 just chuck the fact that you're born with this American passport out the window man it almost doesn't matter to how you get treated in this country instead of kind nice thoughtful friendly amicable andrew you put harmless docile and weak in there as well guys a massive asian report has just dropped do we agree disagree if you're asian you're gonna want to see this andrew the status index report 2022 just dropped andrew you know how dad is always like yeah you guys uh talk a lot about asian america but where is your phd confirmed studies where is your empirical evidence andrew david well dad we have the data right here because 20 phd's a whole bunch of funding and surveying thousands of americans has all been summed up into this report guys it talks about race relations uh how asians are viewed in america and asian media representation we're gonna go through it does it confirm or debunk some of the things that we say on this channel i don't know we're gonna find out all right starting off the presentation race relations are they getting better or worse in america and guess what most americans say it is getting worse yeah i mean i think that this is a pretty common opinion if you look at the media there's so much like contentiousness from both sides left right up down andrew do you think it's a situation where like there was a lot of dust swept underneath the rug for years and now the dust dust is like more visible and out from underneath the rug or is there just way more dust than there ever has been are you kind of talking about how a lot of like people on the right will say hey well it's not going to be as racist if people just stop talking about racism as much and then the left is like no we have to talk these things out and then there's like that whole disagreement but like does talking about it make it worse i do think the truth is andre and this is my neutral perspective that talking about race relations is good in theory but when people do it the wrong way and they don't couple it with step by step incremental action it's actually worse for the whole situation so i do understand the conservative perspective it's like let's just bring it back to the 90s man sweep it back underneath the rug the rug can hold a lot of dust underneath the rug like you know just for the stability of society keep the dust under the rug well you know overall to end up this point i would say diversity is a beautiful thing it's an amazing thing it creates great products great perspectives but it is difficult and sometimes i do wish that there was like this overarching power that would watch over and kind of like help smooth things out instead of letting all these like random people on the internet do it or just random politicians that are supporting one side or the other they're literally has to be like a bilateral like race unity harmonious um uh governmental organization built up like seriously guys i really think point number two it is slide 16 and it talks about people's perception of who are the most discriminated people in america yeah i mean i think quite obviously it seems like uh everybody's like definitely you know looking out for themselves in this study yeah i mean unsurprisingly yeah if you look at it yeah i mean i do think most people agree that black people are the most discriminated against for a number of reasons that's a feeling right and then asians is number two and then latinos in a close third and then obviously white people at the bottom where yo look at white people responding for themselves saying 28 percent think that they're discriminated against every other minority went with eight nine and eight percent i guess andra my major takeaway is although there is some macro narratives that everybody's buying into about like white people being more privileged and black americans being more discriminated against i think that's pretty fair to say uh definitely in the details it seems like every group was sort of like more looking out for their own interests and i guess that's human right and or people see things they see the world through like their own lens from their own tribe one all right point number three slide number 18 if you've ever been caught off guard that your co-workers didn't really know about asian hate or that these asian attacks were happening this is why guys one third of americans are unaware that attacks against asian americans are increasing david are you shocked all right i think uh if you would have asked me two years ago i would have been shocked but we live in a major coastal city under new york city where there was a ton of anti asian hate attacks and i remember my friends that worked in certain non asian fields like high-level finance telling me that their co-workers were literally like completely unaware i mean let's be honest not everybody enter and that's in new york city let alone middle america can you imagine what if that's new york and the attacks were in new york what the exposure levels would be to that news in like chicago yeah i know that news was just not really penetrating uh or making it in to their like daily conversations unlike obviously if you were asian you were definitely talking about it yeah i definitely think sometimes even educated asian americans they work in like tech or medicine and it's like people there are hyper educated and asians make up like 30 40 of those fields so they're like oh yeah all my co-workers know but it's like yeah of course if an asian facebook employee got beat up in san francisco everybody at facebook is gonna know but what portion of the larger american public works at facebook and by the way this study andrew was like all of america all right so this next slide is about how much asians feel accepted as part of american society let's look at the data guys younger asian americans and asian american women are less likely to feel that they belong and are accepted in u.s society as you can see the 65 and up people they're like yeah i guess i feel american you know i'm not being called a foreigner all the time and then the 18 to 24 year olds this tiktok generation is like nope i'm not part of america yeah i mean we do have to talk some of this and like i said andrew i hate it when people like try to say we're all laughter we're all right andrew some of that is due to like the wokeness right yeah and the oppression olympics where it's like now you know all the struggles you know all the history and you're like hey man like i don't feel accepted like you do and i know that and i'm aware while obviously the people of the older generation they just had different expectations they just didn't want to be called a chank or like greek all the time literally i think the people who are 65 and over it's almost like well i got my paycheck and it's not like it was like half of what my like white coworker got so yeah regardless of whether people like me or don't like me at work like that's acceptance enough to me obviously there's a different set of expectations there's hard power there's soft power there's infrastructure treatment and then there's societal treatment these are like two different wavering metrics so um yeah david i would say the one shocking aspect about this though that kind of surprised me was the gender one where women feel less accepted than asian men now i think there's reasons because a survey is just like how people feel about it right but uh why why do you think maybe that is because usually most people would say hey it feels like asian women get more accepted than asian men in america i mean i do think that to your point andrew earlier about like polling it's not fully scientific i could see men not feeling like it's masculine to admit that they don't feel accepted also i do think they could have way lower expectations i do think and we have uh an asian sister by the way they're more likely to almost compare themselves to what a white woman gets in the same position where it's almost like uh this is kind of messed up to say andrew asian guys we're so far from getting what a given white guy would get in our situation that it's almost like uh that mad tv skit lower expectations all right so number five this next point is about how overseas asians actually feel more likely they belong in america than even american born asian americans now by the way i got to say and i think there is a sampling issue here because like the immigrants that like stay in a china town or a korea town or like in a little saigon they probably like would not participate in a survey to be honest but i do agree that uh on the top and sometimes asians from asia have a better sense of place and are almost more confident transitioning from their game map to the american game map whereas asian americans that are born here there's some sense of entitlement and this big chasm between what uh our neighbors and our cul-de-sac god and what we got and then people feel broken by that so it's a little bit like you know ronnie jimmy o yang these guys that are like these immigrants that are almost like more expecting some barriers so they're more willing to fight through the barriers you know i guess asian americans sometimes when you feel entitled to something you could give up after a barrier or two yeah well you think because we're born here we should get treated just like any other american and the truth is you don't so you might as well if you can adopt that immigrant mindset the grateful immigrant the grateful immigrant mindset and just go for broke because who cares because everybody's gonna see you as a foreigner anyway that is true that is true we do get bucketed with the foreign aborn asians anyway but i mean how do asian americans achieve that if that's not their organic situation it sucks but you gotta like i don't know it's tough but like you gotta somehow adopt it like you gotta look at them like i know like watching ronnie uh chang you know do stand up and just go about his life like i'm like yeah it's kind of inspiring i'm like dude if as asian american guys we could adopt that grateful mindset man if we would be better off because because just chuck the fact that you're born with this american passport out the window man it almost doesn't matter to how you get treated in this country that's what sucks that's what sucks but that's what's true i i know you you know what you're saying is true if you could just matrix download that mentality to fight through the barriers that you that truly shouldn't be there but are there you get further okay okay all right to be fair to be fair the grateful successful immigrants we're talking about ours you know there's a lot of you see a lot of people back in their home country that did not make it here so like we're talking about the top class of hard working grateful uh confident immigrants in america all right this next slide is about how asian americans view themselves more as people of color which makes sense but then white people view asian americans more like white people what i mean i guess this is a scientific study guys they obviously had to weigh the white perspective more because they make up of a higher population in america much higher you know asians only make up like five six percent um obviously they're 69 of seeing asians similar to white people skewed the entire aggregate field to 57 that's how statistics works guys there's like sample populations on this mathematics i'll say this andrew i would imagine if i had to analyze this from white people's perspective they're just seeing themselves as the system or the infrastructure of america and if asians buy into that system or don't really hyper challenge it on any sort of visible level i believe that's what would create this stat if you made me guess uh and i think on the asian side we're looking at it as just like our upbringings different the food we eat is different the way we talk to our parents and the way our parents talk to us is different and our social circles are different so we're almost like making the read of us being poc based off that angle whereas whites are like looking at it maybe possibly more on a machine infrastructure level all right so this next slide is about perceptions and stereotypes uh they were asked to describe all the different groups and these are the most popular terms uh look yeah let's look at the ones for asians kind intelligent hardworking they all fit within the motto minority umbrella um i will say for white americans the funniest one is probably entitled privileged um obviously for black americans oppressed was the number one word honestly that people were thought of and then for latino americans i'm not gonna lie this one's kind of came out of left field andrew mexican just came in at 16 percent that was literally the word that came to these people's minds in this study i mean long story short i really think that it's difficult because these these studies are like national right and a lot of asians we live our lives like along the coastline or in a major metropolitan city like houston or a houston suburb andrew was there anything surprising about uh i guess asians fitting model minority stereotypes i mean uh you know what i actually thought was interesting that the latinos got the hardworking description number one and then asians hardworking is the third most popular so i guess asians are not perceived to be as hardworking i don't i mean you know in comparison yeah but uh otherwise no i mean dude most asians being described as model minority i mean it doesn't say model minority as in like oh they come from like good families it just means that they're very friendly and i think it's because honestly the the crime rate for asians is pretty low so of course like we kind of get the friendly card like we're not dangerous i got a crazy hot take what if instead of kind nice thoughtful friendly amicable andrew you put harmless docile and weak in there as well because they didn't include those adjectives but those could be euphemisms because you don't know what people are thinking in their head it's just like in that direction exactly no i do think harmless is is in there so yeah asians being harmless is absolutely i think it would rank in top three or at least top four all right so this next one is about uh asians in corporate america and as you can look at the data um a lot of people feel like asians are well represented in the corporate workplace but actually when it comes to moving up to the executive and senior officer position asians are like barely there david yeah i mean it shows that 50 percent of people are like yeah you guys got a bunch of ceo's and like c sweet leadership people right and then the reality is asians only have six percent obviously that's one of the biggest complaints in the asian america community even though they're like the best most dedicated corporate workers they don't really move up past like middle or possibly upper middle i mean i'd say this andrew does it feel like when when people dedicate their lives to something you just assume that they're doing well at the upper levels you know how like there were so many african-americans in the mba and nfl for the longest time but there wasn't a lot of coaches or like front office people for until way way more recently um is that something that like people would analyze you think or is that just kind of like people being like yeah there are a lot of asians wearing suits with the briefcases and the computers like why not uh i mean i think some people are thinking about it i know a lot of our asian friends are thinking about it and they're always like hey man like i seen this guy uh move up here when he probably didn't deserve it or or my boss is wondering why he's not getting promoted to that level because he he's probably asian instead so i do think it's um i think it's going to take time but i do think asians are moving up because obviously asians are in the game they're at the company they're at the lower middle and upper middle level but yeah to break through when it comes to that super top top tier it has been tough and and i do think we have to look at ourselves and ask why do we think that is is there anything we can change and also how racist are they being because i think that's part of it too and not only that andrew i will also tell people that although it is probably definitely something structural as well as cultural like holding us back how hard can you really sell that oppression to other groups versus the things that they're going through like you can't be like yeah well you know i work my whole life and dedicated 115 percent of this company and i never got a chance at c-suite it's not like other people are necessarily going to feel your pain right but also and that is 100 true because i think this particular asian issue uh doesn't seem as serious as other issues you know for other people but uh it is systemic then all right so as we are wondering why a lot of asian americans don't move up to the top leadership levels david maybe this next slide kind of explains it americans are the least comfortable with asian americans in leadership positions look as a friend 90 of america would have us david as a doctor or nurse 88 neighbor 88 co-worker 87 member of the family oh they would take us as a member of the family but as president or vice president of the us of course not or boss or supervisor a little bit lower so i guess is this shocking um no i mean i think that people kind of view asians as very new to the western hemisphere and i've noticed that like the western hemisphere they have their own ranking of like different things and once asians got introduced in the mix in like heavy volume in 1970 it kind of got real crazy because some people are like yeah well just don't mess with our western ranking that we had going on i'm just going to put you guys in a separate category but some of the asians they want in on the current ranking some of them are okay being in like an auxiliary silo like two ladders next to each other it's just very different but yes i don't think a lot of people are used to taking orders from asian all right and this next slide kind of explains why there's not as many asians moving up to see sweet level or moving up to those executive roles as much as you might think boom listen 90 percent of us would have us as a friend 88 would have us as a doctor as a co-worker as a member of the family but when it gets to boss you see a slight drop off actually member of the family and and boss is actually at the same level and then obviously a lot of people don't want us as president you gotta think these are surveys too where it's like people are just being trying to be nice like like i wouldn't be surprised if this actual number for vice president is like way lower it's probably like 52 percent um but like uh obviously you know as a doctor a nurse that should be like 98 percent um i'll say this man people view us as like i guess aliens to the western hemisphere and maybe some asians we don't necessarily do the best job of adopting western subcultures to like ease those fears not that we should either because that seems like a weird thing to have to think about everybody's like at ease with us or not or our assimilation to subcultures but uh yeah i mean we're new to the western hemisphere prior to 1970 in terms of very very large number all right this next slide is a asking different political parties if they feel like asians benefit the country and it's kind of interesting boom everybody agrees that asians do contribute and work hard in this country but surprisingly david democrats a little bit lower than the republicans what is going on here oh man you would think it would theoretically be the other way around but these are 2022 stats who knows what it was in 1975 i could see that being flipped but um yeah i would say if you made me look at this i'd say 75 percent of republicans i guess in a weird way saying asians contribute and 71 percent of democrats democrats tend to be more like social issue or like culturally centric whereas i would say republicans theoretically might be more capitalistic that's just what i'm thinking all right so david this next slide is a pretty serious one and it's probably one of the most hurtful and surprising slides there was a big jump from year to year compared to 2021 americans in 2022 are more likely to question the loyalty of asian americans it's a 13 jump that is gigantic bro is that is the the volume kind of hilarious just the amount dude the the the jump between it is crazy so obviously you know you can't you have to look at you know uh covid started in china obviously the whole perception of that the whole tiktok controversy the whole spying thing the whole fact that we're in a cold war and not only that the fact that all asians to me are chinese i mean i think it also creates more internal divisions within asians to be honest because some asians are gonna blame the chinese for like making all asians look bad because they're gonna be like but uh everybody sees us as the same thing so now you're causing everybody to look bad i don't like that um yeah no i mean it's not a good feeling to have to be honest i mean i know we're joking about it but seriously like i don't know i i don't want to say it's directly tied to like asian hate and like punching random people but yeah it's true that if the overall narrative is to distrust asian americans then if you see us on the street and you're a crazy person you you've just envisioned that person as a person you can't trust yeah i mean it's tough it's tough honestly i hope that the next year in 2023 it's not another 13 jump but i might estimate it to be like four to five percent i think it'll get better i think it'll get better but it might get worse before it gets better i don't know it might get like it's just only a little bit worse and then it might get better so i will see you know and i think that it's also too like people seeing the negative economic ramifications uh i know there's a lot of studies out there that anytime the economics is in a downturn of recession people feel worse about everything oh yeah people are looking for somebody to blame a lot you know when times are good you're like i don't know times are good i'm not even thinking about times are bad you're like holy let me start picking who's everybody you know what uh you know i don't know americans are at fault it's china and like i said there there's reasons for it of course we are in a geopolitical thing so anyways moving on all right switching gears this is the big asian representation slide people were asked can they name a famous asian and of course andrew the coming in at 58 was the most famous asian american actor don no ngo is his last name that's he's chinese vietnamese bro i'm not even gonna lie that red bubble was so big i didn't even think it was part of the other data yeah i mean it doesn't really surprise me i think a lot of people are gonna be like what about bts what about shanchi and simu and what about uh michelle yeah she just had the big a24 movie everything everywhere all at once and i'm saying listen guys this study is like for all of america we're talking about nhl nascar mlb show hell tiny's not even on here so it's just like you can't live only in your fishbowl of society america is like very hyper diverse so it's made up of a ton of fish bowls right middle america coastal southern whatever like geek world mainstream world so i think that this is a tough pill to swallow right for aggregate america and we're talking about like milie syris syrus like winneth paltrow you know what i mean like friends tv show america this is probably true yo is it kind of crazy like does anything surprise you that like when they were asked to name a prominent asian some people put just kim jong un as the first one and then actually aquafina made some waves at two percent along with aquafina shout out to her coming in at two percent yeah shout out aquafina and then uh uh what else is kind of funny uh jet lee jeremy lin still on there sandro tiger woz yeah and the reason that i'm not shocked is because uh a couple years ago me and you made this very viral mos on hollywood boulevard in um hollywood california la obviously where all the movies are made and you know mounds chinese theater is and people really didn't know anybody other than jackie chain and bruce lee no i mean i would say and this is when jeremy lin was like still at his peak almost exactly exactly so guys at the end of the day uh listen a lot of people are not tapped into who a prominent asian is and even if they see the face even if they recognize the face they might not know the name hold on are you telling me that a lot of people like in a macro big picture sense in america do not subscribe to next shark and jackfruit all right so this next slide is comparing asian female roles in hollywood and in media comparing it to asian man let's look at the asian female roles and how they're perceived real quick okay interestingly kung fu martial arts experts still came in at number one it's still number one man and then geisha sex work across stripper oh yeah i guess and then number 10 10 is i don't know and then uh janitor made supporting roles doctor submissive mom wife spouse okay um yeah i mean david do any of these shock you uh no they don't i mean these are the roles that are written in hollywood but obviously some people like this is a poll so it's not necessarily scientific to analyzing every piece of mainstream media that came out but i would say like for example and everything all everywhere all at once andre michelle yo was a kung fu martial arts expert she was a janitor made cleaner because she ran the cleaners she was also a mom a tiger mom that had obviously the string relationship with her daughter and she was sexy hot beautiful kind of milk status so you know you're just stacking the way people perceive you so make a hit movie hey stack the layers all right let's move on to how the guys are perceived i guess i don't think that this is going to surprise us either david um similarly americans primarily see asian american men in stereotypical and negative roles all right first 29 percent kung fu masters yes we are oftentimes come yo that's crazy 29 percent oh 17 percent the criminal and gang drug dealers and villains yeah you get the triad yakuza like azn thug thing a little bit things that are different than the women i would say is the executive business people role and uh nerdy nerdy smart intelligent guys yeah i would say that like if we were to actually analyze all the roles given to asian american men in uh mainstream the nerdy nerd guy would like be way way higher than what the survey says and you know what's actually interesting about the kung fu master and the criminal gang i think when asians are depicted as gangs in most movies is usually taking place in asia like triads yakuza right asian gangs there's not as many asian american gangs being depicted in movies right and then also a lot of kung fu artists are oftentimes from asia too so you would say the two largest roles here are probably majority done in a in asia perspective or it could be like lethal weapon four and or where jet lee was a martial arts triad gangster from asia who came over to america yes yes there's that too but what i'm saying is that probably these characters are actually born in asia these are actually not american born asian men most of these roles yeah except the uh doctor impossibly the nerdy nerd or funny witty comedic relief all right our next slide people were asked hey would you like to see more asians in lead roles you asked people in a survey this what do you think they're going to say uh well asian said at 88 percent which is funny that's very asian 88 but who was the 12 percent that said no come on man i think that's like asians not wanting to say it or you know a lot of asian americans they try to like be like oh that stuff's not important you know um but yeah asian americans coming in at 88 white americans at the lowest yo white people do not really want to see well here's the thing white people you know they're kind of the system runners and they're the ones that dominate the industry right so if they say they don't want to see asians guess what there's not going to be a lot of asians yeah and i'll see what you're saying the power weight ratio kind of like skews the overall impact yeah because it is true and it sucks in america that if white people don't want to see your face then it does it's going to impact your career i don't want to see your face so uh but yeah mostly everybody said that they were like yeah i'll be down i'll go see an asian see what they got but shout out to 18 and 24 year olds you know being more open-minded because that's obviously where society is headed yeah well all right guys well i guess that would kind of explain the surge of asian material there are more asian leads now than ever obviously there's also more content now than ever so yeah but there are more asian leads particularly for content that caters to a younger demographic precisely all right last but not least different americans were asked hey how did you learn about asians or how do you see asians or how are you exposed to asians and boom this is the results okay asians learn about asians through family social media friends news and tv and news way down there yeah possibly because the news doesn't really cover asians much unless it's a geopolitical macro sense um number two and black americans they learned from news and then tv music and then white people same news and tv music and then latinos came through number one as social media hey latinos are on social media learning about asians all right all right i don't really know what that means i can't even like infer anything but anyways basically david uh it makes sense right what i notice about asian americans is still a lot of them really know what their family knows like a lot of asian americans like knowledge base is heavily heavily impacted by who is their mother their father their brothers their sisters their uncles and their aunties and uh that's good and that's bad right i would say a lot of asians are generally and by the way guys this is not all kind of disengaged from the larger american discourse i mean like that's kind of a big statement but it is facts yeah i mean i think after a certain age depending on your career uh your interest in learning more about asian stuff kind of goes down because you're just trying to make it in america you're just trying to adapt you want to move up the corporate ladder or move up in your job whatever that job is and it might not involve learning more about asian history are you talking about and managing the micro fish bowls of life yeah because you're in america and learning more about asians in america for 95 percent of asians probably doesn't directly help them i think it can help their being it can help them understand themselves and understand their identity but yes in as far as making more money maybe maybe not as much right um and as far as black americans and white americans really getting everything from news tv's and music doesn't really surprise me they've been in america obviously the longest and then latinos hey apparently andrew anything the latinos know about asians is from tiktok i'm just kidding guys i'm just all right you guys at the end of the study our last slide number 43 it shows that many people recommended that education is the preferred solution to fight anti asian american racism i mean i think that's pretty easy answer to give in a survey that sounds like super yeah like education it'll just be like the thing that all bonds us i mean i don't you know disagree with that but definitely i think that's just like one of the fingers on a hand um because there's other fingers that are important too and andrew what is your major recommendation i would say asians just gotta like learn more about being asian and learn more about western culture instead of just letting it organically happen i'd like to see a more concerted effort to learn about both cultures eastern and western mm-hmm yeah i think a lot of asian americans uh need to kind of up their confidence i know that everybody hears this phrase but what i mean by confidence is i mean by like courage or boldness in america because america no no no because don't don't just say confidence andrew because a lot of asians are confident in their ability to like do their job properly i'm talking about outward boldness you know something where it allows you to feel like you can speak up and it makes you feel like you want to work out or learn a martial art or or go out and do things because just a lot of people do not know what asians are in america still you know and this whole report kind of tells you like they they don't know that much they can't name any prominent asians they still view asians as these in these roles so i'm just saying like uh whatever it takes to be more bold and courageous i think those are the things that we need to work on as asians and i'll add to that andrew one caveat like i don't think that asians need to feel bad that people don't perceive us as bold and courageous we just have to understand that we went from like the you know east game map that like runs by its own metrics and maybe boldness or courageousness too much of it can like look bad but in america it's almost like a one-to-one just the more bold and courageous you are just the more you get yes you know what i mean like exactly a different system like over there i could see it being pros and cons and then the pros and cons are almost equal in the east but in the west there's way more pros than cons to being bold and courageous in an outward sense america is that type of country that if you are bold courageous and have something to contribute which asians do have a lot to contribute you will find a significant increase of success and respect will you be at the top i don't know i can't say so but you're gonna see an improvement jump and we're not always gonna be viewed in these roles uh we're not always gonna be like it's not always gonna be that nobody knows anything about us things will get better but i do think as an individual that's what we can work on well andrew what would you say to somebody who's like more living in an asian i guess all asian fishball where they're like dude that's why i like choose to not care about anything that's in this study because like even though this is true that's why i just like live my life in the boba world well i'll tell you this man that person definitely did not make it this far in that in this video so i really don't have anything to address to that man because they're not watching but uh no no no that is a that that is a possible option that you can choose though right of course yeah of course you can bow out of the game i don't know i mean i guess if your life is good but if you're trying to help each other and trying to be a little drop in the bucket of this big wave that can help us all and help the world too like you know then you got to think about it but yeah maybe just live your life maybe you're a cool person and and you like the way your life is i don't know i can't say much hey like we said guys we're just here to break it down like an umpire called the balls in the strikes and then you guys make your own decisions let us know what in the comment section below one did you read the status you know report for 2022 about asian americans do you agree or disagree with our takeaways what are your takeaways until next time we the hop hop boys we out peace