 oh hey welcome back to our bluntly Today we are doing a little video by asian boss. We've done one video of them before it was our indians really good at math Yeah. Remember that? Yep. And they are? They are. Mate, not all of them. Obviously I'm sure. Well, compared to us, everybody's better at math. Everybody's better at everything educationally. Yeah. Compared to us. We ranked 50th in the world in education. We ranked like 50th in terms of freedom. We are. That's true. Somebody from Germany recently was asked, like someone said, we want to know what you think in other countries about what's going on in America. This is like a week ago. Yeah. And one of these things this German woman said was, we think it's funny. You guys still consider yourself a democracy. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Yep. Yep. But this is called how foreigners react to traditional Indian greetings, say this pranama, which I believe is the feet touching in the heart. That's the word for it. I believe so. I could be wrong. Let me know if I am. But I know, obviously we know, we see it all the time in films and stuff like that. Yeah. We now know enough to know what that means. But I remember, I would be weirded, like it would be strange for me if, and I think somebody did. I think it may, I don't know if they did it as a joke, but at a meet and greet. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Cause one, I have a thing with you. I don't like feet. And being touched. Yeah. More people touching my feet. And so it's very strange. I get it. Also, we know that it's not done for everybody. No. Nobody would randomly go to a random person on the street and touch their feet. It's for elders and people with honorarium respect. And so like, obviously an Indian would just, hi, meeting an American for the first time. How you doing? How you doing? But I remember early on when we saw it was in some of the music stuff where people started to touch the feet and we hadn't seen that before. And I remember thinking, what's that all about? Yeah. Namaste is all over the place here in the world of yoga. I've seen, I saw the word namaste has been on everything here for ever. We've, we've known that. That's probably the first Indian word. Any American. Any American. They probably don't even know that it's Indian. And many of them probably still call it Namaste. Just based on the spelling. Here we go. Hey guys, it's Steve from Asian Boss and I'm here with my friend P.K. who comes from India. He's Tim C. There's a form of respectful salutation in Indian culture that's been in existence for centuries. What's it called? Do you want me to say an Indian accent? Yeah, just give me a real Indian accent. It's called pranam. Pranam. What's interesting is the fact that most people outside India have absolutely no idea such gesture or practice exists, right? So the question is, how would non-Indian people react if they were on the receiving end? That's a stranger. Everybody's going to be like, weird. Just give us a feedback. I would love to know how you feel. This guy looks like a douche. I would be confused. I just love that we've been picking something off. Had I seen that booth before? You can't be serious. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe, maybe. The first time I saw it, I was like, whoa. I'm not going to do something like that. You can't. What would happen if you didn't probably just try to get off with it? If you did it to like a random person, then some people would be like, they'd freak out. How do you think that people in Taiwan, you know, they'd be like, some people in Taiwan would react if somebody came up to them and did this? That's strange. He's holding his entire mic back. That's only mic. He's got some kind of coming in and date or person. We have a big thing with personal space here. That was before COVID. Now it's even bigger. What does it say in respect to a gesture? A younger person would know it's someone elderly. I am respectful of Jesper. My younger person would do it to someone elderly. Yeah, it would just be a random Jesper person. In Australian culture, what would be the equivalent of Jesper? There's no equivalent of Jesper. What level of respect are you sure to? Back in the day, it would have been calling them by their surnames. It would have been Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith. We're serving here. I can only say Mr. Smith. More personal than a handshake. Yeah, that's a baby. Well, and it's also to be the recipient of the blessing as well. Yeah, I think you're supposed to go like... Touch their head. Why are you touching their head? Touch their head. I feel people's responses are quite interesting. They were. They were really interesting. Now you know what to do when you go to India next time, and you get someone more respectful of them. I'm just gonna like... You know what I'm realizing? He's a bit... He's a bit... Alright guys, make sure you just squat to our channel, and so you guys... We probably should have done that with a Staju secure. I think you probably would have been weirded out at two Americans who did that. I know, but in hindsight now, I guarantee if we were to meet him for the first time now, he would be one of the people who it would enter my mind of, I feel like I need to do that to show him a level of respect. No, I still feel like it would be weird for... I would... You know who else would immediately come to mind? Big B. Yeah. No. I wouldn't do it to anybody. Come on. No. Really? It's not... There's nobody that you would do that to. It would seem more like cultural appropriation of me if I did that, because it doesn't even... That's not how I grew up showing respect, so it would be just weird for me to do that. I understand your point. I don't... Also, once again, we know you just wouldn't randomly go up to people. No. Actually, I want to think of my... Before India, because obviously it's not weird to me now. Right. Like to see somebody do it. Not at all. In a film, it's actually very normal. It's normal and I realize it's an endearing thing to do now. Yeah. But actually what I see most of the time when it's in film or television is the recipient usually tries to pick them up and stop them. And stop them from... No, no, no. I think I asked once. I was like, dude, people... Does anybody accept it? They do, because the opposite is to give the blessing. It's a customary thing. I'm sure you have too. Get messages from beautiful stupid babies who are like, it's my birthday. I'm taking an exam. I really could use and would love to have your blessing. And I believe that's the same spirit of... I'm not only honoring you as the elder, but I'm hoping that you'll give me the blessing on me. I remember if I'm not mistaken that when Michael did his concert in Mumbai, there's an image of somebody going to touch his feet and him having a natural response to not do that. Was it a problem? I cannot tell you who it was. That would have been if you saw that video back in the day. I know. It was a problem. It probably was if he was in Mumbai. And probably was it. There were a lot of other people around Michael too. But it was probably a problem. What's interesting growing up in the United States of the different cultural greetings that are outside of America, the one that I knew from this little was what the Japanese do. Balloon, right? Balloon. You knew that in Japan they bow as a sign of respect. Yeah, it was pretty early because cartoons would do it. Constantly. But I didn't learn about this until two years ago. Yeah. I might have seen it before, but I can't recall. But yeah, it's interesting. And there is no equal to this in Western. This is a very personal way of showing respect. Because I feel like in India, especially the older culture, there's a respect for elders even more so than there is here. There's respect for elders, but it's more of like, call them sir, call them ma'am. Sir and ma'am. And that's basically the extent usually. But it's not really an equivalent of this type of respect showing. As well as back talking. Yeah. Like if you get in a disagreement with someone who's your elder, you don't have back talk to them. Yeah, unless they're being real disrespected. But nothing like this. I just, any time if it was ever done to me, I don't feel worthy of that type. I've never felt that way. When I was a kid, like my parents or other people, people look up to you like kids that were younger than you look up to you as an older kid. I was like, why? Why do they care about me? I don't want anybody to look up to me. Right, but at the same time, I don't think you have a problem signing an autograph. I do. Oh, you do? I will do it, but I don't like it. Okay. Because I don't, in my mind, place myself, I don't think of myself enough to warn anybody wanting my autograph. It is a strange sensation to think somebody, my signature is valuable enough for them that they want me to just sign to prove that they have an account. Pictures as well. Obviously I'll do it, and we did it with a bunch of stupid ones. It was lovely, but it's still weird for me because it's like, I don't, even if I'm like the status of a Shahrukh Khan, I won't understand it in terms of me, because I personally, I'm not saying I don't hold myself in any esteem at all, it's just I will never be able to think of myself that way. No, the only thing for me about signing things is that it makes me happy to know I'm making them happy. Like when we did the Partridge Family 50th, there were a bunch of people who wanted to sign pictures of Ricky, so I went over to this gentleman's house who had photos, and I signed like 25 pictures, and it, it's strange. I mean, I've been doing that on and off since I was four, and it's always struck me as strange, but underneath the only thing, because like, there's none of that. It's the, how wild is it that my just signing that is going to make them happy? Yeah, right? Yeah, it is strange, but yeah, this is, this is really interesting, because I, I like it more, feel that they're teaching more about Indian culture than, because obviously, once again, this guy would never do it to this other person who is basically their same age. No, that would never happen. It's, but I will say I, I far more loved that there's nothing about this I don't like, and I wish we had more things like this in culture, because if there's anything our world is lacking, it's one physical touch right now, and second, really demonstrative expressions of respect, that, that if you saw it happening, you knew that's being done purely out of a motivation of respect and honor, and we could use a whole lot more of that. Absolutely. 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