 Why does it seem like so many Asians from around the world like to dye their hair blonde? Is it to be more white or is it for other reasons and how come more Indians don't do it? This is a very strange phenomenon because when you are born as a baby your hair is jet black and then you want to be cool then you go blonde. Why is that? We got to talk about this post that says why do East Asians dye their hair similarly to European shades while other black-haired ethnicities do not. Of other you know darker darker shade ethnicities they named South Asians, Arabs, some Latin Americans, some Southern Europeans and he was just saying do East Asians do it so much because we reject our beautiful black hair. I don't know if it's just the money in the fashion industry or is it remnants of a white worshiping culture? Whoa whoa whoa maybe the answer is complicated we're gonna delve into it please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot-pop boys but one thing that is not bleached or dyed is smaller sauce check it out shipping out right now also in some local stores in New York. It's true we could have clarified it to you know maybe prevent some people who are scared of red oil away to fit in more with the vinegar. I'm pretty sure bleached oil that idea sounds really really bad for you but anyways David getting back to the hair initially it does seem like and all the Indian people that we knew growing up and the Indian people that we know now South Asian people let's say we don't know that many bleached hair people. Right I just had to think of it in my head and that's why I thought this was a red interesting reddit post because I realized I do not think I've personally ever met an Indian girl you know from a daisy country with dyed blonde hair. I actually had to google it but we know tons of Asians of all different types of Asians usually the jet black hair Asians too that that have bleached or dyed their hair in some way whether it's streaks I don't know if streaks counts in this sense but essentially has gone full blonde. Right right right I mean I had to look it up I guess Kim Kardashian did have blonde hair for a little bit so I don't know if she counts as Arab probably I mean I think some people consider a half half. Yeah I mean some people were pointing out Nicki Minaj and how they they have like the blonde hair extensions. But those are weeds though or those are. Yeah it's probably not the real hair right but I guess what are the main reasons why. Well I do think immediately there's probably multiple reasons right I think there are cultural differences I think there are primarily this is the big one that you know it's difficult to talk about unless you really understand I think there's a lot of religious or ethno religious identity reasons why other groups would not maybe if they're belonging to a very they have a very strong religious conviction not to. Right I would you know maybe assume that more like in the in the Muslim world maybe there's less hair bleaching too. Right possibly. I'm not saying that it is a religious thing but you're just saying that maybe somewhere when you you are very devoted to a religion or something it makes you want to deviate less from that traditional look possibly. Or you just have for certain that this the community is more traditional. Right when it comes to visual things I don't know that's my thinking. Also I do think that when you are in Asia there are other motivations in the sense that have you ever seen a photo from an Asian classroom. Dude if you take a photo of Shabuya crossing that is like a lot of black heads they look the same from afar. Right so I think that subconsciously you know whether you're in Asia or specifically if you're in Asian America there may be some desire to stand out from the crowd right because everybody has jet black hair and more it depends on what type of Asian you are but pale or skin it could look really homogenous I guess from a bird's eye. And you're saying to stand out may mean to deviate from the traditional typical Asian look which could be any other look but oftentimes it is blonde. Right so I don't know if it's because maybe I don't know dude I would imagine that Asians maybe on a percentage basis have more uniform hair color than other countries where their hair color there may be a variance. Right right you know what of like Irish people there is actually some dark hair in Irish people but there's also a lot of light hair and even redhead Irish people. Well I think you're a historically more mixed right. I will say this not to defend anybody but like I did see studies in America like polls that the most attractive hair color in America is blonde like a lot of guys voted that so it's like now maybe I don't know who comprised of that guy polling but obviously if that's a popular look then women are gonna want to go through that. I mean let's not pretend American history didn't happen you you've heard blondes have more fun than brunettes since like the 1930s. Right but that doesn't necessarily explain all the Asians in Asia that bleach their hair but anyways that's a different thing. So to answer the question is it always trying to be white if you bleach your hair blonde is it a whitewash thing to do. I think the short answer is no not in a vacuum but I think if your reasons for it and the other things you stack on top of it I think you could maybe infer that this person is being whitewash you know what I mean. Like I think like if you get your contacts and you bleach your hair and you'd only try to hang out with white people or be like go to white do white things and you date white people and you try to maybe get that yellow undertone out of your your skin so you try to be black. Maybe you could pass from afar as a white person. Yeah yeah from the back for sure you know it's sometimes or even with sunglasses on you often can pass as white you know but Katy Perry dies her hair black does that mean she's trying to be Asian. Right what about when Gwen Stefani was trying to make everybody think she was Indian but then still kept her blonde hair so she looked like a light-skinned Indian girl with blonde hair but the whole time I think Gwen Stefani is Italian. Right and also nowadays with all the science there's a lot of like people that match your skin tone to hair color and lipstick color so there's this whole thing of like what are your hair colors and your lipstick that optimize you know your skin and accentuate your beauty you know warm tone cold tone it's really big in Korea it's almost like Kelvin color temps but for your skin. It's kind of like hacking your looks and by hacking your looks sometimes it means changing your hair color so in a vacuum it's not always but I'm sure for a portion of the population they do hate themselves and do not want to be Asian all right that's definitely true for some. Right right I did see Zayn Malik I think he died his hair blonde before I don't know I mean he's he's he's an Arab person like a male right. I also think it matters in the neighborhood if you look at like Orange County Andrew whether we're talking about the hood side or the good side which is sort of like a joke with about North OC versus South OC you're gonna see a lot of dyed hair but that dyed hair might be kind of different right you know what I mean because like in the South OC they might get more of a beach surfer babe style for the girls and the upstairs more of like a ABG and North OC or things like that so but I noticed that if you go to a traditional community and this goes back to my concept of like traditionality right or just how close to the core of like what is like proper in that old world grandma culture if you go to Chinatowns across America specifically let's just say deep Chinatown SF you're growing up there or deep Chinatown and why I see less girls with blonde hair in those communities than the Asians in the suburbs yeah that are more around like the new school third culture AZN culture I guess can you blame any Asian man or woman who feels like by bleaching their hair make some stand out be different and get a little bit more attention even if it's like you're treated 5% different or you're perceived to be 15 20% more American then maybe they're just gonna do it right right yeah and like you said event different things in different contexts in Chinatowns if you're thinking the old school way and you got dyed hair you might be in a gang yeah but but nowadays it's like almost like I'm just a fun suburban girl I remember being on the phone at my friend's house when I was a kid and and my friend who was white was bleaching his hair and he asked me oh dude you should bleach your hair and I was like okay that'd be kind of cool and I called mom and dad to see if it was okay and they yelled at me over the phone they were like what dad was like no hard no he was like right what you are not what you also want to get six piercings in your ear maybe you want to get a tattoo dye your hair and why don't you go move back to mong kong in Hong Kong and go get be a gangster be a tryout okay dad to this day I still haven't bleached my hair once but I did get a perm that's good my words they sung into your brain they marinated um somebody said you know they somebody said you know maybe you just want to stand out don't read too much into it there was a bunch of comments saying nah man you can't always tie everything to there and what I would say to this is there's a lot of different pathways to the same outcome I remember when Jeremy Lin had dreads and there was an Asian rapper called Shata Spence who also had dreads this is a few years ago when Jeremy Lin was on the Brooklyn Nets Andrew a lot of people didn't understand that Jeremy got the idea from beach hip hop singers or beach r&b singers in Taiwan who also got influenced by Japan because in the Taiwanese culture there's a lot of influence from Japan so I went Japan to Taiwan to the beach singers to Jeremy Lin's dreads on the Nets and then a lot of people were like yeah yeah yeah you you're like Shata Spence but Shata Spence is from a hood in New Jersey and it's like uh more like in the street life right and that's where his dreads came from right so I'm saying it was looking the same but unless you really understood the context you had no idea that they took completely two different pathways to the same outcome right right right okay so I'm saying that how come like a lot of people they just want to attribute it to the outcome that they're aware of of the reps that they've seen yeah well that's just based off what people know I guess yeah and a lot of people were saying you know it all comes back to Japanese fashion like as far as like Asian Asians there could be reasons why you do it like let's say for example you're adopted white girl and your sisters are blonde you want to look like them but if you're like an Asian Asian that's more tapped into the Asianist fear it's probably from Japan because Japan was the first one that had consumerism and sort of like these hair dies like decades before any other country oh yeah definitely and I'll tell you this for Asian guys there is not for one second does an Asian guy bleach his hair blonde and think that he's gonna be white that does not go through any Asian guys head but is it different for some of the girls I can't speak but I just know of all the guys that I know who have bleached their hair blonde I don't think for one second they thought that they were gonna be white I thought I think everybody thinks that it's gonna make them stand out and be different and I think that so for some Asian guys they think it's gonna make them an anime character because right only an Asian guy would think that becoming an anime character off from the Manga's in IRL would be freaking sick I got an overarching question is distancing yourself from the typical Asian look in any way possible automatically mean you're trying to be whitewashed or blackwashed uh not necessarily but I could see why people would infer that but then it's almost like what level of society are we talking about because Andrew or me and you is me and you speaking English as our primary language right some people consider that already whitewash why right right we're already whitewash the fact that we do all our videos in English guys we're whitewash we still say some phrases here and there somebody said it's not really the hair dying that bothers me it's the blue contacts when they do the balloon contacts that's when it's over the threshold uh what do you think about the blue context thing is this even trendy anymore I still see it a little bit but I don't feel like it was as big as it was seven years listen if you do contacts and hair color and you put on makeup you're essentially cosplaying at that point but what if you're cosplaying a white Japanese looking character but not an actual white person like if you're cosplaying sailor moon who's based on a white person but it's still just speaking Japanese see that's a good question see it there's a lot of I don't know there's a lot of layers all your intention man are you trying to be white or are you just trying to be a character that happens to be white right are you just trying to elevate your status amongst Asians are you just trying to fit in with a group that you feel like you might might be ostracized from unless you change your look right more in with them somebody said uh really it just has to do with hair color dies mixing with complexion for example uh if I was Indian and I was a of a darker skin tone it may look uh not as fitting with a blonde hair because like they're saying that uh typically the hair like the hairs have to match the skin right it depends on what type of skin you have I mean not all brown skin uh or white skin or yellow skin is the same right a pair of clothes and hues and undertones guys if you talk to the experts that's what they'll say this is stuff that girls know about and at me as a guy my education in this particular field is about zero out of ten um somebody said it's a gangster thing um from the Asian world and then somebody said that you know social deviance at in the Asian world at one point was considered bad but social deviance in America since James Dean in the 1950 he was kind of socially deviant right he was a bad boy breaking the law leather jackets rebel without a cause right right right not following the system Bonnie and Clyde in America being socially deviant or having a certain substantial level of it is cool in Asia it was bad until recently maybe it's starting to more fit with the social ways of the right right right um there was just a lot of arguing back and forth I had no idea you know so many people were writing essays back and forth but and we got to get to a bunch of people said no no no no guys let's not mince words here it's clearly white worship I don't know I don't know if it's that easy to say man trust me I don't think somebody said why don't you just dye your hair gray the uh the color of an X-Men nurse purple something that doesn't occur naturally with any other group of people I could respect that but not blonde because that's who oppressed us so so should we not wear three-piece suits because that came what european right three-piece suits is european we shouldn't wear suits we got to wear kimonos we got to wear uh the royal dynast dynastic chinese garb yeah I mean it's like at the end of the day there is a line that you draw and I like I can't speak for everybody in their mind and their heart on why they do things if they really think yeah I'm gonna bleach my hair so that some people think I'm white then then yeah you hate yourself right that's it and I don't also think that like we should all the under us as like I guess asian guys or chinese guys should we all look like paimei from like you know when when you know those ai memes where it's like make this guy look the most chinese possible and there's just like a floating towel yeah yeah I'm just like I don't know guys we gotta draw like you said everybody got a different threshold right right right um somebody said as for why indians africans and arabs don't dye their hair as often it's because they have less consumerism in their country um whereas also some arabs are also naturally blonde by the way that's really true david think about how many asian hair salons there are think there's a ton oh that's endless how many indian hair salons do you know i've seen indian um what's it called eyebrow threading okay but hair salons there is endless asian hair salons korean chinese vietnamese endless oh you do it even japanese ones and japanese have a very small happy because people people like the japanese hair salons where are the south asian and the arab hair shops yeah not that many is what i'm saying yeah i'm sure they have them obviously uh not too familiar but somebody said indians do dye their hair with henna and i looked it up so a few photos and this is actually a traditional you know like henna style tattoos this is a it's a completely different methodology um do you think that it's like it matters that obviously when people say you're bleaching your hair blonde they're referring to that specific process where you gotta go with like the bright white yellow bleach and then go to us convert to another color on top of that yeah i think the process that specific process when people think of dyeing it's usually a lighter color yeah for asians right you're going from black to dark brown and usually with that sometimes you have to go to a bright blonde first that's the base layer right because you can't always just brown out black right right right right right there there's some level of bleaching that has to occur first if you guys know about bleaching asian hair i guess you know what's interesting to me i would say that to me like in my opinion and you guys can agree or disagree with me i almost feel like arab and uh south asians they're almost already part of the western world but they've already figured out like how much they want to buy in or how much they don't want to buy in whereas like asians are almost coming in as like completely outside of the western world so it's almost like on the consumeristic level which is here we buy in 10 out of 10 but then it's almost like on the actual are we western we might be bought in like two out of 10 whereas i feel like arab and uh south asian people there it's almost like they're already at a baseline way more western like uh six or something like that so that allows them to dial back their consumerism of western culture does that make sense like there's just two different levels like culture is not just one level right there's like deep culture you know religious are you also abrahamic but like a different abraham you know what i mean there's like i'm saying that asians are almost like alien they're just like like western consumerism yeah if we were to be very western centric about it's what i'm saying i think it's really modeled after the japanese how the japanese stayed very japanese but also consumed a lot of american culture they picked and choose like their their aspects like they're like hyper westernized when it comes to some things and hyper not when it comes to some certain things but everybody you know what it is every culture that is not the dominant culture and which is like western european culture they they they picked a different uh mix and match a different combo a different combo box yeah so i guess at the end of the day andre things are never cut and dry right there there's a lot of different reasons why like there's a certain outcome and they're but but i feel like a lot of people just try to justify it with the life they've lived in the reps that they've seen but there could be reasons that are like so it's almost like let's say there's a hundred people who dye their hair your reasoning could be right for some of them but there might be like 50 percent of the people where you completely don't understand what's going on yeah i think for something as superficial is dyeing your hair or as trivial as that it's like you could be right and you could be wrong easily right so ultimately andre what are your conclusions is dyeing your hair right wrong does it just matter your intentions or is like is it at this point visual things it's like bro that's like worry about like respect or like taking off your shoes or like i mean i know like dude some other things like deeper non-visual i know people who were white washed that never dyed their hair so what does that mean it's not about dying your hair it's not that's not the sole thing it's not just one thing right it's not one it's a package thing so if you dye your hair you call yourself justin be a poor and start singing with a guitar yeah maybe you're looking like reverse ollie london though yeah all right everybody let us know in the comments down below what you think about all this why does it seem like asians dye their hair more is it consumerism is it white worship is it just trying to be japanese i don't know you guys let us know in the or is it just trying to optimize for your skin color let me know in the comments down below everybody we are the hot pop boys hopefully this discussion was interesting and until next time we out peace