 it's official lunar new year is now a new york state public school holiday let's talk about why or why this isn't a big deal well you know for me i was hoping for some infrastructure or maybe some economic or safety improvements but i guess a day off for my kid is uh a compromise that i will have to accept well that's what the 30 million dollar uh state fund was to help you know crisis intervention and possibly help stop uh anti-asian hate governor kathy holschl tweeted proud design legislation declaring lunar new year an official school holiday in new york this is an important step to recognizing the importance of new york's aapi community and the rich diversity that makes our state so great of course andrew uh representative grace meng also said that you know people laughed at me when i said i was gonna make lunar new year a state holiday in 09 and now we finally got it done but of course andrew people on the internet even within the asian community were split on it right because some people said man you guys are just pandering to the mandarins to get our vote and other people were like oh this is great i feel seen and you saw opinions all across the board all right guys we're going to give you our thoughts and then we'll go into the top comments so please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot pop boys you know what else is another great way to celebrate lunar new year andrew what with smile a smile a sauce dot com get the pre-orders right now from seachwan to sicily i'm telling you you can use this in any instance that you would typically use an olive oil or soy sauce or lau gamma yeah it's delicious made with real truffle and seachwan peppercorn it's got a nice little buzzing kick at the end it's delicious anyway smile a sauce dot com um i want to talk about david i just have i overall am positive on this i don't think it changes the world for asians i think it's a step to show the power or the influence of asian politicians politicians in new york which you do want them to have some impact now is this the most important thing ever it's actually not i don't meet personally i don't i didn't need like a day off for my future kids if they're new york i think it would be better off if they like actually had to study some sort of asian culture pan asian culture doesn't even have to be chinese and like they just dedicated half that day to learning about asians in america yeah i do think it could also worked if they just celebrated lunar new year or asian culture in schools and like you know because the other kids who are not from those lunar new year type families they're not going to celebrate it on their day off right yeah yeah the only thing that i'm really worried about is when you when kids have a day off what are they going to do are they even going to appreciate it are they even going to celebrate lunar new year and what activities do we have planned for kids on their day off because as you know most kids who don't know any chinese people who are not super close with a chinese family they're not going to do anything yeah well they already got 34 days off in a year it's just like tacking another one on there right yeah i don't know i just feel like the most chinese thing would be like i want the kids to stay in school and learn more about the culture it's all about developing those galactic no but if you really want to reward the asian family in the asian culture you should add on days of school just more homework so then my child's lead will increase over everybody else because i know probability wise my child will do the homework government hutshow how about this you keep the day of school okay we just talk about lunar new year and then you just bump every asian kid gpa just point one for the day that's what we oh they would definitely take that trade um i used to care a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff like this maybe 10 15 years ago but i sort of realized nowadays that it's really more about just like irel right it's more about how the chinese community or asian american community whoever celebrates lunar new year like interfaces with everybody else right it's not really about what these politicians say stop looking at politicians i don't care if it's on the left right up down to validate your identity in america that don't mean nothing to just how you walk out and meet a hundred thousand random people that are not politicians because politicians make it their job to appeal to their voter base and one time i met chuck schumer chuck schumer was a really high ranked democrat i talked with him for like three four minutes about p king duck i'm telling you new york jewish guy he had a ton of opinions on p king duck way more than i would have anticipated do i always remember that did it stick with me sure did that make me just want to blindly support him for the rest of my life no it didn't why would it i mean i just feel like it's more about internal dynamics within our community so i just don't want people to like be looking at these politicians for validation okay okay okay but it is a state holiday david that that's that is still we i mean we have to say that this was not easy to get an entire day off of school right you have to push this through let's just throw it out to what 15 levels of bureaucracy yeah so i mean i want to give some people some credit for sure uh let's get to the comment section somebody said it's performative what about addressing the anti-asian violence oh they're just pandering it's not necessary since we got a holiday i guess to address all the murders and robberies of asian people huh somebody else and i don't know still progress to me um what do you think are we are you on the progress side in room yeah i think it's progress i think i think there's some progress somebody said great stop the mega jail from being built in china town now somebody said oh let's make it a holiday for all 49 states and someone said yeah buddy i live in louisiana that ain't happening no time soon here because people do not give a damn about that over here um some people saying man i remember in school and my parents asking if we got the day off other people said oh we used to get it off but they just called it mid-winter break because they didn't want to call it something foreign and other people said oh i would just call out anyway um of course some american people were like what a stupid and worthless holiday i don't care and someone said just china celebrate the july 4th holiday huh why are we celebrating their holiday over here in the west huh um andrew i wouldn't compare by the way it's not really july 4th it's more like a thanksgiving type vibe right right right i mean how much does this show that the democrats obviously are way more culturally sensitive to different smaller subgroups and tribes obviously than the republicans right does this show some sort of macro shift because some people say that republicans and just want everybody to adapt anglo-saxon protestant capitalistic norms right and on the left it's more like every group gets everything right to each two is to its own yeah acknowledging every group so yeah i mean i i think that uh this is kind of more of the democrat play i don't think it's wrong i do think that it shows that they're thinking about us i mean to give like a whole school day off i mean you'd have to say that's significant right uh here's some more boomer comments obliques obviously from yahoo news someone said i support this overall i ain't gonna make nothing of it these asian peeps deserve it they don't steal and loot and someone said yeah they only steal trade and national secrets that's just stealing on a different level i don't know why you're luck him so much and then somebody said oh my gosh it's going to become like malaysia you know we have holidays all year around because we have so many different groups of people to cater to and someone was like just another nail in the coffin for already behind the global standards public school students what do you think of that this is i always said this man the most chinese thing would be the demand more school i i bet your chinese parents are like you already giving my kids 34 days off of school maybe you cut it down to 13 that will make me more happy how about the best way to celebrate lunar new year is just give everybody the test beforehand and give them extra time to study for the test yeah somebody said man at the end of the day this is not going to be any sort of federal or national thing because it is designed state to state district to district already there was other districts that had done this before if they had a very high chinese or for example asian population i guess david um i think it's debated and you guys in the comments down below let me know if you think this is a big deal what else would you want instead let's say you could trade lunar new year as a holiday listen i'm chinese i celebrate chinese new year aka lunar new year obviously they chose the better term to call it lunar new year not chinese new year in america which makes sense to me but i guess for me i i wasn't looking for a day off right but it's just better to get acknowledgement yeah in with without shutting the infrastructure down to have the infrastructure going to have the school system acknowledge it during the day and have the kids talking about it at school i think is even a bigger deal so i would have loved to have that built in more into the curriculum now asian american studies it's true some people have pushed through that it's going to be a larger part of new york city school curriculum too because new york obviously does have a huge asian population huge chinese population so i think these things are moving in the direction to build long-term empathy for the asian community right you're saying it starts with small gestures even though this is with small gestures and it starts with the young yeah you know what i mean so it's like a lot of these kids who grow up celebrating chinese new year or at least having a day off i don't know if they're actually going to celebrate it but if they have a day off then maybe in the future they're going to be more uh compassionate some of them are going to get dollar dumplings in china town yeah some portion of them right maybe i'm not saying we have no statistics for this but maybe it it helps stop people from being mean to asian elderlies um i just think that the left or like let's just quote i'm not saying that it's all liberals or whatever but like the left they always have the right idea but the execution is always real wonky in my opinion of course it is great to acknowledge people's individual identities or things that make them different or different from what existed in america prior to 1970 or whatever you call it 1870 depending on which immigration wave you're looking at but it just feels like they could have implemented a program during school and that would have been way more impactful like you know what i mean like you know how corporations for lunar new year andrew like in the corporate cafeteria at google they just start serving more asian food right yeah like i think that that would work a lot better right and it's almost like i just don't know what do they do the oh do all asians got a vote for hoechl now you know what i mean like because what she acknowledges identities but what if they prioritize other things right because everybody prioritizes different things yeah yeah i mean i think for me uh i think on this day that i think the kids should like learn about martial arts or something yeah i think that would be cool or even the contributions to martial arts you know what i mean so people like mma can see the asian roots of it or something um i think that when i see stuff like this i just go cool everything's going according to plan because the left is running the identarian plan the right is like if you adapt to us anglo-saxon protestant norms plan and just this is it like this is what should happen right if you're a politician on either side you're essentially have bought into that macro plan with some slight deviation that you can pick yourself yeah but it's like that's what the the asian politicians on the left are supposed to do is fight for days like this right yeah but i i just hope they didn't burn up all their juice you know yeah burn up all their political capital right because if something on the left doesn't align with asian interests they're powerless to stop it that's the truth because they already bought into the squad i'm just saying the next day holiday should be a voting holiday i'm all for it i'll tell you this if you're um an asian family whether you're thinking about having a family in the future you are the sun the sun got to take care of the planets in order like you your your your immediate family you were born into nuclear family the family you start which is uh your becomes your new nuclear family aside from the one you were born into then it goes to your hyper local community then your community then it goes to this like statewide national macro level but you know what the thing is i believe that both parties they want you to think about from pluto all the way back towards the sun they want you to spend all your time thinking about supporting pluto but the sun got to think about the sun first and then work its way out on the rings of the solar system that's how i feel about it work your ways out work you are the sun work your way out to pluto these parties are existing on pluto let us know what you guys think in the comment section below was it pandering was it valid was it somewhere in the middle what else would you want to see instead until next time we to hop up boys we out peace