0:00 and then they'll be like you you come from La like what is that like like I heard there's like whole neighborhoods of just like Asian and Sh and I'm all like yeah you should go there sometime it's chill like there's like Chinese letters on a bank and then like whatever you [Music] know so there's a podcast uh these young dudes over in the OC they got something called the 949 podcast pretty popular 949 shout out to oh I've seen some of their Clips that's cool they had this one uh pretty interesting clip that points something out that I hardly even thought about this because I think we're so close to it and we're so inside of it that maybe we don't really think about it but listen to this and tell me what you think okay do you think Asians in SoCal have a superiority complex I think
0:50 a lot of SoCal Asians especially from OC and La feel like they're like that Asian where they from that's crazy it's so true because I New Yorkers are more cultured no no might feel more cultured and all that cooler but I think that comes down to that superiority complex that we all possess within us we got I feel like SOA Asians have the highest egos yeah there is a part of me like if I meet Asians from these other random States right like bro you know you're not from calii bro you just don't know you know what I mean but that's like our problem do have that problem problem we definitely have that problem that's interesting did you ever feel like that was you I don't think we have a superiority complex I think everyone has an inferiority complex well said already I do notice that there's a level of confidence that you gain when you feel like a majority
1:43 of an area cuz you don't have to ask for permission to be a part of the community you are the community and I and I realized this when I moved to the sgv cuz I grew up in a mostly black and Latino neighborhood and there were Asians there but um it wasn't the majority like the way the sgv is the majority when you go into a place and I and I feel this in Hawaii too but when you go to a place and like everybody from Cops government teachers and every walks of life you see hella Asians yeah you don't question your like ability to be there whereas like when I go out of state oh let's say you're the only Asian kid and you're a foreigner even though you're born there yeah or like they they have to like seek out a community to feel like a sense of belonging
2:34 especially when you're young like it's I think like you're trying to find like where do I belong and fit in right but then when you're older you don't think sh ████ like that you're already a functional member of society you own ████ you could own property you could be a foreigner coming into town if you have money you actually are big boss right so it's a different mentality but when you're like growing up I think it messes with the level of confidence that these Asian kids have but when you're the majority like for example when you're the majority the high school you go to the popular kids are also Asian yeah so you might be a part of that crowd whereas like when you're the only Asian kid in this High School you're probably not one of the popular ones so just the confidence level of that you know and then like not being part of the dominant
3:24 culture I think that by itself is what probably comes off as arrogance for SoCal Asians and all these other folks because there's a level of confidence that comes with Comfort that's true yeah I could see that being a thing I I also think it might be just true in the regional element of it not that are are Asians are a particular thing because I think that can be the inverse on the other side of the spectrum right if you're the only Asian you're the popular Asian cuz you're the only Asian yeah so if you chose to Rose to that for any means like you wanted to rise be like yeah I'm ████ Asian you just happen to have that personality then You' be that or if you were like you saw that there were popular Asians cuz you were around a bunch of Asians you could also have your own inferiority complex with that because you weren't the popular one so so I think it's just more of a regional thing in that like for example if you're in California that's just
4:15 California Californians have egos you know what I mean I don't know if in New York people just have egos because people already in California already feel we're in the best state ████ all the other states yeah we're all La people already I don't think it's because we're Asian you know what I'm saying so like they probably mean by like SoCal Asians it's just we're just SoCal yeah I I don't think it's like SoCal Asians are this over other Asians I think if like if you're in SoCal you're you're a SoCal person so do that for SoCal whatever race or whatever you know what I mean because you're already if you're in La you get the stigma you know what I mean and New York and stuff like that for whatever it is I can see a SoCal Mexican going you're a Colorado Mexican what the ████ that's very true you know what I mean like I can see that too so I just think it's more Regional than it is ethnic the things that made me more egotistically Asian to be completely honest were like there were
5:05 moments that like defined that for me for example it's like growing up being Asian I felt like I was less Asian than a lot of other Asians like maybe my cousins were learning piano going to Chinese school or XYZ and I didn't do those things right but then the second you go on like a dance TV show and then you're the Asian group on that TV show everybody's like what's your Asian culture history and like they're forcing you to be this like Asian story and then suddenly you go around and people are telling you that like you're you're the champion for Asians but you guys didn't even win though and you're like you know what I mean suddenly you Champion the flag for it and then you become that or whatever doing YouTube and then suddenly it's like these are the Asian YouTubers I feel like those things turn you more like the the Asian whatever the ████ you know what I mean versus like just because I don't know it's inherent that
5:55 Asians in California happen to be more egotistical no I think it's Californians are more think they're mistaken I think it's big city mentality for sure but also it's it also depends on why you're traveling and why you're running into people from outside of your place so let's say that like for me I I'm meeting other Asians of different areas through dance right nobody cares whether you're Asian or how Asian you are if you're just better at dance you will get smoked or or you're going to smoke this guy there's an irchy based on that Asian is second the thing that takes first uh I guess like preceden is what you're good at so if all you're talking about is whether or not you're more Asian or a cooler Asian there's that sounds kind of silly you know like but what do you do like what kind of Asians are you is that all you do you're just Asian then it sounds like lame then I think
6:45 everybody's lame in that pool like if there's no nothing you're offering in terms of like a skill like you could be a bunch of Asians going to a science convention everyone's going to look at who's the smartest not who's the coolest Asian it's like that it's their own game that they're playing in their head that they think everyone else is playing but it's I think for the the people that are so Cal Asian that are egotistical about it it's it's for lack of having something more it's for lack of like having a better trait than that but I think I think in general big city ████ is a stereotype yeah like when you're in when you grow up in a big city sometimes you have to be a little bit more like meaner to to stand out to stand out or survive or you got to be more competitive and it's easy to have pride in that if you don't have something else so it's like if I'm not good at anything at least I'm in this city that's dope yeah right right you
7:35 just have more characters in a big city cuz what they're saying is that like the soulcal OC Asians have more of a superior uh superiority complex versus the New York Asians when New York Asians arguably actually have more things going so I think it seems like they're going why is it that laoc have even more of a superiority conf oh they're comparing it to New York that's what they said I think so if you want Asians tend to be more cultured but again same thing take the Asian out LA and New York are always saying that ████ about each other the culture is so different too I never hear about Asians in La no sorry New York oh I didn't hear about yeah when we we do shows in New York they're actually very quiet and timid out there never heard any stories on them I don't feel like I've heard I think La just in general attracts more like entertainment and like look at MES
8:26 and like whatever in New York I don't know like you have your hood New York Asians but they're mainly like the Wall Street Asians they're just like the bestest Asians let me crush it in finance all the all the New York Asians I know are more proud about New York than they are about whatever Asian for real for sure real I'll only give New York this New York I think has a cool ass Chinatown but I think arcade toown wamps on them right yeah like so it's like the same thing it's a regional conversation more than it is about a people isn't there like a similarity with like Asians in Sydney and then Asians in Brisbane and then Asians in Melbourne like there like almost no Asians in Brisbane so they're just whatever the hell they're just they're just whatever the hell but even when I went to Australia first time they told me that Asians were nicer the more like further up the coast you go yeah it's it's so chill for people to go to like the Gold Coast it's like going to Hawaii for example it's always warm
9:18 it's chill there's not like a really crazy populated city everyone's just out and about so take Asian out of the picture and just think about the people the NIS Sydney people are a little more like stuck up right it's more chill as you go towards and Sydney and Melbourne always fighting we're always fighting who's the best city in Australia Perth and everything else they don't care no doesn't count per Perth is a different country they know that do count aies know that Perth is whatever um what about U what about Alice Springs don't oh that's messed up I like it I've never been there but Melbourne is always well so far have always been rated above Sydney as like the most livable City and things like that so we're always like ████ Mel like with better than s██████ we call s██████ we call them s██████ B you ████ and like Mel's always
10:09 on top I think it's really ironic to have a SoCal Asian superiority complex because there's so much bad stuff here I think what are you proud of there's a lot of problems that like other places don't have that like and there's ways that their town and and their daily living is so much nicer and yet enduring enduring through the problems is what gives us Pride right yeah it's inferiority complex that makes us more of a superiority like expression I actually do think there's like a a lot of Merit and what Joe was saying so I grew up in SOS and here they're both like pretty Asian um but what I liked about citos it was very very diverse so here is like 70% of almost like homogeneous chinese vietnamese whatever yeah the Asian diversity in citos was like Indian Filipino Chinese Korean Japanese and it was like really mixed
10:59 yeah but growing up and seeing that like okay cool here's a basketball team white black everyone tries out oh ████ there's a star Asian player and then football team oh there's a in that skate crew this guy got sponsored by Vans oh he's like an Asian Asian guy I think subconsciously in your mind your ceiling is like so much higher so I remember going joining the Marine Corps and in my platoon there's only three Asians and I'm one of them yeah and I remember like I'm like oh ████ so we got to represent and I would see the other two Asians and they're always like ████ like like head down and ████ I'm like don't stop acting like that dude what the ████ cuz they I think in their mind like I grew up in Oklahom I've already been defeated like self-limiting belief yeah but for me I'm like I come from a place where people that look like me have ████ crushed it so even though I've left that environment I still have that
11:50 energy yeah whereas this person that came up where it's probably been stepped on the whole time they don't have that so even continued on I'm like dude like um you feel a different energy from an Asian person depending on where they come from that is true yeah that that was how it was growing up in in San Gabriel for me is like I thought everybody all the coolest people were Asian and then when I went to Community College and people were kind of talking to me like I was the dork I was like what I'm not the Dork like you're the ████ dork yeah yeah yeah yeah one thing I noticed about a lot of New Yorkers that I talk to they um they really follow the cookie cutter of like go to college get a good job like do the traditional route and like it it was so cynical like a lot of the stuff that they would talk about and I
12:40 was like damn dude like Cali Asians are like way more entrepreneurial there's way you feel like those people were born in New York or they're like going to school in New York I think a lot of them were local but like I said they're so different from the other local New Yorker Asians that are like they grew up more hood-like so like it's like two different worlds it's like San Marino and and San Gabriel here like so obviously you know they're not a monolith but then the guys that I was talking to it like NYU and all the you know like the college kids the mentality was already I'm doing my degree I'm going to do this I'm going to do that but at least in the West Coast even if you go to a 4year you still have people that are doing interesting like Majors or or they might you know become an entrepreneur they might do something different than the traditional banking yeah whatever so then I think the New
13:32 Yorkers when I was talking to them I was like damn you guys are like you really believe in the system cu the system works the job Market's still great there like they they were able to do things whereas on the west coast we have a economy for entertainment we have a space for like Tech and all these other things that they can kind of you know you could see the Matrix in these things yeah so I can see why for them it was like such a farfetched idea to go damn you guys pursued YouTube but we're like we live in LA where people are making careers off of entertainment so it's not that farfetched yeah yeah whereas in another town they might not even see how you could even start and where yeah luckily now it's probably different where everyone sees it it's probably different now but I remember when we were doing our college tours I felt that the NY Asians were more like um reserved
14:27 like Texas Asians were more like Lively and they they yell at shows they they'll whatever but the New Yorkers though like like I said like the hood ones they're they're like they're like more like us like they're Lively they're fun they're like outgoing they're loud but like all the university Asians like they they they were really reserved like it could also be a university thing too yeah yeah I mean like different classes too right but yeah I thought it was a it was a different world for me like out here in California you had a lot of Asians and frats and and they party and like they're more I don't know I feel like there was different kinds it wasn't just nerds or like it wasn't just like one group so it could be a population thing I think it is pretty interesting when you think of it like that where some Asian people that are just from SoCal
15:17 when they travel and they meet somebody not from SoCal they want to almost like piggyback on the things they know SoCal for so if they're like oh yeah SoCal has all these things and the people from SoCal are like yeah you know that is our life down there you know like but it's like they're not involved in any of these things you know what I mean like I can see that happening that's what I have you noticed that when you travel right and then they talk to you as if like you live in this dream Disneyland yeah and I'm like it's just ████ LA and then they'll be like you live you come from La like what is that like like I heard there's like whole neighborhoods of just like Asian and ████ and I'm all like yeah you should go there sometime it's true there's like Chinese letters on a bank and then like whatever you know Chinese Banks yeah but then like I think for them it's so mindblowing cuz
16:08 it's like yeah yeah it's like access to maybe who they are I don't know but I never had to grow up feeling like that but yeah when I travel and do that you guys do the shows and then people talk to as if just from being there you're a celebrity yeah yeah I could see that especially when you go to other countries like yeah they're like you're from Lost Angeles and I'm like people can't believe it sometimes so are 10 million other people and then there's going to be people that are going to take advantage of that ████ then be like I'm from La see Tom Cruz all the time I think that's what it is some people take advantage of it some people don't really care yeah it's just a place you could be a loser in a big city most likely you're Loser yeah you're probably the odds are Los loser [Music]
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