10 PROBLEMS ASIANS ARE FACING RIGHT NOW in 2019! | Fung Bros

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. We got a whole list full for y'all, 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. Socioeconomic 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. 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. No, I'm playing with girls. You're born in Macau. OK, you're born in Asia. You grew up around the 626 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 6, my early years, I lived in 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. After that, it 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, it 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 .85, another person puts in a dollar, gets 1.6 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% of the professional workforce while making up only 5.6% of the U.S. population. That means, you know, a lot of us have joined the professional workforce. We're well represented in that. However, for example, at Goldman Sachs, they reported that 27% of its U.S. professional workforce is Asian American, but only 11% of its U.S. 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, in 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. Okay. Anytime you see 27% shrink to 11%, 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 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. Okay. 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 isn't our first language. We're stuck in the researcher mindset. 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, okay, that's not fair. We're just as good of a leaders as anybody else. What do you guys think about that? Like, we're kind of accepting some responsibility. It's first of all, not all of our fault. 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. He 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 foot. Most Asian guys don't look 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 a hundred 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 how to say this. She's gotta be a thug, be a bodybuilder, be a protector. You guys really see real firemen that like put the, they don't, you know, cops and stuff. They don't look conventionally like buff fitness models with the, well, they're like thick. A lot of them. They're just solid. We're talking about real society protectors, not the ones in the movies. We talk about the real functional strength guys. That's what you got to be. Okay. 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 countryside. A lot of people, they look at the big city as categorically better because you get more reps and pings in, 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 problems. 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 and they get accepted outside of it, you guys need to be the bridge. And don't just stay back here with us. Go out there, explore, we 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. 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 kid's way into elite colleges. And a lot of people are being like, hey guys, see, you all thought it was the hardworking 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 is the Asian nerds. If it's purely a meritocracy, 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 high population. That's like their priority, man. They don't have any conventional social life. It's our life. Even schools like USC, not necessarily known to be like an elite academic college. Well, USC is always known for the money school, you know. 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. You got a whole mix. Man, we are not just all Chinese. I just think, you know, with each ethnicity or nationality, you got to speak as a whole. You want to be respected where, you know, 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 the beauty. You know, you can file a complaint with Star Command. Hello, yo. But everybody got to be more widely 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, 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 representative, give them a call and tell them that you need initiative 1704. I'm like, yeah, but what if you come from a group that doesn't even speak English? Like, that's not happening. Like, I think I've called a congressman once and you just get a hot. Yeah. And and considering how political people might think we are, that's not that much, to be honest. I'm a little ashamed, but I got to 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 where they do you think sorry to back it up. Do they complain to the right people or just amongst themselves amongst themselves? OK, so we like to complain amongst ourselves. Man, I think if it was a 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 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 fine 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. No, that's fair. That's just posing that question. That's fair. And if you could vote through a trolly Reddit comments, Asians would be dude, if you could vote through Reddit, which was Andrew Yang's going to win the NGA in 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, but there's 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 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? 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, because 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 you're you're driving up 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 kind of 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 Mario Kart. Oh, you fall off and then you just. Yeah, you got to stay on the road. You are fine. It's not like one of the other maps where you 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. Oh, shit. Should the word Asian include South Asians and Indians? I don't. Why don't we? Yeah, well, I'm not saying I do think in the government we are. It is. Yeah. And I will say this. Not all Indians and South Asians really desire 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 like part of the Asian, larger Asian American narrative. But there's also some other prominent South Asian celebrities that don't necessarily rep being Asian. They rep being brown and Indian. And that's OK, too. But it's kind of like then can the Asians look up to them? Should the Asian group like applaud them and reward them, even though they don't really acknowledge that they're like Asian, you know, because that kind of gives the 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 has more purchasing power and, you know, 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 really respect it, if it's true love or not, if it's truly embracement of our culture. 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, this is a question. 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. How can you lose 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. Surprise. Except when 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 that was real. That's that's just you took us up. My whole vision went blurry 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 live 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 Chamber Hooper Life. David and Andrew from the Fun Bros. Thank you for watching that and comment away. Until next time, we out. Peace. Yo, what's going on, everybody? Thank you so much for watching that video. And thank you for watching a lot of other videos. 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