Most UNLIKED Asian Country Amongst Asians

which Asian countries do asian-americans like the most and like the least the data is out let's discuss it you know maybe the results are surprising or maybe quite unsurprising depending on your belief system let's run the clip which Asians do Asian Americans have beef with Asian amans rating Asian countries green is more favorable yellow is less favorable asian-americans have the most beef with China and Taiwanese Americans are its biggest hater cuz self-determination Indians Vietnamese and Filipinos favor their homelands but everyone else has moderate beef Taiwan and South Korea are moderately favored and Japan is more favored except by Koreans cuz War Korean amans are the biggest haters and Filipino Americans are the biggest appreciators the US is viewed most favorably by Asian amans because Asian Amer oh you have been properly informed boom there you go Andrew that's Brian Shu the data guy he's all about the statistics hey man I like it you know I wouldn't say he interprets the data or navigates the data but he lets you know the data is out there and it's up to you to talk about it but it's actually up to us cuz I feel like that's what we do on this channel I'll take the data from Brian and we'll discuss it right so make sure you like subscribe turn on your notifications check out smile assu at smile.com here's the title of the data and asian-americans view of their homelands other places in Asia and the US here's the ranking it went Us number one Japan South Korea Taiwan now we're starting to get into the bad scores Philippines Vietnam India and Mainland China dead last uh Brian Shu himself parents from mainland China yeah yeah and obviously you know as Chinese Americans this isn't shocking but I do want to discuss it because I think that there's a lot of different takeaways I think when you see the color map and You See It Go from green to tan you're like ooh we crossed the line here but uh I think there's a lot of a funny discussion so we're going to go through that we'll give you our own takeaways at the end hey by the way there's also this other out of the same Pew research study uh there's also another graph asian-americans have favorable views of the US uh it's like it kind of just it just reinterpreted the data a little bit with a different infographic uh by the way we don't have Geo uh geographical granular data we don't have age range data so it could be a lot different amongst the younger generation on the west coast in 626 this is National aggregate data right right we don't know where these people were when they were pulled or wherever but or what generation they are first generation Second Generation Um obviously there is no like Cambodia on here or Indonesia I don't think they have the numbers in America this was polling asian-americans so these are the largest Asian-American population yeah no these are by far the largest Asian-American groups I don't think uh unfortunately the ones that got left off like you said just the just the scale of the population isn't there um let's just lead off with a few comments Andrew somebody said not going to lie the top three us Japan and South Korea have a superiority complex so this rating makes sense to me that's funny yeah no but those are also let's keep it real us Japan and South Korea generally known to be the most comfortable country countes to live in out of all those on the list obviously Taiwan being slept on though oh Taiwan Taiwan there but a lot of people are not aware to be honest of the existence of Taiwan unless you work in Tech microchips or you're like know about Asia Pacific right right right and you know what for this poll I do have to say that's interesting is that they were able to pull and separate Taiwanese people from Chinese people meaning but then Hong konges people I'm assuming fell under Chinese people but when these people didn't so anyways we that's the thing about data guys I guess Hong Kong couldn't even bring up China stats man uh Andrew a lot of this people led to a lot of discussions about cynophobia why is there so much casual cynophobia everywhere um man this is really complicated it's like I'll tell you why cynophobia is so complicated Andrew because it could be from the 1800 cynophobia from the 1900 cynophobia from the 1950s and 60s cyop phobia or current 2024 sinophobia and you can trace those are all like it's all put under the bucket of cynophobia but the reasonings are completely different yeah and one thing about cynophobia that I think is a controversial take on my part is that China for most people most people has not done anything super bad yet yet you know what I mean like as far as like spying on the US or like yes there are like disputes over the waters in South China see I can't speak on that that's the government thing but I think as a whole considering China never pointed nukes at America I think there is quite a bit of sinophobia China China gets over punished I'm not saying they did everything good for sure they did bad things a lot of countries did a lot of bad things some more than others but I will say that honestly it's probably the lack of cool things I feel like China's being punished for the lack of upside because look at Japan Andrew they did a bunch of messed up stuff but they got so much upside it's almost like people felt like it made up for everything yeah people forgot about it so I guess David we have seven conclusions about how China is viewed in this study and by the way even Chinese Americans aren't ranking China super high they did rank China the more favorable but it's really still in the lower half of favorability right and I'm going to go ahead and assume I do not know that a little bit uh these stats are based around a little bit like older people because older people tend to take geopolitical polls people people more skib Ohio toilet you know Point number one Andrew China's bad image around Asia um yeah this is probably impacting it in the sense of like the way people feel about stuff that happened due to Communism right right and obviously China is viewed actually very favorably by business people all around the world because they do business with China even in Africa or Latin America China's building a lot of stuff in there but obviously in Asia where China's power is wielding the most right like I said a lot of Vietnamese are against China because China is trying to claim certain islands and Waters uh obviously Taiwan I don't of course I understand that obviously um and then I guess Japan and Korea obvious like uh China is closer is unfortunately kind of close with North Korea or at least cool with North Korea which strens South it's essentially I'll tell you the thing that's really complicated about China is it operates as a rival to the anglosphere so basically the sinosphere the modern version iteration of it runs opposite to the anglosphere the Anglo spere as much as people criticize it for colonization and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah people are like on team Ang now yeah it's like a challenge to that along with like I don't even know Russians they're like white but they're kind of Asian whatever yeah I would just say a lot of the Allies that China has are very unfavorable to the US yes yes yes Point number two Andrew China's unfavorable image amongst the Chinese themselves oh so uh let's look at the numbers back again 40 Chinese in America rank China favorability 41 that falls below the 50 Mark so it's still yellow obviously Korea and Taiwanese rank it favorability super low um gave it a two oh man yeah yo 41 was the highest to look at the other score super low yeah yeah so obviously for me I can see why a lot of Chinese Americans did it because I think a lot of Chinese Americans maybe especially of the older generation they were maybe their descendants or uh have roots from Hong Kong which a lot of Hong Kong these people aren't going to view China like mainland China as favorable or a lot of parents who came over in 1965 1970 uh or any sort of Chinese parents who escaped communism post Tian post May 4th uh yeah I mean I I'm as sad as it does hurt me I can understand yeah uh Point number three Andrew the Western angles feere scop against the Chinese what's this mean so basically the US government has funded and this is a real thing from what I believe like $500 million earmarked out for basically generating uh an anti-china campaign and it's not to say that China doesn't give it ammo but that ammo which is like a few like negative info and it might get like 5x or 10x next in the media you know what I mean like or or or good news might get downplayed by the way I'm not saying the bad stories out of China are false but they just might get extra Spotlight and good stuff might get less Spotlight right do you think their the algorithm is pushing that Aaron Lewis song made in China I made in China of the cheapest parts or whatever yeah I mean it's actually just logical because I'm sure China's doing it to America too you want to demonize your enemy some people think it's because uh they're preparing the American psyche for a hot War I hope not I don't think so I actually don't I don't think it's going to be a hot War I don't think I think we are already at war with each other and it's just a cold actually you could argue that China and America are already at a trade war or cold war and that that's the extent of Modern Warfare essentially I mean obviously other parts of the world whatever but but between countries that have lots of money uh Point number four everything in 2024 Andrew has a measure of truth behind it but there's also a lot of exaggeration yeah and I think that's social media too I mean I think if you would imagine delete social media how would you hear about the bad or good things about China in the newspaper not really the newspaper got to talk about local news and all this other stuff you might and if you don't read the paper and you're not on social media how you going to hate China right right you know or how much are you going to hate China it's weird right now there's like a bunch of anti-china YouTubes where they make like 10 videos a week that are anti and then of course on the flip uh side there's going to be like maybe government funded channels that are trying to only say the good side but actually here's the truth here's the crazy thing sometimes they both sides might be saying stuff that's a little bit true but exaggerated yeah but do you think that should some Chinese organization fund something that tries to debunk stuff or do you for China's like betterment or do you think that's not even going to help yeah I wish some Chinese American Institute would like at least like I said I mean I think even left and right has it right now like who's really the the neutral actual factchecking source for left and right in America right now like literally there's just a lot of nuance lacking and a lot of neutrality lacking uh Point number five Andrew people have personal experiences personal incentives whatever you perceive one group did to your people that's just what you're basing your feelings on right yeah yeah and I think like people have certain personal incentives to uh view groups a certain way like uh I think a lot of people want to view South Korea very favorably as they should I guess they haven't given them I guess a lot of reason to not unless maybe you're another Asian who feels like South Koreans are so cocky or whatever yeah it seems cool though but you know like all the all the culture and pop culture and media coming out of Korea you know um and then some people they would it was in their personal incentive to view Chinese uh to be not as favorable because maybe it makes them feel better you know yeah yeah yeah Point number six um basically I just think that a lot of things are really nuanced and really complicated but to see a list like this it could make somebody really emotional or just choose to disengage from it completely that's what I think a lot of Chinese Americans have done Andrew I think a lot of Chinese Americans they don't know how to engage with this because you would probably go through a roller coaster of emotions seeing something like this right so you completely disengage and just go I'm AZN I'm defined by like lambdas or KD F or like whatever new identity I can subsume Ada Rising is my new identity right yeah so anyway let's just get into the comments section Andrew Bree Shu said this is the full Asian-American biggest haters ranking Korean Taiwanese Japanese Chinese Indian Vietnamese Filipino Koreans being the biggest haters Filipinos being the most appreciative and then it's funny because a bunch of Koreans came in and said yeah I'm the biggest hater I am like so proud of being the biggest hater that's Prett yeah it doesn't surprise me that Koreans are at the top of the hater list yeah yeah and then um is it just because they're killing it so hard that they can hate on everybody or they feel like they got hated on for centuries or Millennia so now it's like they're back uh I think sometimes a slight superiority complex can lead you to work very hard on things and I think maybe that's what's happened right right right um somebody said the China hate on the hate on China is worldwide I honestly feel like China doesn't deserve the hate this is what a black girl said then a white guy said it's effed up man China been good to us I'm sure he's referring to Panda Express timu Sheen everything you get on Amazon Chinese women yeah yeah just everything a lot of this stuff came from China where was assembled there for cheap yeah I mean again guys the the whole China and the Western uh relationship is really complicated and we're not here being some uh you know woow or Pro China people I'm just like like dang I mean listen America really needs China but also America doesn't like China and America really doesn't like a lot of China's friends you know what I mean so it is true that Chinese friends yeah I I probably wouldn't be friends with them either so I don't agree with some of their decisions but they also got their own agenda going right um I think the biggest thing about China is not that the downsides for sure should be acknowledged but I think the upsides are often times like completely ignored like so then cuz they're just like oh making the cheap stuff that doesn't count cuz then that was made with child labor or slave you know what I mean it's like this whole thing where I'm just like do you really care tell me if you care or not um next comment tankes can't handle being lower class uh basically this is like a really common thing on the internet you see somebody said damn Chinese people don't even like Chinese people that explains a lot and then somebody said Chinese Americans are brainwashed to hate China uh even chines David when when you see the numbers that Chinese Americans don't rank China that much do you think what does he do you think it carries over into like maybe why Chinese people aren't always on the same page or unified in America as much you know the things that we talk about or maybe like Chinese people want to date out of their race and you for example my Korean friend was always telling me that like Chinese would ask him for a a Korean mechanic instead of a Chinese mechanic like even though they were in an Asian Enclave yeah I don't man it's really complicated um I think that there's reasons a lot of good reason for it and a lot of not good reasons for it too but uh the Chinese identity man is very it's not an easy thing to understand and it's not an easy thing I guess to be fully new in a nuanced educated way be proud of somebody said why do they hate the Philippines of Vietnam and then other people this these uh Filipinos and viets are saying no it's because they see us as jungle Asians cuz we're poor countries uh because of our skin color uh yeah I think it's more because uh the I guess the countries themselves like are not seen as like that geopolitically powerful and also cuz people would want to go to Vietnam right now to visit and they would want to go to borai but maybe their view especially from the older people in terms of like uh governmental systems or whatever not that good yeah yeah yeah um this guy said asian-americans are obviously oblivious to the crimes of Japan it literally invaded and massacred folks in all of the listed countries some and then there was another comment being like literally they were cutting your grandparents heads off did everybody forget and somebody said nope they redeemed for inventing anime Hello Kitty video games and then of course J David what do you think about this sentiment on the internet about like young asian-americans that are like hey that kind of grew up on Japanese anime and Japanese products that are like man we really should hate Japan more but we all know the cool stuff that they gave us yeah man it's tough cuz it was about 80 years ago so I'm just like I don't know what everybody's supposed to think I I don't know what everybody's grandparents told them or I guess what is everybody's timeline for understanding what it impacted them versus 40 years ago 80 years ago right I mean I guess if every generation is 20 years that was four generations ago um this guy said as a Korean and Chinese American I literally cannot stand mainlanders they have such an odd superiority complex over asian-americans it's disappointing um do you how much do you think it is that like I would say that Chinese people they don't do a lot of bad stuff to be honest but they're not the coolest most likable people I I I would agree I on a sociality level on a just a ping level somebody said Koreans view themselves as the Aryan race of Asians yes and no I just think they've absorbed a lot like if you look at different spheres of influence in every Asian country like Japan took a lot from Portugal and England in the 1700s to 1800s Korea most recently got a lot from America in the 1960s that's why I think somebody would say that in terms of heavy influence um people are saying I like first world Northeast Asians so it's only South Korea and Japan for me I I think a lot more people would say that than they would want to admit somebody said Taiwan is just an Israel in the making the American proxy war Ukraine in the past Israel in the present Taiwan in the future yeah that's like some hyper geopolitical stuff that's really complicated um somebody just said have no unity and are jealous of each other Andrew agree disagree kind of a blanket statement that but yeah there's some truth to that because obviously that if the numbers are so variable but I guess they were kind of aligned on hating China and liking Japan right I don't know maybe they're United by a common enemy somebody said Filipino Americans yeah I am proud that that we are the biggest appreciators it makes me warm and fuzzy uh somebody said there's 300 million Indonesians but our voices are always neglected that is true though people do not about Indonesia as a gigantic country oh Indonesia is a huge country but I think the population in America is not that significant this is a good comment he said as an actual Chinese person living in the west honestly I just ignore it it's an unfortunate byproduct of geopolitical competition and fortunately outside of the online Twitter Reddit brain rot swamp I don't encounter too much of it IRL that's what I was saying where like in real life you don't feel the China hate it's just something easy to type out on the internet and so while I do think there is anti-china propaganda and while I do think obviously China has done some un Savory things but also doesn't do the worst things either uh I guess the it Su it's only really if you're tapped into like all this social media news and then everybody's trying to fearmonger you and say oh China's taking over oh China this China sping and you China is doing this honestly I got the real breakdown first of all I do think I agree with you and and I agree with this comment but maybe a slight more undertone from other Asians than you would think but I'll say this I think the insecurity that Chinese Americans have about themselves messes up our own Community you know what I mean it's like we know that everybody else feels that way about us so we kind of feel that way about ourselves and the internal pings and sociality never develop or get better right right because then now you're looking at other Chinese like I don't need to be around other chines y you making me whack I don't want to be whack but you made me whack and then that kind of causes some breakdown in the sociality interesting cuz it's not like every Community can just run its on its own fish pole actually so anyway guys let us know what you think of Brian shu's video in the comment section below is it just a age thing is it a geographical thing do we need more granular data is it surprising until next time with the hot pop boys we out peace peace