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- When Soviet propaganda started to make America seem racist during the Cold War, America went from a country that despised Asians to one that held them up as a shining example of assimilation to gain them as allies. #truTV #AdamRuins
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I was raised by White parents, am a Chinese woman myself. We’re not rich, just somewhere in the middle class. My math scores SUCKED but I excelled in anything writing based. Hearing from teachers and other students that I “wasn’t really Asian,” or “not living up to” my heritage/background hurt growing up. Positive stereotypes are still harmful! They build heights to which we can never climb.
Are you better now?😊
They must hate being white.
you may get harms, you also got benefits, right?
further more, as long as you see through it, it does not hurt you anymore.
Ya your not chinese your parents arnt you never experienced aisian education lucky you so how can you be chinese
Just to let everyone know: yes, in Asian cultures, there is a VERY high emphasis on academics. Some families will even physically or verbally abuse their children if they get a low grade, and it is really damaging. But when classmates and friends start expecting you to be smart and better than everyone else, it just gets worse.
All I’m trying to say is that when classmates and friends start making comments like “whoa you got a 70% on the math exam? I thought you were Asian” it just makes Asians feel more inferior and that they’re dumb. We get enough stress from our parents about good grades; the people we spend literally 8 hours a day with for most of the year shouldn’t put that pressure on us too.
“If you’re not top 15% of the class, you’re doing something wrong as an Asian”.
No joke, that was the sad mantra during my high school. There’s a non-0 number of my friends that contemplated suicide because they dropped to top 20%. And the mantra started by, wait for it, the rest of the school.
It’s unwanted stress that almost killed my friend. Almost got into a fight when a random guy walked up to my friend and said that while he almost cried. Stereotypes are inherently bad, no matter how nice they sound.
Not just Asian culture, it's all cultures. They think good grades will get you a good job.
AFR I know that it’s all cultures, but this “All Asians are so smart” myth is damaging in particular to Asians. I know that pressure for grades is something all kids deal with, but it is much more pressure on Asian children than any other.
One has to also take into consideration that the stereotype of Asians also effect Asian parents' pressure on their children. If they themselves buy into the stereotype they will most likely feel a lot of anxiety if their children do not live up to the expectations.
The pressures you said your parents put on you to succeed is similar to the pressure Black parents place on their children as well. I grew up with my parents and those of my friends telling me that I "needed to work twice as hard to get half as far", and that I didn't have the luxury of being an individual; that I represented everyone that looked like me and couldn't be even a hair out of line lest people see that and think it typical of blacks. Then there was the added pressures of learning how to deal with police as a black person in a time before CZcams and Twitter.
Stereotypes are harmful and cost people their lives. No one should have to deal with them.
This is quite interesting from a teacher's perspective. This myth has been so ingrained into the American culture that yes, typically when I have an Asian student, I do have to purposefully take a step back and not dig into the stereotype that somehow they will be my smartest and my best. In education, we've really focused on teachers addressing negative stereotypes that might be held about racial, ethical or religious minorities (yes, we DO discuss this with professionals, sometimes in meetings as often as once per week). We attend countless Professional Development meetings to combat treating some minorities differently (such as African American, Native American or Latinex students), but I've never attended a single one which has ever focused on Asian students. In fact, I admit, this past year when one of my Asian students began showing major behavior issues in class, I was really surprised. If any other race had done the same, I would have had an established routine for how to handle it. This is a very good episode. Even stereotypes which might seem positive on the surface can be very damaging if we look closely enough. We might not be able to change our initial reaction right away, if an idea has been presented to the point of muscle memory, but we can take the minute to consider our actions and ask if they are based in fact, or just on what we've always been told. As for my Asian student and her misbehavior: her parents were going through a divorce. I would have misbehaved too, in her shoes. My hope is that more awareness is brought to this issue in the classroom. We all know inherently that a person's race or ethnicity does not make them smarter or more focused than someone else, but it's good to sit down and actually address any subconscious stereotypes we are carrying-especially as teachers who truly need to be able to make each child feel welcomed, appreciated and cared for.
I am very grateful that you have noticed this issue in the teaching system. I would like to point out that the issues isn't only in how teachers and fellow students respond to the bahavior (and personality) of Asian American students. It's also how they respond to academic achievement. As a 2nd generation Chinese American (parents were immigrants) I often felt a lot of pressure from teachers and classmates to excel academically. This only exacerbated the pressure I felt from my parents and severely damaged my mental evaluation of my own worth.
I did graduate from my high school as the valedictorian. However, even for high achieving Asian American students, comments from teachers and peers about our supposed academic superiority was very damaging. When I didn't get the best on a single assignment or exam, classmates would mock me and show off their better assignment/exam grade. When I did excel, instead of saying "good job, I know you worked hard for this", peers and teachers would shrug it off with "as expected from a Chinese American like you" as if my academic performance was somehow preprogrammed into me genetically. Now, imagine if you were to grow up with such pressures but you were from a less privileged family (like poverty-stricken Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees' children) and/or didn't excel academically. It really wears down on your feeling of self-worth and self-love. I would really like to see this issue addressed in the American academic system. Thanks though, for being so considerate and thoughtful of how we can change our interaction with Asian American students. :)
This is actually pretty well known in left circles but it’s mostly used to combat nazis
I teach in southern California public schools and have noticed this disparity. In short, school districts are playing the numbers: more resources and attention are poured into black and Hispanic students than say East Asian / Central Asian / Middle Eastern / European students, because A) they make up an enormous demographic chunk of the student population to the point where they are no longer minorities and actually represent the MAJORITY now, and B) they have historic, systemic, racist, pervasive disadvantages stacked against them that literally cannot be addressed in any way but at a policy level.
I myself am Asian from a predominantly Asian community (I grew up in Hawai'i), and am more than familiar with the model minority myth that trickled down through mainstream American media. The struggle is real. That said, we need to recognize that there is a gap between the ABILITIES of students of color, and the PERFORMANCE of students of color. As a teacher, my constant struggle is closing this gap for ALL of my students.
Respectfully, it's not "Latinex," it's Latino. Latino is not a sexist term as the Spanish language is gendered and doesn't need this type of appropriation. Please don't be afraid to reject made up words that are disrespectful to people that are actually of that culture. I believe your heart is in the right place, and I appreciate you for it, but this is an example of political corectness reaching absurdity.
TL:DR
Everyone in the comments arguing about politics, but no ones gonna mention the fact that they thought that was Travis Scott at the beginning.
😂😂😂😂...Truth
I’m still not sure it’s not
Cough lol
I thought it was a$ap lol
I have the same though bro, everyone believes it's the truth. But I realize I am seeing numbers of pests of troublemakers on CZcams creating a massive of cesspool of chaos. Those users talking politics are either bots and Trolls.
"Soviet propaganda started to make America seem racist "
Lmao
*seem*
Trust me, Adam doesn't have the mindset that America is a racist-free nation.
That wasn't the quote, but go off I guess
@@stormichow5325 i think he knew that but the soviets were starting to inform people it was racist
@@raulsalome7038 Yeah much of the propaganda was very much in the light he mentioned that the U.S. government would deny the rights of minorities, and that they didn't owe the U.S. or its people who oppressed them anything. It used a lot of imagery showing that the ruling/capitalist class and Klan's interests were one and the same. Further, it was that same abhorrent racism that the U.S. allowed itself to become a spearhead against human freedom in the developing world...
"And frankly it's kinda ridiculous that we lump people from so many different backgrounds together as Asians" you can say the same about African Americans because Africa is not a country It's a continent with multiple countries.
Chattel slavery basically erased the ethnic identity of every American slave descendant . It's why "black" people is a politically correct term because black people in America have a commonly shared culture and history.
@@kangchen45 "Commonly shared culture and history" I as an African Disagree
@@jacobusdreyer9379 okay? If you're literally from africa, then you aren't african american
@@kangchen45
Yeah, and African-American is a ridiculous word since they have no knowledge or understanding of their African roots. They're Black Americans, which is different. The word "African" entails a variety of cultural and social factors that Black American have been shielded from.
Black Americans are descendants of West Africans. African nations now are a mixture of multiple different tribes. You could be from one country but several tribes.
We Russians are called Commies. Even though Soviet Collapsed in 1991.
It’s ironic because Russia currently has a more capitalist system than the US
He what about us germans? We still get ONLY associated with Nazis even thought we have thousands of years history
Ikr
Ctfc Cc Personal opinion; When I think of Germany, my mind goes back to the Holy Roman Empire and all of its holdings. Although I also think of the Charlomagne empire, which I believe part of current day Germany would fall into.
@@garrettclements7114 when I think of Germany I think of prussia and B E E R
The most important part of this video seems to be flying over the head of most of its critics. The US government changed the immigration laws to be strongly based on merit, so a large fraction of Asians that live in this country are descendants of these rich and highly educated Asian immigrants. While most other races, both legally and illegally, came here through slavery or to escape poverty and war. So, citing statistics about how successful Asians are relative to African Americans and Latinos in the US means little because it is extremely biased.
So are you saying we could solve racism by importing a whole generation of rich, successful blacks?
@@Submersed24
South America and Africa are "riddled with crime" because that's exactly how they need to be for USA to profit the most. Throughout the past century, the USA has been supporting military coups and openly conducting terrorism in these countries to put their own puppets in power, puppets who give the USA unhindered access to whatever industries and resources that country has, whether it be gold, oil, diamonds or bananas. Some of the most flagrant examples of this occurred in Chile and DRC.
@@Submersed24
You like "Asian culture"? Fine. Let's see how you enjoy 14-hour work days and unbelievably high levels of suicide, particularly among young people. Let's see how you enjoy absolute censorship and surveillance. Let's see how you enjoy a system that forces citizens to worship politicians as gods.
@@cometmoon4485
"Let's see how you enjoy a system that forces citizens to worship politicians as gods."
Uh... If he's in the US, he might not have to wait very long for that...
@@Eli-su6ql Don't they already do that there with the founding fathers fetish and all. Not to mention still clinging to a piece of paper as their supreme law, despite it having almost no relevance in modern society since it's a couple hundred years old.
I need to update my list.
"Cut it out" Joey
"Have mercy" Jesse
"Sammy and the rippers" Jesse
"Watch the hair" Jesse
Creating lists like this one, Danny
@Indy Behr yeah to Clarissa explains it all, man I miss the 90's
I noticed all those lines from Full House, too! 😁
I noticed them right away then I was looking for someone
@@tarag7292 I think that anybody that watched Full House for any number of episodes would probably recognize those. They were pretty clear references that were carried into the Netflix revival.
Asians also face a lot of discrimination from ALL races. They just don't talk about it as much.
@jieqiang luo Both are true
jieqiang luo where are all the Asian on Black crime stories in the news then?
Sucker MC you might want to look into who owns all major news network, and then you won’t be so confused at the propaganda they sell you, the picture they WANT you to see. You do know there’s violent Asian gangs and mafias, right?
@@katelynnehansen8115 Every country has mafia bad example!
But what I would suggest was from ww2 all the asian believing they are the superior race and everyone is inferior which means the older people are racist (or more likely to be) whiilst the young people are not!
That cool dude! is awesome! My point is that every group has their violent sects, yet media will skew and misrepresent information to create the perception they want the populace to hold at the time.
the fact that this stereotype exists in many english/European speaking countries makes this myth more concerning and rather a understatement at this point
European is not a language
@@dreamworldman5504 He means anybody who a language originating from Europe.
0:20-0:25 How I feel when they upload these 62 different times on 23 different channels
Im asian
South east asian
And when i only said asian they imagine im chinese, or japanese, or korean
Nice to met ya South east asian man!
I sometimes play on your servers to stop lag!
eyy hello there
Hello, fellow SEA countryman.
Heya bro, where do you come from? IM indonesian
I think there are 6 main mega regions in Asia. Western Asia which which is like the middle east, central Asia which like Kazakhstan and Afghanistan. East Asia which has countries like China, Japan, The Koreas, Taiwan and the Philippines. South Asia with countries like Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, south east Asia with countries like Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam and Brunei. And north Asia with Siberia controlled by Russia and possibly Mongolia.
Actually, the "Yellow Peril" idea started In the UK and moved over here. Ever heard of Dr. Fu Manchu? The author of that series "Sax Rohmer" (real name Arthur Sarsfield Ward) hails from Merrie Olde England.
1900's London was dealing with the "yellow peril" question, a term evolved from the imagined threat and racial bias concerning Asian immigration. Films and books as well as the politics of the day reflected this attitude. From Ch. II The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu (1913);
"Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government-- which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man." *
Heady words for heady times. From the thriving merchant trade Chinese communities were established in London's Limehouse district, populated partly by dockworkers and sailors. Tales of opium dens, illegal immigration, corruption, and death were rampant topics in the news and intoxicating material for readers and novelists including Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. Rohmer's The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu profited from these morbid worrying expansionist effects. The evil genius and his wickedly sadistic and cunning daughter Fah Lo Suee fight the Western powers embodied in Commissioner Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie. Mysterious Eastern instruments and shadowy evil figures are at their disposal. The novel was an instant best-seller.
www.online-literature.com/sax-rohmer/
Blaming the US Government ALONE for this attitude is ridiculous and a cheap shot. Hell, it was the UK that exported Opium TO China (not the other way around) www.britannica.com/topic/opium-trade started that whole myth,
It is as silly to point fingers at the US for this as it is to single our nation out for racist attitudes to people of African descent. Look up the original title of British Mystery Queen Agatha Christie's classic AND THEN THERE WERE NONE sometime...she didn't get that from us. She was inculcated with her racist attitudes in good old Great Britain: www.amazon.com/Agatha-Christie-Niggers-Indians-Paperback/dp/B01M6YBLGA
www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/28/no-reason-to-doubt-no-irish-no-blacks-signs
And check out a subplot about an Anglo-Indian nonconformist preacher who (because of his light brown skin coloration) was referred to by the "N" word in Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novel UNNATURAL DEATH www.amazon.com/Unnatural-Death-Peter-Wimsey-Mystery/dp/0062311921
Yet I have watched Samuel L. Jackson commenting on how Britain was never racist like the US.
Nick Fury is an idiot if he believes that. 😎
Ask him why British Soldiers during the 2nd World War were known to refer to people of color as WOGS.
It was because they had the bad habit of referring to His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of Kings of Ethiopia and Elect of God as "That Dirty Little (insert N word here)" and were ordered by Montgomery to refer to him as that "Worthy Oriental Gentleman".
*The only thing Fu Manchu doesn't have is the thing he is most famous for. A "Fu Manchu"
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Cassandra Morrison this video never said anything about that, all you’re doing is adding additional statements
Do you have a England fetish or something? Overflowing with of insecurity a bit huh. Who hurt you
@@m2heavyindustries378 no she's proving that you British weren't saints and that petty little comment doesn't disprove any of this fact and logic. "Did someone hurt you?" "Do you have a England fetish?" Like dude how old are you?
Ahh...
The Empire.. err.. _Colonialism!!!_ (Euphemisms FTW!)
Guess the "isolationist" Muricans would feel even more vindicated.
TBH, Americans aren't very creative at things like sports and racism. A significant portion of the racist imagery and racial slurs we have were created in the UK, a good chunk of which were originally created to put the Irish in their place. Which shouldn't be much of a surprise as the UK had a significant hand in the US turning to slaves early on. Monkeys and the N-word are particular notable examples of things that were used to denigrate the Irish, but have now become so tightly associated with anti-African racism that most people have forgotten about that.
My mom thinks this is fake. She thinks the Chinese worked hard and got the "model minority" status all on their own rather than from government propaganda.
(my mom is Chinese and doesn't include other Asians in the "model minority" except for Koreans and Japanese)
That's very unfortunate because according to pew research out of all the different groups of Asians Indian Americans have the highest incomes yet so many East Asians don't even consider them to be Asian.
The consistent combing by uncle sammy sure resembles his desperation to create a perfect(fake) image
I beg to differ. Name one country that has had a perfectly clean track record.
The combing is a reference to Uncle Jesse from Full House, it's one of the many references to sitcoms of the past that were embedded in the video.
I taught ESL in Korea. I told them that American stereotype Koreans as studious. They laughed it off, knowing that's far from the truth.
Lmao they are more studious though. That's why the educational mindset in South Korea is so toxic and results in a such a high suicide rate; the average Korean would trounce the average white American in mathematics or science.
The average American has been practically lobotomised by their public education system.
Expecting them to be on the level of Koreans who can have their lives dictated by how well they score on tests is kinda silly.
@@leguminous7564 yes man! Exactly
@@leguminous7564
Are you including the dead-by-suicide Koreans in that average? Because it seems pretty major not to, if suicide is a result of their education.
@@leguminous7564 shitty work conditions contribute just as much, if not more, to that suicide rate
Asia is a continent not a country. A lot of people tend to forget that there are many countries in Asia and that each of these countries have completely different cultures, languages, history and so on.
At one time people would ask you what country you are from. Then people started getting offended when you would ask them where they were from. So now we say what continent people are from just so we don't offend.. We should just all call ourselves Earthlings and call it a day
@@thebikehippie6562 earthlings? Oh so you differentiate between earthlings and martians then?
rude much
@@fairystail1 multicellular organism, then?
@@TESkyrimizer You saying bacteria aren't alive? Rude
@@mason3166 existing-lings?
They tried to do this model minority thing with Africans too, it’s really stupid
Derek Welk they printed articles with headlines like ‘Nigerians, America’s new model minority’ or talk about how well African students do in school, saying we are the blacks that have masters degrees, go to college and get good jobs, just look it up on google you’ll see it, at first it was flattering but After a while it just felt like they were putting us against African-Americans. It’s kinda wierd imo.
Derek Welk did you look it up on google like I said? plus there aren’t that many Africans in Cali, they’re more present in places like New York, Texas, Atlanta, the DMV etc you don’t have to look it up it doesn’t really matter.
@@andromeda3163 they didn't "try" to do anything with Africans. nigerians are actually one of the most educated minority groups as of 2020 next to many asian Americans. i agree the model minority myth shouldn't be a thing, but it doesn't take away the fact that nigerians actually ranked super high as one of the most educated minority groups
@@mahimahayat4698 oh I know we are, I’m Nigerian
Nigerians are pretty successful though
"Why didn't you do that to German Americans?"
They did. 36.1% of all interments during WW2 were German Americans, however the vast majority of those interned were Japanese Americans.
Wait until you hear about the lavish tours those prisoners got unlike the Japanese ones. Especially the one time where a jazz musician played at a segregated club which the ones in the white section were all German POWs (YUP, NAZIS!). Damn!
I'd like to point out that German Americans *were* also interned
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans
On a significantly smaller scale; but it nevertheless *did happen*.
Yeah Adam ignores some facts. Like how he claimed that we only let Asian who would be successful in. That completely ignores the 600,000 refugees we took in from Indochina after the end of the Vietnam war. Saddly Adam misses some facts for a political spin.
@2023. Naren Pullela that source is in my college history text book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘦 2: 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 1865
by Joseph R. Collins. Also if you want another source here is an article by recuse history.org www.rescue.org/article/largest-refugee-resettlement-effort-american-history
@2023. Naren Pullela Also on the question of how the refugees are doing. I can't imagine their that bad since Adam did not mention them. I see a lot of south Vietnamese flags in my city and none of the Viets I know are any worse off than me.
Why would ruin a (almost) perfectly executed race-bait video?
@@mrwaffly2202 My dad and mom are Vietnamese and divorced due to family problems. They immigrated to America, at first to New York then to Southern California, during the Vietnam war My mom lives in Garden Grove, Orange County, while my dad lives in Alhambra, LA. My mom is a moderately successful pharmacist at a local, Vietnamese pharmacy, while my dad works as an IT and analyst contractor, who does jobs or tickets across OC and LA.
You were years ahead of the times by creating this video. Well done Adam!
"This is all your fault. Get outta my room!"
*touches hair*
"Woah, watch the hair!"
The idea that the Stereotypes of Asians being “smart,” “Successful,” isn’t just American Propaganda. Asian cultures during the medieval era were heavily based on sword combat and “honoring” your family. If you were a youth male your decency was based on how honorable you were. With the extinction of sword combat and the depletion of war. This culture has shifted towards academics. Many Asian family’s have high standards for academics.
It’s funny how they only bring IT workers from certain countries India, The Philippines 🇵🇭 for example but they won’t take engineers from let’s say Mexico, Colombia, Peru 🇵🇪 maybe trump was right in bad sense instead of saying they’re not sending their best he should have said “we’re not taking their best” cause it’s not in the script and our best interests to maintain system & keep minorities weak and divided
Hopefully this will help people see through government propaganda. This needs to be seen by millions more. Thank you.
Couldn’t tiger parents also be partial blame for this too? Because of them the stereotype breaths more because they make their kids act just like the stereotype.
You want to make your child a math wiz? Make them study math during the summer pay for extra lessons in mathematics, make them do math problems every day with breaks to do other homework related stuff, ect.
Heck most kids of extreme tiger parents can’t even go hang out with friends because their parents make them study, study, study.
It’s not all tiger parents but the extreme ones are the worst.
Tiger parents could be of any race. Assuming only Asians push their children is ridiculous. It’s also a bit of a derogatory term.
Im an Chinese myself and its not that we and our our parents are extreme and strict its just that we give more attention and a better attitude than you westerners. And tiger parents and helicopter parents are just another stereotype that people made up from rare cases of parenting and magnified it to 100x. Please, give some respect to us asians
Can’t say about other Asians, but a lot of chinese families I know value education early on more than normal.
Saying tiger parents are to blame is like 20% true at best. If you aren’t top 15% of the school and you’re Chinese, you’re doing something wrong.
Like, to some of my white friends it sounds ridiculous. A minority has to be better than the majority. And then the stereotype perpetuates, my friends get put down, and I see them not trying as hard in school. Like, I value an education, but I value having fun. I just learned early on from my “tiger parents” how to budget one over the other to have more fun later in life, when I’m more successful.
And I hear all these stories of skipping school for piercings and friends and I just... why? Take shortcuts in school so you don’t have to work as hard, not blow it off completely.
The tiger parent is also created by the USA to justify the lower standards of their education and the lack of STEM education
The tiger parenting is a product of the model minority myth and is itself an exaggeration of Asian parents usual push for education. The parents saw that their kid has to be "perfect" to even be competitive in this society and so every possible fault is expected to be ironed out.
I’m Asian and I almost failed high school 2 times
And my parents took all my Chinese New Years money
lksjflkfkldjsklflskd same though for the Chinese New Years money
Way to fight stereotypes
Wtf that’s nothing to be proud of dude
@@ArthurWuYeah211 It's not your place to be judging others.
@@chinggiskhan6678 He is dragging down our good name, and it is not something he should be proud of.
“An Asian American can never be president of the United States”
Andrew Yang: “hold my beer”
He’s the only democrat I would consider voting for
@Chris Hansen he is just going to divert half of the voters from bieden voters so no one democrat has all the votes
I truly hope not! He is a horrible candidate.
It also puts other Asians down. For example asians that came as refugees don’t have the same success rates as their wealthier counterparts parts. Asians having the biggest wealth gap of any demo in the US. But because of the “model minority” myth, Asian poverty is overlooked and many can’t get the resources to get out of poverty.
It’s funny how they only bring IT workers from certain countries India, The Philippines 🇵🇭 for example but they won’t take engineers from let’s say Mexico, Colombia, Peru 🇵🇪 maybe trump was right in bad sense instead of saying they’re not sending their best he should have said “we’re not taking their best” cause it’s not in the script and our best interests to maintain system & keep minorities weak and divided
Thank you for sharing this. This is sooo important.
As an Asian-American creator, I also am in the fight to change asian stereotype.
Same here with my native American haritage so many stereotypes
I entreat you to be helpful to black people like myself and my kin.
It sickens me to see Asian people fighting against us, especially when we never developed invaded and destroyed your countries under our own colonial banner unlike some folks I could mention.
sorry to tell you but you wont stereotypes exist for a reason quit trying to be a loser.
@@ganjatheninja
Yes, we all know ignorant bigots like you are the seed of stereotypes, because you can't figure out how correlation and causation work.
Wow you're so stunning and brave
Dear Adam, in Mexico there is a project called the Mayan Train, that will pass in the states of Tabasco, Chiapas, Yucatan, Campeche and Quintana Roo, the problem is that many people are against for the fact that it can cause an ecologic damage, and there is people who is in favor because the Mayan Train can give a great inversion in the states that will pass.
¿Does the Mayan Train is something good or bad?
This actually brings to light another factor about the model minority myth I think many people tend to overlook. How politically active are Asian-American people? You see activism from Black Americans all the time but political activism and participation doesn't seem near as prominent amongst Asian-American people...
Look to literal political fields instead of activism; protests/marches. You will find plenty of Asians lobbying for example. But Asians aren't quick to protesting, we are simply to good at it to implement it fairly.
Also, it’s not exactly untrue what they say, just what they expect and see is untrue.
@@edgyreggiee that's another stereotype lol.
I remember the first time I heard about the Asian American stereotype of being smart. I was either 12 or 13 and my friends were doing some kind of weird thing where they got in a circle, put their hands into their sleeves and gripped it, while their arms pointed forward moving up and down as if they were doing some kind of cult worship thingy (I swear, that was the last time I ever saw them do it). Me, feeling left out and lonely, just decided to squeeze into the circle and join in on whatever this was.
They started saying "Food, food", next thing, I know one of them says, "Wait we're all Asian." So then, they started saying "Straight A's, straight A's...". I got SO CONFUSED. I didn't understand what grades had to do with anything. Later, I asked my dad about it and he explained it to me. It shocked me because the smartest people I ever knew up to that point came were of many different races: Chilean, Italian, African American, and yes, also Filipinos, Indians, etc. So, it just didn't make sense that the "nerdy, smart" stereotype only racially got labeled to Asians.
I've had a former manager genuinely tell me that I'm good at math..haha.
I'm actually pretty bad at math 😆
Having taught in Asia, the UK and Australia I can tell you that my classroom was as diverse in terms of smart and...'not so smart' students across the board. The parental pressure varied but that didn’t make the kids any smarter, they were just incredibly stressed out!
June 2020: couldn't be more appropriate to watch
The kid went in the closet Japanese and out a Russian
But we gotta admit, Asians are one of the most dedicated in terms of academics
No we aren't lmao
this guy is so cool, those whimsical glasses, that goofy but rad haircut. that physique only soda, burgers and a couch can chisel. i better listen to him!
Coming in through the window with a ladder is reference to Clarissa Explains It All.
4:45
Isn't the exact thing people do when they say someone says he/she is African-American?
Its also basically the same as when people are called "White" or "Caucasian".
Copied from an earlier reply I gave:
This is actually a good point to bring up, however the situations are different. First, many Asian Americans are either themselves immigrants, or one or two generations out. This means that they are very closely tied to their immigrant roots, while most African Americans are several generations from somebody from Africa. (Notice I didn't say immigrant). In addition to this making them more distant from their origins, it also means there is more likely a mix of ancestors from multiple places, some of which may not even be Africa.
On top of that, since most African Americans are descended from slaves, they can't know where their ancestors came from. Slaves were stripped of their identity when they became property. They were not only not given much chance to practice their culture, but they were expected to learn English and speak only English, while also given "Christian" names and expected to accept them as their only name. Truth is, if you were to ask any African American who cared about their ancestry what tribe or nation that their ancestors came from, they will tell you that they WISH they could know. But information like that is hard to find and often entirely lost.
Asian Americans however came as immigrants, so their identities were intact. They weren't as expected to change names, though some might have. In particular, wealthy ones who came were able to form their own cultures, communities, and identities. This is a good thing obviously, and we should respect their individual identities that they wish to keep, especially since others were not as fortunate.
@@kevinkanzler495 It does not apply to colour, it is a physical trait so there is obviously a large number of people from different parts of the world who are white. Caucasian is different because the meaning of Caucasian has been modified with regards to race.
@@kevinkanzler495 Caucasian doesn't mean white. Caucasians aren't even white. Lol.
I love this video. Thank you so much for making this!
Hey Thanks for the FULL HOUSE references!
Adam: TV and Movies are rampant with Asian Stereotypes
Shang Chi: imma stop you right there
It is kind of ridiculous to clamp people from many different backgrounds together as Asians
I’m impressed so much
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…for drone attacks.
Yes and no. He didn't touch on the culture differences. Asian cultures tend to be more collectivist. They also tend to follow the rules more due to a culture that understands the need for order. He completely neglected the cultural differences and how those end up making Asians more desirable for society. Things like family values are far different and impact the success of a student. These factors do give Asian Americans a huge advantage. So while he quotes Asian poverty, it's not accounting for Asians consistently outperforming all other ethnicities in academics, regardless of economic status. This is due to their culture, and not their ethnicity of course. If everyone adopted parts of their culture, they likely would see similar results.
Good to see Randy Wagstaff found a better home.
Dear adam conover,
Thanks for ruining everyone's faith in humanity and doing my jon for me.
Love,
Satan
who's jon? XD
Feeling a little oppressed, are we?
Mr Satan, as your lawyer, I recommend you stop commenting on youtubes videos...
HAHA that’s funny there’s absolutely no hope for humanity anymore
Since when is Satan all about the truth?
Asap rocky and Jeremy Lin!!! How'd you get them on the show?!?
To be fair, most countries prioritize immigrants with skills over unskilled immigrants. That is why I can't move to Canada.
"It gave preference to immigrants who had training, talent, or skill sets that would benefit the US economy."
Isn't that a good thing?
Could be seen as classism
PT Dixon a bit weird from a country that was held up as a place for unfortunate people to create a better life
Yeah no the classist argument makes sense but at the same time I dont see how it can be bad to prefer educated immigrants.
The point was that it led to the stereotype that Asians are smart and it gave people the attitude of "if Asians can do it then the minorities that already live here are just lazy".
@@TESkyrimizer If they originally let in educated immigrants, that translates to wealthy immigrants from china and india. By no coincidence, the asians doing the "best" in America are indians and chinese even though other asian cultures have the same cultural values and IQ (which in itself is nowhere near as important as people think). Next time someone points out how asians are dominating in the school system and economically because they are hardworking, recognize that "coincidentally" is talking about indians and chinese americans in particular (including the descendants of the educated/rich immigrants). Yet the similarly hardworking asians from other cultures are not doing as well. That can only mean the system is more nuanced than it's currently depicted and I would argue it almost always comes down to socioeconomics.
Adam stereotypes isn’t just about race, it’s also about how someone presents themselves. Example if someone where’s sweater vest and glasses you will assume that they are smart.
Or a Hipster.....
@@Ixiah27 Hipsters wear Cosby sweaters.
He never once said that all stereotypes were about race...
Just gonna say look at the captions at 5:18. Can someone tell me if that was an incorrectly edited cut from the actual shop or...
Rock'n Roll uncle who takes a lot of care of his hair... Is that a Full House reference?
"... I also love Ultimate Frisbee"
Yeah.. Definitely Korean-American.
My friend mentioned the “model minority myth” to me, so I wanted to look into it more.
how much ketchup would i need to chug to physically feel my brain?
Asian lady referencing a 60 year old study. Without a doubt, Asians get the model minority label because they come to America with little resources, they excel in academics, they are underrepresented in the legal system and they have a strong sense of family values (take care of elders, don’t shame the family which includes failing school and getting arrested). They did not get special treatment and are often rejected in high numbers when applying for Ivy League schools despite their accolades. The marks spreading random views in this episode does not explain anything about the model minority label. If you need to, visit Irvine Ca. It will tell you all you need to know.
I'll say it once more there were indeed internment camps for German Americans as well it was not just the Japanese
Italian Americans as well
@@TimHornerWOP yeah but Germans were a case by case while Japanese were more like a whole group by group, like comparing a single horse vs comparing a whole herd of sheep
They never said it was just them either. It's just that they were one of many people we've discriminated on especially with our crappy laws. Didn't even trying to make it better since we ended up getting the literal voice of racism and discrimination as our president >_>
Was it in WW2?
Yeah, but that was less than 1,000 people, while the japanese Americans had 120,000 to 130,000 people detained.
What Adam leaves out is the actual economic boom of Japan and the Tiger States (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hongkong) in the 1960s, which validated the idea of the "model minority" in the US.
I am from Singapore. Its not a myth.
I’m Japanese and used to live in America around 5years, experiencing too much expectations on academics just because I’m Asian.
It made me study more and more than any other student and finally i managed to enter one of the most prestigious universities in America.
But once i failed an exam, i started to feel inferior to other Asian students, even whites... I know this way of thinking is ridiculous and kind of racism but all started with the stereotype against Asians... I’m ashamed of what i thought. My color, race and language do not matter on my grades.
I'm so sorry you had to go through that... You're right. Race, color, and language doesn't affect your grades.
I hope you are doing much better now!
Knowing a lot of Asians in Australia and having a step grandma being asian there a lot more demanding and try a lot harder
Not compared to Mormons.. Mormons make all asians look like B students.
20 00 they’re*
Because it's expected. Minorities know that their acceptance in racist societies is contingent on them being seen as successful and smart and useful. The moment a minority is seen as a burden in such societies is the moment they get targeted for harassment and expulsion.
@@pistachiosan or its a cultural thing for Asians to work harder due to a higher population density and unemployment rates so competition for jobs is very difficult so they work harder in school and hence are typically stereotyped as hardworking and smart
@@joeblair9350
Having lived and taught in Japan and China for a decade combined, I can say without reservation that you're absolutely wrong.
When free from the spectre of discrimination by virtue of being the majority, Asians are just like any other race or culture with their over achievers and their delinquents and everyone in between.
I've had students that excelled, I've had students that struggled. I've even had students that just didn't try. None of them had the burden of being their culture's/race's "ambassador" where they weren't just representing themselves, but everyone who looks like them.
Also the high population density means more consumers which means more jobs. It's the sparsely populated areas that suffer since there aren't many people to form a solid customer base.
Since when did A$AP Rocky start doing his homework?
"It's a Sitcom Thing" 👍❤️👏
The last thing I need is my teachers ignoring my help requests in school...
I was just thinking of ddlc after seeing this video and here you are/ nice.
Why do many Full House references?! I'm not complaining! 😂
"It was all America's fault..they're so racist"
But we have a lot of smart Asian students in the UK and we didn't do any of those things.
Asian parents like seeing their kids do well academically.
You only see those that can afford it.
So do American parents want their kids to not be the best at school?
@@anonymoususer6526 I am not sure how this is relevant to what I said.
Everyone wants their kids to do well at school, the problem is when people bring up asians in general as a sort of counter argument in some discussions while omiting the fact that asian immigrants in the west generally have some financial backing to end up there.
There is some basis in fact here. The theory is that the Chinese and Japanese language system helps them to develop a more mathmatical brain
As Asians.... if you dont study well , or dot have much talents.... well ..... things will get ugly... one of the reasons most asians doesnt live long.. depression
Who else thought that the Tray looked like Travis Scott (not to be racist
ACAT_Delusion how’s that racist?
Fun fact most laughter traces where recorded in the 1950's your listen to dead people laugh
It’s probably not down to only one factor. Yes the Model Minority myth might have contributed to the stereotype but also a lot of immigrants will have high expectations for their children to do well because they want the second generation to have a better life than their own and they don’t want them to take anything for granted. Honor and obedience is also highly valued amongst East Asian cultures. That’s why a lot of students will strive for a higher education. I mean South Korea has one of the highest educated labour forces in the OCED. So it’s a range of factors that contributes to the stereotypes
2:22 the irony is that this is exactly what we are doing to blacks, screaming that they were oppressed and then showing thousands of success stories.
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@@MontiRock Actually, pretty spot on
If you're going to take away a "positive" stereotype about Asians (i.e. we're smarter than everyone else), could you also take away any of the multitude of negative stereotypes we have to suffer through?
His point is that none are good.
Agreed. I'm Chinese-Japanese-Vietnamese and I can ASURE you that even though I grew up in Hong Kong, where there's extremely strict academic rules and absolutely NO rights for students, I still suck ass at maths. The idea why many Chinese (I'm going to use that as an example since I have experience in it) are good at that is because they're abuse both verbally and physically for not having good grades. Basically the reason why one student jumped off a parking lot in Hong Kong. I'm just sick of these sterotypical model that asians are seem as nerds and smart.
Moral of the story: “positive” stereotypes are still stereotypes, which are bad!
Uncle Sam's actor is the best person ever.
No one's gonna mention Kenji? That's a real dude from an American concentration camp in WW2. Look it up
*Internment camp. Yes it is still bad but don’t lump it with concentration camps done by from the Germans.
Anyone know the name of that piano piece that starts at 4:22? I think it's stock music but can't find it anywhere.
2:00 this part always reminds of smirnoff one of my all time favorite comedians go check him out he is great
That moment when your part European and Asian
I am Asian and O started believing the stereotype
I'm back here after watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. I knew I'd heard this before. They even use some of the same sources.
I like that they use the same actor to be Uncle Sam.
When we finally get to Mars, will we then refer to a race know as earthlings?
Maybe not a race but I mean a few centuries ago Americans didn't exist and now the entire world has a stereotype of what an "American" is supposed to be like.
"And inherently good at math" more like inherently good looking.
Heyyo
travis scott was really good in this video!
Would it be possible to do a “Ruins Everything” episode about the truth regarding the acceptance to Ivy League Schools - it has been a problem for low income people to get into these exclusive schools for years, but it seems that if one is wealthy or well-connected it is almost never a problem to get into a college like Harvard, Cornell, Brown, Duke, Princeton, or other higher end universities. I was wondering if you would like to do an episode about elite and exclusive schools and how factors like wealth and connections really make the difference, not necessarily how smart a student is.
America seems to want us to forget the concentration camps, transcontinental railroad, chinese exclusion act, and more.
Internment camp not concentration camp and no they are not even close to the same thing. Just to correct ya.
Adam: racism bad
Also Adam: *proceed to use Russian stereotype.*
That is not racism.
It's a comedy, and also, it isn't promoting Russians as like that person, so it isn't bad, even if it is a stereotype
@Bennett McCoy lol. True
I'm Russian, and lemme tell you, I've experienced plenty of racism and xenophobia in my everyday life, but an accent is def not racist or xenophobic.
@@shadowmaydawn It could be, depending on how it is used, however, in this case it is not. Xenophobia against Russians can be mashed with racism (it constantly is) However, the video didn't use the racist aspect of Russian stereotypes, so, we're good.
So happy this video can stay beyond 2020 and 2021. Many people in our current climate have to learn
Does Adam not know that only the coolest kid in school can stop time.
"Asians are so smart"
Me: what's Asia? Is it a Japanese thing?
Also me: *is Asian*
Weeping for humanity
Aparently the claim that there were no internment camps for germans is false. There were around 11 000 people in those. However the number in japanese internment camps is more than 10 times higher to 120 000
That’s my professor!
1:20 Concentration Camps are not Interment Camps. For one Japanese people that were kept in Internment Camps actually didn't die and forced to do harsh labor unlike the concentration camps in Europe. The fact that Adam suggested that the Japanese were in Concentration Camps when in reality they were in Internment Camps is misspreading information.
Yeah but they were still forced to stay in the space. How would you like to stay in one area for year? Uncultured swine.
Internment camps were bad but Adam try to exaggerate the events by saying that they were in concentration camps when in fact Japanese in internment camps had better lives than the ones that were in concentration camps in Europe.
Cancentration camps are completely different from Interment Camps and to suggest that the Japanese were in Concentration camp is misspreading information.
Umm those people had ALL their property taken away, every thing stripped from them, wealth, bank, money, property, split their families and threw them into prisons against their will. How do you down play that? Sounds about white to me
With stereotypes there’s always someone who fits the bill. Not the race as a whole but an individual or two
It’s funny how they only bring IT workers from certain countries India, The Philippines 🇵🇭 for example but they won’t take engineers from let’s say Mexico, Colombia, Peru 🇵🇪 maybe trump was right in bad sense instead of saying they’re not sending their best he should have said “we’re not taking their best” cause it’s not in the script and our best interests to maintain system & keep minorities weak and divided
I like to think characterization of individuals is starting to take on more nuances
From a vietnamese point of view. Parents are strict about children getting top grades . Higher grades = better success later in life . Work hard ,earn more.