 Trump making Chinese jokes Asian tiktok drama people getting robbed in San Francisco. This is your viral Asian news update I didn't make any of this up. It's just what's trending number one Andrew Trump is dissing his 2024 primary Republican presidential candidates whether we're talking about Glenn Yunkin or Ron DeSantis He's like, you know young kin. It's an interesting take sounds Chinese doesn't it? Yo, what region of China are you talking about Trump? Yeah, you know probably the southern Toy San region I saw the young kin association building unmatched street next to my favorite chest you bows Imagine this guys Trump has managed to in the effort to take down his other opponent and diss them Who's white he also just throws Chinese people under the bus once again. Thank you very much I will say that Trump is from New York So he is familiar with what Cantonese names anglicized look like I mean I would argue It could also be South Korea young Kim if it was a Kim that you change the end to an M But obviously no China's the enemy right now and obviously the geopolitical Relationships have deteriorated over the past four or five years. So of course any Associating anybody with China. No, it's gonna be better. It went from Trump's grandchildren Ivanka Trump's kids speaking Mandarin going She's just singing it just like any other Chinese kid would at the front of the Chinese class It went from that to just like associating anybody's like German anglicized name sort of sounding Cantonese to just something bad You know and interestingly enough Andrew young kin is actually Junkin in German and Trump is actually Trump in German They're both of German descent actually majority wise so you've got two German Americans dissing each other for being like Chinese and You know interestingly enough Andrew most people in politics are either of British or German descent Andrew Guess what America fought wars against the British and the Germans in World War two? So I mean obviously British are way earlier Andrew long story short Andrew one I do think this shows just that like anything China is just bad Yeah, I think you're gonna see it on both sides the both the left and the right are gonna use China as like a Talking point in this upcoming election and number two Andrew This is my actual prediction of how what's gonna happen him and run dissent Ron DeSantis are gonna have a runoff in the primary DeSantis is gonna win cuz Trump got too much dirt on him Trump is gonna get mad cuz he feels entitled to it He's gonna break off build a third party and it's gonna deviate the two votes obviously guaranteeing Democrats a win I don't think any Chinese people use true social number two Andrew the city College of SF has finally Fought off budget cuts and has a two-year Cantonese certification program Especially for people who want to become you know public service infrastructure workers EMTs police officers Nurses etc etc Andrew this is a big win in SF where toys on or can't tell region people make up a pretty significant portion of the population Yeah, I think it's a big win because obviously Cantonese it kind of gets overlooked right now because the lingua franca of China And to be honest, I mean, you know as far as if you need to learn a Chinese language right now You're gonna pick Mandarin. There's way more resources for it. I mean even us growing up in Seattle There was like no class that you could take to learn Cantonese You would have to have learned that from your family or your community or Andrew We got to get into the tea because the tea we are half Cantonese half northern Chinese and Sometimes these sides not everybody's views it this way Sometimes people can kind of get into it like a high school tribalism rivalry between these two groups, right? And like Cantonese people are like, oh Oh I Then the manner people are like And this is like damn man, why is everybody got to be like that because obviously for me and you we know so many words from so Many different dialects because there's like a legitimate curiosity and it's not about to us Which one's more dominant and which ones, you know, but I understand if not everybody has the same level of curiosity Or I guess time to devote like we do to learn about all these different cultures and subcultures I mean listen, I think that there's pros and cons obviously I like that, you know, eventually everybody that is Chinese will be able to understand each other and communicate, you know But obviously yeah, it's tough, you know, like Cantonese is one of those dialects that obviously is actually still spoken by like almost like 100 million people around the world But of course it's probably decreasing due to the fact that it's not really being taught in schools except for SF City College Yeah, this is not promo for you guys. I'm just saying shout out I will say this for everybody who doesn't have you know time to dedicate to a program or a class or money or the commitment There should be a program every where you can learn just like off curated media whether that's old like dosing Chi like Steven Chow movies or some, you know, whatever raps from whoever you like LMA for the Farmer Edison Chen, I don't know is he canceled. I'm just saying hey if it makes Cantonese people feel any better I don't know if you knew this, but this is a fun fact that Cantonese current Cantonese is more similar to Middle Chinese Which is the Chinese that was widely used a thousand years ago So a lot of ancient poem poems from that time rhyming Cantonese better than Mandarin because Cantonese is technically older and more widely used Yo, let me give a shout out to dr. Candice Lynn. I feel like she's one of the best people who's like teaching both at the same time I'm a fan. You know somebody who does speak Cantonese and Mandarin to some level. It's not that dissimilar to me I can see the differences, but it's definitely not that dissimilar. Yeah, Cantonese got some pretty robust, uh swear words to dude I don't know Number three Andrew unfortunately Several wedding photographers have been getting robbed around San Francisco for their expensive camera equipment One person gave it up after a struggle the other person Andrew refused to give it up and they got pistol-whipped in the head Thank God nothing really like downside ultra I mean obviously getting pistol-whipped as bad, but like he didn't get killed right Yeah, and no I could have been it could have turned out worse and you know, thankfully everybody is generally okay But man, imagine that you're taking wedding photos and you're like, oh, I'm so happy to be marrying with you And then she's like hey give me your camera, but but but and then you're just like it's just crazy You just have to know like if you're taking wedding photos it is true that that looks like a target to these bad people because they know that you're in a vulnerable state because Everybody's trying to look nice. You're probably not rolling with security or like a squadron of Male photographers or whatever, you know I'm saying so you just gotta be careful out there and as I've got to do something About that crime, but you know that that's a whole political thing you guys can vote on it You know I understand not wanting to live in fear And what does it mean when like a one out of two thousand chance increases to like one out of two hundred? Because people are still willing to roll the dice at one out of two hundred even though one out of two hundred Theoretically is a 10x risk exposure increase from one out of two thousand But aid you guys just have a plan point number four and we are talking about Controversial Asian tiktokers vote both from a content perspective as well as a backstory perspective today We're talking about read Choi drop this video. He made about colorism stop Asian. Hey stop Asian. Hey and colorism Right cuz we're all Asian Stop hey, oh David my head kind of hurts because the tiktokers are so smart and philosophical Thank you for your interesting thing There's actually a lot of tiktok drama and beef on like an interpersonal level like not even a content-based level I don't know about that man talk about the popular cool hot people like an extension of like popular mean girls and high school They're so pretty all of them the boy and the girl in this as far as the content goes You know he definitely said Something that clearly struck a tone because there's like 4,000 comments on it I will say this typically enter the definition of colorism is like within a country whether we're talking about South Asia The Philippines the Latin Latino American community These are regions that have been colonized by European powers typically They would install people who are full European or partially European at the top of the hierarchy to rule down the natives and it kind of was like a gradient between East Asians and Southeast Asians. I believe what he's referring to is possibly more of narrative power more of liquidity I mean, I mean, I think in media, right? Yes, we do know that it is more focused on East Asian stories I think Southeast Asian stories are coming up and we always say on this channel that East Asians who are successful need to do a better job of helping prop up Southeast Asian stories because guess what? There are more Southeast Asians in the world than there are Japanese and Koreans put together, you know for example, so I always bring up that stat because that just goes to show you There's a lot of Southeast Asians in the world But anyways, what I'm saying is what I don't like about this type of thinking even though it's a real feeling I think the type of thinking is flawed because you're trying to take dynamics from the Americans or the Western world From a very specific history of colonization and slavery and then you're trying to apply them on Asian Americans or Asia which has a completely different history. So I just don't think it works, man It's a clunky comparison. I would really wish people straight away from it But it's a feeling but Andrew the hot tiktokers are mentioning it and it sounds truish He said something kind of smart. So it's true Tiktok is a great place to spark thoughts not a great place for discussion You're saying the tiktok is not the Quora equivalent of video platforms. I don't know man It's in platform, but you know what if it sparks an actual healthy discussion, then so be it Aren't you guys? Thank you so much for watching those four pieces of viral news emanating from the Asian American community this week Make sure you like subscribe turn on your notifications and make sure you let us know some other pieces of news that we need to cover Analyze breakdown give some hot takes on oh also check out our shorts If you guys don't have time to watch the whole video check out the shorts, baby. They're way shorter. They're popping