 Most of the highest-paid female athletes of the past year were actually at least half if not full Asian Let's talk about if there's a particular reason for this Yeah, we got to talk about this article that just came out saying Naomi Osaka and Morado Kanu and Eileen Gu are amongst the five highest-paid female athletes of 2022 listen guys will make sure you like subscribe and turn your notifications But you know what else is doing good numbers in 2023 smaller sauce could be the highest-paid Chili oil out of a squeeze bottle ever hopefully but anyways check it out smaller sauce calm Um, yeah, Andrew Naomi Osaka her father is Haitian her mother's Japanese She was born and raised in Japan until two then I believe Florida made 51 million dollars in 2022 now do we know if that's mostly from sponsorship deals or prize money because tennis players can't make a lot of money, but I Want to say mostly sponsorship deals primarily, but yes She is also a top-ranked tennis player even though she's taken some time off I believe she had a kid number three coming in Andrew was Eileen Gu at $20.1 million a freestyle skier a lot of people are like there's no way a freestyle skier makes that much money However, Andrew her mother is from China her dad is white American I believe and most of the money comes from modeling in China. Yeah, no I mean she she decided to win gold medals for China. She's also very good-looking can speak Mandarin So her sponsorship money and her modeling gigs is added control number four Andrew Emma Raducano Andrew mother is Chinese dad is Romanian raised in London 18.7 million dollars also can speak Mandarin, right? So not not as good as Eileen Gu though Eileen Gu's Mandarin I did not the sponsorship levels, but still a very good tennis player still very highly ranked and then the next Asian We have does it go to number nine Jessica Pigulu. Yeah, just half Korean Yeah, but the mom is an adopted Korean, but actually interestingly enough Andrew her parents own the Buffalo Bills They're billionaires. I mean I mean still though. She's she's she's good at tennis and then number 10 Andrew We've got Minji Lee the Korean golfer, right 7.3 million So I guess David the big question here is Is them being half Asian Minji Lee's full Asian by the way, but is them everyone else being half Asian? Is that somehow an advantage in making money nowadays when most people generally believed for a long time that being Asian in sports Was only a disadvantage. Yeah, is it now an advantage at least for making money? That's the question. We're gonna answer. Okay. I will say this I think that these are first of all, we got to be clear here And I it doesn't it's not to take away from anything a lot of Asians right now are getting a lot of money in small ball sports We're talking about golf tennis and baseball specifically baseball the dudes are getting money. No, no, we're talking about Female athletes though because there are Korean guys and soccer that are doing well. There's Japanese guys in baseball that are doing well Right, right, right, but we're talking about female athletes Right the female athletes are getting money in tennis and golf tennis and go right now No, and those are rich people sports generally, but they do have a lot of money You can make a lot of money being good at those sports without sponsorships and here's the truth Everybody, uh, Raducanu, uh, Eileen Gu, Naomi Osaka, they can play to a gigantic economy back in the east Obviously Naomi Osaka is going to tap into the Japanese market. She can speak Japanese Eileen Gu, Raducanu, they can speak Mandarin. That's gonna bolster their endorsement money heavily In Chinese speaking countries. We're not even talking about just mainland China We're talking about Taiwan Hong Kong Singapore Malaysia have gigantic Mandarin speaking So you're saying if you're a Hapa athlete right now You better learn your mother tongue. Yes learn your mother tongue Because that's going to be a lot of money on the table It has to do with like how popular that sport is in the corresponding country that you can appeal to For example, Andrew Kazumi, I believe Yamazaki. She was a famous Ping Pong player from Japan She learned to speak Mandarin because ping pong is the biggest In China bigger than in Japan, right? There's a lot of great Chinese Uh table tennis athletes, whether they represent China or not. Yeah, I mean, I guess It means that these athletes they do have I guess like multiple cross-cultural appeal, right? Oh, yeah And and it always helps when athlete even for like Egas we attack who's Polish Andrew It opens up her market ability if she can speak English as well as her mother language, right? Yeah, and also, I mean who knows if she learns some Mandarin That would still actually get her some sponsorship money oddly enough probably You're saying if Egas we attack learn Mandarin to a fluent level it would boost her Endorsement money like a couple million. Yeah, what's crazy is that if actually any of these athletes learn Mandarin It would still help I don't know if you'd be worth it for them to take the time to learn Mandarin for the extra maybe million dollars But it'd be maybe an extra million dollars. All right So let's talk about some of the discussions on the internet Andrew a lot of people were talking about Do you think that these Asian female athletes do they care about their Asian side or do they use it for money reasons? This is the harshest way to pose the question that I found on the internet Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of in a mean way some people are going to suspect that they don't care But I guess do they care anymore or less than your average Hoppa about there, you know, I'm lean. These are people who maybe in their deepest heart of heart They don't like the let's say these hoppa women. They don't like they don't need to date an Asian guy or they're not particularly Attracted to Asian guys. How much do I care about that as an Asian guy? Well to me I don't fully care as long as they support being Asian And this is just something as an Asian guy you have to accept for any Buddy in media is that they may or may not love Asian men But they support being Asian and they do support being age because they speak their Asian language And all of them have spoken up about at least Naomi Osaka and Aileen Gu have at least in their celebrity way spoken up against Anti-Asian stuff, you know, I mean and they support BLM and everything like that. So I guess like To me, I don't have high expectations But I'm glad that they're at least doing The minimum and what they're supposed to know I think kudos to them. I don't actually ask anything of them I also don't want to give them that you are the most crazy pro Asian person in history Oscar I'm also not giving them the greatest Asian award either. Yeah, right But some probably like maybe boba liberals are ready to to be honest. I don't know. Some people may maybe guess Yeah, depending on, you know, if you want to Give Naomi Osaka the greatest Asian-American athlete award that is fine. Her last name is Osaka. She speaks Japanese I think oftentimes here's the truth a lot of Asian Like tribes or whatever like Asian, uh, I'm an Asian-American that cares about acting. I care about singing You're like gonna give it to the person who just acknowledges their Asian side Like the Asian I believe like Entertainment association gave Jenae Aiko the lifetime achievement award for like Asian-American of the year award But Jenae Aiko, I remember when she got it. She was like, I don't even know if I deserve this I appreciate it. I do care about my Asian side, but like Yeah, I don't even know if y'all needed to give this to me You know, they probably they probably didn't need to no But I'm saying this because like the full Asians they haven't gotten to that level of relevancy in the western world yet That it's always going to be the hapus And of course it is going to be the hapus with the Asian mom and the non-Asian father Whereas like for example like a lot of black athletes that are mixed It's almost like 95 of the time their dad is black and their mom is the non-Asian side I'm sorry. I mean, I would say it's a little bit Like giving like someone like Jenae Aiko award or Let's say putting Eileen goo And Naomi Osaka on these pedestals and being like, oh my gosh, you guys are such great Asian-American representation It's not wrong But it's also kind of like a racial draft where you're like trying to get them on your team and be like, hey We all love you. We appreciate you. You might not be full Asian But we appreciate you so remember the Asians like oh, you're part of us You are on our squad It is a little bit like the Nobel Peace Prize that they try to give to Obama to try to tell Obama to not fight anymore wars Right. Oh, like you're trying to encourage behavior by giving a pre-emptive award Right, you go give the award for necessarily what they've done or who they are but you give it for what they might do Right, right Um, I guess how come the top girls aren't white Americans anymore or there was like very few I guess white european girls in the top 10 if if any there's certainly some girls that were part white But there was no more regular full white girls in the top 10 anymore I don't know man. I I think this is a whole different video david, but do you have a short answer for this? I think my short answer is that I feel like white people they've they've moved on to like easier ways of making money Because if you really look at the life of these top tier athletes, they had to train every single day of their life on every single It's grueling. It's not easy get to that level even by you don't just show up for practice You're locked in at every single rep in practice. Yeah, no, no, it's not I don't care What sport it is you have to train every day And I think that in a way full white people have gotten to a point where they're like I'd rather make 10 20 30 million dollars a year being a logan paul or being a call me daddy podcast or et cetera, et cetera these more I guess Fun things where you don't got to wake up at 6am train four times a day watch your macros every single meal Also, there's a lot of bs that comes with being an athlete There's a lot of people who are going to talk about, you know, especially when you're a young athlete So there's anything can go wrong. You have a career at ending injury or at least career stunting injury Right like right before your first match right at a pro level you tear your Achilles. It's happened Right many many no, I do think That having an immigrant asian mother or having an asian parent Uh for some of these athletes it does like make them think a little bit more like a notch more like an immigrant So they work that hard. I think there's some like Correlation But anyways you guys you let us know in the comments down below what you think my overall wrap-up is this I think it's really interesting now that The highest paid baseball players are japanese Yoshinobu and shōhei otani Huge contracts bro What's your top five contracts both of them and Yoshinobu has not even thrown a pinch a pitch in the mlb yet Right, he's getting signed straight out of japan and some people are mad at it Right because they're saying that their contracts, especially Yoshinobu's was partially affected by marketing influence, right? Yes because Yeah marketing influence and also like I don't know him teaming up with Shōhei is going to be crazy. Basically the entire country of japan is going to be following the dodgers for the next 10 years Right, right, obviously he's still very good too. But you know, he hasn't proven it in the mlb um Also, like you know being asian in sports, especially for guys It just is a negative until it's a benefit and just like it was a negative It was a disadvantage for jeremy lin his entire career Right getting overlooked scholarships getting doubted no great d1 scholarships coming out of high school It was it was a lot because he was asian And then when he blows up when he breaks through that And becomes linsanity then you can say okay Well, you got a little bit larger contract for marketing dollars. So now he's now benefiting from being asian You're saying it's like this dam that's holding the water back But once the dam breaks it's this huge delusion. Yeah, you almost have to break through and so the key is for asian athletes in the future Whether you're half asian part asian, whatever you identify asian you can speak asian language Whatever you're not asian, but you can speak asian language. You just have to be good You just have to be good and then all of your cultural Things that make you up are going to start to benefit you Now obviously if you're one from one of the large asian groups china, japan, korea, maybe philippines Or maybe indonesia And you're a great athlete coming with heritage from those countries that can really benefit you more than like to be honest if you're like I guess a bermesa athlete like your marketing dollars overseas are not going to be as great But do you need to be bilingual? You need to have some level of bilingualness to fully Benefit from your asianness You do need to be a lot bilingual you need to be at least proficient in your mother tongue Right at least I would say a four out of ten at least a conversational level at least so you could do a A quick interview and a commercial in it. Yes, it's all about I mean jeremy is playing in taiwan right now And he's probably the biggest At least for sure basketball athlete in taiwan, right? I would say kudos to everybody kudos to all the young ladies on this list Whether they were asian or not, you know, but I will say this I do follow the careers of the half asian girls closer because I feel like there's some additional relatability I don't discriminate on what um asian country of origin even though i'm chinese. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but yeah, it's dope It's cool to see. I think that it's very interesting to see there's a lot of trends like you said Uh, maybe it's just random. Who knows maybe in five years the list looks completely different But I think for at least baseball. I'm sorry, uh for tennis and for golf for women's There's going to be a lot of asian faces moving forward All right, everybody let us know in the comments down below who are some of your favorite Part asian or full asian athletes. Let us know and uh Yeah, let us know which one uh, which sport you think more asian should play growing up Uh hit that like button until next time we out peace