 Are people who grew up in the Asian bubble Enclave usually more closed-minded or not? Well guess what David there's a debate going on on Reddit. Let's see where it goes. Yeah this thread was uh quite a few responses long of course there was a range of opinions. Some people said yes maybe no we're gonna get into the comments our own takeaways. Make sure you like subscribe turning your notifications into real quick. We have to address the ASEAN Enclave culture that was referred to in the Reddit thread as like I don't know if these people who are into these things are open minded. May I refer to you as ASEAN's listening to EDM driving JDMs wanting to be a ABG or ABB singing at Nori Bongs or KTVs watching animes 88 rising listening to kpop drinking boba in the morning soju at night time and vaping having hype beast clothing and bare bricks and asianic theme tap twos they want to spend their time with clubs drugs and b want to be r&b thugs sounds pretty lit sounds like a good flushing night or a 626 or uh oh see you know Bay Area the guy a little bit of this man uh yeah I mean dude honestly all those things you named if I wasn't Asian I would think that that was almost like a different language you know what I mean but anyways guys we're gonna get into it because those are the general traits of the ASEAN Enclave as of right now or as of at least even the past 10 12 15 years 20 30 really dude they've been raving forever I mean I think rap was in for a little bit it's back to raves yeah so let's talk about it guys because there's a number of responses I thought there's some pretty good perspective in this thread obviously we are not from the bubble but we did live in the bubble over in the San Gabriel Valley for a number of years I enjoy the bubble I'm not of the bubble but I enjoy sampling the taste of the bubble it was we lived in the bubble for some years all right so this was a response Andrew from somebody who grew up in the ASEAN or Asian Enclave saying it's not closed-minded it's just growing up around more people with like-minded upbringings so basically you just don't have to explain a lot of things that you would have to explain to other people so it's no it is not closed-minded it's just growing up with like-minded people it's great it's the best yeah I don't know closed-minded has such a connotation to it so but I what I will say this is when you live in the Asian bubble oftentimes you're essentially consuming a lot of culture from Asia in America so that means part of your life is literally being lived in Asia not most of it but part of it is versus if you live outside of the Enclave maybe like almost none of your life is being lived in Asia but if you surround yourself with so much Asian content Asian culture Asian people Asian faces yeah then it's almost like somebody who you know goes to Asia or grew up in Asia and only consumes American but it doesn't mean that your Asian friends within that like one percent of America America's 330 million people let's just say the people you can ping with if you keep it super Asian is 3.3 million that's one percent of the distribution of the population of America it doesn't mean that one percent doesn't have a variety of different personalities that you could learn from though yeah they have a different interest your Asian friend that's in the trucks your Asian friends that's in the sports cars yeah absolutely also by the way when you talk about Asian enclaves that doesn't mean that the neighborhood is a hundred percent Asian actually in the San Gabriel Valley a lot of the neighborhoods are are quite significantly Latino right but I will say that although there is some mixing between individuals I wouldn't say the communities as a whole are mixed together yeah somebody said listen man I get what you're saying but you are only referring to SoCal Asians when you were referring to the vaping AZM JDM ABG ABB culture all right so this is where I kind of slightly disagree I do think SoCal culture embodies that to the T to 100% no to the 10 out of 10 level if you go to SoCal specifically in my opinion OC maybe San Jose you're gonna see this lived out to a 10 out of 10 level I would say the San Gabriel Valley decent amount but they're saying SG 626 is a little bit almost like Taiwan like Asia Asia right um all right so what I'm gonna say is this I looked at the statistics guys and the cities or the counties with the highest Asian population are actually in the Bay area this is outside of Hawaii of course but yeah 25% of the population in San Mateo Alameda and Santa Clara counties is Asian now let's talk about SoCal San Diego and Orange counties also have a significant number of Asians each comprising about 24% so that's even higher than Los Angeles County right right right but it does variable because you know you can live your life in one city for example and I know Mark Keppel High School which is in Monterey Park I believe is like 75% Asian as a high school so there's ones there's certain cities even within that that like over index like super high like 80% Asian like Hawaii numbers but I guess in the Bay area I know kids who went to like I don't want to say if it's Fremont or Santa Clara High but these some of these high schools are like 85% Asian yeah it's complicated because Stuyverson High School in New York is 90% Asian but you would never say that you're living in an Asian bubble you just say that building is an Asian bubble right right um and what do you think about somebody saying yeah you're just talking about the party Asians of course there's going to be church Asians athletic Asians volunteer Asians even though church Asians and the athletic Asians seem to get mixed together often as you can see in Netflix's beef you know there was like the basketball Asians mixed with the church Asians in one tribe right so wait they're asking who is the most like no this guy was saying that like you can be in the enclave and not necessarily be about Boba vaping AZN JDM yeah that's true for sure for sure but I would say that those things that we name the the ABG JDM stuff that is that is very distinct to those areas not necessarily that they make up 60 or 70% of the people but those are the distinct traits traits that other non-onclaves might not have as somebody said I'm Filipino and I grew up in an Asian enclave in inland empire and we were all Asian acting but we still drove monster trucks because we also took on traits from inland empire so here's the thing about enclaves guys there is no set size to what an enclave is it's all about your mindset whether you live in the bubble the bubble around you could be literally a hundred people that's a bubble technically if you just spend most of your time and you buy into that system and you run by the kind of the social norms of and the culture of those hundred or 200 people right right right like you're saying that you know you you kind of decide the the size of your own bubble yes like I remember people at church I mean I'm sorry at my high school that were like super religious Jehovah's Witnesses they were almost like living in a bubble within our city even though the other people around us we didn't even know anything about that I knew we knew Mormons at school and there was like a Mormon community it's not like they were like pinging with the rest of the school at the same rate they'd go back to their Mormon world after school and stuff like that so it's very complicated somebody said it's not as closed-minded as much it is just your comfort zone um yeah any but any type of personality can emerge from anywhere I don't like saying that closed-minded people come from the enclaves and open-minded people come from outside of the enclaves I would agree with that to an extent I would say that you know if you're raised in Europe as a basketball player there's a chance you could be a ball hog if you're raised in America there's a chance you could be fundamental non-flashy and team-minded however there are patterns of coaching though I thought this one comment made a good point they said you know what though actually a lot of that SoCal Asian population that you're referring to contributed a lot to the general Asian-American culture in bridging the gap between Asia and America so although it sounds kind of frivolous like how you make it sound they actually are kind of leading the way as far as Asian-American culture that's actually a good point that is fair it is fair because listen listen back in the days of Asian YouTube you know I'm going to say six seven years ago at the peak that was like very SoCal Asian but but what do you think about the argument that all the people that are quote-unquote pushing Asians forward in politics and media I would say nine out of ten do not come from the bubble like maybe 19 out of 20 of them don't come from an Asian enclave right but it's true because being raised in an Asian enclave it's like it's just a different skill set it's not going to necessarily prepare you to like rise the length ranks of like a white or a black system every day right yeah yeah I know what you mean obviously for sure politics I think media is a little bit easier to be from the enclave nowadays but yes typically a lot of the Asians who want to join these fears and rise up the ladders of the non-Asian systems were not from the enclaves because they were not stuck in their comfort zones because their comfort zones don't have those many levels that's it right yeah somebody said all the Asians subgenres seem to be melted into one internet culture in 2023 I remember there used to be rocker Asians artsy far to see creative Asians the outdoor Asians the hipster Asians and nowadays it's all just one thing that's on subtle Asian traits that's been mixed together yeah no obviously we used to do the different types of Asian girls and different types of Asian guys and but no I mean do you agree with this I don't think it's true I think that it's that's the meme culture that's kind of being pushed but that doesn't change how all the kids are obviously even all different types of people are still consuming the subtle Asian traits memes I do think that there's a lot more genre mashing between identities or personas in 2023 though because if you look at rock music that completely as a persona has like gone away right it's been folded into hip hop now there's like rock-centric hip hop and emo center but I'm gonna say this even whether you identify as an Asian rap guy or an Asian rocker guy or an Asian fob guy everybody can enjoy like a rice cooker meme right you know I mean everybody can enjoy a meme about your parents being fobby or your parents wanting something traditional and obviously that's why those memes are so out you know overly successful yeah yeah but obviously the typically when you imagine a person who is consuming subtle Asian traits memes you can you you imagine like some young boba kid all right man we got a real quick bring in Fred who is half Latino he's half Mexican half Korean he's gonna give us some insight onto different uh bubbles whether they're closed minded or open minded right joining us today we've got Fred you're a half Mexican you're half Korean but you grew up near both a Latino enclave as well as an Asian enclave Fred is it safe to say you're familiar with both bubbles yes they're familiar might have lived a bit more than the other but they're both there which one did you live more in I would say recently the Asian enclave bubble can you can you describe your Asian enclave just give it a shout out you know just the casual fo you go out to eat go out to eat fo bubble tea a lot of kbbq head out to karaoke nrb that was basically how I lived for most of my life right I guess have you also have your heavy exposure to the Latino enclave life not as prominent as my Asian enclave life just because uh that part is only from my family side and I kind of live separately from my family side but the only times I go there is when it's a family gathering birthday party but you have had you have like swung out of pinata many times right as a kid yeah let's just be clear here you got your Mexican card you're very fluent in Spanish but I want to ask you because have you heard anything from each side from each enclave or people from each enclave or bubble that would lead you to believe that they're like more closed-minded than others you know like something maybe from your Asian friends and they just say something like ignorant you're just kind of like because you're mixed so you've seen multiple worlds we're talking about people who have only grown up primarily in one world yeah yeah yeah I think it is closed-minded like whether or not if you want it to be or not it's just it's just there it's the same thing as being ignorant right you don't want to be ignorant but sometimes you are ignorant what what is something that you went oh man that's a little bit closed-minded not that I hate you guys for it but it you know I from my perception that's a little closed-minded of maybe the food spots we go to or something yeah um for my case a lot of my friends we only go to Asian restaurants not really more of the Hispanic side just because you know they're not familiar with the cuisine not even tacos taco trucks is beginner level man the only thing they've gone was probably Taco Bell and that's probably it oh yo Taco Bell doesn't count um so I guess what do you think it is like do you think there's anything wrong with saying hey man you grew up in an Asian bubble you're probably closed-minded is that is that wrong is that a wrong accusation to make because that's obviously what this reddit post was sparking I mean it is to a certain extent like it is kind of rude to call someone closed-minded but it's you know sometimes it's not their fault but you are sometimes at fault because you choose not to try it out yeah you know there's a cuisine out there but you don't want to try it out because you're more comfortable with your own food you have no desire or curiosity exactly well you know what it is guys I'm looking up the definition of closed-minded ignorant okay and they're a little bit different so I don't like to use them as synonyms for each other so closed-minded is having or showing rigid opinions or a narrow outlook that's the first definition okay and then of ignorant it means lacking knowledge or awareness in general uneducated so I think that in a way even though both sound negative ignorant is in a way more understandable if you grow up around one single type of person closed-minded is actually and you're actively cutting off other things you're actively looking at the word the world through a narrow lens and I think that's why closed-mindedness is different I think a lot of people grow up ignorant you're saying it's almost more naive yeah or just ignorant versus being aggressively closed-minded has a certain connotation that may be too extreme yeah no closed-minded definitely has that connotation where you're actively like seeing things how you want to see it versus I'm just ignorant I don't know so if you tell me you're on Fred's like hey bro like why don't we go do this and they're just like oh I never thought of it that way thanks Fred for like opening my mind I guess I guess I'm open to it if you lead the way can you speak Spanish to the waiter are you going to order the tacos thanks man so could you say a person can be closed-minded and ignorant yeah you probably can be both too you probably can be a mix yeah yeah if you both you're just being stupid but I do think a lot of people are born ignorant for sure because we're all raised in our own bubbles right uh would you say that like people on the Latino side in the town you're from would they be in their own bubble and not know about the Korean bubble or Asian bubble well okay the the reason why I say this now is yes I do believe just because that's their only way of working right so like a lot of the Hispanics work for a lot of Asian restaurants that they probably have to like mix themselves into the Asian bubble oh okay right right right so you're saying there's some sort of integration due to occupation yes do you think in their off time after they get off work and they're like you know they were making like the kimchi or whatever but like they're off work and they're like hey man I'm going back to the Latino like bubble man like that's it I'm sure but they do eat a lot of Asian cuisine yeah that's their lunch break you know no I'll give it to you man I think a lot of Mexicans I mean I'm not to assume everybody's Mexican but like the Latinos they're very open minded though yeah generally to food especially the food they will I've seen Latinos at like every restaurant yeah almost so hey man shout out to Latinos um I would say this man I think just seeing other worlds makes you more interesting you look at Drake raised rich suburban Jewish in Toronto hood Memphis lifestyle on his dad's side the travel between the two made him a very interesting artist made him the most successful rap artist of all time right I mean I'm just going to say like having access to two disparate bubbles that are worlds apart and learning them both at like an 8 out of 10 or 10 out of 10 level makes you an interesting person I'm not saying that people necessarily from the bubble are not interesting I got a lot of friends from the bubble that I think are super interesting but I'm just saying obviously everybody's life does shape them to become who they are but also it's not just like oh I'm from the bubble or I'm not from the bubble it's your own individual statistics and your own individual like curiosity yeah and I don't think everybody who is open minded and knows a little bit about every culture that doesn't necessarily make them automatically interesting sometimes very interesting people do come from the bubble because they have a certain perspective that you're like oh I didn't know that's how you see things or I didn't know that's how that world is like so they can have access and appear into a different world which to me is so interesting so I think like when it comes to the bubble and stuff again like you said it just matters on what you're trying to do in life right if you want to know about everything then I want to know what the bubble's like I want to know what outside of the bubble's like but anyways guys any other last takeaways I just have a story from reddit there's somebody says I have a bunch of different cousins boys and girls that grew up in the bubble and when they went to college about half of them got really diverse multiracial friends and half of them just stuck with whatever they grew up with thank you so much for watching you guys let us know in the comments down below what you think about the bubble does it make you closed-minded does it make you ignorant those are two different things let us know and uh yeah let us know if you grew up in the bubble or if you want to raise your family in the bubble maybe you want to move to the bubble maybe the bubble is more comfortable oh I got one last thing somebody said I have a story from church and I always felt like the Asian churches I went to were way more into my life and toxic than the non-Asian churches I went to and I said yes that's probably true but it's also probably because they cared a lot more about your life at the Asian church too that's my general opinion yeah if you guys don't want people to know about your life and be nosy then just be around a bunch of non-Asian people because they won't ask you any questions all right everybody thank you so much please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot pot boys until next time we out peace