 This is America's favorite Asian language to learn, but does that mean there are also America's favorite Asian people? You know Japan's history with the West has always been up and down, but we are glad that right now It's up. We got to talk about it Andrew Japanese is the most desired Asian language to learn amongst Americans and a lot of people are asking the question Andrew By proxy does that mean they're America's favorite Asian group? Wow, I would say Maybe but anyways guys we're gonna go through the comment section We'll give you our own thoughts Please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot-pot boys guys currently We are sold out of Smala on the online store, but please check back in very very soon Maybe a month from now. Alright, let's take a look at the rank number one came with Japanese with a average monthly search volume This is all based off SEO search engine optimization. By the way of 170,000 then you've got number two Korean coming in at 133 real close Andrew Japan and Korea Andrew and talking about Ichiro getting mad at Korea playing the flag on a pitching man We talk about Korean pitchers throw inside arm. They're right there people like K-pop K-pop and K-drama Right now, but no, but K-pop has to defeat anime Moving on to number three and we've got Mandarin all the way down at 52,000. Okay, and Hindi Those are your two big countries, right? Yeah, China and India, but they're multi-dialect or multi-lingual because there's a lot of different languages In those countries then it goes tie That's pretty close ties right up there with Hindi and some people have some theories about passport bros here We'll get into it Vietnamese Persian they counted that as an Asian language interestingly enough. I get it geographically. They don't consider themselves Asian Filipino Kamai a.k.a. Chimer, but come on. I come eyes a little higher up than I thought it would be and some people said that too number 10 I don't tell you which is a southern Indian dialect that is completely different from Hindi more Right, but that makes sense. It's almost like You know, I don't know if this is the best comparison, but like Cantonese and Mandarin You know like tell you who might be the Cantonese to the Hindi that's Mandarin Oh, man, or some people were sad that Cantonese wasn't in there, but I actually think I don't know It's Cantonese. There's not that many Cantonese schools to learn But I feel like Cantonese is like number 11 or 12 deal We got to talk about it do these stats surprise you immediately off the rip. Look at the macro stats This is across states aggregate. All right, Nebraska was the only one where I believe I want to say Korean was above Japan So 49 out of the 50 states Japanese using Koreans are mad because they're like We've done so much over the past 15 year and people still want to learn Japanese. No, I'm just kidding I think some of them actually did have that reaction. We'll get into the comments Japan's a much bigger country and yes, it has a longer history. It has actually way more Media still like the anime world is great. It's huge. Well, people have been looking up to samurai's and ninjas and Bushido blade And so the art for like hundreds of years in Japanese food globally is still more popular So I'm not surprised because I think that for quote-unquote geeks or We aboos or like Asia nerds that Japanese is definitely the language. They still want to learn I think Korean a lot of people want to learn the basics of it because it's a hot language and Then mandarin I feel like when people learn it they might take it more seriously But definitely less people are trying to learn it. Right, right, right. Yeah, I mean Just to stay in this frame of mind of like Japan versus Korea and I gotta got shout out to Ling Jie from Worst Asian podcast He said that people would be more fascinated by Japan as a fantasy world But if Americans had to pick between being Japanese or Korean they'd rather be Korean because if you Koreans as more similar to Americans I think so. I think that there is a sense that It's more like clear what Koreans are versus Japanese are way weirder Like do I gotta act like a Pokemon like like that be interesting? But it'd be weird where there's a Korean it feel like I would just be me but like more Hipper, well, you know, I don't I'm not sure if I would marry a octopus, you know, I don't know yet So, you know, I don't know about I need to know how the tentacles would feel on my skin Interestingly enough Andrew Japan has gone through a crazy arc So Japan was viewed as an economic competitor to America in the 1980s Went Honda to Yoda crazy trade surplus. They bought up all the buildings on Fifth Avenue in New York City Yes, however 1985 America signs the Plaza Accords the Plaza Accords is meant to economically potentially contain Japan it Creates or contributes to a Japanese asset bubble. So people will no longer are learning Japanese in 2024 Andrew for Japan's Economic dominance. They're learning it because they're just into animes or being a weeaboo or an otaku, right? And would you say for example for Mandarin? More people are learning Mandarin because of its usefulness and for business reasons and for like kind of I guess Academic reasons rather than because it's just so fun and cool to learn Chinese Yes, well, the here's the thing about Chinese enter is that even though China may become the country in the world with the largest GDP not GDP per capita just overall GDP There the arc of learning Chinese has actually gone down recently due to bad geopolitical relations Right, right. Oh, it's actually got to like competing factors like like the economic then and blah, blah, blah And then there's I feel like six or seven years ago before like COVID and other stuff happened Before the relationships got real tense that people were thinking. Oh, there's gonna be this open door between China and America It's gonna be super easy to do business in between a lot of opportunities Didn't really turn out that way for a number of reasons. So yeah, now it's like it's discouraged a little bit of people and been like I Mean, even there was a time when we thought Part of our careers could be in China. Yes, we got a offer to spend six months a year in Shanghai It was an offer that was sort of it was a soft offer Yeah, it was a little like seven years ago So but then we ended in end up taking it because it was a soft offer and then obviously a bunch of stuff happened So now it doesn't look like that's gonna be the case Right, right, right. Um, obviously the reason why people love learning Japanese and Korean right now economically developed pop cultural cool Oh, by the way guys, I do want to say just to be clear This offer was from a media cut like a a new digital media company. By the way, not like the government or something No, because I know what the comments were gonna say. It was not it was it was like a new media Hong Kong based company. Yes, Hong Kong just be clear geopolitically friendly with America Andrew Here's the cute interesting thing the guys and the girls The I meant the girls and the guys are both viewed as hot commodities in Japan and Korea No, so I want to say this though. I want to tell that people this This doesn't mean that if you're not an Asian that is Japanese or Korean You can't have a great time in America But you know what it does mean when you do have a great time people are probably not They're just gonna like you for you and not your culture, right? Like because I know a ton of really good Look in or like cool Filipino guys But it's true They might be dating like cool like hot white girls or black girls But I don't think those hot white or black girls know anything about Filipino culture Whereas if you were like a hot Korean or a Japanese guy, I think those girls almost want to become your culture Yes, do you see what I'm saying? Like it doesn't mean that you can't do it It's just means that they're not gonna like assimilate to you. I get what you're saying Well, I think for example a lot of Filipino get a fly Filipino guys like, you know They they date a lot of different types of people, but it's almost like date as an American They just present as like a light-skinned black guy or a Latino or something like or Just one of the cool tan dancing agents It's not like the girls like trying to learn to golly for them But if they're a hot Korean or Japanese guy, I do think there's about a 75% chance that girls trying to learn phrases Go get omakase go get kbbq or gopchang or whatever. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Anyway, let's get into the comments section Somebody said, uh, this is a Korean guy interest. Oh, no, he would be like, oh, this is interesting I wonder why and then of course Andrew this turned into a little bit of a I guess friendly jostling between Japanese and Korean I thought he was trying to make a play at the whole like guys like Japanese girls thing because you know Like there's this whole thing about Japan has a negative birth rate so they need more babies and they need more foreigners So then some guys might be learning Japanese now because they're like, oh I want to go help repopulate Japan. I don't know if that's actually a significant number of guys But maybe that's some of the thought process right right right other people were just talking about how it's so weird That different people like because basically this turned into an exclusive conversation between Japanese and Koreans About meeting white people who wanted to become Japanese or Korean because it's true that you don't other Asians Would you agree and they can't really fully be a part of that conversation Right where people are like and then this Korean guy said, man, it is so weird one time I met this white guy who hated me because he thought that Japanese would hate me and he was trying to be so Japanese That's fascinating. Right. I'm moving on somebody just said yeah learning Mandarin is so fun and useful I can't recommend it enough. This is what somebody else said who was a I believe he's african-american and then this guy said Of course, Mandarin just sounds awful to the ears and who wants to talk to them little pinks So that turned into a back-and-forth argument That also was like pretty major in the next shark comment section Andrew Is that very representative of the current environment? Mandarin is like nails on a chalkboard Well, that's what somebody said. I don't but I've never Mandarin doesn't sound I don't feel like Mandarin Is one of those awful like that has that stereotype. I'm just literally talking about how other people view Mandarin If I had to do an impression of someone Pretending to speak Mandarin. They usually go like oh, what's your school? What's your sure sure? What's that? But that is a little bit more time. We need Mandarin though. Okay, but like no A lot of people don't know what Chinese is because a lot of people that you hear on the street speaking Mandarin Even if they are speaking Mandarin, they're not a native Mandarin speaker They actually primarily speak their original provincial dialect, which could be this it's complicated guys Mandarin is not a bad sounding language though It might not be the best in my Korean or Japanese might sound smoother like It's non-tonal the tonal thing, but I actually think Mandarin Can sound very nice depending on I think every language can sound nice a controversial opinion I don't know if people agree with me. I think viet can sound really nice I I think that viet can sound vietnamese can sound very harsh, but I've heard it sound very smooth and cool where I was like I'm dying dumb bang. I don't even know. I Not even that apparently that guy had a hui accent though. Let me drop that one. Um, somebody said, man Nobody wants to learn Cantonese man. They'll later. Oh, boy. Yeah, I think Cantonese is like I said I think it's like gotta be up on the list though. Like if it's an option to learn I just don't think there's a lot of I just Cantonese language Material right now. I just think that if people want canto to pop first of all I I think you're just gonna be able to burn the phrases in it's almost like latin You know how nobody speaks full latin anymore, but people say persona non grata and like latin phrases all the time Especially if you speak legalese, I think that that's the way cantonese is gonna go, but I would like to Promote sik faan or something. You know what I mean? Like you gotta it can't just be deal. Hey, I just feel like I'm just That could stay but come on. No, I think ling dai like ling lui and then like uh I'm saying you can find the places for it to be sticky It can't just be the Guys, maybe we'll do a video of top 20 cantonese phrases that could be embedded into even your english life The most good uh The thai language is going to grow on the list because of the passport bro is basically people were theorizing about the different languages Obviously hindi. It's pretty obvious india is a gigantic country But a lot of them speak english, you know what I mean, but but honestly a lot of the people learning hindi could be Indian americans too. I think that's legit. Oh, that's a good quote Yeah, like like a lot of people that are trying to learn the man Mandarin too are probably also eight like Chinese people that are just trying to get better at Mandarin, right? Yeah Because it doesn't have uh the race and the age. Yeah, I wouldn't assume that these are all non asians Learning they like I do think the people learning thai andrew It might be more relationship driven. Be honest. Be honest. Ain't learning thai to do business Maybe I think that There are a number I think a number of thai americans probably are trying to learn it to get better at it But yeah, I think yeah, there is that that tourism aspect for sure. Um, somebody said, oh my goodness I was surprised to see kamai even on the list in ninth place a lot of people that I talked to in america don't even know where it is Yeah, yeah, I would say I was surprised to see kamai even on the list. So shout out I think that some people may could be kimbodi americans who are trying to learn more kamai, you know, I mean I'm cool. Uh, was it I just know, you know, jump me up. So you jump me up. So you to go to cop Hang jung to get Somebody said, uh, nope. I want to learn mandarin. Sorry guys other people I mean man the learning thing about mandarin right now is it's just like I feel like a lot of people from china andrew they do speak english, but if you want to tap into like More deeper cut conversations, you got to speak mandarin. Yeah, and you got to actually read and write it too because That's a whole another thing, you know, um, somebody said, please do one based on race and gender That's gonna give a lot more context So people are saying like if we could see the search engine like male Males in nebraska aged blah, blah, blah They learned this language for this and then you could confirm. Yo, yo, what if the number one asian language learned in nebraska as thai? Yeah, we're the nebraska Thai language association We were all trying to learn thai because uh, you know, it's a warm place to go to We just love Capral that's really the reason why it's no other it's not beyond The I'd probably be like, oh, yeah, we're trying to learn, uh The thai language. Yeah I don't know. They speak like canadian people in fargo Fargo in nebraska. I need to know Where's fargo granular data for what people in fargo are thinking. Oh fargo's in north dakota All right. Anyway guys, uh, let us know what you think about this What are your theories on why japanese is number one or why some of these are even on the list? Uh, let us know because I guess it's not a mystery why japanese is up here You know what I think you know why I think japan and korea for all other reasons that we said geopolitical pop cultural soft cultural Hard cultural whatever ba ba ba ba GDP per capita. You know why I think that they're bolstered so much Is because there are some probably in my opinion more like nerdy Non-asian girls who really like the guys from those countries. That's why it's double if the guys are hotter And because it's adding a whole another gender into the seo pool. That's a good point, man That's what I think because yeah, asian women everybody likes asian women But yeah, once you like the asian guys then you're definitely learning some words of the language No, because look at the stats. It's literally numerically statistically double plus some so That double is just a whole another gender. Yeah, that's right guys Uh, what do you guys think about david's theory? Let us know in the comments down below Which of these asian languages would you try to learn? Please let us know hit that like button check out other episodes of the hotpot boys and until next time we out peace