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Busting Down The 10 Asian American Stereotypes · Asian Adjacent

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  Speaker 1: I told you on this show we talk about everything.
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  Speaker 1: We don't care we're talking about serious stuff. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about everything. So here is the deal. Today we're talking
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  Speaker 1: on Asian adjacent, about adjacent, about ten common stereotypes.
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  Speaker 2: About Asians in America.
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  Speaker 1: These are all oversimplifications that ignore the huge diversity within
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  Speaker 1: the Asian American community. Just want to make sure I
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  Speaker 1: say that because I want to know. These are all
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  Speaker 1: what people think and you and I know it's college
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  Speaker 1: of truth. Number one, all Asians are good at math
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  Speaker 1: and science. The mild model minority myth that puts unfair
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  Speaker 1: pressure on people in racist struggles. Here's the deal. I
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  Speaker 1: know Asians who are good at beth and numbers. I
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  Speaker 1: know if I know two void right now, I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: right now who they always say that people look at
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  Speaker 1: them like they should know that. I'm like, no, they aren't.
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  Speaker 1: That's just that's just a stereotype. Number two, Asians are quiet, shy,
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  Speaker 1: or passive. I know in my own Asian family alone,
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  Speaker 1: they were none of those things. And I know so
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  Speaker 1: many Asians who are very outgoing and loud and fun
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  Speaker 1: and or strong willed. I know a lot of other
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  Speaker 1: people from other races who are quieter. That that is
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  Speaker 1: not that's just a stereotype. Number three, all Asians are
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  Speaker 1: rich or successful. Now crazy rich Asians was a fun
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  Speaker 1: movie to see Shaws of Sunset. They're not that Asian there,
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  Speaker 1: They're Persian trying to think. Their few shows that show that.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the Asians in my family, they started out poor
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  Speaker 1: and they did they did amass some money enough. That's
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  Speaker 1: they're they're not poor. Now here's the deal. For me,
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  Speaker 1: I saw that a lot of Asians in America that
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  Speaker 1: I know of, like and like other other other minorities,
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  Speaker 1: they come together, they work as a family, they work
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  Speaker 1: very hard, they pull their money together, and everybody gets
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  Speaker 1: a piece of the pie and becomes successful. So I've
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  Speaker 1: noticed that in several different cultures, not just Asians. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying but they're not saying that. Every agent
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Is we're s because I know Asians who aren't rich.
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  Speaker 1: But I do know a lot of them do work hard,
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  Speaker 1: work together, and whether they're poor or not, and they
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  Speaker 1: work together, they're further themselves that I think that and
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  Speaker 1: that's not all. But I know a lot that do.
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  Speaker 1: There are four Asians are forn is not really American.
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  Speaker 1: We're just a few few episodes you talked about Asians
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  Speaker 1: being here in America and working and then having kids
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  Speaker 1: and they're born in America, and that's that's just.
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  Speaker 2: Such a bad stereotype. Where are you from?
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  Speaker 1: And my age friends get all the time, where you
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  Speaker 1: where are you really from? Its like from Pasadena, That's
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  Speaker 1: where I'm really from.
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  Speaker 2: But it was, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Number five, all Asians look the same? Well, I get
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  Speaker 1: the same thing about all black folks look the same.
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  Speaker 1: We get the same. So not just to Asians, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's people say that to certain groups. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: who say all white boys look the same with blond hair,
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  Speaker 1: are all the same? I mean, it's just it's a dumbster.
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  Speaker 2: We don't all. We don't all the same.
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  Speaker 1: And trust me, I can if you really pay attention,
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  Speaker 1: you can tell that throughout the Asian races and cultures.
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  Speaker 1: You can tell who that there's versus Korean, that one
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  Speaker 1: it's Chinese, like, It's it's not that hard folks. Number six,
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  Speaker 1: Asians don't speak good English. I know more Latinos who
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  Speaker 1: don't speak in English than I do Asians.
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  Speaker 2: To tell your.
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  Speaker 1: Truth, actually in America, Number seven, Asians are nerdy or
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  Speaker 1: socially awkward. Now that is something that is portrayed in
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  Speaker 1: TV and movies. Revenged it was the first to always
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  Speaker 1: movie since then that perpetuates that Asians. It's I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a way to masculate them, emasculate them, to make
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  Speaker 1: them not be sex symbols. I think it's it's on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: So they think in real life that Asians are like that,
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  Speaker 1: and that's just not the case. Come to come to
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  Speaker 1: Koreatown here, and I was an Asia town. Come to
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  Speaker 1: Koreatown here in Los Angeles, you will see to atal difference.
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  Speaker 1: Number eight Asian parents are always strict tiger parents. I know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a stereotype mine where I talked about on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Mine were very strict. My mother was. My Asian mother
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  Speaker 1: was a tiger mom. She was, so I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Number nine, Asians are good at martial arts, another pop
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  Speaker 1: culture stereotype. Obviously signing with Bruce Lee and everything. Since
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  Speaker 1: that's just not true, of course. And then number ten,
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  Speaker 1: which is something that it's really it's kind of serious.
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  Speaker 1: Asians don't experience racism. The you know, there's a whole
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  Speaker 1: thing about Asians assimilating easier into American.
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  Speaker 2: White culture than other races.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's actives that there's kind of that myth that
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  Speaker 1: that really they say that that we can't do it,
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  Speaker 1: but they can, or that they don't experience racism because
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  Speaker 1: they're not. They're they're just they just don't. But it's true,
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  Speaker 1: they do get it. We had the Asian hate rise
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  Speaker 1: a few years ago. That happened. It was and there's
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  Speaker 1: this whole minority model myth that even some Asians that
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  Speaker 1: I know will petriwate, like, well, we're not like you guys.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are so loud and demanding. We're not the
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  Speaker 1: Mexicans we come over here illegally, We're not they they
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  Speaker 1: have these I've had I've had these talks with some
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  Speaker 1: Asians who felt a little more minority superior than some
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  Speaker 1: of the rest of us. But when the Asian hate started,
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  Speaker 1: that changed a lot of people, Like Okay, because like
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  Speaker 1: black people, most Asians can't change how they look. You know,
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  Speaker 1: many of them are real Asian presenting. You can't change
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  Speaker 1: how you look. They do, they can, they do, And
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  Speaker 1: just Asian Americans don't all come from I'm adding this.
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  Speaker 1: I know we did ten. I'm adding this one. They
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  Speaker 1: all come from China and all come from Japan. They
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  Speaker 1: don't all come from Korea. There's and also there's other Asians.
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  Speaker 1: And there's some good food in them too, like tie
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  Speaker 1: like taie, like Cambodian, Laotian, Singaporean where it's very clean, Singapore, Singaporean, Vivannese.
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  Speaker 2: It's really good food.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you some really good food. But I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: there's there's it's not just Chinese, Japanese and Korean. There
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  Speaker 1: are and then again South Asians. You know, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: that's India, Indians, that's Sri Lankans, that's you know, that's Burmese.
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  Speaker 1: A le' say, everybody from that part of the world.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we can't, we can't, you know, forget about them,
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  Speaker 1: not at all.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm James D. Junior. Those are your ten stereotypes
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  Speaker 2: of
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  Speaker 1: Asians, So Asian Americans, let's end the stereotypes, please,