 If more and more Americans are losing trust in Asians then what can you actually do about it? Welcome everybody to the hot pop boys. David and Andrew here a new shocking survey essentially in short and I'll pop up the numbers right here has revealed that Americans are losing trust in their fellow Asian Americans. They think that they are more responsible for COVID and they're more loyal to their country of origin. Man, it's got a lot of people riled up and a lot of different emotions are flying around. Oh man, you saw a crazy range of responses on Reddit, you know, Twitter, blog posts. I would say this guys, you know, it's crazy to me how many people needed to survey to start freaking out because I was like, I don't know if the attacks didn't make you worried, but it didn't shock me. Well, I think people are now thinking like, oh my gosh, if the crazy people on the street don't like us and these people who pick up the phone and take this survey don't like us. Gosh, we're in trouble. Right. People are drawing a distinction between the D gens on the street attacking old women and like a survey crowd. They're thinking a survey, a guy who picks up a phone and takes a survey could be like at Billy Bob's hockey talk or even like a military general or something. They're thinking more like older white people taking a survey at the Mall of America in Minnesota. Listen, we want to acknowledge that this is troubling for a lot of people and nobody wanted to see the survey come out. However, it is true and it's very revealing. So we got to just talk about it. We got to talk about who did they pull for the survey? What does that mean? And also what can you do about it? Because I think that's the big question right here. And also, should Asians be freaking out on the internet? I don't even know if they're freaking out in real life, but on the internet, they're freaking out. So we're going to break it down from the micro, mid, the mackerel, but real quick. Let's get into the polling itself. Okay. So the polling itself, right? I mean, listen, surveys are not always accurate as we've seen in past elections. I mean, there were surveys who said Hillary Clinton had a 99% chance of winning. She clearly didn't win. So also I do think who they pulled is really important and how they pulled. Yeah. I mean, I think it's similar to Nielsen box tops, you know, for TV sets, like those give very skewed ratings sometimes because they have to be put in specific households that will accept the Nielsen box. Right, right, right. Not just everybody's TV is being tracked. You have to agree to it. So if you're a person who gets agreed to a survey, then you probably want, maybe watch more TV. I don't know. So it's a little bit skewed. I would say in my opinion, it's probably more representative to be honest though, and this is the part that is alarming because I do want to give some points to the people who are ultra alarmed by this. And it's probably more representative of a middle America voting population. Yeah. I really do think that I don't have the stats, but I truly think that in voting population, we're not just saying it's one race by the way, guys, voting is just more of an, I'm almost age thing, like older people vote more away more than even close. If you pulled just 20 year olds in America, trust me, the stats and results would be different. To be honest, it's probably a little bit more of the generation. And I'm not saying that everybody feels this way or that way. That kind of is like locked into like the old Pearl Harbor days. Influenced by it. Perhaps. Listen, guys, if people are blaming Asian looking people, obviously specifically Chinese, but people, everybody kind of gets lumped into Chinese for COVID, right? And they view that as like an attack, right? Some people do, right? They're going to view that as similar to like Pearl Harbor, but they are like already had that potential because that anger was from the old days. And it's almost just like was dormant until something catalytic like reactivates it. I mean, you can even tell by how Pearl Harbor was trending during the FIFA US women's versus women's Japan game match 2015. That was the World Cup. There was like a whole bunch of tweets about Pearl Harbor. Anyway, that was from old people and young people. I mean, I think some people are trolling, but whatever. There's some parts of the country guys that feel very, very different than the coastlines like, like really different, like coaching on what you can or cannot say, but I also don't think surveys determine how people are going to treat you in person. I do think these are internal feelings. These are a private conversation. A lot of people have different feelings when they talk in private, but when they are out in society, they might act differently. So I'm not saying it doesn't mean anything, but you know, and it also just depends on your exposure to these precincts. That's why I think national studies in an increasingly fragmented America have different tastes and watch different shows. National studies, even though they might be true, they could mean less in terms of actual application. And that leads us to our first point Andrew in the micro sense of life. You're like an aunt in an aunt colony, an aunt colony in a cul-de-sac, a cul-de-sac in a city, a city in like a district and you, or you could be a bird looking down at the district. You have all these different viewpoints, all the way from an aunt to like a cat that's just stuck in a house and that's its world, to a dog that roams a neighborhood, to like all the way to be a gigantic bird that soars over everything. Well, do you mean like during a storm, if you're the aunt, it's going to suck extra bad versus if you're the cat or the dog? Right. And so everybody's exposure, even within a reality that is happening to everybody, is completely different. Your perspective, your eyes just see different things. No, I literally cannot tell you how much to care because I don't know your life because it really, really depends. Some people are in industries where, you know, they're studying, they're a Chinese student from China and they're studying nuclear biology. It's going to be an issue. It is? No, that's a fact. Like you got to be worried about your like student visa. But if you're just trying to take care of your dog, work your job, maybe you work at this job, you're outside of this macro thing. Right. I mean, if you're an Asian in the military, it may, you may feel some extra comments. But if you're working at like Google, you might not feel anything. Yeah. If anything, people are only going to be like sympathetic to the hate that somebody who looks like you is getting in another part of town. Yeah. So it just goes to show you guys, your micro exposure to a macro trend is very, very different. You know, Andrew, as the stock market was going up the previous two years, obviously this past year has been really choppy. Some people still lost money because they still bought high and sold low every time. Like even in the uptrend, it depends on how you play the game. Back in 2008 when you just first started working, you had your first job, the stock market crash didn't affect you because you didn't have any money in the market. Yeah. I remember being at work and everybody else was freaking out because their 401k and the Ross were just like going to weigh super declining because the tech bubble popped. I didn't even care. So it kind of goes to show you the same situation that some Asians are in, where some Asians are like, yeah, theoretically, I'm aware of this macro trend, but I don't care because I don't feel impacted. That's how I was about the stock market. Obviously nowadays in 2022, I feel a lot different. I'm like, hey, what's going on? But maybe the people around you and the Americans that you know are nice and you really don't feel it. That's completely possible as well. Right. Like I said, it depends on what even precinct of a district you're in and then even like, do you live on that hill or that hill? All right. So moving to the mid, if you are worried about this at all, and this is alarming to you, what can you do? I mean, I think that the first thing you could do is move to a more comfortable situation geographically. That's going to affect the 30 to 150 people around you. Most people's reality is driven by just simply 30 to 150 people, literally their entire reality in terms of IRL in real life. So for example, you know what was really interesting, Andrew? We grew up on the border town. Like we grew up right on this one strip that where if you went left, it was a very blue, like in terms of like democratic, almost like, you know, almost like a inner city type vibe. And if you would have went to the right, it was almost like an ultra Republican, like Tennessee type. Right. So you could because if you guys know Washington's kind of like that, they could like switch night and day. So we could have gone to the Red Costco or the Blue Costco. Yeah. So I've seen it on both sides. I mean, like, you know, I wouldn't want to live in either, to be honest. But so yeah, moving is one thing and you don't even have to move to a different state. It could be across town or this is a less popular solution on the internet. You could feel bad and try to cater extra hard to regain trust. You know, throw up American flags, do this big pies, do all these things that are typically American to show this American population be like, Hey guys, I'm one of you. I'm down with the team. So there's no question in their mind. Right. Right. Right. And this is actually a plan that a lot of people run. Obviously, some people call these people bubble liberals or whatever, whatever, whatever. I'm not saying I fully bind to those political ideologies. I just know the terms. But I would say that a lot more people in regular life do the pandering style, but they just don't talk about it on Twitter because like ideologically, you know, certain people are going to come for them because they're going to be like, What do you mean? We got to wear American flags, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it is probably pretty effective. I actually think that a lot of people low key do this stuff, but they don't even think about it because in their mind, it's just part of living in America is slightly pandering to an extent. But we'll get into that later. Anyways, the third option is, man, if you can get strong, get financially secure, you know, get fit and just take care of your family and live your own life, you actually may not be as affected from this macro survey. I agree with you. I mean, it's easy as looking at it quantitatively. So let's say, for example, mistrust of Asians jumps from like 20% to 30%. I believe that's what the study said. But your strength level is 80%. You are still not going to be like the prejudice or the mistrust of you is still not even touching your leverage. Whether that's like how on point you are taking care of your own life, your loved ones, your parents, your family that you have underneath you. Like if you're stronger, no matter how bad it gets, you're going to be pretty much like hedged and like covered. If you are a strong larger boat, then the storm that's coming will affect you less. You will feel it, everybody will be affected, but you're not going to be one of those boats that's going to be flying up in the waves and getting tossed and turned and everything. Yeah, I don't think any boat likes turbulence, any plane likes turbulence, but if you are playing this design to handle a heavy volume of turbulence and you'll be okay, then you're going to make it through and not be scared. One mindset I would like people to get out of. And so I saw some of these comments on the internet where they're like, oh my gosh, I just feel like that they were using the survey to kind of come up with excuses for their own life. Like, oh, this explains why my life is this way and my life is that way. And I don't feel comfortable. I'm like, guys, this is just a survey that just came out. Your life has always been your life and the people you've met have always been the people you met. Like this survey is, even though it's a real number, it's not real life. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Right, right. I mean, absolutely. I think that those people, they could have been put in a situation where they didn't even have a lot of options in the micro, but definitely they're conflating the macro environment with personal individual agency. And it's not that there's no correlation, but there is no direct, direct causation. Like we said earlier, the micro application can look so different than the big tidal wave trend. All right, David, moving on to the macro. My macro takeaway here is, yes, although distrust is rising amongst Asian-Americans on how Americans view them, I actually think Americans in general are just distrusting everybody more. Like I just think distrust in America is at an all-time high in general. I don't even think the middle class white American trusts the white billionaire as much as they used to. I think they used to. Yeah, but I don't think they trust them as much anymore. Yeah, I think there's just a lot of, there's a lot of, that's right. Identity warfare and identity warfare is not just across ethnic lines or ethno-cultural lines. It's socio this and there's so much intersectionality and hyphenated this and this and this. And I mean, that's just where we are at as a society right now. I don't wish it was that way, but obviously as a social commentary, as a comedian, that's like where it is at to keep it real. I mean, I think ultimately, I think you gotta understand your life and how does your life interface with larger trends? For example, Andrew, if you're in Gen Z right now, people are watching more anime, more K-pop, more K-dramas, more Asian content, eating more Asian foods than they ever have. However, the older boomer generation, and like I said, I'm not, you know, don't mean this to be a derogatory. And this is not a Blake's saying. It's just any funny way to put it. The Pearl Harbor generation, they might be like soaring at 20% even more, even more than the study. And then that's like getting cut down to 11 because you're averaging it out with the people who almost have a positive view on Asians. You know, so one thing I've noticed and if you study statistics and like demographic breakdowns and pools, they can be so divergent. So when you get a national picture, it doesn't really give you a good answer unless you break down the microanalytics. And we don't have the microanalytics. Yeah. One last thing from me is that, you know, there was a time in America when immigrants would come to America and consciously serve and cater more to Americans. I do think that time is decreasing. Like there is less and less immigrants coming over running that same plan of just catering to the American population. Now they can kind of do their own thing. There's enough immigrants and Asians here where they can land here and run their own business and they don't have to be like, oh, hey, Mr. Johnson, yeah, thank you. Thanks for coming up. I would compare it a little bit more to the situation in Canada and Australia where it was more of a stained glass rather than a fondue. And I do understand and I do empathize with some people who was like, oh my gosh, Mr. Ping, you used to always have my favorite ducks ready on Thursday and now your son is overcharging my son for Yeezys and Supreme. You know what I mean? Like, he can't understand it. Mr. Ping's like, hey, man, it's just the natural curve. I'm glad my son doesn't have to do what I do. But I'll still get it ready for you. I think there's just a lot of change going on in America and things like this survey just show that there's a lot of growing pains with it. And yes, there is going to need to be concerted efforts to kind of bring people together a little bit more. You know, obviously, like I'm all for Asian stuff, of course, but I understand how that can be jarring for, I guess, the rest of Americans, you know, and Americans in the survey. Right, right, right. Because they're like, I kind of missed the nice white fondue that all the everybody else would have to be melted into versus this new like chopped Greek salad thing, you know, where everything's like with the feta and the olive and it's kind of weird to me. Well, that chop suey spot closed down after 30 years and turned into a hot pot restaurant with a whole bunch of the University of Ohio students. So I don't know, maybe I'll be skipping on that. Yeah, I don't know. I'm thinking about trying that Chuan Chuan or the Mala Shangguo, but I haven't got around to doing it quite yet. Do Miss Pings. Who are these skinny Asian guys in suits just tearing up the stage at the Grammys? This sure is a different look for pop stars. Guys, the world is changing. I get it. And you know, especially these people, they like watch TV and they have landlines. Like what if this survey was done with landlines? That's like a very specific population. Nobody has landlines anymore. Anyways, I mean, guys, let us know what you think of the survey. What does it mean? Is it legitimate? Is it not legitimate? I mean, my answer is obviously there's some legitimacy to it, but the application is, you know, very individualistic. And I do think obviously it's something to keep our eye on. Obviously if this trend were to extrapolate year in and year out, eventually I do think the macro would be really felt in the micro. I think some people are feeling it right now. Like I said, we have previous videos addressing that and how to keep those people safe as much as possible. And I do think that people who are not immediately affected by it right now and they're a little like Aunt Colony, it's happening three Aunt Colonies over, they do, they should think about it. But I can't force anybody to because I understand human nature. Well, everybody, thank you so much for watching. We're going to wrap it up there. You guys let us know in the comments down below. Is this an alarming survey or not? What do you think and what can you do? Guys, we are the hot pop boys and thank you for watching. And until next time, we out. Peace.