 Peter Park a Korean American passed the bar exam at the age of 17 and he will now become California's youngest lawyer ever, but let's talk about why not everybody is celebrating. Hey, not only that Andrew He's gonna be a prosecutor So if you are a criminal in Tulare County in Central, California, watch out Peter Park is on your ass Yeah, we got to talk about this news It went viral on a lot of different websites Andrew CNN posted it I thought this was only gonna stay in the Asian world So of course that brought a flurry of comments. Make sure you like subscribe turn on your notifications We're about to break it down Andrew. You know what else is over achieving right now? Smala sauce everybody likes it It is it could pass the bar exam or actually pass the test exam a taste exam anyways Check it out smaller sauce calm. Why is this controversial? I mean should it be just Asians being proud of Peter Park becoming the youngest working attorney in California State History? Or is it the fact that he's joining the prosecution? He did online law school. That's how we passed the bar. Like why is everybody like I mean I would say the comments 80% are positive, but there is 20% where they're like Oh, well, I don't know because some people think it's a perpetuation of the model minority myth And maybe for the last couple years only Asian entertainers that were outside of that box were being celebrated Yeah, you know, I don't think that people are gonna throw parties in the streets for this kid And obviously I want to shout out to him what he achieved is very difficult And kind of did achieve a model minority dream But I would say like I guess the controversy is interesting because I think on one hand Some people feel like a perpetuation stereotype. Oh, look at this Asian whiz kid and then on one hand some I think just General Americans like non Asians are just happy. They're like wow a kid who still wants to be smart That's cool. And then on one side on the other side people are like, but he's gonna be a prosecutor Like what are the implications of that in your time on Central, California? He's just gonna be prosecuting a bunch of people who don't look like him and he's Asian He's white adjacent. He's on the white side. He's prosecuting. Why isn't he being a public defendant all this other stuff, right? So, I mean, I guess nowadays is it It's like fair and it's not fair that all these discussions take place, right? He's just a kid trying to be focused in discipline. He's obviously got a great brain a great support system behind him So he's locked in so he's achieving all these things But then there's all these other discussions that got to take place Yeah And then also any time that there's like an Asian person being celebrated the whole comment section can easily get like kind of Racial well, actually, I would just say every comment section of almost any video is racial now, right? If it's a black guy of the Latino guy Asian guy white guy even even a white brother of the Asian woman It's just gonna get political any sports center posts can get racial within like literally like 30 minutes. Yeah Well, you know for me, I guess I'm just I'm not gonna like Celebrate too hard but shout out to this guy, you know, I mean like I guess he wants to uphold the law So you do need some people to still do that. No, it looks like he's from up, you know I don't know. I want I don't want to know his politics. I'm gonna guess a fairly conservative very Intellectual, you know, Korea and American family and I would say one thing about this Andrew He's actually expanding on the model minority myth because I think a lot of people have always known about whiz kid doctors a ton of whiz kid engineers and scientists, but I think a whiz kid lawyer is a little bit outside of it Like I'm not saying it doesn't fit in a stem because stem sometimes includes like law and high-level business But I feel like you don't see kids in the courtroom that often. Yeah Writing like legal briefs or like on the policy team for a political party, especially being a prosecutor But let's get into the comments section. All right, Andrew The first one, of course, you have the Asian parent memes This was actually the top section on CNN as well as next shark. What I mean I guess what is it about this Asian parent meme? Is it because there have been time magazine like Asian American model minority whiz kid covers since 1987 and time magazine has like I mean, you know what I mean this stereotype It exists in the society This Asian parent meme is gonna pop up every single time an Asian kid is the youngest to do something that has to do with academics Obviously, this isn't the youngest kid to ever go to the NBA This is the youngest kid to ever pass the bar exam in California becoming working lawyer, right in California Yeah, I guess it just fits with a stereotype, right? Like I guess it fits with like Asians just being like these whiz hyper focused whiz kids, right? Somebody said imagine committing a crime showing up to court and seeing that the prosecutor as a 17-year-old Korean kid And just knowing that you are about to get cooked Yeah, visually it's gonna be crazy. I don't know be I don't know how the law works being a prosecutor Does that mean he's in the courtroom right away? Maybe he's on the prosecutor. He's a deputy DA. He's a deputy He'll probably be working underneath somebody But I guess a lot of people are like man a kid that over achieving It's like he's gonna be shooting from max sentences on all the criminals non-stop man I just hope he you know Prosecutes like you know the right people obviously. No, I'm sure you know listen guys it depends I I heard a lot of young hot shop prosecutors can over sentence and not taking account mitigating factors But obviously the good ones they're pretty much well rounded off the bat, right? Somebody said well, what would you do if the victim was Chinese and the criminal was American or vice versa? So basically this is a one of the comments from basically people questioning his loyalties dude trust me Asian lawyers have sent Asians to jail before Right, I'm sure and I'm sure that not every but like he's gonna have to put away some Asians To be honest in that I mean There's gonna be Asian criminals in Tulare County. Yes. Yeah, I'm sure Somebody said man you have your entire life to be an adult of course make that money But take your time for your youth and then of course, you know a lot of people were saying oh, man. He looks so nerdy He's not cool like you know what I mean like what do you think of these comments somebody was you know These are people that are concerned for him, but they're they're not really giving him full props either I think people want to take something away from him by Kind of implying that he didn't live a regular life that he didn't enjoy life that he's a weirdo kid I don't think he is listen if he's a lawyer and he's super weird or you got like weird tics about him It's gonna come out and it's gonna be weeded out. Yes. He is entering a very very grown-up adult world Which I think is gonna be interesting He might you know He might burn out early and then have to take a break or something But I think that that's what's so impressive about it Obviously his story has yet to be written that's gonna be up to him and his support systems of how they execute But I think that he obviously has better Like a higher People skill threshold requirement than even like hardcore research For sure even just to make it to this point right to even get hired in the first place Well, like we said Andrew it got posted on CNN There's a ton of bro comments in life. We need to enjoy our age probably this dude has no friends yeah, bro connections are way more powerful than degrees and Obviously these comments were from a lot of non-Asians and you know what I noticed Andrew These people they may be born into certain situations where that's true for them and how their family maintains wealth their power But for a lot of Asian Americans Andrew, they're gonna need to do the work Mm-hmm because literally I guess what I'm saying is I'm not fully disagreeing with what they're saying But not everybody's in the same family position. Yeah, like if you're like a old money White person who's like inheriting wealth, of course you feel that way because that's your reality, right? Somebody's just said man. It's just nice to read about a teen who's motivated man Is he might run for the president in the future and someone said trust me? Nobody is becoming a politician with a degree from an online law school. So some people are like questioning I don't think that's true politician There's many different levels to politician and especially nowadays right at the end of the day if he practiced and he passed the bar exam That's all that really matters. Yeah, the online school doesn't sound good But maybe not president, but he's probably gonna run for some type of office I agree with you because once he gets the real-life reps in in the courtroom That'll be his resume It won't be like only that on his portfolio anymore. Somebody just said man I think Asian people try harder than most other groups of people they that's why they garner the prize Of course, he is Asian. This is just proof that culture and parenting make successful children Um, I guess this kind of is the other flip side, right? People being like Asians man They always do the right thing. Yeah Somebody said man, he's just way too young to see the things that I've seen. I also work as a public defendant It's going to rock his mind and traumatize him. Of course. It depends on his own mental fortitude possible. Yeah, but maybe he's not I don't know. I mean, you know this you never know what these kids are But yeah, I guess we'll we'll catch up with him in about three or four years guys, right? I guess Andrew What do you think man? Do you have the reaction from the non-Asian community? I guess it confirms some stereotypes in the same way that seeing like Zion on the cover of sports illustrated Confirms their stereotypes or like a cool White guy doing something that typically cool white guys are known like the Sean white youngest best snowboarder ever white, of course Right that skateboard, but I mean those are cool things. I think being a prosecutor is not really seen as cool You know from me, I just hope he does a good job I just hope that like shout out to him. He did the work. He studied. He passed the bar He's gonna be in a man's world and a fully adult world like criminals and people trying to prosecute criminals yeah dealing with all different types of things being a prosecutor is not easy because Some people don't like you so he's not gonna make a lot of you know friends in the streets that way But what I'm saying is like I just hope he does a good job. I hope he's not controversial I hope he doesn't over sentence somebody or wrongfully sentence someone or under sentence somebody because that's the job Yeah is to put the Appropriate I just hope he does a accurate good job I'm rooting for Peter Park because maybe he's gonna set the example for all the other young lawyers out there too in the future I think it's just really interesting because I always knew that like nerdy things in America were really important They're really structural But at the same time culturally they're like derided at the same time So I always thought that was weird because Asians are so good at quote-unquote like nerdy things are scholastic things Scholarly things and everybody knows you need them to run the society Uh-huh, but then there's a side of people in America that strongly strongly thinks it's also uncool So they want to see you know what I'm saying like Asians not perpetuate this time magazine stereotype of whiz kids Obviously, I believe that Peter Park is a great example. I support it But he's I think he's a slight expansion of it, but he does fit into that archetype So so I mean a Jeremy Lynn broke so many stereotypes, but he still went to Harvard Yeah, I don't think that Asians should like stop do it. I'll say this man like some Asians are gonna be Raised by like Americanized environments or ultra-Americanized parents and yes Some some kids are gonna need to go on to be DJs at EDC and like you know what I mean Yeah, come like these electro gods, you know what I mean, but other people they still need to hold down the whole way Why don't we just root when it comes to like? Like non-model minority Asians cheering on model minority Asians or whatever people who fit into the model minority stereotype Why can't we just cheer for them to be the most well-balanced? I'm just cheering for Peter Park to not be a weird kid to do his job to Mentally handle what's coming to him and that's all you can wish for and that would be good And that would be good for Asians to see such a young kid achieve it and be successful and not be weird and not break Down, right? That's all I hope for I hope for well-balanced Asian kids And I think that we we can do it let us know what you guys think in the comment section below shout out to Peter Park great achievement And yeah, look forward what he does in the future until next time we the hop-hop boys. We out peace