 So I don't know when you're posting this one. I'm sure it'll be several days after the fact, but rest in peace. I'm going to watch Goodfellas tonight and yeah, I just in his honor. That's so sad. It's so sad. Hey, welcome back to our stupid director, Corbin. I am not Ray Liotta. All right, Ray Liotta. Yeah, one of the greats, man. One of the greats. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, for more juicy content. Thanks for the patience, follow us through the account. Subscribe if you haven't hit the like button. Today we've got a really interesting video that I'm really interested in. This is called Do Northeast Indians Considered Themselves Indians. So this girl who I don't know what nationality she is, but she goes around and she talks to people from Northeast India about all the, you know, they go through discrimination and all the kind of stuff. What do they identify as? What do they feel about all the the kind of discrimination they feel when people say they're not really Indian or people don't know? Look at them and think that they're Indian. And so she kind of asked them specifically. So I'm actually quite interested in hearing these people. I know it's going to be quite sad, probably at some point. Yeah, probably so. And I'm in that same vein. I don't know if you heard this, but I sent the information to Alexis because I knew she would want to know. But there's a story that was this morning in variety that President Biden is meeting with. This isn't the joke. He's asked BTS to come to the White House, and I'm sure he's invited other people to come representing different groups. But specifically to talk about anti-Asian hate crimes and what can be done, which is really smart because BTS has so many people connected to them and anything that can be done to help promote. It's amazing that you still have to talk about this in a world where people have a brain. Yeah, anyway, it's quite unfortunate. Obviously, America has always dealt and probably will, unfortunately, for a long, long time with bigotry and racism like that. Because that's just everywhere, everywhere. Because we've seen it. We've seen it in India. We've seen we personally ourselves. We talk about this a lot when we were there right outside the Golden Temple. And these girls came up to us and said someone had spit on them and said, go back to China, but there are some ease. Yeah, it's awful. So anyway, it's quite interesting in this video. So ready? Here we go. Yep. Three, two, one. Hey, everybody, it's Carrie from Asian Boss. Where do you think these people are from? Would you be surprised if I told you they're actually from India? It's not just appearance that differentiates I would have been a few years ago who are often discriminated against for having a different cultural background, religion and ethnic makeup. So how do Northeast Indians feel about these conflicts between them and mainland Indians? Do they consider themselves as true Indians? We hit the streets of IZOL to find out. How would you describe your ethnic background? I belong to one of the states in Northeast India, which is Mizoram. They have told us that we have migrated from China itself, from Mongolia. I think I heard they should. What? So now, OK, we're not so we can't really tell for sure because there are very limited researchers that have been done. But politically speaking, I think we are we can be regarded as Indians because we are part of the Indian continent. Do you know what Northeast India is like? Foreigner Rampoon Mi. What is the origin of this problem? Do you know what Northeast India is like? I don't know. Well, I don't know. I don't know what to say. He's a good person, but I don't know what to say. But I think it's a Japanese. I can see a very similar Japanese type of look in this place. What makes us different in the Northeast Indian is that diversity, not just our ways and our culture, but I think languages as well. And the way we look when you we're not all the same. Many people are not aware of the beauty of the Northeast. Like it's it's very green. The greenery is so much mountains, plains, rivers. And everything makes notice so different from the mainland and it's it's highly the culture and heritage is very high in notice. Do you really consider yourself as an Indian? I do, but I'm not sure other people do. Smiled up to them. where I stayed there. So the people asked me if I'm from which place I am. I said I'm from Assam. Okay, they asked me from Bangladesh. I was like, no, it's in India. Come on, you should know that Assam is a part of India. It's mistaken for Nepali, Chinese, even Korean, if that even seems possible. But I think the fuck seems possible. But I think the farther away I get from northeast that is the more south I go, then the harder it is to recognize the fact that we are Indian. That's just my personal experience. Mainly because we're not so involved in mainland India, its politics or even the pop culture northeast in particular hasn't really been popularized that much. So they don't know that much about us as much as we know about them. The northeast part has been ignored a lot by the central government. Many, many, many parts, especially like this part, even the Mizoram part also like it's so beautiful, but tourism is so less. People don't know about this place. I was once asked if everyone ate cats and dogs. I don't know if that's common, but that is a stereotype that have been asked. Whatever cliches they have in their head or whatever is being told to them, then they accept it for the truth a lot of the times. Well, I have heard many of my friends saying they have faced discrimination based on their looks. There's still a lot of discrimination that's going on in mainland India, but I think India is progressing towards a less racist country. During my years in college, I have experienced friends, close friends of mine, who did face a lot of discrimination from their landlords, who faced violence even just based on the fact that they're northeastern, and they aren't really considered to be truly Indian. Actually, there was a very mass protest from everyone from the northeast. Even so many Mizors participated. It was in Bangalore, and it was because this one person who was Manipuri, he had been physically abused by his landlord, and everyone fought back in that case, and it was a very beautiful instance of unity, and everyone came together and fought for him and put the landlord in jail, and we saw through to that, so I think that was a very good experience. For my age group, we are the youth now, so we really need job, then we need places to study. I really hope these things are like the new leader sees these kind of problems and solves them. I hope that we get new leaders who inspire the young teens, and I hope that we get new leaders who are not too old, who are able to keep up with current events and who are able to can recognize innovative ideas. I really want leaders who make a difference. I would love to have the opportunity to come here and experience these beautiful landscapes, and our amazing food, our amazing cuisine, and just to get to know the people here, amazing people. We're all very friendly here. I really want them to accept us as we are, our culture, everything might be different to what they know. They have to learn to accept that we are a little bit different, but being different is not a sin, it's not something bad, and I think it really adds to the diversity of the country. What did you think of the video? This was one of our most highly requested videos, and we were able to make it happen thanks to our volunteers in Mizoram, India. If you have any topics you'd like to see covered in our videos, feel free to leave comments or reach out to us through our social media. If you'd like to help us make videos happen in other countries, check out our description box for a link to our volunteer form. For more authentic insight into the latest news and cultural trends from all over Asia, be sure to subscribe to Asian Boss and follow us on our social media. Thanks for watching, and as always, stay curious. Great video. And is Mizoram, is that where Osam is, or I thought Osam was its own state? It is. I'm unfamiliar with Mizoram as far as where it relates in the northeast. I don't know. I know Osam is northeast, it's above West Bengal. It's amazing how, you know, no matter where you go, there's always been people that discriminate against people for just how they look. Right? No matter where you go, no matter what, obviously some are worse than obviously the United States. We were kind of just born with racism. It's kind of just in our DNA, unfortunately, right now that we're trying to literally ink out very, very slowly, unfortunately. But it seems like it happens everywhere. And it's just, it's just so hard to wrap your mind around the fact that you can discriminate on somebody because of the way they look. But you know, people do, and it's just so mind-boggling that they do that. It's just... They discriminate. People discriminate on the way you look. People will discriminate based on your gender. People will discriminate based on your sexual orientation. People will discriminate based on your age. It's just this awful part of our freaking thin nature that makes us do... I can't comprehend it. And for as much as racism is deeply steeped in, for example, in America, there is one thing, it really depends on where you grow up. Because I think for anybody who's grown up in international cities, particularly like myself, who was born in New York, raised in LA, one of the beautiful things about that is you're exposed to everybody from everywhere. And I remember I've talked about this before when we lived in Texas for nine years, when Ashley, Alexis, and Micah were really their formative years from, you know, Ashley barely won. Like, Alexis and Micah were born there all the way up until the ages of like 10. So they're childhood years. And I, when they were old enough to start to understand, I would point out to them. And this is just the nature of San Antonio for the most part. We'd be in a restaurant and I would say to them, look around and tell me what you notice. And at first, when I first started to do that, they didn't know what I was doing. And they were looking around and they would say a couple of things and then they would ask me what I was pointing out. And I said, everyone in here is Caucasian. Everyone. The representation in this room compared to what's going on in the whole world is very one-sided. And it's important that you're aware of that to recognize that this is not the world. And all I had to do at some point was go, and it makes me uncomfortable. If I walk into a place that's filled with white people, they would have been 15, 14, and I'd say, what do you notice? And that's all I needed to say. And they'd recognize the fact that, wow, there's nobody but white people in here. And that's because that's not a true representation of this world. Yep. And that's one of the most beautiful things about Los Angeles, in my opinion. Me too. But there's absolutely so much diversity. It's literally somebody from every different culture around the world just here and probably has a restaurant or a business. And it's just absolutely wonderful to see that kind of diversity. I remember when I was an Uber driver, I think I've talked about this once before, and I had done a carpool. And there was a woman in the front with me who was an Asian woman. And two men in the back, one was, both of them were very devout and their religious beliefs based on the way they were dressed. The man on the right side was Muslim. The man on the left side was a rabbinical Jew. And they were in the backseat sitting next to each other talking about the apps on their phone and laughing and enjoying their company. They got dropped off last. And I had the woman in the front seat with me afterwards. And she said what I was thinking. They got out of the cars. I'm driving with her and she looked at me and she said, don't you wish the world was like that? And I said, yeah, wasn't that beautiful to see those two men? One, a man from Islam, another one from Judaism enjoying each other's company and laughing over their phones. Man, I wish the world was more like that. Yeah. And unfortunately, the internet, I think, has just made it worse just because people can hide behind screens now and just be even more hateful out in the open because they, yeah, but... Yeah, because I talked about that too, what you just mentioned, the social media aspect that used to be when I was a kid, the only way you had a platform for society to hear you, it had to be earned. You don't have to earn a platform any longer. All you need is a phone. Yeah, it's quite frustrating. But I thought it was a great video. And also, I did look it up. It's around the horseshoe of Bangladesh. So it's on the very other side of Bangladesh from Kolkata. Got it. I mean, the one that's... Yeah, so it's basically the last part of India before you go into Bangladesh. No, no, no. So like, here's Kolkata, and then there's the horseshoe, and then it's over here. Because you know how India kind of has that space with Bangladesh? Because it goes around it. It's on the other side. And so it's on, I think, on the very edge of basically India. Because I think it borders Myanmar. Oh, is that what you're talking about? Yeah, borders Myanmar and... I think Nepal would be above it, right? But Manipur is above it. And Assam is above it. Yeah. But no, Nepal is more east or west. I mean, sorry, west. But yeah, fantastic video. If you are from the northeast India, please let us know. Because I know you guys, we often get told, you know, it's wonderful when we get to, you know, whenever we get to watch Assam films or northeast Indian films. If there's stuff other than Assam films, like if there's stuff from this state or stuff like that, please let us know. It's just, it's not because we don't want to. It's just, it's complete ignorance. Ignorance and availability. Yeah. So please, obviously, let us know down below. And obviously, treat everyone with respect and dignity. And don't discriminate on people just because they look different than you. Obviously. Obviously. Love everyone. Bye-bye.