 This kid asked random people who they thought was the most attractive Asian ethnicity and these are the answers he got. Yeah, this is from the mindset guy. He went around USC's campus asking people some random questions. So let's run the clip. Asian is the most attractive ethnicity. Fall up, you know. Because I'm half. What makes them attractive? They can sing and dance. What Asian is the most attractive ethnicity? Chinese. And why is that? My favorite Asian girl is Chinese. Which favorite Asian girl? Me, Ling, Mingfeng. Is she a baddie? Super baddie. What Asian is the most attractive ethnicity? Japanese. Okay, why is that? What makes them awesome? They are Chinese. What Asian is the most attractive ethnicity? I can't even say it. You have a favorite Asian? Jackie Chan, cool. Jack it on. Chinese, my boy, yes sir! What is the most attractive Asian ethnicity? I don't know, there's a lot of them. I've got to narrow it down to one. One of my professors. Wait, what is she? She's Asian. She's hot. What Asian is the most attractive ethnicity? Korean. Yes sir! Look at him. Just look at him. He's Chinese. Well then, there you go. What is the most attractive Asian ethnicity? What the fuck? Boom! Honestly, I thought the clip was funny. Listen, I understand there could be other reactions. Some people were like, this was cringe. This is problematic. Other people were just like, I don't know. It just goes to show you that when you ask random people some random questions, sometimes they keep it real, but they don't know much. Yeah, no. I mean, I think that the answers were funny and authentic and genuine. So yeah, I guess David, what are your first thoughts on this? You know, like overall, what would you say? Somebody who has Dunn Man on the street at USC, I can appreciate it. But yeah, obviously we don't know what was edited out. There could have been somebody who was like an Asian studies minor or something like that, but their answer was too boring. Obviously, listen guys, this is Gen Z, they're TikTok kids. They want to create a viral video, but I will say this. I still think that it's really easy in 2023, and or to be in this almost like this subreddit cyclone where you don't really know how much other people know or don't know. Well, you know what's funny? Just as you think maybe this guy or a lot of Asians on the jackfruit page are stuck in kind of Asian circles. So when we hear that people haven't tried bubble tea, we're shocked, right? But if you think about it, everyone else is also in their cyclones and tornadoes too, their own little universes too. So in a way, as much as there's more information out there for everybody, people are also more stuck into their own echo chambers. It's really weird. It's almost like there's some people that are like the most cultured people that ever lived on earth, but do you benchmark them as like the default? And also at the end of the day, man, I'm not mad that people can't tell the difference between Chinese and Korean people right off the bat. When you're talking about Chinese Americans and Korean Americans on a college campus, who knows? Especially at USC, because everybody's going to look like a rich party. Yeah, they're going to have like the style. Everybody's going to have a part anyway. Anyway, make sure you like, subscribe, and turn on your notifications. But one thing that people should know about Andrew is Smala. Smala sauce. Check it out. Shipping out right now. I mean, I will say this, man. I think that it's really interesting. I never get offended when non-Asian people don't know anything about Asians. Because I know that I've done the work to know a lot about non-Asian things, even though we run a channel that's primarily about Asian things. And I guess that's like my world talent in the sense of like, I've studied something that very few other people have studied at depth. It's not that I can't relate to other people who don't know anything about being Asian. And you know what? Another thing is, I've seen people who you wouldn't think know anything about being Asian, particularly ex-NBA players or people at the NBA, Andrew. They're hyper aware of all the differences. Even within China, they know about all the different provinces. Because Andrew, you know why? They have an incentive to try to seed basketball culture and industries in all different Asian countries. So that's why they know because that's their job. Because people, but I guess does it ultimately come down to a population's personal incentive in something? How much do you know about this thing? It's because how interested you are into it. Do you like music from that culture? Do you like food from that culture? Or what makes somebody know about another group in America? Yeah, I mean, a lot of people, they just start off knowing kind of who they grow up around. And unless they're super well traveled, they're not necessarily going to know about the people. It also matters on your daily life. Is it information that you're going to use in your daily life? Right. Like all the things you learn about mitochondria and cell splitting in science class, a lot of people that went in and out one year. Yeah, a lot of geography. A lot of people learned in school, but then never traveled and then they never used it again, so they forget. Americans are specifically notorious for not knowing anything else about the rest of the world because guess what? A lot of them don't care. Anyway, let's get into the comments section, Andrew. It kind of goes to our first point. Hey, if you don't hang out with Asians, you're not going to know the difference, man. Somebody said, yeah, man, some dudes only know China. Yeah. And I guess recently we did a man on the street in Hollywood and a lot of people were still saying only Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan for the Asians in Hollywood they knew, right? And Lucy Liu was number three. So it goes to show you that as much as there are people who can name you every member of BTS and even the B-tier K-pop groups, there's so many levels of understanding. Right. Somebody said, hold up. Was the dude sitting on the bench eating cat food? And so no, that was flaming hot Doritos with the Dorito guac. So just to clear that up. Somebody said, one time in high school, this guy said, isn't Asia and China? And then somebody said, yeah, I had somebody I work with ask if this dude was Korean or Asian like WTF. And this came from my black woman. That still happens. Still happens. The, oh, are you Chinese or Asian? Are you Korean or Asian? What do you think that they think Asian is? I don't know. I don't, I don't, I don't think that they are very geographically educated generally. They're just not geographically tapped. But they're also just not like thinking too much about it. They're just like, oh, oh, yeah, China is part of Asia. Okay. Well, whatever. Anyways, what are you? You know, a lot of people do it to Africa too, right? People think that Africa is a country and not a continent and things like that. Somebody said, they didn't want to say y'all all look alike. And someone said, mother effing, I don't even look a little bit like you. And someone said, yeah, y'all man, y'all don't look different. I grew up in SoCal. So I can tell the difference. But I know basically referring that I know other people who don't grow up around Asians cannot tell Asians apart. Is it your IQ for something literally just driven by what you were exposed to? Because you know how like a lot of people, they may do, Asians may do it to other groups. Like for example, a lot of people, they may believe and obviously not us, but like all Latinos in America are Mexican. Right, right. No, I mean, to this day, it's true. A lot of people when they see like Ecuador and Guatemala and Salvador and type person, that they're just going to assume they're Mexican. Right. Because they haven't like fleshed out their nuance there. Their rainbow, their crayon coloring pack only has like four colors instead of the 124 pack. And obviously if we were to get specific about people's actual nuanced identities, it's way more similar to the 124 pack of crayons. Someone said, this is mega cringe. Yes, it is. Was it cringe to you? Yes or no? As somebody who has done a lot of MOS, it's like you kind of like, you just like laughing at the spontaneity of it all, right? Hey man, if those are the real answers, let it be real. Somebody said, I love all Asians, but Asians from the Bayou do it for me. I don't care about the specifics. They all fam. So this black woman was basically like, Asians from the Bayou where I'm from, like I just get down with them. I don't even want to know the specifics. Like I'm not even a mother. Yeah, I don't know. I could feel that. I could feel where she's coming from, even though it's like, because it's just like, oh man, we all just from the Bayou. Well, it depends on how Asian they are, you know, like they try to, you know. Recognize my specific country. Or just be American, man, whatever. Dude, everybody has such a different perception of like how people want to see them. It's so interesting. Somebody said this has to be up north, like NY or Massachusetts, because they seem to only know the Northeast Asians. She said, right in the Bay, it's Southeast Asians everywhere. Well, actually the truth is Andrew, this was at USC. This was in LA. I got to say something interesting Andrew. Tell me if you agree, just look at me. LA is actually very neighborhood specific and the knowledge base, it's almost more based off the part of LA you're in than LA as a whole. Right. That's also not to say that these black people in this video are from LA themselves though. They could be from another place. USC is a gigantic multi, I guess global feeder school, right? Somebody said, they only say that because they can't pronounce Vietnamese. This is a black woman. I'm so tired of hearing Vietnamese. And this girl said, yes, I'm Viet2 and I'm tired of hearing Vietnamese. Vietnamese, that's funny. I haven't heard that in a while. That actually made me laugh. This black guy said, you know, for me, I say Cambodian. And then this white guy said, from white guy Koreans. And then somebody said, Filipinos represent Vietnamese. And someone said, how come, is that racist for the girl, the first girl who is half Filipino, half black to say that her favorite is Filipinos because they can sing and dance. And then somebody else said, no, it's because a higher probability of Filipinos are raised singing and dancing from their parents or their grandparents. It is more probably a higher percentage. Somebody posted a Joe Coy meme saying rice is rice. Basically saying, if all Asians are different short grain, long range flavors of rice, but to the outside eye, rice is rice. And 98% of the world's rice production comes out of Asia. Hey, do people really know the difference between jasmine and basmati rice right off the bat? Go. What's the difference? See? Short grain, long grain, sticky. There's a viscocities. Somebody just said, we're all Chinese to them, to a lot of people out there. I guess how true is that still to this day? I guess, like we said, you know, everybody's in their own like little confirmation bubble. You know what I mean? It's like, you know, it's like you're Andrew. Andrew, you're into this music artist and then you're going to your friends and it's like, yo, did you hear about Daniel Caesar or something like that? And then somebody's like, who's Daniel Caesar? That's your number one plate on your Spotify? He goes, yeah. How do you not know? How do you not know? Because I guess what? There's market fragmentation, right? And different people know different things. Yeah, that's why I'm not shocked by this video. You know, even in 2023, maybe he perhaps edited out a couple of people who had better, more nuance, more accurate answers. Boring academic response. But I'm not shocked, man. It's not to say that these people are like, not smart in their own way, but I just they probably know a bunch of things that that person. Yeah. But I just think like, you can learn something technically, but like if you don't continuously use it, you're not going to be well versed in it. And you have to understand that there's a lot of people that are outside of this K-pop BTS world. Or Asian means. Boba means. In fact, that is most of America. Most of America is still outside of this. How much do we want people to know? Is it just about having our own little internal world? Or is it like, you know, for a while, I remember Spanish people used to look at me crazy because I didn't know who J Balvin and Bad Bunny were until they went, you know, had the songs with Drake and stuff. I don't know. I don't know how much Asians want other people to know because sometimes when then other people know too much, then it then it's annoying to Asians. Like, oh, you're trying to tell me about my own culture. But then it's like, oh, wow, you don't know anything about my culture. It's like. Dude, just let people learn respectfully, whatever. Yeah. Anyway, guys, let us know what you think in the comments section below. I do not think the video was that serious. Listen, people were very young. What are they, 18, 19? Of course, they're going to give answers. Honestly, if they asked a bunch of Asian students, a bunch of African American history questions, I'm pretty sure, especially some of the foreign international students, I don't even know what type of answers they would have gave too. Right. Maybe some not knowing anything either. Exactly. All right, everybody. Thank you so much for watching. Please leave your comments down below. And until next time, we out. Peace.