0:00 but I I don't think we're big enough and strong enough as a group to maintain like it gets hijacked like like the whole import like that was our to me was the closest thing to like having an Asian-American experience that no one else could get and then be but Fast and Furious and everybody else which is great to share it but like people forgot the roots of like why asian-americans were fixing up cars that didn't deserve that much money and time [Music] all right we got some new data on Asian hate yay Asian hate not yay Asian hate why do we hate ourselves just part of who we are so uh they did a poll with a pretty big sample size of Americans I think they it says here 6272 Americans were pulled okay and uh
0:54 and then out of the Asians that were pulled it says that one in three asian-americans say that they faced hate for their identity what one of three Dam bull they're they're getting bullied a lot huh or that's just like one time in your life somebody called you Chino and you're like yeah I've experienced Asian hate yeah I guess everybody I thought they were talking about during the Asian hate period I'm like not that many Asians getting jumped out on these streets yeah people weren't even going outside you're talking about in their life I think so oh yeah for sure yeah and it's not to say what exactly the experience is I think that this is nonviolent for first of all it I think it depends cuz like um I have a friend who grew up in like North Carolina one of those places right you goes the racism that you face there is like you're walking around and some dudes are going ████ ████ like some
1:45 hardcore like it's straight up in your- face racism and in California you got the microaggressions and you thought I was Chinese when I was Japanese and it's like dude shut the ████ up that's that's true yeah that's what gets me fired up and in our generation it's straight up running run-ins with neo-nazis or something that's like you're at the beach and these ████ dudes with swasa tattoos want to throw down cuz you're not whatever and that's a microaggression it's a different I think there's so many levels to this ████ and I'm like what constitutes as real racism while the other one is like a mistake well it's hard to say because even when it's very clearly racism the da will say I didn't see that I'm not going to try that person as a hate crime who knows but 41% of asian-americans say they feel
2:35 like they'll be physically attacked damn that sucks yeah and then it says but then here's an interesting little fact by the way of these Asians that were pulled uh here's an interesting difference more of the Asians that were Democrats were the ones that felt like they experienced Asian hate and the Republicans didn't that makes sense it probably depends on the area they live in I feel like the at least currently you know like the meaning of democrat Republican changes over the decades in this day and age I feel like the uh Democrats are the ones that kind of possess more of the victim mindset so if something bad happens it's like oh they're doing it to me versus it could have been a mistake like Joe said or it could be other factors but in the the way that things are being perceived by
3:25 the people of that party of this day and age it feels very like oh me I'm they did they targeted for sure you know and it's like oh you're are you sure like that guy maybe he isn't blind or he accidentally did whatever no no no for sure they did that on purpose you know what else is interesting more of the asian-americans that feel like they're going to be attacked are the younger ones and the older ones are more they feel more likely to not be attacked and they're the ones with the accents they're not going to attack me man the I blend in and it's the older ones that are getting attacked from the back from the behind it could be paranoia yeah isn't that funny yeah so the um so the funny thing is that they asked random Americans to name a famous Asian American and 52% of them couldn't think of any of them uh 9% named Jackie Chan that's good I'm
4:15 surprised that percentage isn't higher what about like all the OG YouTubers like Ryan hega Kev Juma they don't think they're famous or 5% of them said Bruce Lee and 2% of them said K Harris that's so funny yeah yeah she's a service center Asian who who would have you Nam what would you name if they came up to you a famous one what do you want boy girl Russell Wong Jeremy Jeremy Lynn pick the first one com Russell Wong Russell Wong just did NCIS yeah but they're not they're not household names that got a sexy dude like if you like let's say if you were like wher or blacker and then unit you just you're in your bubble like like most people in America they don't watch content outside of their own group yeah Asa Akira what if
5:05 they wow you're feeding into his the thing he said about the websites what if they did uh what if they did this during the time of ly sanity do you guys remember that I bet a lot of people would have been like oh Jeremy Lynn yeah they would have said Jeremy Lyn they would have said Jeremy there's a lot of actors like David limb who's on the Friday Night Show CBS um SWAT he's on SWAT uh there's you know obviously Dani day Kim Dani Kim a freaking good one good doctor Ronnie Chang Asian Aman like they were born here like you have to be born asan the ones I mention that's it's funny that that that many people said Jackie Chan well Jackie Chan's a household name and Bruce Lee is right like it depends on who you ask it it depends on who you ask yeah if they're asking for a household name I can't really think of a household well I guess if they just said name a famous
5:56 Asian-American that's like who's famous to you George George te tiger he's half Vietnamese Tiger Woods Tiger Woods Mark Paul gosler I know Zach Morris from half Singaporean he's IND Indonesian oh Indonesian and what's great is he's on interviews wait Zach Morris he's on interviews stopping the interview going no I'm half asian is it it's great he's great about it he's great about it like he's really that ████ blew my mind why does he look full white he looks full All American blonde boy he had he said he hated that part say by the bill he they had to dye his hair blonde well they dyed it that's crazy yeah his mom is Indonesia but his hair is he's a HOA boy yeah Steve Aoki oh yeah Steven young Walking Dead I mean I'm sure like it's probably not
6:47 that cool to see Asians naming Asians it's probably boring sorry good content but then like I think when they're when they're quizzing white people and they can't think of anyone that's pretty I'm trying to think like of course we can think of them oh yeah see come on he's an Avenger yeah again it'll never end we'll just keep how many white people know that guy's name Tandra this isn't really about what we think is the famous as it's about why is it that like an average American can't think of one it's because we don't have enough representation we haven't made it yet it's pretty simple but like complain like yeah we just got to keep going yeah we just got to keep going we haven't made it yet we got we got to get our names on the leaderboard it's like you know when you go to your high school and you're like we have a CIF ████ Banner like cuz you guys suck still that's why yeah and I don't think it's I I really don't think it's on them like it's not
7:38 on the Americans to think of one it's on us and we got to include the Indians because then we'll win more right like the Aon saries or you know but I don't relate to them dude you're tell but I I I have a controversial take though about this what is it if you look and I'm I'm speaking specifically for comedy if you look at like the like I don't want to say top upper echelon but like the more like the ones that are on TV more frequently they're not the most masculine Asian comedians like the terms of men bobb's not the most masculine guy in the world if you look at um the two bigger Korean comedians one is on Saturday Night Live he's gay the other one's Joel booster Kim he's gay and so it's and I'm I'm not going to go out and Von and say they did this on purpose say it they're they're like you know basically emasculating the Asian male we
8:30 just not there yet it's because we're too masculine so they need to bounce no I actually have a a a an idea of why that is I think one there's not enough of us and the type of guys that typically go into theater and film are not masculine mhm masculine Asian men are they're actually going to special ops they're actually like you know out there being CEOs and then they're doing more like traditional masculine roles because entertainment doesn't attract enormous amounts of masculine men so that's why population wise I don't think we really have that whereas like there are a lot of masculine looking appearing why black whatever and then when you get to know them you're like oh you guys are actually kind of feminine but you present very masculine so you can play
9:21 the role you can play the role you look like you know like like there's a lot of guys that look like uh what's his name Jason Mamoa and then like on a photo they look super good and tough and masculine and then you talk to them and they're super flamboyant and very like feminine right but then I think with Asian men we look younger and also like guys that are in this field like theater and all that like I don't think it attracts the upper echelon of the most masculine dudes I also think is people the producers are choosing too like you like simu he's not the most masculine guy but you look at will Lee Brian T who's on Chicago Med they're like masculine guys they don't get chosen a lot of times they don't get chosen for those roles that's true like simu simu oh simu is like great he's talented they're all talented simu happened to be on the hot show at the time which was Kim's Convenience um Will Yun played the
10:11 bad guy in Electra he was also in the the classic movie Torque I don't know if you guys saw oh yeah yeah moty movie he's a masculine guy that white girls thought was good-looking can uh so I did talk to simu during the audition process um because of the show I mean of the movie they wanted the person to be able to do a lot of their own stunt M could any of those guys do their own back flips and stuff will taught tondo and then he wasn't getting paid enough from his his dad yeah so he left and came to Hollywood did he audition cuz he could have been I think he could have been a good change I think he would have been great I don't know because but he is older though now Will's older now like so when he did electure he was probably in his what 20s cuz I know the audition process for shanei was pretty crazy he was telling me like it was acting for sure but also there's a lot and you know he doesn't have an outfit like he's just wearing regular clothes for the whole movie so he had to do all his own stunts
11:01 so like acrobatics was part of the audition too cuz will also was also he was in is it Tomorrow Never Dies the one where Rick Yun was the bad guy the North Korean guy and they did the whole face off before face off became all that guy's masculine Will Yun was the guy the original guy and then he did the face off and then Rick he became Rick Yun but like yeah like they're like you know Rick Rick had different issues but like um will I thought will was a guy that could have made it if his timing was better yeah you know if he was born a little later I think for the size of like we're like less than 3% or something of the us so we when they say not enough representation I think we actually have really good representation for the size of our population cuz like if you think about how per capita representation yeah like black there are in the US but then like even they're
11:51 kind of stereotyped in in entertainment or like sports in a certain way right where like they don't have a representation of like the all of the like um like the way that their Community is or whatever right where like Asians is like I think we have a long road ahead we just have to grow the population and then also there has to be more Americanization and it's it's still I think one thing that we can't ignore anymore is that even when they do get a shot and they put an Asian like movie or TV show out there the viewership always comes back low despite it being a good product yeah we got to support our people too but also maybe as many people that wanted to watch it did watch it and it just doesn't equate to as many people yeah like Joe said if we don't have
12:41 enough population in the country then you know what I mean cuz at the end of the day it's a business so it's like if they're going to spend the same amount of production budget on a concept but the audience is 100,000 versus 5 million they're going to go for the 5 million crowd whether it's like or whatever you know I mean and when you're creating something when when they go out of their way to make something like too Asian then you're you're a like you're annihilating an entire audience alienating them and they're not going to see it but it's like a thing where if if it was just a good ████ product it just happens to be Asian that's tight like that everything everywhere all at once movie like that's a story that lots of people can relate to like fresh off the boat like how many Asians watched fresh off the boat I couldn't watch it you know but like a a show like thing is a show like that if of all the if like
13:31 you know 80% Asians watched it then people pay attention and then they'll make another one we can tell that inauthenticity because a lot of the times um it's very produced and then there's like you know maybe a Jewish writer or someone that's like doesn't get the culture and it changes cuz even the creator of fresh off the boat was like dude this is so different from what like my my whole story was it's like went off course and so when we watch it we're like What the ████ is this it feels like a PF chains it doesn't feel like real but I think but that's there's steps to it all like so if fresh out the boat it did do it did do well but like if they if no Asians watch that and no one supports it then the next time an Asian show comes up or predominantly Asian cast nwor going to be like yeah you know what let let's stay off but they do have to you do have to kind of
14:22 Caucasian IE it because they're the ones that need to watch it they're the ones that spend the money to be more palatable but I mean what about go ahead I was going to say like for so for marketing U that 18 to 49 year old they want people that spend money uh like they make over 70 grand they're the ones that spend money they don't one of the reasons they don't Market the Asians is first yeah 3% there's only 3 the other reason is is they don't Market to us cuz we already have it we already bought it they don't need to market the iPhone to us we already bought it we don't they don't need to market the newest latest thing but like for uh white people they don't have it yet we've already got it all so they're not we're not a marketable and I know I'm going to you know get a lot of at for this but like we're not a very marketable group because we we statistically we do make more money Sal on average and we're going to buy the stuff we make more and
15:12 we're ████ stingy as ████ yeah you know who does Market to us Costco and Las Vegas yeah they cater to it I was going to say like you know K-pop anime all these things are authentically like motherland Asian products that are worldwide and they didn't have to cater to the outside but what people are actually buying is the culture cuz they want the authenticity right so I think um we're very Niche like asian-americans Western a like Asians that grew up in Western culture whatever yeah and we don't have like our own thing that's that makes everybody go oh that's ████ sick like one thing would probably be like Fast and Furious but it that Got Hijacked right or like what is
16:02 an authentic subculture that exists with us that the world can be like that's ████ sick and that thing your guys's thing Jabba walkis good start so that's what we need to find I think you know you know what's funny too that that's like I'll get a lot of ads for this too but like one thing I learned about traveling through Asia is that marketing to white people is better than marketing to Asians for selling something to an Asian M yeah which is like a you know like when you go to China and you see and you see Gucci Billboards and you see like things like that they would rather see a white person in the billboard to understand that oh I can reach that Echelon and then if you just show them someone like them that's true because I would go to Japan and see George Clooney ads on a ████ like thing and I'm like that's crazy I mean yeah you do see local celebs too you got ████ Bob sap doing
16:54 Japanese toothpaste commercials and ████ you're like what does that have to do with anything they also do Asia does pay more though for those celebrities to do those ads than America does the other thing too less detrimental on their career yeah the other thing too with K-pop is like so black pink right now is the number one subscribe group on YouTube um actually their number one subscribe on all of YouTube in Korea they weren't number one they were they're number one now that's an interesting fact but my friend said that oh because America likes black pink now Korea will like black pink us is still the trend set huh BTS wasn't number one in Korea when they came out XO was number one was number one before black pink was number one and then so once like America and and globally they embraced black pink they embraced BTS those are then they became number one in Korea it's almost like if you blow up in America then you could blow up back in your home country Ru they want to sing
17:44 in English now they keep wanting to sing yeah they keep wanting to sing in English if you so a lot of the K-pop songs like new jeans um they they sing in English because they feel like that's the way but what they're doing is they're neglecting their original fans cuz the original fans love that they they spoke in Korean they sung in Korean and they they they it's a whole thing they translate it all but they're just speaking in English on Reddit they'll be like does the songs feel the same because they're speaking English dude that's a really interesting point that you're bringing that up because a lot of people point to K-pop almost as proof of like see look we're popular the world likes this but then when you dissect it to that level then that gets a little bit like messed up it's a different yeah it wasn't like a linear yeah it always goes back to the same yeah yeah cuz when I was in Korea in 2009 I was asking like a lot of the locals like oh okay kind of K-pop you listen to and they're like like that's teenie bopper stuff we don't listen to that we listen to hip-hop we
18:34 listen to whatever and I was like oh really I thought all of Korea would just be like behind K-pop and um finds out that it's foreigners that are more into K-pop than locals it's it's like Taylor Swift yeah Taylor Swift is immensely popular but you you walk down the street you probably can't find a tayor swift fan unless it's like a younger woman or like a you know yeah one of that demographic that's I think K-pop is it's like Britney Spears you know like yeah she's popular everyone knows who she is but how many actual fans it's mostly the younger people and that's what so when I go to Korea and I'm like oh like I like black pink and K-pop I get made fun of because they're like you're listening to young young people music but they are into in Korea I know they are into rap they're heavily into like rap um they're heavily into like um I guess we'd call it folk singers like just solo artists they love that stuff oh like the buskers
19:25 yeah yeah The Bu yeah that's huge in Crea the the busz king stuff is huge um but yeah it's very how we view it is very different than like that country how they're viewing it mhm that's interesting but I think that there's not enough of that in our culture like specifically Asian-American culture where it's like we're not exporting something that is unique that people going that's ████ sick I want to buy into that you know it's like the best way I can put it is like all right there's a very unique Hawaii reggae culture right that like you you kind of don't know unless you go to Hawaii and then there's all there's a lot of Asian artists Polynesian artists whatever and then you know maybe people in California would get it but it's so Niche and it's really cool and people that get exposed
20:16 to it they'll be like that's sick and then I start listening to it but there's nothing of that that Def One might argue that something that the Asian-American did export to people influentially was like the rise of us doing like social media influencing yeah that's true that's a good argument that a lot of people don't realize yeah because it was the independent alternative and then it became mainstream but I I don't think we're big enough and strong enough as a group to maintain like it gets hijacked like like the whole import ████ like that was our to me was the closest thing to like having an Asian-American experience that no one else could get and then it be but Fast and Furious and everybody else which is great to share it but like people forgot the roots of like why asian-americans were fixing up cars that didn't deserve that much money and
21:06 time it was just our own little like thing but I would argue that back then we had more of an identity and a unified like look than today yeah white beers and chains Nautica yeah there was an actual style and culture behind it frosted tips yeah true
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