 Which actor's real name is Mohamed Yusuf Khan? I knew this. Sure! Salman. Dilip Kumar. Whoa! What was the first Bollywood movie nominated for an Oscar? Mother India? Yes. Yeah. Nice job. Josh! Hey, we're back to our Stupider Accidents of Corbin. I'm Mother India! You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, for more juicy content. Like, you can follow us on Instagram, etc. Today we have a naked man named Phil and drawing the Fandango. Do you consider yourself Asian? Well, South Asian. Would you consider yourself Asian? Yes. Yes. There's a video. Do Indians see themselves as Asian? Ah. Because... Yes. Obviously, I think... My bet is, because we've seen the interview Indians on the street. Right. And all that kind of stuff. And it's called Asian Boss, so it's all stuff from that region. I'd assume most would say, no, I'm Indian. But I don't even know if people in China or Japan or other Philippines would say that they consider themselves Asian. I think they would consider themselves those countries. Right. Because technically, well, Mexico, those are Americans. Right. Technically. Canada. And technically North Americans. And there's a dysphoria, as it were, of Asians that are not linked by land mass. Yeah. That's unusual. But also, obviously, India, since they don't look stereotypical. Right. Asian. Right. Well... I'm wondering, like I've said that story at the very beginning of the channel, I walked into World Market asking where is the Indian food. And she said, oh, it's over there in the Middle Eastern section. Oh. Not Middle Eastern. I said, yeah, but granted, isn't Russia Asian? It's Middle Eastern. Oh, wow. Yeah. Most people don't know that. I thought it was a war country. Anyways. But anyway, so this is just a kind of interview. Do they consider themselves Asian? I know that... Andrani does. Andrani does. But she would say Indian first. If somebody asked you, you wouldn't say Asian. You'd say Indian, correct? Yeah. I wouldn't say North American. No. I would respond in a series of percentages. No, yeah, because when we say we're... I'm Irish. Well, Scottish. Exactly. When I say I'm American, I'm linking it to my government and my country, not the land. Because the land is... It's American. This land is your land. This land is my land. From California? But as long as you're only white. That's true. We're making a joke. In light of America. The fact that we have to clarify that is... God, some of you just have no sense of humor. Here we go. Hey bosses, it's Marie from Asian Boss. When you think of Asia, what countries pop into your head first? India? Mongolia? Japan or China? But what about India? I just said India. I just said in the west. Australia. South Asian countries before South Asian countries like India. Recently, Malaysian comedian Ronny Chang joked on The Daily Show that Indians are not Asians in a stand-up comedy skit and how he does not feel represented by Britain's first Asian Prime Minister. It was actually a fun little bit. Chang has gotten quite some online backlash for this joke. But how do Indians feel about this? Do they think of themselves as Asians or Indians? Indians first. Different from the rest of Asia. Right? Our Asian Boss reporter... I have no doubt that they consider themselves Indian before Asia. What countries that come to your mind when you think of Asia? Asia? Russia? Russia? China? And... Hong Kong? China? Japan? Being an Indian, I would say India first. China, Korea, Japan, Sri Lanka, China, Philippines, Singapore. I am an Indian. So India first of all and then Indonesia and of course our neighbour country Pakistan. Is India part of Asia or a separate continent? I personally believe that it is a part of Asia but some people do believe that it should be some different continent but I don't personally consider it. I believe that it's a part of Asia but considering that it's called a subcontinent in itself the Indian subcontinent which comprises of all the India and its neighbouring countries so a lot of people do think of it as separate from Asia. Especially in other countries. I understand that when somebody in the US or in the west thinks of Asia, you think of Asia as... Did he grow up in America? China and Korea and all those places. But no I think of India as part of Asia. He has an American accent. I would prefer to say that India is separate. Technically it's Asia but I would say that culturally and otherwise as well it's like a separate continent in itself. If you look at the food or the culture and everything else then it's like a whole different vibe you know like you cannot compare it with like for example China, Japan or South of Korea. Do you personally see yourself as Asian or Indian? Indian. I would prefer to be as an Indian. First of all I would say I am an Indian and Asian afterwards. Specifically Indian but Asians. If someone asked me like what are you, I would say Indian. I wouldn't think of Asia. Indian. And I feel proud to be called or known as Indian. I think I see myself as an Indian. I would not... Not surprising in the slightest. I think I see myself as someone who says from any Southeast Asian country or any Chinese... I think the Chinese would say that. They would see themselves first as Chinese. Yeah. Then Asian. Yeah absolutely. Not really. Because I am an Asian. I am a part of this continent. So I wouldn't be offended. There was this popular Malaysian comedian on the channel. He recently said on a very popular US talk show that you know, joke about Indians not being Asians in a standard communicate. Let us actually clip from what people are talking about. The new Prime Minister of the week, Rishi Sunak. And I know everyone is really excited that this is the first Asian Prime Minister but let's be clear. Indians are not Asians. Okay. Okay. There's still people, great people. They're just not Asian people. Okay. No, no, no. Answer me this. If this guy is Asian, how come when he became Prime Minister I felt absolutely nothing? I mean, when I was down at Dim Sum Palace this morning and the feathers were like, oh shit, that's me up there. Indians try to have it both ways. Like the Indian and Asian. Pick a lane. Okay. Yeah. I bet if I show up in a Bollywood film, I'm just going to blend. It's his perspective right now. It's his perspective. It's a funny bit. That is a funny bit but it is his perspective. Yeah. Same thing for me. We are part of the continent. Of course we are Asian. There is no doubt about it. It is not about, it is a fact. It is not about people's understanding. What was your image of reaction? I think it's funny. Yeah. Well yeah, and a lot of people don't relate to him at all for other reasons. Oh yeah. I think of all these countries as like culturally similar. But if you think from his point of view it's right that if he looks up at Perishisunak or someone like that he cannot really relate to them, you know? So that's why I would say that maybe he's right. Yeah. So I've felt that, you know, that kind of stupidity in that. And this guy, he's saying that Perishisunak is not an Asian. He's an Indian. So Asia is a continent. China, Malaysia, Japan, India. They all are part of that Asian continent. So in that way we all are Asian. It is a comedy. Let's get after all. So do you find it funny or rather feel offended? No, I find it funny. Yeah. It was meant to be funny. I find it very easy to take it in a lighter sense. It's funny but I think saying that Indians are not Asians and saying that Indians don't like being called Asians are two different things. So if you're saying Indians are not Asians it excludes them from the whole continent. You don't have a monopoly over the continent. So that's the difference I feel. And I completely understand where he's coming from because if I see some person who doesn't look like me become, get into a power position of authority I won't really relate with him. I relate with Perishisunak because he looks like me. If he didn't look like me I probably would not relate with him. So I don't really mind this. I think it's funny. He made a joke and I think it's a good joke. He's a great comedian. He's playing with the American stereotype of Indians versus Asians. In America you think of Asians as East Asians and you think of Indians and Pakistanis and Bangladesh as Indians. He's just playing with that stereotype. It's got no global context. I don't think any Indians should ever worry about it. I actually think it's a funny joke. He's quite hilarious. So when you travel overseas have you ever been called Asian by foreigners? Or do they call you entirely different? I haven't been called Asian. I've been called Indian in fact. Where was that? I think it was in the US. I was never called Asian. People try to guess and normally they don't really get it in the first turn. So I have been called like from the Middle East or from North Africa or even Spain or Italy. But yeah, usually they don't immediately think of... I could see Spain. I think people would think of me as Indian. I don't think people would think of us as Asian. They would think of us as Indian. But that's their ignorance, right? A person can belong to the country they belong to and to the continent they belong to. It's harder to think of yourself as part of the continent though because Asia is such a diverse continent. It's massive. Actually, even Europe is so diverse. The European part of Russia is so different from British people. Like English people. So people don't think of themselves in the context of their continent. They think of themselves... Not every continent. Australia. I feel like you count as an Indian when you are overseeing. Personally, I'm not like a very typical Indian student but not towards like, oh, you're supposed to be good at maths. Because like Asian people are supposed to be good at maths. You play an instrument. These kind of things I've seen. I suck at both so... So I work for a conference in Germany. And I met some people from Spain who actually thought that people in India still have like elephants and horses. And this guy really seriously asked me like, does your father own elephants or something like that? That doesn't happen anymore. And then about the cows on the streets, which is also not true. I mean, not all the time. Where do you think these stereotypes come from? I think they are more... You know, when Britishers were here in India and the situation of the country at that time and it was maybe probably when they went back they took some ideas with them and this somehow spread. So people who have never been to India, they are just relying on these like 200 year old stories. So I think that's where it came from. Everybody thinks that every Indian is great at Bhangra, is great at dancing. And that's not really true, right? I suck at it, for example. So I mean, that's funny. You just kind of expect that people would be good at dancing because any Bollywood videos that get forwarded around are videos of people, you know, dancing really well and I mean, Bollywood's huge, right? I mean, if there ever was a stereotype it was a positive stereotype. People expect a lot out of you as an Indian. They expect that you've studied a lot. They expect that you've gone to good schools. They expect that you probably are a hard worker. When they look around, oh, there's a problem over here, maybe we need a doctor. Everybody looks at the Indian guy sitting over there and they might actually solve their problem, right? So I don't think it's a real problem. Any stereotype comes from lack of awareness, lack of exposure. If somebody thinks of every Indian as pucky and they think of that as a negative thing, well, that's probably because they don't have an Indian friend. When they do, they won't. They won't think that way. They don't know much about India. They know that they have ruled India for almost 200 years. That's all they know. Economically, we are becoming strong. We are exporting to things. Politically, as well, we are one of the key members of different organizations. I don't think they don't know about India. If you tell them that you are Indian, they will know where are you coming from, where is India, who is like a prime minister and everything. I don't think there's a problem of people being aware of India. We're a very strong presence in the world, a very strong presence, and I think it's only going to grow. When you go to the UK, there's nobody who doesn't know India for so many obvious reasons, right? Right. It's only a matter of time where everybody is very, very acutely aware of India, because look at the number of leaders that are Indian. I don't think people who have never been to India they know a lot. If they have Indian friends or colleagues or something like that, then they are really exposed. But otherwise, I don't think people really know much about India. But does that make sense to you when India is arguably the most populous country in the world? Why is there so little awareness about India with global scale? That's true because Indians are everywhere, right? So everywhere we go, there are so many Indians and this is also a question that puzzles me. So probably when we go abroad, we are taking our culture with us, but probably we are so, you know, overwhelmed with the Western culture that we are more getting into it rather than expressing our own, I think. And that's why people are not really aware. The major source that people get into from all over the country is through the popular culture. Independence wise, not history wise. Through TV shows and movies. And I don't think there are a few movies and a few shows that have reached that level where it has a global audience, but I don't think that kind of... You have now. Or maybe. Or the foreigners should know about India that their media fails to put their face to tell that what India is. As comparing other countries, other developing countries, India is growing at a very fast pace. They should know this. People generally think India is very unsafe or women. They make it seem to be like a very bad... I'm not saying that it's safe. It's not safe. But at the same time, it's not as scary as they portrayed how to be in the movies and stuff. They only portrayed about the poor people in India and how they are living their life. You will find similar examples in the US and the UK as well. You have to tell the both sides of the story. How India is growing, how India is becoming a nuclear power. Different achievements, different worlds. So not only science, so many sports as well. And there are multiple things that India is doing well. Not a lot of people know that there are so many different languages in India. Yeah. So I was surprised that this is like a very basic fact. But not a lot of people know about this and they don't know that all of these languages are so different from one another that you cannot really guess. Or if you know one, you cannot read the other one, you know? You know, like everybody makes fun of a range marriage. And then when you sit down with a western person or whatever and explain to them, well, it's not really on gunpoint by your parents, right? It's a cool option. They're like, oh, okay, I would like that too. I wish my parents would get off their ass and do something for me, right? So, I mean, talk about any sort. Talk about body odor. Well, now that's, people think of, oh, yeah, there's a lot of body odor with Indians, right? Well, that's because there wasn't freaking deodorant for the last, you know, 100 years over here, right? So, now they're- And because of a Seinfeld episode- That's not a real problem anymore. Indians and deodorant? Oh, really? There's always an answer to why. Oh, explain. And if you sat down and explained to people, they would get it. There's a Seinfeld episode about Indians. Yeah, a guy who's a valet, who drives his car and the smell never leaves his car. Seinfeld's car. The whole episode is, because there's this show about nothing. So, this one episode is about a valet who happens to be Indian and he has, you know, not wearing deodorant and the valet driving his car and made his car permanently smell like B.O. Oh, wow. Yeah. Back when Opu was a character on The Simpsons. Isn't Opu still a character on The Simpsons? I think he still is, but I think they don't know that he's still always there. What? And I thought I heard something like, because it wasn't an Indian for a long time that voiced him. Oh, yeah, the voice actor. I think it's actually an Indian now. Yeah. I think that's what the news I heard. Do you think Robert Downey Jr. could do Tropic Thunder now? Yeah. You do? I do. Because that was done in a certain way. It was justified for the character. You were supposed to laugh and think that the character is awful and stupid He's an idiot. for doing what he's doing. I think you could still do that. Do I think you could just have a... You couldn't do Soul Man. You remember that movie with C. Thomas Howell? It was actually done to give white people an understanding of what it means to be black. He's black for a short period of time. He wakes up black. Oh, well. And lives life as a black man. And so, yeah. But I don't know how well that would go. There's a lot. I don't know. Don Rickles, I don't know how he would do or Mel Brooks, how he would do these days. Yeah. It's all in the intentionality, I feel. Yeah. What do you think is one of the reasons... Like, we were so blind to so much before the channel and why so many Americans still have the stereotypes. Like, when we did our celebration song where we bring that up, where it's like there's more to India than you expect because so many people just think all that India is is tandoori chicken, Mahatma Gandhi and cows in the street. Remember, we put that in the lyrics of the song. Why do you think the stereotype still lingers here? Is it because we're so American centric that we just don't really think outside... I think Americans don't think outside the box until something from another country is global. Yeah. But I don't think that's a strictly American thing either. Yeah. British might be a unique experience because they've been obviously so linked to India for, like you said, obvious reasons. Right. But I think if you go to, like, Switzerland or if you go, even though obviously I'm sure there's a lot of Indians everywhere, right? And the Bollywood has a big history in Switzerland as well. Right. But even if you go to Mexico, if you go to Brazil, they're gonna have the exact same ignorance that most Americans have towards India and Indian cinema. They just don't know? They just don't really know. And I don't think it's inclusive. They don't know anything about the Philippines. They know certain stereotypes about Filipino people. Pick a country in Africa. I guarantee if we started watching their cinema we'd be shocked at what we didn't know about that country. Yeah, so it's not as strictly... I think it's a world thing. People don't know what they don't know. And obviously in cinema, Hollywood cinema just recently have started to making other stories that weren't just white, centric stories. So every country makes French stories. But conversely, if you compare, right, Indians know way more about America than Americans know about India. Hollywood is a world. I know. But even like, I mean, as a whole, if you were to quiz Indians about America and quiz Americans about Indians, the Indians would destroy. They know so much more about America. Yeah, and it depends on the subject, I mean. But yeah, obviously. But also there's a lot more of them migrating here than there are Americans migrating to India. True. But once again, India is also so extremely young in terms of... Right. Independence, not in terms of history. They're one of the oldest civilizations in the world. It's true. No, they are. It's amazing because they've been one of the oldest civilizations ever. Yet, it's only in recent history where they've been allowed once again to be themselves and think for themselves and not be enslaved to the British. It's kind of... The British kind of took, like, that politician said that we like a lot, that we've seen them speak. I just forget his name. He said, you took one of the richest countries in the world and made it one of the poorest countries in the world. It's hard to really come back from how much they actually stole from India. When you take a few millennia of growth and decimate it, it's kind of hard to just bounce back from that. Yeah, and so I'm sure... Hopefully it's going to change. Obviously it's already changing. I think people are a lot more open to world cinema. Yeah. You're seeing what the love that RRR is getting here. Yes, yes. And so it's only a matter of time, I feel, since obviously the budgets in India are getting higher. People are going to realize the stories that are being made and they're going to be made at the same level as Hollywood. And now I'm looking for a good series, you know, in the way that Korea had... Squid Game. Become a sensation. Was it a Korean series, though? No, it's a Korean series. It's from Korea. Yeah. In the Korean language, written by the whole production, everything's Korean. I'm looking forward to an Indian series getting a big global audience like that. I think Netflix is hoping that it's going to... They should. They've got the quality. It's just a matter of time. India makes stuff for Indians. Right. True. And so I think I spoke about it in a different video. It's very different than every other country but how they do cinema. Yeah. They have a broad appeal of like, this is going to be for the world, even though obviously we're Korean and this is going to be a Korean story, but it's going to appeal to the world and how it's filmed. Right. Indians are like, this is how we make our stuff. Right. For our audience. And we're not going to change. Right. But I'm sure hopefully there'll be something. But that's the beauty of our RR. Yeah. It wasn't changed. And it's doing what it's doing. People's eyes to it. Anyways. Good video. Yeah. Let us know what your thoughts on it are down below. Thank you.