 Are these typical traits of a first-generation Asian household? Let's talk about it. Yeah, let's see if this video hit you in the fields Let's play the clip from M. Winnie's. Oh I mean, you know, I think it went viral because it captured this first-generation immigrant household Definitely the parents probably came in the 70s or early 80s And it like it just captured it so well because it's not a movie It just was the house change. She didn't have to say much, but it still said so much So let's just go through the clip real quick general things Messy fridge with different types of containers the drawer full of the cleavers and ladles and those scissors that are used to cut like You know food oftentimes Storing disposable containers that you're re-washing in the dishwasher. You got Chinese paintings The house is kind of cluttered but like not dirty but cluttered if you know what I mean the sheets on the bed Definitely look like they're all bought at like Asian stores and obviously celebrating your old like relatives like birthday with just food and like super chill like family dinner. No, the whole house is like very Hawaii supermarket. It's like Hawaii supermarket in the 626, which is like kind of an old-school Chinese Southeast Asian sort of like diasporic type of so I don't know where she lives But let me know if this type of life relates to you and your family And if this looks like your first-generation Asian household, please hit that like button and check out other episodes of the hot-pot boys You know what's gonna fit into a first or second generation household is smiley sauce get it a smiley sauce.com from Sichuan, Sicily Great goes great on pastas noodles dumplings, etc Yeah, check out our Instagram to see all the content that we're making about it I would say this I mean I relate to it for sure not ten out of ten or a hundred out of a hundred But there's absolutely elements that this really captured it well better than any movie that I've ever seen I feel like judging by the type of food and The sonny-ness she's got to be in California somewhere and what we believe she is Chinese Cambodian Chilchow Yeah, she is a Chilchow Chinese Cambodian that also lived in Vietnam. That's why her last name is win. I looked into the comments. Yeah, okay So people kind of figured it out. Yeah. Yeah, and which is a you're gonna find that in California, especially the 626 or OC Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's really interesting and I think what allows a lot of people to relate to it It's cuz there's some Chinese elements, but then there's also some Southeast Asian elements. So it's also you got a big I guess it's got a big universal appeal Yeah, and listen one of the reasons why this kind of depiction of a household is very relatable especially to a West Coast Asian immigrant household from the 1980s is because a Lot of people still shopped at the same Asian supermarket now These Asian supermarkets at this time before H marks came before 99 ranches They were generally Chinese owned or Chinese Vietnamese owned and a lot of the products had Chinese and Vietnamese Labeling on it. So it really relates to Chinese particularly the southern half of Chinese to Southeast Asians which are a lot of like Vietnamese Cambodian Asian, you know, a lot of right, right Well, there was a huge diaspora over the past like 150 years from southern China to Southeast Asian nowadays the Asians coming they can shop at H Mart all the Japanese markets the newer Etc. It might look a little bit different, but essentially yes I think a lot of Asian immigrant families have like at least 30 or 40 percent And this is I feel like an immigrant household that you rarely see depicted to like on camera because nowadays all the Asian influencers They live in modern Condos and everybody's trying to beat with the modern ways and cool and fly I do think I can sense from all these tiktokers and instagramers from the videos that we've reviewed on our channel recently There is kind of a coming back to the parents culture and kind of appreciating the immigrant household and like I don't know There seems like some nostalgia for it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it feels like a 2023 thing I mean everything's retro right Polaroids are back into let's get into the comments section Somebody said thank you for normalizing mess and clutter I always felt so insecure growing up going over to my non-Asians house friends houses and seeing how tidy and spotless They were then I'd come home and see our home and feel so embarrassed. Yo, I remember we had I had some non-Asian friends. I think they were Italian white whatever like they came over and were like They were kind of like oh your house is like kind of like Messy like they were like, huh? Like how come it's not like and I go to their house and everything's well put together It looks like a model home and I was just like, yeah, my mom and like just doesn't like we don't think about that kind of thing Right, right, right and it does depend. I mean I remember I went to some rich people at churches houses that were super clean as well, too It's not like you know a hundred out of a hundred all first-generation immigrants that came in the 70s We're one way I do think it's not as dirty as it is cluttered It is never dirty. It's never dirty, but it could definitely be cluttered We take off our shoes, so there's not a lot of dirt on the ground, but we just don't organize every single mom used to love hoarding Newspapers back in the day Somebody said the clutter is so accurate and cozy and someone said hey How'd you break it in my mom's house and somebody said man the food is probably bustin It's nice to see actual homes online for a change Yeah, and I think like the whole organization of the house first of all There's not a lot of organization, but it's really meant for being practical and it's not about like the decor and trying like I think this is a very middle-class First-generation Asian household, you know, I mean right now. Yeah, not rich rich But like you're just middle-class you got enough, but you're not gonna spend extra money on shelves You know what mama would always say is be like hey, I know where everything is okay I know everything and that's what the same immigrant business is say I got friends who are trying to take over their parents restaurants right now, and they're like dude the kitchen It's like organized chaos like they know where everything is, but it looks cluttered when I walk in right right right Somebody says something about this screams Cambodian. I can't put my finger on it and someone said this can't only be Asian Households it's got to be all immigrant households. I'm half Serbian half Cuban and it looks like the same at my place That's interesting So I think that obviously a lot of people can relate to it this you don't have to be Asian but obviously there's Asian elements like the Asian paintings and the fruits sitting out there and obviously some of the Asian utensils and things that you would buy at the Asian market right that you have to get from Asia that are made in Asia But I totally understand. I think African immigrants. I think Hispanic immigrants I think almost any immigrant household can relate to this at least like 20 30 percent for sure for sure They're somebody said the corner calendar and the bowl of tangerines. Yeah, yo the calendar Shout out to the calendar. That's the one thing that I feel like that way holds you what's missing in this house She didn't show a Buddha shrine, but that is also like not every family is Buddhist obviously right right right Someone said this made me so homesick. I can't wait to see my mom's and my auntie's This is a happy household full of traditions and laughter's comforting vibes Man, this made me feel so many different emotions and someone said these households are the best household There is there is such a wave of nostalgia I mean how much of it that like literally a lot of the people in the house are like 70 years old or 60 years old and They're from like the old country way pre-internet era. You know what I mean? They've seen a lot. Yeah, they take some of those things with them and they recreate them in America, right? What you are looking at in this house is a mishmash of like Nostalgia of Asian and Western culture thrown together, but I'm not gonna lie if you go to Asia There's probably still some houses that look like this too Somebody said why the sad background music it seems like Everybody's into that nowadays. I just think that Asians kind of like being sad Asians love they love sad lo-fi But that's like to a Western person They may be like, you know, why do you like like sad lo-fi, but the Asian is just be like, I don't know It's just lo-fi to me. Yeah I think it fits because honestly a lot of Asian households like this typically don't have a lot of lamps and lighting Or they have different types of lighting. We're like maybe in a Western family They're like thinking about the lighting and everything's more bright. They have bright lights But a lot of Asian households they keep it kind of dim because they also don't want to use a lot of electricity That's true. That's true. It's actually pretty different. You got to get an Asian house with a good lighting Good natural lighting somebody was saying man Just the cleaver hanging out freely in the drawer is the main thing for me man And someone said you got to have had the Kiwi brand the Kiwi brand Oh, that's but I think that's a Chinese Southeast Asian brand from Thailand to be honest Ultimately man, I think it depends Asian family to Asian family like if you look at like Korean families They're gonna use a lot of koeh koeh is like a Korean appliance brand Andrew Taiwanese that always have like the Thai tongue I remember we had like a Japanese neighbor. I went over there They had so much dried squid and they had those shoji like Japanese like wall doors. You know what I mean? So I mean, of course, it's still gonna value culture to culture. I mean very culture to culture Yeah, yeah for sure like I said, I mean, I think this is very like when I watched this video before I looked into the comments Of who she was I did think she was Chinese Southeast Asian, right meaning that most of her blood is Chinese But there her family lineage has lived and spent time in Southeast Asia because it's almost like the mishmash Yeah, I mean when you saw that lobster, I already knew right off the bat. That was like she's not just Cantonese from like Guangzhou, you know, there's some extra scallions and some they have the Cambodian salt and pepper Yeah, yeah, and then she had that like preserve like squid sauce or what it was inside the dishwasher But anyways, like I think the funny thing is that it really does remind you that when you go to the Asian market a lot of the brands Have Chinese English and Vietnamese or another high or another Southeast Asian language on it Yeah, the China. Yeah, the Chinese Southeast Asian diaspora is something that's so like unexplored and like not fully understood Because a lot of the brands that are in Southeast Asia I'm not saying all of them a lot of them are owned by Chinese people that move to Southeast Asia like a hundred years But also like yeah, there is all types of Chinese people that use that products and also just people from that country too So anyways, what I'm saying is that maybe she didn't know but she was just trying to depict her family But there's actually so much more you could take away from this tick-tock if you want to dive into it like that Do you think we're at a point now like you said Andrew where people the kids have gone on They live in these modern condos. They live in these modern houses that are like 2020 buildouts with you know all the crazy designs the clear doors and all this This and that and whatnot and it's almost like man But what makes us us what about stuff from the 60s in the 70s? There was Asian that we've gotten away from but at the same time you don't want your new house to feel like that either I don't want my new house to feel like that. I want to go buy a Chinese calendar today I'm gonna go get a Chinese calendar for our wall. We live in a new build-out apartment, but we need some of this flair Oh, we do we do use the dishwasher as a as a hanging rack And I do think that that's why people go back to Chinatowns because Chinatowns still give you that like 1960s 1975 everything in that house in any Chinatown or Asian supermarket All right, everybody you guys let us know how much you relate to it Whether you're from the East Coast or West Coast of America Yeah, and let us know what defines a first-generation immigrant household to you I'm sure it matters on the age of your parent the sort of their Personal background and the things that influence them but very good self-reflective peace. 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