 They are making more and more movies about ultra rich Asians and are you gonna watch them welcome everybody to the hot-pot boys David and Andrew here crazy rich Asians to the sequel has just been announced. Yeah There's a spin-off starring Gemma Chan and Harry Shum jr. That might also come out Oh my god and bling and barzies and two might also come out to David those are sarcastic No, they were real. No, why are you mad legitimate? Why are you mad about this David? Representation David this is Asian representation We get more Asian faces out there more Asian people get employed more Asian actors are out there David This is this is good for the Asian community. Why you men? because How many more movies about bland personality? ultra rich British colonial wannabe old-money Asians are we gonna see I Can't take it man Everything from reality shows like House of Ho to bling Empire one bling Empire two to crazy rich Asians one crazy rich Agent two any spin-offs? It's about people with three hundred million dollars or more Trying to act like bland Ultra rich white people but David would it what what if I don't want to watch shows about middle-class or poor Asians? It's not interesting to me. Well, those are your two options. It's to talk about the misery porn or struggle between parents Okay, those are these movies or you got your ultra rich zone. Okay, okay, you know what and I'm just sick I'm sick of how it's circulating the same actors. I'm sick of the themes I'm think of I'm sick of like this is what we've accepted as a community internally And I'm also sick that that is why what the external community accepts from us Yeah, it's not that different than the black or Latino community getting typecast like All black movies have to be in the hood. Yeah, and have to be about like message You know John Singleton, which I still like some of those movies But they were like stuck in one zone for a long time, right? And the Latino movies having everything to do with like narcos or like cartels immigration Right, like it's kind of stereotypical. Yeah, it's hyper stereotypical But like the stereotype that they gave Asians obviously white people they have all the archetypes in the middle They're gonna be strangers things. They're gonna be Game of Thrones. They're gonna be Harry Potter They're gonna be Bridgerton. They're gonna be, uh, you know succession and billions or they're gonna be sons of anarchy Like whites have like the whole spectrum, right? Blacks and Latinos have like the street stuff and then Asians get shoved as like ultra rich Why don't you meet my mom? Which rich Asians don't even act like literally it's like a concocted version of like 1920s 1930s British or Dutch Colonial Asia thrust into modern times which is House of Ho or Literally like it's creating a scene that like really barely exists anymore I'm not saying there's not some old money that's British influence in Indonesia, you know Malaysia Singapore, but it's just it's going away Well, let me tell you why There's so many movies about rich Asians being made number one I have some reasons number one is that it's actually not up to Asians This is not up to Asians to determine how real this is There is a larger market in systems and machinery at play that can make money off of his so these are the stories I know what you're talking about. I know what you're talking about It's not up to the six percent in America Right, right because Kevin Kwan who wrote crazy rich Asians actually was part of this like elite aristocratic like British Singaporean World right and but the book was primarily sold to white women Yes, not Asians want to watch these stories about us and crazy rich Asians despite Asians embracing it and giving it like all these like Buying out the theaters and stuff It never would have got greenlit if it wasn't for blonde white women buying the book to initially exactly So it's I'm just saying the market isn't beyond us when you're saying the Asians are not the market maker Just because there are Asian faces in a film that doesn't mean even most of the people watching it are Asian Right and it had to hit a lot of steps of like non-Asians signing off on it to get made Yeah, exactly exactly So another reason why is there's actually this mysteriousness around rich super rich Asian people people don't know what super rich Asian people are like Like you've seen them maybe in a Bugatti here and there in the city or whatever, but you really don't know their lifestyle So it leaves it up to entertainment the writers and kind of this you're a mat your imagination to kind of build this world around Ultra rich Asian people because rich white people I'm not gonna lie They've kind of been exposed over the years and a lot of the connotation is not good You're Epstein's and your Prince Andrews and very very red. Yeah, I know what you mean The the rich Asian world and there are a lot of them in 2022 I'm just saying that I don't even think that's representative of the rich Asian world because most rich Asians are more so probably like One or two generations rich rather than like 10 generations rich Representing crazy rich Asians. Yeah, and it's interesting because there's actually a high number of rich black people in America But there's no like shows in America about rich black people Really, there's no like blockbuster right right fresh Prince tried to show it But it was so comical But I do believe the new fresh Prince and it took a while for the African-american Entertainment community to get here. They wanted to show all three levels in one piece right because you have your ultra rich Old-money black people then you have your middle-class HBC use and then you got the streets all in one piece of content I'll tell you this I wouldn't even be surprised if in a few years There's a show a Netflix show coming out of Nigeria about rich Nigerians in Nigeria I could see that happening shaws of sunset that was about rich Persians in West LA and also another reason why it's like Asian Society is still different in Asians still have like this like whole culture and hierarchy. That's very old school And that's why I might feel almost like royalty Because they're kind of acting on these old like structures that they're maintaining because it's like Asian culture is still different Like yeah, I know what they mean you're saying a lot of old-money Asians It's not stupendous to to to theorize that they might act a little bit like Prince Harry and Kate Middleton Because our culture is so hierarchical even though the only hierarchical like anglows that are still around are actually part of the royal family I mean like like the same pressures you see in the royal family almost just exist in any upper middle-class little cat Upper middle class and up Asian Confucian family. Yeah, I think people get Forget because in America, this is all like diasporic Asians of like multiple generations But if you're talking about wealthy families in Asia, you better believe they are very very very hierarchical in old school Yeah to an extent. I still don't think it's like the movies man. It ain't no my John Here's my last reason is that it's just it's real enough obviously not all Asians are rich We understand the income disparity in America amongst Asians and maybe Asians across the world is huge There's way way more poor Asians than there are rich Asians. However, it's just like there is maybe a you know We all know that Asians do well in America overall considering where we come from like, you know The ability to come from poverty to to upper middle class. Yeah Asians work hard. They rise up So I guess the whole image of Asians making money kind of just makes sense to people I just hate that literally any base human stories Like between this and this and this and this they either have to be wrapped up like in a superstar like Michelle Yau With like the craziest directors of all time literally Russo brother might be like 10 out of 10 like super rare Or they got to be just if you don't have those elements the superstar and the superstar directors Then you just throw 300 million dollars on it and you can get people to pay attention to it And I just think that the stories are so bland the way they're acting is so bland It's just wealth porn and you know the funny thing is crazy rich Asians I heard there was actually some like anti-rich tones written into it They'd never made it into the movie because it was too complicated to be that hyper Sarcastic about like class struggle. So they just ended up making it just like worshiping visual wealth and nobody lives like that Nobody gonna have a stream of water down at the wedding with the floating lily pads. It's all concocted That's that would be like making the equivalent of like street movies like glamorizing the hood basically, right? And I do think it would be like more like rap music. Yeah, I mean, I think the other stories are gonna come about I do think maybe this is just a candle that needs to burn itself out Unfortunately, we are in media during this time when it seems like only the rich stories are getting made But they're also getting written and they're also just made with the same actors I'm telling you British accents or look kind of like hopper or like British. This is the rich Asian multiverse You know, this is like it's all gonna like and then we're supposed to sit here as Nobody who's anywhere close to that world and I'm like the vast majority of people are not close to that world Even the people who watch this movie and act like this is dope And we're supposed to sit here and go. Oh, well, this is the candle we got so let it burn It's almost like a candle sent you hate but you need the light in the room Like you know what I mean? You just need a candle to burn, but you're like God I hate this and I think to end off this video. I have a question that I want to ask the viewers Is like I think is there a feeling that all this imagery about super rich Asians actually hurts The life of like lower-income Asians doesn't actually put them at more risk because I don't know if it makes Asian lives better Maybe it might inspire the rich Asians to throw more events and be with all the pageantry stuff But does it help or hurt? Lower-income Asians and I don't know I don't know if there's statistics, but there might be a feeling there I just can't believe that middle-to-upper middle-class Asians specifically Chinese ones look up to that life Like we know a lot of rich Asians that are not like that Like, you know, we have rich Asian friends that are more like a Mark Cuban or something like that But literally, bro. Yeah, why do so many Asians specifically Chinese? I'll say but a lot of them want to idealize this Prince Charles Kate Middleton Princess Diana life that is Unbelievable to me what you want to break like let's just bring it back to the dynastic days who cares then what we Yeah, we're in America, but let's just bring it back to feudalism. I don't know man Maybe it's because the culture so old Inter Tim Froteta's got like eight million dollars He's in Texas and he doesn't even act as like In corny as like the whole family, right and the whole families, they're supposed to be via They're supposed to know what both sides. That's crazy. I'm not with it Listen, Andrew to your point. This may be a candle that just needs to burn itself route The ultra Asians need to have like 20 30 movies before we can move on But if I'm just saying there's five more years in this with the same cast same storylines bland-ass characters wrapped up in opulence I don't want it. I just think when Asians get super rich They they want to buy back into the old structure and not only that man. We can't be in any of that stuff Look at the Netflix piece. How middle-class was that we can't be in any of these movies. I don't fit the look It's no place for me. Everybody. We're gonna wrap it up there David let you know how he feels Let us know in the comments down below how you feel. Do you guys enjoy this content? Which there's nothing wrong about enjoying it? What type of content we're talking about? Yeah, ultra rich Asian rich Asian content. Do you like rich Asian content? I do you enjoy it and also what do you think it means for Asians to always have this imagery? Does it does it help or hurt us in the long term? I don't know it's entertainment It's tough to to beat some this is what people want to see from us So you let me know in the comment down below eight keepers had to sign off a lot of a lot of paperwork on All right, everybody until next time we are the hot-pot boys and we out peace