 India's population has just surpassed China's population to make it the largest country in the world and also the Indian American population has just surpassed the Chinese American population just a little bit So I guess David, what does all this population competition mean? Let's go buddy! We are now number one in Asia but also number one in population in Asian America Well you know I just want to let you know there buddy that if it wasn't for maybe one or two policies and things that we did we could have been the most populous country still but you know you know sometimes you make decisions in life and you have to live with them Yeah this is going viral right now especially for anybody who follows these sort of like global macro trends and or India's population has surpassed China's 1.41 billion population and growing now there so a lot of people have predicted that this point was going to come but this transcendent sort of surpassing point of population has finally happened interestingly enough concurrently it also happened in Asian America around the exact same time Yeah the Indian population in America is now at about 4.4 million surpassing the Asian only Chinese population which essentially means a full Chinese people yeah because there's also a lot of mixed heritage Chinese people so if you count them then the Chinese population is still larger Right technically there's a lot more half and half hop of Chinese than there are hop of Indians Anyways guys we're going to get into the comment section and our own thoughts does this mean anything at all please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hop hop boys Andrew we got to talk about it because we're Chinese or Chinese American and Chinese and Indians are really interesting because those are the two biggest most populous countries in the world they're right next to each other they're separated by the Himalayas they're actually two of the oldest civilizations on earth they're two of the five most ancient civilizations on earth and some of the only ones that are considered still standing yeah not only that David they also share the engineering department at most universities because as we know they produce a lot of tech people obviously there's a lot of Indian CEOs and there's a ton of Chinese companies and Chinese tech workers and leaders and founders we prefer the software for Chinese like you you prefer the hardware yeah I guess I guess dude there's a lot of jokes here and it's crazy and I think a lot of people would admit that these two countries are going to have a huge say in the future of the globe dude is it crazy that the Indus valley and then the Chinese you know jahu yellow river civilizations Andrew like we said some of the oldest and they're going to define like the next century moving forward like in the sense of like nobody knows which way they're going to zig or zag you're right I think obviously the western european civilization had an amazing run still going to be strong but they're sort of like spoken for already right oh yeah for sure and you know what both cultures you know they have a lot of spice and one spice that really fits in is small ass sauce guys it's our very own chili oil preorders are still going on right now very delicious made with truffle Sichuan peppercorn please get it right now small ass sauce.com it's our very first product I'm so happy about it took 14 months to come up with the recipe but anyways guys um I would say this man Indians have always had a gigantic population but they have a I would say statistically they have a lot more children yeah because obviously China had a one child policy that they just broke free from are they like I think it's like two and possibly even three childs now depending on your situation but the thing is people got so accustomed to the one child system they're just sticking to only having one kid yeah yeah so I mean I don't know I mean we can get in the debate on if it's a good thing or a bad thing what do you want a large population as long as you have opportunities for them and your country can can you know provide for them then yes then fine a large population is not bad having a large family is fine but I guess um I want to quickly go into some of the interesting stats about this real quick because I think a lot of people need to know why India's population is so big and it's because you're actually starting to see the impacts of a huge fertility burn boom starting from the 60s and the 50s all the way to the 90s of India now in the 2000s yes the fertility is starting to slow down but you're still seeing all the offspring of the 90s coming up yeah I believe 50% of India as a country its population is 25 and under whereas in China only 25% of its population is 25 under right so China's issue is that they have an aging population not enough young people and India if you consider it a problem has a ton of young people and maybe not enough opportunities for all of them right right like what jobs are they going to get right because the the economy has to provide for it but that may also lead to the booming numbers try uh wanting to immigrate to America as well yes so I think that's really interesting that in the Indian American population if you only count I guess in this study full Indians and full Chinese people then it's also booming and that's largely because of the tech boom in the 90s the h1b h1b visa applications are are very very high from India um obviously India's as a country has better relationships with America it's not seen as the rival also their English fluency is higher so it also helps them when they first get here right for sure different jobs than the average Chinese immigrant because their English is probably higher I think it opens it up in the sense of like they can do management roles or they can do sales something that requires like a at least seven out of 10 communication package and up yeah right not just like hardcore number crunching algorithms coding or whatever yeah and I just a lot of people are wondering like uh yeah I guess I mean India's population is growing in India the immigrant Indian population in America is growing I guess like what are people saying you know yeah I mean I think it'll be interesting just to quickly bring it to some like levels that people can grasp because sometimes these things are very macro and they're about like human development on a global level and etc etc I don't think there's like gonna be India towns like the way there's China towns because like the Chinese that built the China towns they came to America like 120 years ago right and I believe the Indians in terms of really large numbers it's more recent so they have more ethno-burbs than uh India towns yeah but even to this day I guess you don't know that many Indian ethno-burbs there definitely are some but I'm saying there's not a ton a lot of the time and we've talked about this on the channel before see our uh why there's so many uh Indian CEOs video but I guess like it's they don't like to necessarily build the towns together they're okay mixing with other people yeah it would be more like four Indian spots and like a plaza versus like 400 spots in a cluster right because I think that obviously the truth is a lot of the Indians that make it to America they are a little bit more educated have a lot more uh connections and more English education they can fit in with the western systems so there's not there's less of a necessity to build auxiliary systems too um also I think that you can see it like the way they mesh with culture is different everywhere from anybody from like Mindy Kaling Vivek Ramaswamy Hussama Naj Cal Pen obviously Nikki Haley it's almost like because I think the main thing that the biggest way I could draw the differentiation is that Indian culture is extroverted and Chinese culture is introverted and I think that that is a huge huge distinction especially obviously I'm making a generalization but I would say a lot of people anecdotally would tell you that that's true because it gets that means you can do like extroverted jobs which is like politics media etc etc yeah I guess you would say that definitely from a communication standpoint Indians more prefer like to communicate verbally in English versus Chinese people but then also they don't intermix with other people as much right on a statistical marriage basis they intermarry a lot within themselves but in terms of who they're willing to communicate with they'll talk with anybody so anyway let's just get into the comments section some people of course Andrew are the doomsday sayers about population talking about man today's eight billion we needed the globe back when it was three billion oh my gosh this mother earth is not gonna has already issued its warnings no more people guys what do you think about this because Elon is trying to say there's not enough people on earth to fuel the economy and like the human drive to mars and then there's other people that are more environmentalists saying that humans are like absolutely wrecking the earth uh man that's a tough take yeah I mean I understand that definitely more humans means more economy and more economy usually means more pollution uh is that always the number one issue for a lot of people I mean at the end of the day how are you gonna tell like a country to worry more about the environment than raising people right now you know I mean like developing countries are like even not saying India is all developing but I'm saying the parts of India that are more in development than others China still in development too although it's like further along its development timeline it is difficult because like uh I guess the west already went through its development timeline where they were polluting the earth in its industrial era but then it's like tough to say it to these people because you're almost like at a further point in your development right judging these people for being polluting wherever they are in their timeline I don't know tip for tat somebody says the wealth gap in India is probably one of the largest in the world meaning that most of India's wealth is held by a minor few so it doesn't matter how many young people India's have if they cannot uh have the opportunity for a decent job so I had to look it up um it is true that the distribution of wealth is one of the largest in India and possibly due to you know let's be honest caste system some things from the past but they also have an increasing middle class right now so that's almost like are we talking about where they're at are we extrapolating where the trends are going interestingly enough Andrew China used to be have a very low wealth gap because it was a communist country right and then they switched their system to more capitalistic and they have a widening wealth gap so it's like that's really interesting like we said there's different forces going on in different countries it's a hot and cold water mixed together somebody's saying China is prosperous today as a country because they curtailed unsustainable population growth having to pay for more retirees is a much smaller price than paying to exhaust your country's natural resources um how much do you think it's true because obviously a lot of places Andrew they cannot implement policies the way China did you know what I mean it would be impossible to limit people especially in a country like India where maybe people are more they're they have more they're used to having more freedom and they have religious reasons to have bigger families oh right right right yeah I mean definitely yeah I mean I guess it's just like the pros and the cons of anything right like if you have a bigger population you have to provide more opportunities or people just have to be more willing to accept a conventionally on like at least a western scale less materialistic lifestyle right um somebody said in every single person on earth nowadays wants to be at minimum a middle-class consumer how can the earth sustain this do you agree with that wrong for everybody to want that so you're saying you're questioning that every human has the right to whatever America painted in Hollywood and stuff that's tough I mean dude that's that middle-class lifestyle to be honest is pretty fine it's pretty fine especially in America hard you only work hard but you don't kill yourself and then you get to live okay and get to generally kind of do what you want within reason focus on sports and stuff like that it's a good lifestyle man I would say this dream I think for a lot of people all right I agree with you so that's a good point from you but I would actually question this I don't know if everybody wants to be a middle-class consumer I do think that people are cool with like electric motor bikes and like just folding cell phones to some extent you know what I mean like there's some things that like stay with you all day long it's hard to describe if you guys have ever been to third world countries sometimes having a really sick motorbike and a really sick cell phone and a place to kick it could do a lot at least for the single male population okay you know what I mean like there's there's ways to like ease it up because I'll tell you this I do not think it's possible for eight million people to live in American middle-class lifestyle consumeristically oh no they're crazy anyway let's move on to the USA comments so these are comments about how the Indian American population has now surpassed the Chinese American population somebody saying with two Indian Americans currently running for president I don't think this comes as much of a surprise to anybody by the way the VP is also half Indian so there is a ton of Indians are entering American politics right now yeah that's sure there's a lot of Indians and yeah I know I also think that they're talking about how many tech CEOs are hiring Indians and yeah yeah I mean that is true I mean we've definitely noticed a lot of Indians in leadership positions yeah yeah yeah like we said I mean pretty different skill set than what Confucianism teaches even though there's definitely some similarities in some sense um of course somebody was pointing out they were saying I'm a Christian Indian and I'm not gonna get hired versus another Indian of the same caste as somebody because everybody that is Hindu is so caste is even though they're in America so I don't know I don't know how true that is but obviously I'm sure it depends on the individual yeah I hope that people wouldn't bring that over but I have been seeing Andrew I believe Washington state has a law in California as thinking about adding anti-castism laws from Indian to Indian on the law books but obviously a lot of people who are not Indian we're like wait what are you guys even talking about yeah but I guess if it's easy to pass that law you might as well right it just cuts down on discrimination yeah somebody said the main reason for this change is that Chinese Americans intermarry a lot more than Indian Americans do and someone was saying yeah man sure get with a lot of white guys you know I like them a lot too um I guess how much is this true Andrew because if you factored in half Chinese kids right and I'm assuming a lot of it's a lot of the mom is Chinese and the dad is white or something else apparently 800 000 mixed Chinese kids right there's eight that then and I would if you count them as Chinese then it would keep the Chinese American numbers above the Indian American numbers yeah yeah yeah yeah they were I mean it's not a competition man whether you count the hapas or not like whatever it's not really competition I guess I'm just interested to see how the community the Asian community is going to change or develop moving forward with so many Indians in America because you know like when we talk about Asian Americans oftentimes we are a lot of people referring to more like East Asians right or at least a mongoloid looking person yeah that's a funny time yeah that's not East Asian as well right yeah but but I I guess they're referring to more Southeast Asian and East Asian that's when when people say Asian American right somebody who can be mistaken for sometimes the South Asians are somewhat left out but the South Asian population is so big are they gonna identify more as Asian and and we're gonna combine powers I guess combine powers or is it gonna be feel a little bit more separate yeah I think it would be cool if we could combine but realistically I think it's gonna be like its own category because it really made me bet money if Indian people and other Asian people are not intermarrying each other then and actually blending the communities because that's how you really blend it's not just working together you actually have to like marry each other and I actually think statistically speaking both East Asians and Southeast Asians as well as Indians are more likely to marry a white person than each other oh you mean then a different group yeah then then a South Asian Mary um East Asian or East Asian man they're more both more likely to marry white than intermarried Southeast Asian to East Asian I would imagine that's a problem oh yeah that's pretty but but yeah I guess I I know what you're saying but yeah anyways David I guess any other thought like what are your takeaways like your overall thoughts because I'm just interested to see how I guess it impacts Asian America and like even what we do and what we talk about yeah I mean ultimately I think that it's gonna be interesting to see that these two ancient civilizations from way back in the day thousands of years ago are gonna have a significant impact on the world moving forward but not in a conventional like you know Roman Empire way at all more like as economic consumers and workers and contributors building businesses whether as an entrepreneur or entrepreneur I think that that's like the most fascinating aspect of it and nobody's really like thinking about it this way even though statistically it totally is this way it's gonna be Chinese and Indian people in mass I'm not saying that either of them like are as cool as like Japanese or Korean people but I'm just saying they got the numbers you know they have the mass critical mass and I think it's interesting I mean I'm gonna end on last comment from this country person somebody's saying all Asians I've met are smart educated hard-working family-centered and law-abiding contributing members of society and they're probably even better than us native-born Americans man we need more of them so hey guys it's an interesting concept we'll see man let us know what you guys think in the comment section below what do you think about India overtaking China on the global population ranking as well as Indian Americans overtaking Chinese Americans on the internal USA AAPI rankings um until next time we to hop up boys keep it civil we encourage debate we out peace