 This video about every ethnicity's median household income is going viral right now and there is a hot debate about it But we are gonna try to make sense of it all. Yeah, let's play the viral clip from Braden Fulcrum in Idaho home loan mortgage broker Here's the average median income inside of America by ethnic group Honestly, this was really interesting So I figured I'd do a video on it number 10 in the United States as African Americans coming in with an average median income of $35,000 number nine is Hispanic Americans coming in with $43,000 and coming in at number eight are Nepali Americans coming in with $43,500 for reference the average single American is making $56,200 and coming in at number seven are Korean Americans coming in at $59,200 and number six are white Americans that come in at $59,900 and now for the top five number five is Pakistani Americans coming in at $66,200 and at number four are Chinese Americans with $69,100 and number three are Japanese Americans with an average median income of $72,300 and number two is Taiwanese Americans coming in at $82,500 and leading in the number one spot pretty remarkably in my opinion are Indian Americans coming at $100,500 as an average median income Andrew these stats have been available on the web from a variety of websites in infographic form for quite some time But when a Idaho White guy makes it verbalizes it This is sort of what what humanizes it and allows it to get shared and go super viral Well, I think it hits a different market when the messenger is it looks differently Versus just the infographic, but yeah, I mean listen, I think the comment section is very interesting actually though There's a funny debate. I don't say that about every video, but we're gonna go into the comment section But we're also gonna try to make sense of it all because I think there's some groups missing I do think that there's a lot of nuance to this. This is just one stack, but how do they measure it? Let's talk about it. Anyways, please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot-pot boys If this interests you also check out small ass sauce. It's very delicious drizzle it on everything It will make your food taste better first things first Andrew I had to go to the US Census Bureau to verify his information as you always should nowadays There's a lot of things faked on the internet exaggerated half truths These are essentially government census numbers, right? Yeah, right. Yeah. No, essentially, these are true I've seen these multiple times obviously Indian Americans their household income is extremely high Obviously a lot of other Asian groups that are very specific Taiwanese Japanese Chinese Pakistani and then they he even listed Korean and Nepalese which is You know, I'm surprised that Nepalese is even listed because it's not that big of a group, right? So a lot of people were shocked especially on African American Hispanic American and white American people because Asians only make up 6% of the US, but the data on Asians is hyper granular and specific Yeah, a lot of people were like wait, so why does a group? It's only 6% get the hyper specific data and it's all parsed out But then like white black and Latino are just left as gigantic Groups, right? Right? I think I think they're so gigantic It's hard to sparse them out because I think at least for Asians you can go by country of origin, right? So you have Sri Lankan you have Thai Americans but on this infographics really interesting if you look at this other one It said the average American white Americans So I don't know really what that means But anyways guys take stats with a grain of salt, but let's talk about David What's your main point that you want people to know about I will say this real quick to Asians recently came to America in large numbers And they haven't fully I guess some people would argue fully integrated into American mixed social society yet I think that that's why the stats on Asians are so granular, right? It's very homogenous like the you know Chinatowns or like, you know, it's very we have ethnic enclaves Yeah, so anyway, like I said, I think there's a ton of nuance left out of this But also it's enough to make it go viral Yeah, like you know how it's not specific enough to be too scientific But it wasn't too generalized where people couldn't get a picture of where he was going, right? Um, I will say this I do think some Asians for example Koreans Vietnamese. He didn't even list on here But their numbers I think are somewhat low due to cash-run businesses Yeah, Koreans of Vietnamese run a ton of small businesses I actually thought Vietnamese should be on this list definitely like especially this longer one That just like from my own personal makes sense that Vietnamese would be I think you would really have to contextualize this with a lot of Lot of group macro data. There is granular data even from like Latinos Obviously he left Filipinos off the list Filipinos are high actually there at the Filipinos actually have a pretty high income But what I've know I've read multiple stats over multiple years Filipinos in Indian Americans and Chinese and Taiwanese are up there Yeah, but I think that like we said earlier any time there is a white-looking guy Andrew who analyzes People who are not just only white. It's gonna go more viral. Right. Right. So anyway, um, let's just go start at the list Um, obviously, I guess they had that African Americans at number 10, right? I think that it's been a very difficult situation for a lot of people to break out of Essentially situation of slavery. Uh-huh And I think that that's set into motion a perpetual cycle of things that are very difficult to break Right, but you know what was interesting as somebody was coming through in the comments section and saying that this is a median an average Median because actually when you take a look at the average of black Americans income It's actually relatively much higher because there are a couple outliers such as people in media and sports that make like up to like 10 to 100 million a year, right? So we're talking about Andrew Oprah Jordan LeBron Jay-Z Tyler Perry Etc etc as well as other people in media such as Byron Allen or Bob Johnson who were black billionaires that are more like on the Media buys and right but the median it kind of takes away the outliers like the bottom like Percentage, I don't know exactly what but it takes out like the top outliers to right right right because that's how median versus mean Right because average actually is not gonna be as accurate to what the most common person This is like the most common African Americans income. That's what they're trying to say right I mean for example the richest guy that I personally played basketball with every week is a black Caribbean guy that I know So it certainly doesn't fit with this But yeah, I think that maybe in the African-American community right now. It's a story of like highs and lows And I think that I can see that. Yeah, um Hispanic Hispanic is interesting man because it's like The you you had all these small different Asian groups Taiwanese who separated Taiwanese from Chinese and then you say Hispanic I'm like so is that Mexican Guatemalan is a south of adoring is it? What are these not only that Andrew on the US census they have non-white Hispanic Right, we had covered this earlier. We know a lot of people from Latin American countries particular places like Argentina They're they could be like full German descent, but from Argentina. Yeah, they're white Hispanic essentially is the easiest way to So actually Andrew, I do have granular data for this for example Argentinian is up at 93 3,800 a month a year for household income. So there's actually a pretty big variance. Um, I would say yeah I mean, it's just hyper variant because if you look at Latin America, there was a native population there But then there's been so much mixing with Europeans particularly from Spain Italy and Portugal over the years, right? So it gets kind of confusing. Um, Nepali was next up on the list. Why do you think he decided to include? Nepali, which is a Himalayan group. Yeah, I don't think Nepali I think there's other groups that are around that same number I'm pretty sure like a lot of Thai Vietnamese and are also around those numbers But I don't know. I guess it's interesting. Who knows why we'd have to ask this guy why he chose You know in Idaho, there's a lot of mountains and I know that the Himalayan people they live in the mountains Yeah, maybe there's a significant amount of Nepalese people in Idaho. I don't think that's true Next up was Korean. So a lot of people were saying wait, there's no way that Korean is this low Yeah, so I saw some comments even from some Korean people We know that waiting. We're like, hold up. Hold up, man It's a lot because Koreans do cash businesses and it's like, yes, not that low It's pretty same same one as white So I don't think like listen just because Koreans have like a fancy brand and a k-pop It doesn't mean they all are wealthy But yes, of course guys running a lot of cash businesses does allow you to declare your income possibly a little bit lower Or if you're a LLC, you can uh Your expenses can't Yes, like your lunch if you discuss business counts against your expenses. Yes. Yes. Yes. A lot of small business owners will not have the highest income Um, moving on Andrew white american This is the largest group in america still to this day at one point it comprised 90 percent of the america's population How can it possibly be categorized as one large sum? I don't know. I'm not I'm not surprised they're in this This this ranking though, right? I think that um, it also does not take into account a lot of people who have inherited assets Or have passed down stock assets that may allow them to stabilize their cash flow So I think well, like if you inherit a big house that doesn't what is that? But then you have a bad job That doesn't count as income right? Yeah, and you are going to inherit that mansion as an asset Yeah, I'm not saying all white people are like that by the way, but right um, also some people were saying How come there isn't granular stats for whites such as like german americans donald trump is german german trump Uh, jewish american or something like that where obviously some people are guessing it'd be way higher Yeah, possibly um But then you know like you said you were saying earlier andrew there's a lot of like appellation whites And that's sort of what was being spoken about in that song rich men north of richman by uh, the singer Um, next up you have pakistani american then next up he had chinese american Um, are you surprised the chinese were here chinese are a really big mix of blue collar Cash businesses small businesses and corporate jobs. I think that's how I would describe chinese I would say taiwanese and indians lean more corporate But chinese as a group whoever identifies as chinese Tons of restaurants right tons of cash only restaurants tons of shops Tons of businesses, but also a lot of degrees and engineering and corporate stuff there I think that if you just walked on one street andrew In new york city you might see somebody whose family is chinese and a billionaire And somebody who is picking up cans to recycle for five cents each that is also chinese. Yes I'm telling you it's crazy and you can see it in new york Next up they got japanese americans at 72 000 I feel like most japanese americans fit into one of two camps andrew they're either fifth generation from the old days You know yamamoto's farmers and they've been assimilated So i'm assuming they're just working like regular american jobs across the variants or they work for a japanese corporation in america Like a tayota honda or a sony, which is like has an american division Um andrew we're getting into taiwanese americans at indian americans here at the top A lot of people were talking about why are their stats on household income so far above on declared government income And like you said, I think they have a hyper selective immigration process to the us But the ones that make it here andrew typically i believe taiwanese americans and indian americans both number one and number two in terms of grad school degrees Yeah, they're educated So the more educated you are probably the more corporate jobs you get which means that you will be declaring a higher income And typically when you have a grad school degree andrew i would say you're probably trying to not only get a job at a fortune 500 company But you're trying to move up. Yeah, like you're trying to uh be calculated Have a mentor a lot of a mentor tree Have a plan a five-year plan when you're a lot of the american born chinese that started a lot of companies and founders of like apps and stuff A lot of them are taiwanese Yeah, who some of them i noticed anyways, let's get on to indian are people wondering why indian Ranked so high as far as household income or are there logical reasons for this That's actually what most of the comments section was about Yeah, and and and by the way, we know a lot of indians are educated a lot of our business owners But but i guess that when you think of america and you think of the richest people And and by the way, it doesn't mean that they're all rich But just the people that have the highest household income Indian maybe doesn't always come to mind. I don't know to people, right? They don't necessarily the common american wouldn't think of it So what is like what are some reasons why some reasons people are not thinking about that may be helping? Well, i think the same things that have the indian american median household income so high Is the true for a lot of people. Um, i think you have a selective population of some of the most educated most ambitious people from india coming over and um I heard that there's even like different distributions of immigrants that may be more blue collar from india going to the uk or canada Yeah, yeah, i mean look at these numbers guys. I pulled this off of uh An indian american government website. Uh that was measuring this 43 are employed in managerial and professional specialties 33 are employed in technical sales 23 work as operators fabricators laborers precision production workers guys also Uh, it is estimated that the divorce rate Of the indian american family is super super low anywhere from 1 to 15 percent compared to 44 percent for all other americans Now this is going to help the household income because if the family stays together That's more incomes counted in the household income. So you have to understand one house Also filipinos on a lot of rankings rank that high and i think it's also because filipinos a lot of them work corporate jobs But also have big families as well multi-generational household. Yeah, yeah That a lot of people live together like you know i'm saying so the bigger the more people that live together in a house The more incomes you're gonna have and i think that that is One reason why the indian americans right because if you're going off medium household income How many people are in a house right but let's not ignore all the indians if you go to college If you go into your corporate job everybody there's always an indian co-worker just like there's always an asian co-worker of Chinese you know of some sort so anyway, let's just get into the comment section This first comment said and i believe this from african-american guy Certain groups aim for higher paying jobs, but this still seems odd Say what you want asian cultures and upbringing are strict hard strict and hard working If you notice the ones that are the higher income Those are the ones that push family the most that was another comment right here not surprised A lot of us are model minorities with a side of anxiety and depression That's actually a really funny question. This person was talking about the indian ecosystem where they help each other out I believe this guy is referring almost to what is that the motel six Empire iconology empire of the patelles right well, that's like that's kind of like the stereotype and the joke Yeah, I believe he's also talking about some caste system thing Which is people argue about it how real it is in terms of transferring to america or not This guy just said you know for all you guys getting salty as to why indian americans are at the top spot Our families really push education very very hard And uh somebody said indians are handpicked only the best of the best come to america Otherwise if indians were so smart then why is india where it is at and it would be a beautiful non-dirty place By the way, not my words. I'm just reading comments. Oh the comment section And why do you think people some people are coming through real proud and other people want to cut them down Just off this you know what I mean Anytime you see a group that's doing well a lot of it's very human nature to want to kind of bring them down somehow And like make up excuses Like I reasons are not excuses reasons are just like logical reasons that probably all get added up To mean something. But what about the tone of how you would say? Yeah, there's oh, there's definitely a lot of Dude, it's so crazy nowadays in the internet man. It's like there's real legitimate things But people wrap it up in an emotional tone. So then is it still valid? You can't talk about anything without it getting racial Oh, man, it's crazy somebody said as a server in the restaurant industry And by the way, I'm just picking the comments that were literally in order I'm just picking the comments in order. This is a funny comment as a server in the restaurant industry I've never been tipped more than 12 by an indian just saying and then this guy came through and I gotta read Hey, listen guys, forgive me. I gotta read an accent. They're from india somebody says Because tipping doesn't exist in our culture and we try to save every money we can to build wealth for future generations All right, so I don't know What restaurant she works at but it's probably not a high-end restaurant It's probably like a regular restaurant like an apple bees apple bees. I can see a lot of people tipping 12 percent Right, you know, so she says it's not part of our culture There was other couple comments from india saying this is not part of our culture It's bs and this white woman said well darlin now you live in our culture Spicy it's getting spicy and then she's then somebody else came in and said indians don't force you to work that restaurant job Don't blame it on other people that you can't get a better job Yeah, the tipping a whole tipping culture is really interesting. We got to make a video about that one day Um, somebody said an average indian american this is from indian himself with a hundred k salary still considers themselves poor And then this other guy came in and said when all your friends are earning 200 k, then it makes them feel poor It's all relative essentially to your reference group But you know and your reference group often determines How you behave So if indians are born into a system where their parents are telling them that a hundred k corporate job Is not good enough then won't people just only look at the jobs that are above a hundred k And that will affect obviously what what they're aiming for, right? um Somebody said of course Why does everybody why is asia get broken in as separate ethnicities? But then everybody else is like get to be one big group and it's because some people are saying in american nowadays The other groups are so hyper mixed with each other. There's no way to even parse them out anymore um Of course this one lady came and said get rid of the h1b visas and it would change because americans can get their good It jobs back basically protectionism Ah Um, this is still a pretty common common comment you hear, right? But I will also argue that on a geopolitical level andrew what's keeping america strong is the h1b visas But then people are saying that you can work the workers too hard because they're so scared about losing their visa So they'll work extra hours You know what I mean without well, it's kind of use this some leverage. Yeah, I could see that Um, somebody just said what's the source? I don't believe this this vietnamese guy came in and said Venomese americans are actually number one. We just don't report our cash earnings from the nail salon. That's funny I actually don't think they'd be number one, but yes, they would be on the list and higher. Yes for sure Um, somebody said so interesting. It blows the whole white privilege rhetoric out of the water Of course other people are coming in uh echoing something like this. What does this mean for white? I think this is an interesting question David because whites don't rank at the top does that mean white privilege doesn't exist Do you believe in white privilege? What is white privilege? I would say that uh No, this does if you believe in white privilege. This does not prove it wrong Just because white people happen to rank lower because you could say oh, well the asians are working twice as hard But they're only getting 50 more right or whatever. It really doesn't have to do with how many effort dollars You're pouring into it. It's not it's it's not equity equal results. It's it's equal opportunities and equal return on investment I would describe it as like a financial currency arbitrage exchange rate equal exchange rate you Basically the idea is that minorities Have a lower exchange rate than whites not that whites and minorities will end up at the same place if the minorities work harder They should You know beat them if they should and it also depends on your reference group if your reference group is like, uh In the mountain side or whatever of the appellations You're probably not going to do better than somebody who just arrived as an immigrant But I understand there's look at this and there's generations of white people who have never been wealthy never had money And they're sitting there being like man, you're gonna tell me to my face. I got white privilege It's like I've never had money. My family never had money. My father was poor. My grandfather Was kind of poor working in a steel mill. Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, no for sure. I mean dude, that's why all these like comments sections are so interesting Um, this guy said well if you actually took actual working or self-employed whites, they would have 10x the average Like basically pointing to the fact that like maybe white people don't pay themselves much or they're they have tax Loopholes or something like that that may avoid them tracking their actual stats. Of course that is a uh, there's true And it's not true. It just depends on who you're talking to the last comment just said the us visa system Is incredibly competitive if you are chinese and indian Basically, you have these gigantic countries where so many people go to college So many people would die for a chance to come to america on a stem visa And worked our ass off 60 hours a week. So of course these people are gonna have crazy stats Exactly Yeah, I mean, I do agree with that because guess what? Our parents would fit into that same designation and ultimately, what are your takeaways, man? I mean, we could go on and on we're talking about his video got hundreds of thousands of views Comments from all over the place. There's real government stats, but then of course everybody's reasoning Especially like government doesn't really take stats on like culture or day-to-day thinking or whatever. You know, I mean, yeah Yeah, I just wish that uh You know, you can see these stats, but stats without this type of conversation that we're having now I think Uh are so incomplete and you can people will draw so many conclusions and assumptions Like all indians. They're either cheating or all they just all Asians do this and then like I'm like there's so many other reasons Uh for all these numbers, but I guess a lot of people. I don't know if they're having that conversation Yeah, I would agree. I think people are kind of just like, uh, clearly based off the comments section Like, ah, what's saying at the top see? See Um, I will say this and I but I absolutely believe baseline like your parents situation it matters a lot your family situation your family stability the nuclear core Like I always say I know an adopted chinese girl. Andrew. She has one adopted chinese sister one white sister All three uh both her parents were lawyers And she was the only one who related to that like overachiever like boba drinking nerd crowd at school And she ended up getting scholarships just like everybody else even though she was adopted because that was Her crowd that she hung out with in high school But her full chinese sister and her white sister didn't hang out with that group You know that's watching Wang Fu right doing sat prep together making like a A cool fun activity out of it. Right, right, right So I really think it does have to do with like the culture that you like can get down with But yeah, I do think there's other factors that play into that that you know are unfortunate. You know what I mean that like it's just like These are good discussions to have though Yeah, anyways you guys, uh, let us know in the comments down below what you think about all this What are some other factors that may play into this median household income? Median not mean not average, but median household income I think it's a multifactorial equation and you can either maintain what you're born with you can build on top of it You could chuck it out the window now that there's youtube reddit variety of courses of variety of messengers Try to find the best messengers that can appeal to you share with other people, you know Share your knowledge man, man We're just here to Break down these videos and try to make sense of it all because I think there's so many assumptions people are making So anyways guys, let us know in the comments down below hit that like button and until next time we out. Peace