 It's not about like coupons. It's about a respect Japanese system It kind of looks like a lot of the characters could be written with a sword Oh, yeah, let's deconstruct the word and let's come up with a poetic meaning Koreans are considered the hottest Can you tell the difference between a Japanese Korean and a Chinese person by just looking at their face? Well, maybe you will after this video Welcome everybody to the hotpot boys David and Andrew here We're going to be reacting to different youtube videos that are attempting to break down the language The facial feature and the cultural differences between the main east Asian groups that often get confused for each other Yeah, I mean, I think this is a funny topic that a lot of people have this, you know This discussion amongst their friends, but they are not having it on an analytical level I think, you know, sometimes it's funny. Sometimes it's offensive But I think we can all agree that it's always interesting and fun So make sure you like subscribe turn on your notifications and let's get into the first clip Hello everyone, this is Kaewa When I travel abroad one of the most frequent question that I receive is Are you Japanese? So today I'll tell you the characteristics of Japanese This is a method to recognize Japanese at a glance So this was when a flight attendant spilled drinks on Korean Japanese and Chinese passengers Korean passenger loses his temper. He accepts apology and a moment later He apologizes to the flight attendant saying I'm sorry for getting angry at you just a while ago and it's over In case of Japanese passenger, they smile and say, oh, no problem. Oh, no worries They smile And a week later a complaint later is sent to the airline company Chinese passenger They get furious and yell. They murmur their complaints in loud voice And in small voice they ask for their first class seat They take the first class to their destination Yo, this is a pretty funny way to talk about like cultural and behavioral patterns that are different It's just like in situation X. How does a Japanese Korean or Chinese person react differently? Dude, this was so clear I mean it kind of did fall in line with the typical stereotypes that we all believe about each other Or at least the more traditional version of ourselves Like Koreans have extreme emotional swings, right? They're very temperamental, but they can cool off and feel a lot of guilt Japanese people They're very very polite to you, but you don't always know how exactly they feel about you And I think this applies more to Japanese from Japan, of course Not really Japanese Americans as much and then obviously Chinese They will make a fuss out of things. They do feel anger, but they can be calmed down if you compensate them with Something of money value. Oh man. I'm not gonna lie I remember one time we won on a church trip and somebody in our church group was got mistreated Possibly because they were Asian at this hotel because nobody wanted to deal with them because you know They didn't have English as their first language and I remember they were so mad that it was like pretty much kind of racist Or prejudice against them But then the manager came through with like five buffet coupons that was worth like a 125 and it was just like all good David uh A lot of people also say and I kind of agree that like north eastern Chinese people don't pay Chinese people and then Mongolians and Koreans often do share this kind of like Emotional like temperamental background which can be fun and fiery and good and bad in different ways But why do you think that that is like why do you think they should be honest? I think there's a lot of nomadic tradition And that was sort of like the way of life of people who are like moving around and hurting animals and stuff like that But I will say that even in america, there's different like regional Sort of like attitude patterns like there's a lot of white people in boston There's a lot of white people in seattle But how come everybody in a boston is so aggressive and everybody in seattle is so passive aggressive Even though it's on the same latitude. Why is everybody in texas so proud of being texas? Don't mess with the lone star state. I'll tell you what I blow a hole through your chest boy You know, who knows why are these ways the way they are? I mean for sure there is a reason I will say this andrew if a korean was as mad as that chinese guy was in our group and the manager was just like Uh, here's some buffet coupons. They might be like no, it's not about like coupons It's about a respect you have to respect me Like they might have been like nah like i'm not rocking with it You like violated my honor, you know, and then like we said, you know, the japanese person they might be like The treatment Was okay But then literally they're gonna like write a letter and try to take down the whole thing And why do I think that chinese people are so impacted by getting money? It's because I think chinese value making money and having money so much that when you give them money For an apology They actually accept it because they understand money is the one thing that they would not want to give you There is actually a saying in china and i'm sure there's sayings in korean and japan about the differences between all the asians But there's one from china that says japanese people love work Koreans love their country and their people and chinese love money And i'm not gonna lie guys japanese do love their work and they love being artisanal about artsy things man They love art chinese Love money chinese people f***ing love money So mainly today we're going to be talking about differences between korean chinese uh japanese but i we found this infographic online and uh We're just talking about face shapes, right? purely appearance purely appearance and and i i think this is very true um stronger defined jaw lines Oh, yeah, that's true single eyelids kind of pouty lips. Yeah, yeah That's that's what they like a very like pouty small lip and also the eyebrows i find a lot of koreans They like the big straight prominent eyebrows and you see a lot of celebrities go for that look as well Whereas chinese i think it's not as pronounced. It's subtle. Yeah, because they're very fair whereas chinese You do have a split and i find a lot of them when i went to japan their teeth. Oh, yeah It's almost always crooked Yeah, actually mike and i did a video about that it's called yeba tea These clips revolve around the physical differences between japanese koreans and chinese people Obviously, we're talking about looks based things. This is the most basic visceral thing that an average person can understand I think when you talk about climate and geography and korea is made out of granite and japan's made out of lava and sulfur These things are very grad school to wrap your mind around but even a child can see that different people just look different So i would say that this chart that they came up with and also this one picture That you can find on the internet that is trying to talk about the differences It does fall in line with the stereotype obviously right now koreans are considered the hottest Right, i don't know they're considered the best looking now I'm not that that is partially because of plastic surgery But also partially maybe because they find the hottest actors and partially maybe because they do have certain features that Are considered attractive as well, right? But i do think that this topic can get sensitive obviously when there comes to uh this feeling of Feeling inferior it looks wise You know if you're gonna say like chinese have the round face and then japanese have the thin face Are we saying that all japanese are like better looking right i mean definitely the truth is in a media sense Japan and now more recently in the past like 15 years korea has had like a way more soft power Looks advantage over chinese people and the truth is chinese people are the most populist people on earth They're mixed with like a hundred different tribes So there's incredible variability and the way they could look and they don't care about looks as much culturally Like we said earlier tend to more just care about money and just like accomplishments rather than sort of like uh You know this whole package type thing and i just think that that creates the perception that chinese people are not as good looking on an average basis And whether that's true or not the situation is completely different like we said because korea oftentimes Andrews theorized to come from one tribe of yagoy people literally one tribe created korea Japan is primarily comprised of three tribes of people You know south uh sort of like a southeast asian guamanian okinawan look sort of like an asian e asian e look and almost i knew that almost looked like kind of part western like russian e from You know what i mean so it's like china is literally made up of like A hundred different tribes so you're just gonna see like every look Yeah, i think in most asians that you meet in your life are going to be chinese So you're gonna meet some very attractive ones and then maybe some not as attractive And i don't think chinese value looks as much because i think the whole wave of korean media would push people to kind of think about it More plus they also running the beauty uh skincare product game So obviously they care about looks the most so if you grow up as a kid Caring about your looks more than another kid What are the chances that you grow up to become a little bit better looking? I I guess it makes some sense. Yeah, I mean wherever you put your focus in your work is where you see the progress I will say there's something that's really interesting about china is that a lot of chinese people in the guangdong region They can be mixed with taikadi or southeast asian in the western region They could almost be mixed with like arabic or indian people in the northern region. They could be mixed with like mongolian Uh, you know turkish There's so many different looks in china. You wouldn't believe it However, for the longest time andrew it was mostly people from southern china immigrating to america for like 100 or 200 years So really now you're starting to meet all these people from all these crazy regions that are mixed with like All these different things, but they're all chinese. All right, you guys now We are getting into the language section both on a spoken and written level. There's a way you can tell agents apart from other agents It's by their accent and only if they have accents Oh All right, you guys this clip kind of shows how Japan and korea actually use a lot more english loan words Due to them having like an alphabetic system whereas chinese try to translate the meaning So for example andrew pop a corner is baohua in chinese baohua Obviously does not sound anything like popcorn. It means bursted flower which kind of sounds like nice and poetic in a way computer Means is actually diannao, which is electric brain also a very interesting way of framing something that is modern using old words I saw this one comment that actually made me laugh and it was like koreans Oh, yeah, let's just say this the korean way and then it's like japanese They're like oh, okay We have to say this word the japanese way and then the chinese are like, oh, yeah Let's deconstruct the word and let's come up with a poetic meaning that can reflect its actual figurative definition So it's a completely different word And I thought that that was so funny because obviously chinese do have some loan words But there's not that many and when they do come up with new words for modern things It like sounds completely different and it has like some crazy like poetic meaning to it. Yeah, I mean long story short guys China is the last I believe purely Pictographic language left on earth. So it's almost like hyroglyphics to be honest You know what I think would be interesting to get into in a later video Not this one is all the loan words that all the east asian countries share I do think uh both ways but for the most part mostly from china So I think that that would be really interesting because I believe and 49 of japan's vocabulary actually came from china Yeah, but however, if you almost go based off of uh usual regular everyday conversation, whether it's in korean or japanese It's going to be primarily their own language But sometimes when you go up to the tier of like college level or like certain terms law and um, you know technical stuff It becomes more chinese All right, you guys let's get into the way that different languages are written because I could see this being confusing for some people Boom as you can see korean language uses a lot of circles and angles It almost looks like in a weird way Maybe you're trying to draw little robot faces or crop circles or crop circles Yes, japanese looks like almost kind of hipster and artistic because it's got a mixture of rigid characters Chinese characters the kanji in there as well as the katakana and the hirakana So you got all types of stuff going on in the japanese system Yeah, I think the japanese system It kind of looks like a lot of the characters could be written with a sword like Bushido blade anyway and last but not least and especially the traditional chinese characters They look hyper complex and they just look like little game characters or little maps or little Photographs or little paintings like alien invaders that video game. Yeah, they could look like they're shooting lasers Art you guys that was actually a pretty fun like 101 class I think you can really get into the food do koreans like kim chi the most obviously do do japanese He's like sushi the most obviously do do chinese like dumplings the most obviously they do but you know This video was not about like the food. I think it was really funny to get into quick anecdotes about behavior Look and then language. I think one of the most beautiful things is not pretending like we're all the same but accepting the differences and Appreciating each other for it and I would like to think that that's like the place that we can get to as As east asian americans perhaps or whatever these you know, there's always these hierarchies and everybody's trying to play these games I get it. I get it. I get it. Of course, right Uh, you always want to rank the highest who doesn't right that's your incentive But I just think ultimately like have more of these conversations talk about these things joke about them Don't judge each other. Yes, some of them are kind of true. Yes, some of them are kind of not true But you know what like Hey to break stereotypes. You got to know the stereotype first. Yeah, and I think that obviously we are american So you could say well, how much do I want to understand these? Well, you don't have to you could just see yourself as an american But I do think to truly get to the root and get to a point where everybody can like Legitimately support each other. We actually have to understand our differences and almost like get over it and like burn that candle out And uh, yeah, I just think it's fun to talk about man All right, everybody. We're gonna leave it right there. Please let us know in the comments down below I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of comments a lot of uh research comments probably gonna throw some statistics out there There's gonna be some nationalistic comments always. I find them entertaining So, please let us know in the comments down below what you think about these differences What are some other ways that you would describe the difference between japanese chinese and korean people? Um, hit that like button click subscribe and check out other episodes of the hotpot boys and until next time we out peace