that's why it's like no but you know what's funny though my buddies um who like ancestors right they're they're Japanese they came through Mexico first cuz they heard that it was easier go to Mexico and then go over the border right but that's when World War II broke broke out so there the family in California was like don't come here they're sending all of us into camps right now state of Mexico yeah and then they can speak Spanish they're

6:49 culturally Mexican like they don't speak Japanese anymore so they're just like my Des part of Mexico there's a couple uh lingering around that you're just like yo what's going on here and they're ████ Mexican and you're like oh but they're ████ Asian and they ████ accept the whole you know the k whatever they ████ like he responded with the ████ quick you know yeah Jill's next door neighbor is a Japanese doesn't even know how to speak English just Japanese no I trip out when when Pisa like work for like Asian companies and they just like pick up on the language too and I'm just like holy ████ you speak ████ Japanese at Golden Deli there's a a Mexican server at speak like perfect Vietnamese oh yeah yeah that's right

7:40 that's what I'm saying dude they ████ they learned he came by container they just pick it we learned that faster than we learn English they're just like it's similar to Spanish go me okay yeah D I would say that uh there's a lot of uh I think the difference that I've noticed this is what I've noticed I've noticed that uh uh Asian immigrants like they're not really like focusing on being the workers they want to be more the owners I've noticed I've noticed that you guys are always like starting businesses and starting like how do how do I own this how do we own how do we control this so we can help each other be here that's one thing I know like you guys are more united when it comes to that uh Latinos are just like I'm just going to bust my ass and work hard and then if you become like a manager instead of helping

8:31 they're just like earn it that's what I learn that's how I got it they're still bringing them down it's like bro help them out you're a manager now and it's like dude that's ████ up you're supposed to help us so we kind of like don't really it's not that we don't help but we do want the other person we don't want the other person to suffer the way we suffer and it's like why do you have to suffer you got to earn it like me yeah that's the only thing that I've noticed that in my family is like or in my culture is like they want you to earn it by suffering the way they did it instead of just like what if I'm the one that's suffering and that now they don't have to suffer they don't think like that when I was in uh my social site class in college right a lot of the different cultures were like talking about our struggles in college the Asian kids were complaining like or our parents want us to be doctors and lawyers and ████ right and then the Latinos were saying like um when we when

9:21 we go back home they make fun of us for going to college they and then they go when are you going to get a job and then they're like our uncles call us gay cuz we're we're not working like men and I'm like oh ████ you guys have a whole different kind of thing anything yeah you do proper they think it's gay anything you do prob you tuck in your shirt B you those like dude I'm ████ trying to get a job your shirt why would I be gay like why you wearing a suit fool I remember I blew my nose on a Kleenex not a napkin a Kleenex I open the W my be she gay I my nose someone ████ me someone ████ me like I have to get ████ every he ripped me up when he saw a Band-Aid on my body like don't please don't DT because someone's going to ████ me what

10:11 someone's going to ████ why am I always getting ████ and this like we need to have your dad here dude he's the best dad is like ████ the worst me and my Grandpa's funeral he ████ said that ████ like there's going to be a body I don't want you to be I my grandfa please stop F ████ me the whole funeral I couldn't even get sad cuz I'm like why do I want to get ████ all the time dude what's wrong with me dude I keep trying to get ████ like he just kept going with gay everything was gay P gay dud gay guy what does he think of your brother my brothers yeah no for me it's like I'm the first I'm the punching so you have all the expectation put on you I think so he I he was like the my the first testimony to be like I'm a ████

11:02 say whatever and I think I think that is because I can handle it so he's nicer to your brothers oh yeah he's careful about what to say with the brothers and this and that my baby brother is like he treats him like ████ like a princess he can do anything he can break I never even SE him get spanked you know what I mean so ████ like that that I'm just like yo that's ████ crazy like I think he learned that doesn't help it does oh I see he ████ up on you dude I used to get it all the time but honestly I I think I I showed him that I can handle it I've never like yeah I mean in middle school I was like you know locking myself in the room listening to Le Park like ████ you D you don't get me SC yeah my dad was just not understanding hey why is music I ████ me what is music I am my feelings in my

11:54 heart all my heart you got the stress whenever we took the family field trip like family trips like go to the lake or something I would have the headphones on and I would just get in this dark world just looking at him I was like hearing these lyrics I'm like he you don't ████ get me dude you don't ████ get me oh my God and my dad is just looking at hey why you keep looking at get get it I'm like oh nothing dude just ████ want to punch you in the face right now yeah so uh but yeah I mean I noticed that immigrants are different like a that I don't know I don't know I might be wrong but I I have noticed my Asian friends when their parents but we all one thing that we do have the same is we just come here to work and take advantage of being here like I don't know if you remember that one thing I do notice about Asian immigrants though there is a huge uh emphasis on like

12:45 upward mobility in terms like here's a chance do ████ better each time and like and also like constantly try to move up like your financial your socio economic status whereas a lot of the other immigrants I see it's like oh this is a cool neighborhood we'll settle down here and let's get comfortable here and kind of build sideways but what I've seen it's like they'll come here and then maybe they're like in the hood of the sgv and they're like in Alman and they're like okay then I'll move to rosem me and then Park and then Arcadia and then Diamond Bar like they it's just constant constant constant constant yeah I think that comes from like people who didn't have anything they want all of it like that was that's definitely my family that's here cuz my family that's in Mexico they're chill they're like no we're good where we're at they don't really want to grow they're just kind of like chill but the family here is like I

13:35 want all of it like I want to be and I want to get as much as I can from this country like you know yeah but so I I I agree what you're saying my dad's always like that it's like yo you got to think bigger like ████ just being comfortable he's like never comfortable always get think bigger bigger bigger which has a lot of pressure to me does anybody in your your family or extended family have uh the Immigrant sentiment where like uh a part of well maybe this come from Southern California too that part of this land used to be like Mexico is is that has that oh they they'll say it like between I don't even know why this is our land this is when they drink bit California is Mexico I don't care what they say and but that's just them talking ████ but do they go out there and March do they go out and vote do they go out and ████ fight for like

14:25 if there like no they just talk the ████ but they don't really like but they do have a feeling like that this used to be Mexico cuz I could I could see that as like a unique difference too right Asians come here it's like this is we're immigrants you know like this is like a different land whereas like with Mexico it's like yeah dude this this used to be Mexico it is a trip when um it is a trip when when you're like when you think about it you're like that's ████ wild like this used to be you know Mexico and stuff P Riviera you can yeah you can tell because Mexicans we know what to do with the stuff that's here like the certain plants certain things we know like oh you can do yeah you can do this like for like oh cuz like the terrain is like the same so in in Arizona yeah when you're walking around like bisas they know how you will never die of thirst in Mex in Arizona they'll squeeze out a cactus or something they know how to ████ squeeze you know how to cut it to certain way the angle of the cactus

15:16 to get the main stuff out of it the little stuff on top the little like uh I don't even know what it's called the little fruits my mom just ████ with her hand everybody needs a little rock or a little stick to pull it out my mom with their hand and then she can kind of peel it with her hands and ████ just the little red thing little red thing cuz she's from that terrain she's the same terrain as Mexico so it's like same thing so we know how to like uh we knew we know how to use this land and Mexicans look cool on a horse white people are just trying to figure it out Mexicans look cool on a horse when you put an Asian on a horse it looks it looks weird Mongolians oh if we're wearing the ████ though but like in our normal clothes if we're just wearing our normal clothes it looks like we're like on a trail and then they're showing us that's the national par Park and that's ████ Grand Canyon you know I remember the first time I was on a horse it was so gay because yeah because my grandpa

16:07 like was Ring the horse and I was in the back and then it was just like it was that movement of like so you're ████ your grandpa so I feel like the whole time I was ████ my grandpa and I was just grabbing him and my grandpa after like no my got got got the all right so I got to grab his arms and ████ cuz he felt you're just to of this ████ dude he felt me just grabbing his waist and I think he was just like didn't notice it he's like and just like all right ████ start grabbing the back of his head back of his neck back his dick back put your hands on his low back like oh sh comes back home and tells my dad your son is a gay

16:57 guy ████ me about so yeah I feel like also with when it comes to at least when it comes to being illegal do you know a lot of Asian illegal immigrants in general but if you do do you know many that came here multiple times illegally cuz for Mexicans you can kind of go back and forth yeah my aunt's been like coming in and out so we kind of I remember I remember when I was working at the restaurant like uh one of the guys the Mexican dudes working in the back were like oh man my wife's sick I got to go back and we're like oh ████ and I see him the next day and I was like I thought you're going to Mexico he goes I did and I'm like what you didn't even you just got back he goes yeah I had to go back ████ send her some money do this do that they didn't even sleep so he just went did his ████ came right back and I'm like what the ████ my dad used to

17:49 bust a bunch of those moves like somebody family emergency just ████ the thing is like he'll take us with them and it's like ████ you could have just done this yourself but he always just wake us up at 3:00 in the morning hey your grandpa's sick let's go he had a heart attack and we ████ drove to Mexico at ████ 3: in the morning I was like you know I have school tomorrow right you know I find this interesting from The Immigrant experience uh and again tell me if this happens in the Latino Community but um like because my for example my mom was one of the few of like eight she was like one of two that made it to America right and America's like you know land of dreams and opportunity oh you're making American dollars the economy is very different from like Vietnam stuff every time she goes back loky feels like a big fr like she's cuz she's always sending every single month she'd be sending a little bit of her paycheck a little bit of her money so when she goes back she's like the one who made it and she's like rich in into some like crazy

18:39 degree that we obviously aren't yeah but she's got to hold that front she's got to be able to provide for like everybody in the extended family and stuff like that do they hold her on that standard too they do but I also think she like built that yeah like herself she like concocted it based off all like America made it ████ it was hard man that's tough yeah cuz they don't understand that like being rich uh uh being rich in like Mexico with that money is not the same in me in the united states in United States we're not rich we're just barely making it we're like right here but then when we go over there obviously we have more than they than they do but like we'll we'll show up and we'll have that my mom would bring clothes from here like ████ that doesn't fit me and over there like the whole Little Village will come and she'll give it out and it looked like we were out here giving turkeys bro I feel like it's exactly yeah that same that

19:29 same feeling but but but it just felt like pressure cuz she's like we got to keep doing good I feel like it's the opposite for my Japanese relatives they look at me and go oh you poor thing and I'm getting the turkeys from them right cuz poor Americans he goes do you have to deal with school shootings and then you're like ████ like why don't you stay here we don't have any crime and it's nice and you know what's crazy having sex you know what's crazy when I would go back to to Mexico I I felt like they were happier in Mexico for some reason I feel like Mexico they were happier um because people were so laidback and they weren't really stressed out that's one thing I did notice my dad's always stressed out he always needs this something's always need to be done paid in Mexico everything's paid like everybody owns their house you know what I mean they're just they're just living just to live

20:21 like they're making money just to eat and and pay they don't really they're not really stressing out I've seen like that with uh my girls family a lot of them will come over from El Salvador to California for a while build a family or whatever and then as they get older they're like I'm going to go back to El Salvador yeah like I'm just going to kick it over there I got my I made my money I can buy a house out there I kick my feet up and just relax and if I don't like it I can come back but it seems like that's a sentiment like they just want to like you said like be live a little more laidback and not have to worry about I think that's every immigrant's dream like in our generation I feel like there was a lot of immigrants that just came going to come get some money and then go back but then what happened what ████ them up was us we enjoyed this life that we weren't going to go back and they're like well ████ I don't want to leave live over there without my kids so now they're here because of us you know I've noticed

21:11 that like a lot of them just said ████ it they're here this is where our life is at and they already adapted to the society I kind of understand how to move around you know I think it was just tough for for me I think it was tough growing up cuz it's like uh they came here not figuring out how this works and like I don't know either so we're both trying to be like how does this work that's a I think an immigrant connection you know what I'm saying cuz it's like my dad's over here like hey cing out what are they asking for the credit get credit and I'm just like bro I'm in Kinder like I don't know what the ████ I'm in and then my dad gets I'm like six they're they're giving me all these like terminology you got to go in you got to get a loan and what's your credit score and you're and I'm just kind of like okay to to U your score that the cred to you know English or no why you go to

22:01 school you don't know what I don't know what the ████ he's talking about how do you not know you go to school I'm in I just learned ████ red and blue God damn it like I'm a Kinder what the ████ is wrong with you I just learn what ████ floor plus floor was ████ sometimes it's nine my dad just ████ would put too much pressure on me trying to figure it out your credit score that's a you know how many times my heart would be what he say dude my heart would be racing whenever there's like a a letter that came in oh get e what does it say and I'm like oh my god dude I don't ████ know but then you know you do the stupid thing of acting like you do know you just make noises let me see that bought me at some time this was like n years ago but it felt it felt good having the power of to adults just watching you cing out you're just like

22:51 what is what what is Thomas Edison want to get or whatever like what the ████ dude yeah Ed Edon hey he charging you ████ five grand for wack five grand yeah so my dad would I would have I would always have to be the voice for him and uh and it was sucks it sucked because I was like I'm the dumbest one in the family like how am I going to help you like I don't know what the ████ is going on right and whenever I worked with also like I would work with my dad I don't know if you guys had to do that like work with your parents oh yeah or they'll take you like in the summer in the summer ████ Chad and Tommy and all these ████ white kids were out there riding their bikes having a good time summer camp I would have to go to my dad's job cuz he had no day we had no daycare so we would just go to his job you sit right there for the whole 8 hour shift sit there C on just

23:41 watch watch I want you to see what your dad has to do for to for myy cut all right and I ████ just saw I'm just like this is ████ boring dude the white guys will be confused what is this what the hell's going on here oh Sor Johnson he has to because he's sick and there he has to stay here that's why and I'm just like um I'm not sick shut your mouth you're sick and you can't go to school okay sorry he's stupid too he must to get ████ just kidding news careful boys is a brand just kidding news is the man of smart people the people of just kidding news careful boys they are very smart just kiding news the number one forcast in the world

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