 the internet's most viral asian news articles that you don't want to miss andrew first up we've got kids in china crying over intense academic pressure placed on them by their parents man this one's going to hit you in the fields this man this happened in china but how come it went so viral globally man people of academic centric immigrant parents everywhere could relate to this it's so visceral man i'm gonna tell you this growing up oftentimes academics and emotions are very much tied together now um the little girl who's making a case to her father i'm not gonna lie man she gave a great speech she made a very convincing case on why she should be able to play she's like i'm a good girl every day i do all the right things then i'm gonna tell you this i don't know what she's gonna be when she grows up but she could be a very successful lawyer or at least an actress because those tears were real i do think specifically in the country of china they could do a better job of like having fun along with the work you know what i mean like for example japan and korea i think they do a lot of work too but i think they bring the funnel meter maybe like halfway there it's definitely not like america was like it's maybe even more fun than work in school but like it can't be like this guys we gotta fix the balance because especially in china andrew it compounds because i heard they have a saying where it's like y'all when the family only have one child all the pressure is on a child but when a family have multiple children all the pressure is on the parents i got hope for the future though i think each generation the parents do a better job of balancing it out at least these kids get to experience some internet fame for their sadness i don't know andrew is it worth it andrew at the church we went to growing up i would say the baseline parent the softest parent out of everybody was like maybe four out of ten but man you saw some people that were ten out of ten andrew we knew a kid who had to do homework for two hours a day and then piano and cello for another five hours a day that was seven hours total and i remember their mom was always like yeah yeah you know you get 24 hours in the day okay so that's only two hours plus five that's seven you still have 17 that's not that much you lazy boy well this boy is over here trying to teach his sister math he's hysterical man i do feel bad i feel bad but it's getting better let me know if you guys think all these videos going viral globally and within china might actually change the culture whether we're talking about the dad crying because the son failed the test or the brother can't teach the sister math or this hyper articulate tianjin girl convincing her dad to let her play video games for another hour it couldn't andrew the second new story coming viral out of the asian america community andrew is basically our fancy white restaurants in new york city discriminatory against asian patrons either seating them upstairs or in the secondary room outside of view from the mainstream crowd hey uh this doesn't look like the main room everybody's asian here what the hell if you're a foodie in new york city you have to know about this restaurant one of by land two of by c let's cut to the chase one of by land two of by c racially discriminates against non-white people particularly asians the only people coming up to sit and eat on the second floor were asian people as you can see in this photo from yelp the first floor has a lot of big windows natural lighting candle chandeliers and mosaics high ceilings good ambiance this is the second floor the mezzanine taken straight from their website you can see that it's very different much darker there are two windows here those are the only two windows on the second floor there's no piano here there's no bar it's just not as nice to dine in objectively compared to the first floor this one's from 10 months ago you will see that a lot of asian people have detailed discriminatory behavior from this establishment look at this 11 months ago this one's from a year ago i think everyone who was asian was seated outside and everyone seated inside were caucasians furthermore i highly doubt it was a coincidence there were four tables of asians same here someone else's review there were six tables of asians packed in the corner of the balcony area what is this the asian corner now i'm going to show you what it looked like on the second floor when we dined oh man i'm going to be honest she did make a good case like this was a good internet call out versus other ones that i've seen that didn't have as much evidence now she did save me two hundred dollars david because i was definitely planning on eating there psych honestly i will say this from this has happened before by the way to me and andrew before at some establishments that are like a hundred and two hundred dollars per person i don't want to name any names i will name servos right there for sure they did it to us that was racist um i will say this like sometimes white people i don't want to say it's fully racial it could be but they're very protective of their vibe mainstream crowd so somebody doesn't look like they fit in there they will try to put them off to the side not in the window try to isolate them like in the outdoor seating but i don't want to say this is just true for restaurants david this is true for any elite or exclusive club whether you're talking about a night club a country club or even harvard university guys they just think asians are not cool so that they don't fit in i mean they're probably thinking they're looking at the reservations being like oh wong yeah what are they probably going to order water and the beef wellington they're going to take 30 pictures that's wrong it's wrong yeah what are they like food bloggers or something god when you yeah you're going to show for restaurant week and the funniest thing is sometimes is that the waiters are mean to you even though the waiters like you know in a outside sense don't even make a fraction of which you make but then they're treating you bad because they're trying to protect the territory and keep the vibe like we said we don't know if it's a hundred percent true or not because we didn't go through at this exact spot and what are the options because it seems a little naive in my opinion to step into the situation and not expect any sort of different treatment i would say black and latino people would definitely be like oh yeah i could have predicted that yeah and here are the options guys number one you cannot go there you have the freedom to number two you can go to other asian establishments you know if you're asian so you can feel like that you're going to be treated equal or better you know that's why a lot of people go to omicases right you're saying that's like the asian country club versus getting treated as a second-class citizen at the white country club they have nice expensive asian restaurants and number three uh you can call them out on social media afterwards start this whole yelp storm obviously they've locked their yelp page you can't leave any more negative comments and or in person you can let the manager know and talk to them in person which is something that i would do and have done in the past and i felt like you know there's just different ways of going about it everybody can fight racism their own way but let us know in the comments down below what you would do story number three coming out of the asian american community and or straight off reddit it's basically talking about how some asian americans specifically chinese americans want to go back to using their motherland name that has a much deeper cooler poetic meaning than they're just given basic american name david as asian americans who have very very very common in regular english names are birth names andrew david david david andy right not not very cool very punchable names yes i agree but david we also have very poetic deep cool chinese names right di one di xiong one uh means to create literature one means to be a create warrior literature cultural warrior that's my name masculine cultural warrior i would like to have that as my name instead of andy i'm just kidding i don't know but i think david if you use your chinese name or you want to use your translation of your chinese name obviously it comes with some pressure yeah for example this girl's name was jenny and she wanted to go as xilei or xiaoling which is like little thunder i think you could do it it's 2022 it's more trendy now daisy people have been doing it for a while because obviously for religious reasons they're very proud as they should be and i just think that for uh chinese americans to do it or any other asian americans to do it i think it's more possible now than it ever has been but you gotta live up to it because if you are telling people to call you little thunder you might want to have come through bold you can't be like yeah my name xilei it means little thunder and shout out to all the recent immigrants who come here and get to choose their english name and choose some very uncommon word like galaxy rainbow or shadow hey it always does make for a good uh talking point and the fourth piece of asian news andrew elan musk has taken over twitter and he is causing a ruckus he's switching this up he's switching that up he's changing this and then taking it back he's going ham i mean he fired 50 of twitter's employees overall and it turned out he fired 90 of the team in india long story short andrew and i will say i'm biased or i'm not trying not to be biased as a tesla shareholder that is not happy with what he's doing to the stock it is difficult very very difficult based on track record to bet against elan if you look at what he did with paypal what he did with spacex what he did with tesla now i get it this is like a field that is not his forte and he has a tendency to like pop off real crazy at all the other celebrities but i don't know man he got it twitter ain't a rocket ship though twitter ain't a rocket ship man i don't think this is really going to work out i think maybe twitter is more profitable on a certain end but i think less people use it and i think all the disgruntled india employees they start their own thing like twindia or something and it's gonna it's gonna rival twitter that's what i think andrew elan's roommates in college were asian yeah so were the ceo's of twitter that he fired point number five andrew despite the discrimination lawsuit against harvard university the freshman class is about 25 asian however andrew a lot of people are saying based off the raw stats of who should get into harvard it should be around 40 to 42 asian and one nyu professor even said and he's white by the way that it could be up to 70 asian if they were not down ramping the volume of asians at harvard oh my god can you imagine that if harvard was 70 asian you might as well just move that school to asia well andrew can't both be true can't there be a record amount of asians in the freshman class and it still be way underrepresented for what it should be statistically oh yeah for sure i mean think about it harvard's in the middle of a discrimination lawsuit right now so they're probably like hey uh hey hey what's a record breaking number for us 26.7 all right let's boost it to that oh it should be 42 percent but no no no no we got some time little it'll buy some time so maybe the next year in 2024 we'll boost it up to to 27.5 percent and then we'll just keep going up little by little guys no one will ever know by the way guys the discrimination portion comes from asians almost categorically always ranking way lower on the personality portion of the one-on-one interview andrew it is entirely possible based off stereotypes that the asian students slightly seem more like uh introverted right because that's the culture and i could totally see the legacy kids from old money who's like great grandfathers went to harvard as well having bigger personalities however i could see these kids also being privileged d bags so i mean are they getting docked on that well i think a lot of white kids are trained for the personality tests and then a lot of asian students are trained for the hardcore uh test scores but the weird thing about these personality tests is it's supposed to rate your courage and integrity so then are they saying that asians have less courage and integrity how do you know this is very subjective here well um the truth is we just make it a cool thing we just make it about being cool but we just say courage andrew last but not least number six andrew somebody who looks like our uncle or at least the closest thing i've ever seen to a relative in hong kong andrew almost became the senator of road island guys alan fung that's crazy he looks like our uncle melvin no literally uh not only does he look like our uncle but he actually has the same character last name not just the same spelling same character last name as us uh it's the same fun guys i don't know anything about his politics i'm not endorsing him at all anyways he lost either way but uh yeah i guess it was funny to see that happen yeah he was kind of running in a way i'm not saying that it fully was running the bobby jindal plan but you know bobby jindal got the any wife but he got the white wife you know at the white constituency it is road island after all like i said i'm not supporting either side or going against i mean i i'm not gonna lie i mean i think road island spoke but if the people are wrong i don't really care about the future of road island it's not my concern is what i mean it was cool to see i guess something surprising i was like man you got even got closer than i ever would have hey guys fung is not the most common last name so i think we just have to acknowledge it uh he lost but uh i don't know i mean better luck next time david what can we learn from him his he ran as a fung what if what if we were gonna run for office huh what how would we how could we take a what would we take away oh man not look like our uncle honestly i mean i guess there's a chance hey he didn't lose by that much right i don't know like five percent yeah you know i don't really know his politics but uh good for the fungs all right you guys thank you so much for watching make sure you like subscribe turn on your notifications we're gonna be doing one of these every week from now on so make sure you let us know in the comment section below or email us some new stories that you want to see us cover until next time we out peace