 What's going on guys, welcome to the very first episode of the hot pot boys podcast where we are going to be discussing serious things, not serious things, but today it's more serious. So today we're going to be covering and talking about and introducing the most important issues that are bothering Asian America to this day. To this day. Got a whole list full. Yes. Yo man. Yes. The reason that we're doing this is because you know we do keep up obviously a lot with the community. What we are doing today is not necessarily coming up with solutions, but what we want to do is just introduce them to people. So guys, we have a list of 10 of the biggest issues in Asian America right now. Number one, the disparity between how Asian men are perceived and Asian women are perceived especially in mainstream media. Social economic success doesn't yet mean social or sexual acceptance for Asian American men. The way Asian men are perceived versus Asian women obviously Asian women totally bear the brunt of a lot of negative stereotypes themselves. But basically how I would sum it up is that Asian women get a lot of attention, some good and some bad attention and Asian men get like almost no attention or no attention or like kind of bad attention. Yeah, right. Social metric, not the professional metric because those are kind of separate. I mean Asian male have this like you know stereotype where you know they're not cool in a sense or not. I wouldn't say not masculine or whatnot. I'm pleasure girls. You're born in Macau. Okay. You're born in Asia. You grew up around the six to six area. But you know this to be true because usually people move to the Asian area so that they can feel so they don't have to feel this. Before I moved to the six my early years, I lived in you know, Lincoln Heights. You know, I got picked on as a kid because I was maybe like one or if not two only Asians in the whole class. But that just like made me realize that you got to be strong minded and not care about that and just got to worry about yourself and strive to be the best you can be without people looking down on you. I always compare it to being like a currency exchange machine. So you know how you go to some countries and you know, depends on whether the dollar is strong versus you know, the local currency there. If you feel like you're not getting a good exchange rate or a fair one, it's still not an excuse to stop pumping dollars into the machine just because you feel like you're putting in a dollar getting point eight five. Another person puts in a dollar gets one point six back. That is discouraging, but you cannot let it stop you from pumping dollars in and accumulating more dollars. Next point, the corporate bamboo ceiling. Asians are 12 percent of the professional workforce while making up only five point six percent of the US population. That means you know, a lot of us have joined the professional workforce were well represented in that. However, for example, at Goldman Sachs, they reported that 27 percent of its US professional workforce is Asian American, but only 11 percent of its US executives and senior managers were Asian American. We're basically well represented in the professional workforce as yappies, but we are not upper management or executives. We don't get promoted. Asians work really, really hard. A majority of them lack leadership. You know, based off my history, man, my company, I'm not going to say but you know, there's not many Asians on the upper level tier. So basically what you're saying is that you understand that there might be a gap that Asians might lack some conventional American leadership skills. Yeah. OK. Any time you see 27 percent shrink to 11 percent, it's probably multiple factors, right? One is the internal factor. We need more leadership coaching internally within our community and the way we're raised, obviously in immigrant communities, they don't speak English, you know, typically just tell you to put your head down, do the work like a scientist. On the other hand, then there's the perception that nobody wants to be led by an Asian. Basically, that could be some sort of prejudice or stereotype that's placed that basically is self-fulfilling at that point. That's like being a short player in the NBA and then the coaches already don't like short players. I mean, you're already not going to get looks. And then on top of that, being short is a legit disadvantage for, you know, attack radius in the league. OK, so let me just say that there are different perspectives on this. I don't think everybody I think kind of what we're saying is that there is some basis to not move Asians up because we come from an immigrant mindset or like, you know, maybe English is in our first thing. We're stuck in the research. When they say Asian American, they are also including just Asians in America that are not necessarily American born in race. Now, a lot of people are going to be like, OK, that's not fair. We're just as good of the leaders as anybody else. What do you guys think about that? Like we're kind of accepting some responsibility as first of all, not all of our fault, but should we accept some responsibility for this? I mean, what can you do? I mean, you could complain about the system and we should. How else is the matrix going to be aware that we're unhappy? But at the end of the day, you think the matrix really cares? All you can almost do is control what you can while being aware of the matrix around you. You do not do the world a service by playing your letting your light be dull, shine bright, does promoting tall and buff and chiseled Asian guys, you know, with exceptional looks, only in media, only building up these guys, does it help regular Asian guys? Not all Asians can grow to be above six. Well, most Asian guys like that. I mean, but if we just talk about like getting buff or like just looking like physically attractive, yes, you can do that as a, you know, regular Asian guy. So you're all for working out because that's that's the number one thing everybody can do. Yeah, of course. The issue here is like, I feel like being Asian, you're always viewed as a little bit shorter than you are. So you're always viewed as a little bit of a disadvantage. That doesn't mean 100 percent you can't make up for it somehow, but it's just harder. And I think that's what sucks is that we have to make up for something for no reason. You know, I can speak for, I guess, maybe the more baby face, round face guys go to Asia. I think if you are in America, honestly, I don't even know what to say this. She got to be a thug. Be a bodybuilder, be a protector. You guys really see real firemen that like put them, they don't, you know, cops and stuff, they don't look conventionally like buff fitness models with the tech. Well, they're like thick. A lot of them. They're just solid. We're talking about real society protectors, not the the ones in movies. We talk about the real functional strength, guys. That's what you've got to be. OK. Now, another issue is obviously representation of Asian women. Let's just talk about that real quick, where it's like, obviously, I think that generally there's kind of this belief amongst, you know, a lot of Asian guys, especially on the Internet, all Asian women have so much better, blah, blah, blah. They get more attention. They're getting on movies more. They're getting swiped on at a higher rate on online dating. They're the most desired. The easiest way to put it is it's like living in the big city versus the country side. A lot of people, they look at the big city as categorically better because you get more reps and pings and more opportunities. More opportunities. But that's not true for everybody. There are a lot of successful people in America or globally who enjoy living rural lifestyles, kind of devoid of contact, devoid of attention, devoid of pings. If you look at big cities, it comes with good and bad. You got the big city glitz, but you got the big city problem. Living in the countryside, it's almost just devoid of everything, period. Like, you know, it's crickets and, you know, grass and things like that. Nature and stuff. You know what I'm saying? So being invisible does allow you to be unseen and not experience certain problems as much as, you know, someone who's getting a lot of attention. So I want to say, man, to all those really tall, buff, good-looking Asian dudes out there that can become a bridge to the Asian community and the non-Asian community. They get accepted outside of it. You guys need to be the bridge. And don't just stay back here with us. Yeah, yeah. Go out there, explore. You don't need you to be the pioneers. So there. Go represent for us. Yeah, go represent for us, man. Don't just tear it up in the Asian League. Point number three. Guys, this is a big one, hot one. Hot ones, hot ones. Now, recently, let me just go over it. There's been this story, a lot of celebrity, non-Asian celebrity. People have been caught by the FBI in a bribery scheme of paying their kids' way into elite colleges. And a lot of people are be like, hey, guys, see, you all thought it was the hard-working Asians that were messing up the college admissions. It's actually these privileged kids. So I saw this funny tweet. Someone was like, oh, and Asian parents are sitting there like, wait, what? We could have just bribed our way in this whole time. We just have to decide whether or not academics is just like the NBA. If you look at the NBA, there's some extremely marketable players like Jimmer, but he can't help a team. They cut him. But for the most part, we have to decide whether or not academics is a meritocracy, because if it's a meritocracy, we already know who doing dunks in the layup line. It's the Asian nerds. If it's purely that's who doing 360 reverse between the legs in the layup line. I think it's safe to say that in general, Asians try the hardest to get into good colleges. All day, man. They don't even have hot. They don't have it. That's like the priority, man. They don't have any conventional social life. Even schools like USC, not necessarily known to be like any elite. Well, USC is obviously known for the money school. Grades matter the least in America. Bro, this is a capitalist society. The whole thing about capitalism is that you can work the system. Everybody has their incentives. Guys, we are not saying that these are solutions. We are just saying these are the issues. All right, moving on. Asian American Disaggregation Statistics. Big word meaning that now when it comes to statistics about Asian Americans we're generally clumped together in one big group. They have to start being more specific with which Asian is which Asian. It's not all one. We got a whole mix. Man, we are not just all Chinese. I just think with each ethnicity or nationality you gotta speak as a whole. You wanna be respected where we're just not all Chinese people. How specific should they get? We can't even clump all Chinese together in a way. This is my general philosophy. And I think that people should petition the machine, the matrix, agent Smith. Marvel, that it's beauty. You know, you can file a complaint with Star Command. Hello. Yo. Hello, Neo. But everybody gotta be more wily and unified in pushing their own agendas outside of the traditional avenues. Now, point number five is Asians are not political enough and are not involved in government. Now, this is an issue too. There are more Asian Americans going into politics now. Of course, it makes sense. So it is getting better. But right now generally, I mean, you know, Asians don't vote a lot. You know, it's so funny is when people were like, you know, anytime someone pushes for something like, hey, call your local congressman, call your local House of Representatives, give them a call and tell them that you need initiative of 1704. I'm like, yeah, but what if you come from a group like, then let me speak English, like that's not happening. Like, I think I've called a congressman once and you just get a hot line. Yeah. And considering how political people might think we are, that's not that much to be honest. I'm a little ashamed, but I gotta admit, that's true. So. I just think, man, Asians, they like to complain a lot, but they don't like to, you know, go out, you know, step out of the way to solve the solution. Do they, do you think, sorry, to back it up, do they complain to the right people or just amongst themselves? Amongst themselves. Okay. So we like to complain amongst ourselves. Man, I think if it was, you know, a lot of people don't vote, but if you could vote on Instagram or something, people would definitely vote. They don't want to make it easy. They don't make it easy. They don't want to make it easy for you to have your say. No, they don't make it easy for the minority groups, whoever they is. You know how they do it in Australia? You can only skip out on voting three times in a row or else you get fined. I'll tell you that. If you did that finding thing for Asians, they not trying to lose that hundred. Some other people share the sentiment, but sometimes I look at how uninvolved Asians are in like the government and like, you know, infrastructure. And I'm just like, how can you even complain if you're not going to get involved? That's rough. I'm not saying you can't complain, but I'm like, did you even try? That's just, I'm not saying it's wrong. No, that's fair, that's fair. I'm just posing that question. That's fair. If you could vote through a trolley reddit comments, Asians would be... Dude, if you could vote through Reddit, visualize it. Andrew Yang's going to win then. Andrew Yang 2020. All right guys, moving on. We got point number six. Are half Asians considered Asian? Can they be considered Asian? And what does it take for them to be considered Asian? Anybody can claim anything they want. And actually anybody can tell them that they're not that. That's just the way the game goes. You know, we always had this joke where it was like, you know, if you are half Asian, but you don't care about your Asian side, then you're just half. But if you half Asian and you care about it, then you will hop up. My only question to them is, where's your heart? Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Guys, another issue in the Asian American community is not really talking about mental health and helping provide that within the community. Now this is a conversation that a lot of people do not talk about is like mental health within Asian community. Cause that's kind of taboo. Like we don't want to talk about being depressed. We don't want to talk about like, oh, like our feelings. I think that kind of draws into it. Now it's hard to help Asians if we don't think it's an issue and if we don't want to talk about it. In the Asian culture, it's almost like you're driving a car on a winding mountain with just one path. And if you go off the path, you're going to fall off the cliff and explode, right? But in the West, it's almost like in Texas where there's no mountains and you just switch in lanes. So somebody can go crazy and come back and then go left. You can go off road. Yeah, you can kind of go off road and then come back on the road. Asians think that mental health is like rainbow road on a Mario Kart. Oh, when you fall off and then you just... Yeah, you got to stay on the road. You would fall off. Oh my. It's not like one of the other maps where you just got the bumpers. Yeah. I would get therapy. I haven't. You're thinking about it. I'm thinking about it. Hey, there's nothing. See, there's nothing wrong with therapy, guys. I mean, you go to a doctor, right? You go to a physical therapist. You go to a Cairo. You go to a dentist when you need help with your teeth, right? You go to a physical therapist. How come you don't go to a mental therapist? Man, let me tell you guys this. No need. Oh, shit. Yeah. Should the word Asian include South Asians and Indians? Why don't we? Why don't we? Well, some people don't. I'm not saying I don't want the same thing. I do think in the government, it is. Yeah. And I will say this. Not all Indians and South Asians really desired to be part of it. It kind of depends on the individual of the community. If they choose to be part of the Asian community, like I know Aziz Ansari, he more considers himself part of the Asian, larger Asian American narrative. But there's also some other prominent South Asian celebrities that don't necessarily rap being Asian. They rap being brown and Indian, and that's okay too. But it's kind of like, then can the Asians look up to them? Should the Asian group applaud them and reward them even though they don't really acknowledge that they're Asian? Because that kind of gives a connotation that they're East Asian. I don't know. East or Southeast Asian. Who knows? No solutions, guys. Like I said, just an issue. No solutions. We just talking about the issues. Number nine, are people just catering to Asians now for economic reasons because the Asian population is growing and it has more purchasing power and all the wealthy immigrants are moving in? Or do they really accept us and do they care about our culture? I mean, a long story short is that they like the money. But it could lead to, it could lead to respect and sometimes unfortunately or fortunately in a capitalist society, a lot of times money and respect go hand in hand. So should Asians care about them fully respecting or should they just be happy and be like, hey, they're just, they're consuming our culture. It's all good and they're catering to me. I don't care if they respect it. Should we be happy about this or should we be looking at it with a critical eye being like, man, I don't know if they're really respecting if it's true love or not, if it's truly embrace mint of our culture or not. I think they should. I think they should. They should care. They should care. Number 10. Are Asian Americans too comfortable to keep fighting and keep trying and keep applying and keep driving? Are they getting too comfortable here? I mean, honestly, did they ever have it? How can you lose something you don't have? That's another question. That's for you guys out there. That's another question. Who's fangs that you don't have? Question. I don't know. That's like saying I lost my ability to dunk. Let me, hey, surprise. I ain't never been able to dunk. Woo! Surprise! Except the hoop's lowered. That's assuming a 10 foot hoop. All right, guys, that's the last word. I don't think we need to say anything more. That was real. That's, that's. Be welcome. You took us up. My whole vision went blurring. Woo! Of that. Guys, basically I think a lot of the issues that we talked about in this video today, all 10 of them, could be related to just Eastern people being in the West. Yeah, people from the East. But we're living in the West. There is a misalignment with a lot of people's philosophies. I'm not saying it's wrong. Misalignment does not mean wrong alignment. It just means that it's a misalignment depending on what you're trying to do. All right, guys. Thank you so much for watching. In the comments below, let us know what you guys think about these issues. I'm cool with the comments section being this whole huge message board. I'm sure it's going to get crazy, but we just wanted to share that. We want to talk more about this stuff. There's more exclusive podcast material on the membership's channel. This one was particularly strong. We wanted to give it to you guys on the main channel. That's Nelson Chamferhubba live. David and Andrew from the Fung Bros. Thank you for watching that and comment away. Until next time, we out. Peace. Yo, what's going on everybody? 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