 They're just like watching from like the telescope onto them. Oh, yeah. Man, the Asian-American sure are fighting for a while. Oh, what's going on over there? Which country is better for Asians to live in? Canada or America? Hopefully, by the end of this video, we'll have an answer for you. Yeah, this is sort of a classic Asian-American internet debate that was sparked up once again because Pew Research just released a study saying that eight out of 10 Asian-Americans think that violence against Asians is on the rise. Now, obviously, Canada did not do a study, but I'm assuming it'd be like two out of 10 in Canada. So it sparked up the debate again, Andrew. Which place is a better place for an Asian guy to move to and have a family and live his life? Is it Canada or is it America? Is it America or is it Canada? All right, so what we're going to do in this video, we're going to go over the general differences between Canada and America, and then we will rank Canada and America on the metrics of what Asians particularly care about, whether it's education or Asian food or unity or safety and stuff like that. Right, so make sure you like, subscribe, turn on your notifications by the way, guys. We are fully aware of the legal complexity of a Canadian becoming an American and an American becoming a Canadian, but who knows, maybe you're watching from overseas you're picking which country you want to move to. Andrew, on the outside, America and Canada are very similar, right? Because they're both part of North America, both Anglo-Saxon Protestant countries, a lot of influence ancient-wise from the French and the Dutch, but Canada maintained a lot closer ties to England and the French side. Of course, yeah, they still have the Queen on the money. A lot of our friends who are not even like white Canadian, they speak French because obviously Quebec is an entirely French-speaking province. 22% of Canadians are able to speak some level of French. Andrew, in America, it's less than 1%. Yeah, we don't like the French in America. Yeah, so with that like European influence in Canada that is much stronger, whether that's from the UK or from France, Andrew, that actually affects a lot of their policies, whether, like you said, the parliament, their gun laws, their work-life balance, higher taxes, but more social services. It also has to do with geopolitical neutrality and passivism. They have different opinions on atheism and agnosticism, the separation of church and state. And the 1982 Canadian Multiculturalism Act, it's in their constitution to respect multiculturalism. That word is literally in their constitution. Yeah, very different healthcare, obviously pros and cons of the healthcare system up there. It's free, but it's worse. They have a much higher portion of First Nations people, people from India, people from Asian, a much lower ratio of African-American or Latino population. And by the way, a much, much lower population in general. That's about 40 million people in Canada. We have almost 400 million in America. It's a tenth of the amount of people. I mean, it's smaller than a lot of states. You know, California is way bigger than Canada. Both countries do have their own rednecks though. Like, but I think the rednecks in Canada are more centered around, because they don't really have like a south. They have them in the center, right above like North Dakota and Raskara. All the country stars from America tour Alberta, Canada. I actually heard that like in America, when you see an American flag being waved, typically that is something that is more representative of right wing ideologies. And in Canada, being really proud of the Canadian flag is often representative of left wing ideologies. And not to say they don't have racism. They're still Confederate flags being flung in Canada. But maybe not in Vancouver and Toronto. Right. And also, they generally, for the most part, have a, at least overall country-wise, have a more geopolitical policy of neutrality or pacifism easement. Moving on, Andrew, to more of the fun stuff that most people are thinking about when they're thinking about Canada. They're thinking about what? Cold weather. Toronto. Hockey, bagged milk, poutine. Saying, eh, don't ya know. Almost like North Dakota, Minnesota, Upper Midwestern, like, oh yeah, don't ya know. And the Toronto slang, you know, which also kind of comes from the Caribbean influence, like, saga men's. And like, yeah, men's is crazy. Tings, and yeah. Do you mean the thing that Drake kind of cribbed, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. More truth for your head top. Be careful when you speak on my name. And actually, low-key, and a lot of American, like, pop culture celebrities, whether they're in Hollywood or popular media, are from Canada. Low-key, you don't know. Yeah, and shout out to the Asian ones that popped up recently. Simu, Sandra O, both from Canada, both very famous in the Asian sphere. I think the one thing when I was doing research for this video that stood out, Andrew, is people just said Canada, internally, externally, is just generally way less violent than America. It is, yeah. Yeah, I think the violent crime rates are like significantly lower. I'm talking about across different crimes. I don't even wanna name them. So yeah, when it comes to violent crimes, I saw a crime rate, but it depends on what they call crimes. I think a lot of, there's still a lot of robberies and stuff like that, but as far as like the murder rate and the gun violence rate, obviously it's super low, much lower than America because they don't have guns. Right, actually, I do think though, to be fair Andrew, Canada's also way more of a boring place. I think, undisputably, Canadians will tell you this. There's a reason why all the Canadian celebrities and music artists live in America. Oh, it's boring here. Oh, you think our country's boring here. Oh yeah, let me guess you Yankees want a little bit of violence to spice it up. Oh yeah, huh. All right, so this is a really good segue, David, to get into how does Canada and America rank as far as what Asians specifically care about. Now Asians are not a monolith, I get it, but generally what do Asians care about when they immigrate to a country? They want upward mobility, they want education, they kind of want safety too and stuff like that. So let's just go through some of the rankings and this is what I've ranked them as. Right, immediately Andrew, you gotta lead off with where is the best education system, right? So for top colleges, America wins. I don't even think it's close. It's not even close. Shout out to McGill, but it's like. And shout out to U of T, great, but UBC is sure, great, but not Harvard. However, a public school education is generally considered more even in Canada due to the high taxes, so the money goes into schools. It is more of a socialist country, so theoretically I guess more fair when it comes to the quality of public services rural to metropolitan. A little bit of information, our cousin is a public school teacher in Canada and I don't think that she would want to teach in America. She wouldn't want to take her chances. And I think she really, really enjoys it. However, interestingly enough, Andrew, her husband is a banker and bankers get taxed in Canada. Oh my goodness. I don't even want to get into the specifics of it, but let's just say there's a banker in Canada, Andrew, and they do the exact same job in America working the exact same hours. They probably get to keep a significant more portion of their liquid cash at the end of the year. Yeah, this comes to the next point. Ability to make lots of money, America wins. America is the best place to make a bunch of money. Like literally, I don't know how many ways if you want to hustle people illegally, if you want to make it the legal route, if you want to do social media, you will get taxed the heck out of yourself in Canada. Like all the NBA players that play in Canada, they get taxed a lot. Right, right, right. 50%, right, but you also get healthcare. So safety from violence, I think Canada wins. Canada's safer in violence is probably safer towards Asians. Asians make up a larger percentage of Canada. Yeah, but if I was up there, I wouldn't even feel alive. You know, you might as well, it's just every day would be the same. Maybe Asians don't care about that. Experiencing everyday racism, I think Canada wins overall. I mean, I think you might hear things, but like we said, violence is less. Climbing the corporate ladder, I think this one's a little bit debatable because I think there's more corporate ladders to climb in America. However, you might still be seen as an Asian person in both spheres. More different types of Asians, America wins because America has more different types of Asians. It's more diverse here. Now, Asian unity. David, who do you think wins Canada or America as far as Asians feeling together? Man, I think a lot of things when you compare America with Canada, it's so difficult because like you said, it's one-tenth of the population. It's got a completely different history. It's almost like, you know, some people call it America's hat. Whatever you wanna call it. I call it the helmet. It's very different. Like it almost goes back to the racism point. I think something being more European means that you might even see more off-handed comments. Not really necessarily Canada, but in Europe, people are gonna be like, you know, or maybe even pull their eyes back at you. But then the risk of violence is way lower. So how do you categorize, you know how like a lot of people just want a yes or a no answer? To be honest, racism, it's like, it's actually very nuanced and complex. Here's my answer and from our observations, our experience living in Canada and knowing the Asians out there. Most of the Asians are either Indian, South Asian or Chinese. That's the predominant, that's most of them, right? So I feel like in Canada, maybe because they're mostly Chinese and that's the main narrative that they might feel more together and a lot of them are more like middle class because they're how immigration works in Canada, right? Right, right, right. They want you to be middle class before you come over. But oftentimes a lot of Canadian Asians, they don't think about racism. I mean, there's just like clueless to it. However, if you are tuned in to what's going on in America from Canada, you could view the battles that are happening in America. It's a battlefield country. They're just like watching from like the telescope onto them. Oh yeah, man, Asian-American sure are fighting for a lot. Whoa, what's going on over there? And then they're taking that influence and they're understanding our battles from here. So I don't know, it's tough to say, debatable. Anyways, Asians in power and policy, I don't know, it's debatable. I'm not really sure how politics fully work in Canada. However, I will say there's a lot of Asian-American politicians, but a lot of them are either like co-opted or whitewashed. So they might not really have Asians in mind. You know what I always say America is? America's very much a power move and then a power counter move country. So there's a lot of energy on both sides, whether it's like some move that was designed to counter and then you got a counter to a counter. I think that's a lot different than a country where you're just, nobody's making moves in general. Or if anybody's making moves, they're very mild. I think there is so much power to be had in America that it does fuel a lot more tension. Okay, so ability to be seen as a non-foreigner in your own country, kind of like, hey, I'm Asian-Canadian, I'm Canadian, right? I think Canada wins. I think other Canadians will view you as Canadian generally, I think in America. But I do think that obviously it's a lot more amorphous of like, what does it even mean to be Canadian? Because obviously if different types of white people, Franco and Anglos are in Quebec and they're arguing over like, whether to be more French or be more speak English, that's already an internal battle that was fought in America in 1782 with the Louisiana Purchase. Yeah, I think that was a long time before that. But yes, multiculturalism act of 1982, it is in their constitution. Okay, in the specifics, if you are Indian, South Asian and you like to party, move to Canada. I see so many more brown people at the clubs in Canada but we're out there. The DJs and stuff like that. No, it's like, there's a way more bigger Indian population. Especially in Toronto and Vancouver. I think if you are Hong Kong Cantonese, I actually think, it depends on how strong you identify with that identity, Canada's better. This is so specific, yes. A lot of Hong Kong, a lot of Hong Kong needs in Canada. And finally, Asian food, because Asian people care about Asian food. All right, I think Cantonese food is better in Canada, makes sense. I think Indian food probably could be better. Logically, I could see that being better. Every other type of Asian food I think is better in America. Because we have the other types of Asians. Vietnamese food, is it gonna be better? Koreans, we have more Koreans. Filipinos, we have more Filipinos. And in my, I just thought of this, I think climate has a big portion to do with this because it is generally really cold in Canada. Like you, it gets like, imagine Minnesota weather at the warmest or Seattle weather at the warmest and then it just gets colder until you hit Alaska. Yeah, yeah, Toronto is the North, bro. All right, so I guess, David, we kind of gave people our general breakdown. You guys can let us know in the comments down below if you agree or disagree. I'm not saying these were all facts, these were based off our observations. Did I make it up? No, I think there were good guesses. So I guess, David, do you have an answer for the people? How would you answer the question, is Canada better for Asians or not? Okay, so here's the thing. Let me put in a context. I'm not in either of these countries. I could either immigrate to America or Canada, any city. All right, here's the thing. I think that America provides the most upside, but it also provides the most downside depending on your situation. I don't know if that's, you know, no, there's no one shoe fits all, one size fits all. But let's be specific, man. So basically America is a way more volatile country. It has a lot higher highs and has a lot higher lows, but each individual game character entering the game, right, whether you're Toad or your Bowser or your Mario, which is the all around pick and Mario Kart, you're gonna interface with those pros and cons differently. It also depends on America where you move. I think it depends more because I think there's a greater variance in America. You could move to Texas, Arizona, Florida. You could move to Seattle, which like feels like, I would say 50% like Canada. You could move to Minnesota, which kind of feels like Canada, in my opinion. Or you could move to, you know, someplace that feels completely unlike Canada because America is a much, much, much bigger, more diverse game map. So you would need to take a look at your own specific situation, but I do think if you're willing to deal with like a more contentious, also interesting, multi-layered, but difficult life, you could probably get higher peaks in America. Yeah, okay. I would say, if you're the type of person to say this phrase, look, I don't need a lot of money. I wanna live a nice, stable life and be chill. And I don't need a lot. And I want nice people around me move to Canada. Right, you're a nice people, oh yeah. Yeah, and if you're the person that's like, yo, I'm trying to make it. I'm trying to kill it. I wanna make as much money as possible. You gotta move to America. There's so many ways to make money out here. Yeah, and there's so many ways to, you know, figure out, do little tax tricks and stuff like that. But I mean, the truth is, Andrew, somebody who's watching this, it's like they can't move, right? Well, I mean, I don't know. Hopefully it's helpful to people. Obviously it's not that easy to move. I remember when Trump got elected and so many people were like, I'm gonna move to Canada, I'm gonna move to Canada. And then Canada was like, it's not that easy. Right. But I will say, it seems like more Canadians want to move to America than Americans want to move to Canada. Yeah, I would say overall that that's true because people who feel like they can be high earners in Canada, they're being capped out once they make 200K or above because their tax rate is like jumping. Whereas in America, you could almost argue the more you make past like whatever amount, you're almost able to like do this and do that, bust moves. Yeah. Any last words, David? I think that it really depends. I mean, for you, are you saying pretty much Canada? I met people who I think that they would have had a better life in Canada and I know Canadians personally, obviously even in my own family that are bankers in Canada that really wish they had American citizenship so they could just keep way more of their money. Yeah, I mean, again, I hate to say, yeah, it's tough to say. But hopefully we built out a profile of a person that might enjoy Canada more and a profile of a person that might enjoy America more because I can't tell you what to do with your life. Shit, I mean, there's still a lot of unhappy people in Canada, right? And I think it ultimately has to do with like, do you like the city or the suburbs? Cause it's almost like Canada is a suburb of a country in America is like the big city. The cities are not that big in Canada. Obviously just the whole country to be honest, population-wise is not that big. I think for myself, I really would prefer America just because like that's just what I've seen growing up and I'm sort of attuned to the way things work here. When I'm in Canada, it almost feels like I'm in a weird like corporate campus. That's how it feels to me. I'm not saying to go to bed. I would say, of course, I'm staying in America, I'm picking America, but there is a nice feeling I get when I'm walking around downtown Toronto at night and I got my phone out and I'm looking at it and I'm not worried about anything. I'm actually not worried about violence. Yeah, for sure. Now, maybe that's just me overrating how safe Canada is, but I literally don't, America, if I'm out late at night just walking down with my phone, I wouldn't do that. Yeah, let's just say that Canada would be like empire on Fox and America would be like power on Showtime. That's an interesting analogy. All right, everybody, we're gonna wrap it up there. Let us know what you think in the comments down below. Is Canada better for Asians than America or not? Or let's think of a type of profile of a person that would more thrive in Canada than America. Yeah, to be fair, you can't argue, Andrew, with the success of the Asian-Canadian actors, though. I can't argue with Seamoo Liu. I don't know, you didn't come from America. Shout out to Seamoo. But all right, everybody, thank you so much for watching. Let us know in the comments down below. Please hit that like button. Oh, by the way, guys, I do think in America you can find places that really mitigate a lot of the downsides of America, but sometimes those places I realize do require a certain amount of income. For example, the Bay Area, you know, you grow up in a nice part, get all the upsides of America, less of the downsides, but your family gotta make a lot of money and spend a lot of year. You know what? Another debate is, should America be more like Canada? Ooh. All right, everybody, thank you so much for watching the Hot Pop Boys. 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