American and East Asian React to ASIAN STEREOTYPES! (Korean, Japanese, Chinese, American)

The most common stereotype is probably the way that Chinese , Korea and Japanese people are similar to each other and people try to say each one of them

These stereotypes were all pretty mild. Would love to see one where they react to some of the more common stereotypes, even if they may be a little offensive.

I'm Polish, and when i was living in England nobody even tried to pronounce my name right, even tho it's really easy, everyone just called me Mike, and I hated it. As for my last name, I didn't even ask anyone to attempt that haha

As a teacher (high school) I have had kids from all over the world. Sometimes pronouncing names can be hard, but I tell them if I get it wrong, to correct me. I say that it may take a while, but if they keep correcting me, sooner or later I'll get it right. There's no reason not to try to get someone's name right. It just takes patience and persistence.

Cooking rice one is sooo true in Thailand. I forgot to do it once, then my dad came back from work. He was yelling at me "I give you to do 1 thing, only one and you can't even do it!!! How can you survive when you grow up". It was terribly terrifying.

Fun Fact: Chilies are not native to Asia, Africa, Europe, or Australia. Chili peppers originated in Bolivia and were first cultivated in Mexico. After the Columbian Exchange, many cultivars of chili pepper spread around the world, used for both food and traditional medicine.

It was interesting to hear them all speak Korean.

For me it's really amazing to see American, Chinese, Japanese & korean together.... love from India 🇮🇳🤗

As a korean teenager, the most accurate korean stereotype is that almost every koreans are obsessed about kimchi, rice, and garlic. Do you guys have refrigerator only for one food? We have kimchi refrigerator. Have you ever eaten bread with other bread? We eat kimchi with kimchi soup and kimchi fried rice. And garlic.The birth myth of korea is about garlic!!!

My Chinese friends pronounce my name Jacoboo. I think people from America don't mind their name being pronounced differently by people from other countries, because we're much more used to hearing our language spoken with so many different foreign accents. For me it makes me feel like they are, in a small way, adopting me into their culture by saying my name in their language, instead of the way I would say it.

8:14 As some Colombian who LOVES rice, I can relate to "I always need rice"
With chicken, meat, fish, tuna, with scrambled eggs, bean soup, lentil soup, etc
There's a LOT of food variety
and I can't live without rice

I found it very informative and fun but you guys made me very hungry talking about the food portion:)

I'm from Brazil, and Rice here is like, a NEED. Not having Rice in a meal really feel we didn't eat anything at all XD

Non Asian : Chicken is a main dish
Asian : Chicken is a side dish
Asian : Bread is a snack.
In Asia, if you haven't eaten rice, it means you haven't eaten.
Hello, i'm from Indonesia!

This is the first time I learned that Sumin works/worked with the airlines! What a brave person! Also, that's why she has such well-rounded experience. I once saw a woman carrying her uniform and suitcases with her, walking down the streets while I was making deliveries. The fact that they constantly have to carry so much with them everyday to work floored me.

Whenever I think about the three nations it reminds me of:-
Japan:-Anime
Korea:-K-pop
China:- Kung fu

The Latin American version of the rice panic attack would be the frozen chicken panic attack. You don't want a chancla flying to you because you forgot to defrost the chicken.

Illa 🇺🇲 fits perfectly with Asian trio , and the Asia trio has good interations 🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

Almost all asia food I've had in the U.S. is I guess technically spicier than the usual nothing in U.S. food, but still very mild. Even if you ask for it to be spicy it's still mild. I had to explain very clearly how spicy for something to be at an indian restaurant to the point that the receipt had to say +hot +hot +hot +hot +hot +hot for it to be just regular spicy.

It's not only Asian households, but also many Hispanic households can't go without rice. In my house we personally eat rice with every meal, thankfully for my mom. If not, my white dad cooking would not have rice with the food but my mom is always there to make it. so I relate to the video clip a lot 6:65

I'm Mexican with Korean roots. Our food is spicy. We start eating peppers in every meal by the age of 2, or at least my family on both sides (mom and dad) did. So, Korean and Sechuanese (I hope I spelled it right) isn't spicy to me whatsoever. However, the flavors are exceptional. We ate lots of Asian food growing up. So, we would buy the "huge" bags of rice and we ate rice every single day.
The rice panic attack is pretty relatable though!

I am Cajun. When I joined the military and went to boot camp we are called by our family name. My family name is Bordelon. It’s pronounced boar-dell-on. They called me Borderline. Cajuns, creoles, and folks living in the southwest USA eat spicy foods. When I traveled in Europe I was amazed at the number of ways my first name was pronounced.

As an asian person (specifically indonesian), i relate to the rice one a lot. I ate rice everyday. I don't go as far as adding rice to like burgers, but my grandparents once added rice to pizza and i was like 😶😶

2 years of living in China completely changed my pallette. My native country's food is now too bland for me and I'm the odd one out in my family who likes spicy food.

The one about rice is so true! I'm Asian and when I was younger I was in charge of cooking rice as my parents were working. However, like in the skit I like to surf the net or play games and would forgot the time. When I notice it's already starting to become dark outside I know my parents will be coming and I'll be in a panic as I haven't cooked the rice nor washed the dishes yet 😂 My heart rate's so fast I'm in an adrenaline rush.

7:02 I relate so much, it is sad. The scolding is terrible for forgetting to cook the rice. (I forgot to do it yesterday and I spilled a lot of rice in the sink in a rush to wash it... my mom was disappointed.)

Here in Brazil, people think that japan, china and korea are the same country. When they think in China or Japan, they think in a kind of fry dumpling called "pastel". And in Korea, they think in Kpop.

Speaking of difficulty with names, I not too long ago endeavored to learn a Vietnamese girl's name. I tried it out on her once and she truly seemed surprised that I was able to pronounce it. I have not had the nerve to use it since then though, because the Vietnamese language intimidates me. Her name is Phuoc and she pronounces it the proper Vietnamese way. She left Vietnam as an adult.

In my country no matter where you go, there's always rice everywhere and we even have rice dishes like Pulao, Biryani and Kichuri. Most people are probably familiar with Biryani. These rice dishes also have their own different flavors and side dishes. Let's not forget how we have different kind of rice like long thin rice, thick long rice or small rice.

I have worked with a lot of Asian people and usually do pretty well with their names. Although when I didn’t quite get things right I didn’t beat myself up too much since most Chinese people I came across were not able to pronounce my last name either. When I was checking out at the Safeway it was their policy to say thank you or have a good day and then your name (Ms. Schmid). It stopped them in their tracks pretty much every time; I guess the SCH was something they didn’t know what to do with.

Cantonese, Japanese, and Mandarin are so distinct to my ear( years of Shaw Bros. flix and anime). But, Korean is so subtle to me. At first I mistake it for Japanese but then I start hearing the bups,kwons,ongs,geos, aes, and gyos suffixes.

How is nobody talking about how they found people that can all speak multiple languages so cool

Just like in Indonesia 🇮🇩 , if we haven't eaten rice, it's not counted as eating and we're not full. And if the food is not spicy, it's the same as eating without spices 🤭

They're all just mutually watching the same videos, so I think all four should have been seated together in this one. We can tell on our own who's Asian and who isn't. 😗

It's amazing how multilingual all four of them are.

Very relatable, my name is Jhin like Gin/Jin, but ordering food over the phone always has me picking up my order for Jim

You see the beauty of all this for me was that you put 4 country enjoying their time talking about common situations in life and getting longer..just imagine if all people around the world 🌎 🌍 can understand each other.. the world will be better I wish one day we can stop hate jealousy war madness for good 😌

I’m Japanese American from Hawaii. It’s funny because I distinctly remember forgetting to cook rice and then having a mini panic attack. Would try to rush before my parents got home. Praying my rice cooker would miraculously cook it in 5 mins lol.

You guys should do some sort of episode with foreign asians accross the world and asking them questions. Like and american asian, caribbean asian, british asian, latino asian, australian asian and have east asians ask them questions 😄 id love that. My dad is chinese from guyana and no one expects his accent when he opens his mouth lol the reactions are funny as hell

It’s so interesting that when Taylor speaks English with them, she has a slightly Korean American vibe to her English? Like I’m not Korean American, but ALL my (US born) Korean American friends from LA/San Diego region/SoCal sound very similar, and it’s different from non-Asian Americans / non-Korean Americans from that same region. Of course when native Koreans speak English fluently they have a yet another different vibe. It’s not even so much an accent but emphasis on different syllables. As a Taiwanese American (Northern California) when I hang out with my Korean friends from LA for a long time I start talking like them too. I’ve also heard of Korean Americans who need to speak Korglish when they go to Korea or else they won’t be understood.

As a Pakistani, one time a teacher said my name like Abun even though it's Aban but I say it similarly to Abon, and I love seeing people find food spicy while for us it's not even spicy for us at all😂

LoL I've never seen that last skit done before with rice, but it makes total sense and was equally as hilarious as the one in used to ("when you get home, take the meat out of the freezer and defrost it so it's ready to cook when I get home 💗 Mom" and you forget 😆)

There is a stew in Argentina made of potatoes, rice, tomato sauce and chicken, or sausage.
Arroz con pollo, rice with chicken, a winter staple. Otherwise we mostly don't eat rice unlees you are on diet or broke.
For me meat if the main dish, everything else is side dishes. Though in winter we do a lot of pasta dishes, everything with meat. Preferably cow meat, budget meat would be chicken.

lol at the jazzy happy birthday background music in the middle

I haven't really met people in the west who could even be so nuanced with differentiating stereotypes between Asian cultures - they simply applied general Asian stereotypes to everyone

Aren't Starbucks employees writing the names wrong on purpose? It's part of the experience.

I'm an American, but I usually like rice on my dish, because it felt convenient and it's very filling. And because of my name, Eljamin, is unique many people had a hard time pronouncing and spelling my name some people call me "Elijamin" "Eljin" "Elhamin" and onward. My name is from Hebrew origin, my Dad says that my name means "God's right hand" and when I interact with Japanese streamers they call me in a similar fashion as my name, they refer to me as "エルジャミン(pronounced: Erujamin)" using Katakana. And it made pronouncing my name sort of easier. When I say something in chat, they say "エルジャミンさん、こんにちわ。"(pronunciation: Erujamin-san, Konnichiwa) (translation: hello, Mr. Eljamin) which I'm OK with that. And if a person doesn't pronounce my name very well, I just simply don't mind.

OMG IT'S YUI!!! I LOVE U

I remember as a kid there was this stereotype that Japanese tourists take lots of pictures of everything. I thought this was made up. Then as I got older I discovered a nugget of truth to this.
As far as the names this comes many ways. First of all not all European names are English names. depending on what country they’re from some people tend to struggle to pronounce my name so I let them to call me by another version of my name.

In indonesia, if you dont eat rice that was not breakfast even you already eat a full bowl of noodles

Lol 2:51 is completely relatable. I even accidentally poured down alot of rice because I'm on rush xd

9;49
love it when Kimchi came clear the area or structure you are in of inhabitance.

Foreign names... I was once on a trip to America. I came across a tour group comprised mostly of British chicks, with the additions of a British dude, and a Japanese and Korean gal and guy who I can't remember which was which. They were like a week into their trip at that point. I talked to the Asian girl and asked about her name. She was visibly uncomfortable and said that the other girls call her Sunny since her name is too hard to say. I asked for it anyway, and she said "Soni", with the stress on the second syllable. I repeated the name after her, stressing the second syllable, and her face lit up. She was so happy to hear her name, the gloom was completely lifted up.
If you have the chance to learn someone's name properly, do so. Don't try to make up an easier name for them.

I'm from Bangladesh and i can confirm in my country its impossible to have a meal without rice like their can be fish,chicken,beef,veggis or lentals as alot of different side dishes but only rice or dishes made with rice like polao,biriyani or kacchi have to be the main dish sometimes we eat roti as main dish which is made of flour but its really rare but rice the most common one everytime in every where in my country u will see rice as a main dish

Speaking of Japanese food, I do sometimes find myself seeking out sushi when I want something good but light with it's taste. If I want to go for something heavier, I go for some tonkotsu ramen.

when she said bread is just a snack it reminded me of this delicious snack that i discovered myself. y’all should really try eating bread with rice in it. it sounds kinda weird but it’s really good! the bread is sweet so it makes look like a snack and the rice adds texture.

lmao i wasnt expecting prozd in the thumbnail

Korean girl has such a good American accent.

they talked about spicy or spiced foods. But what's a common? How do they flavor the foods? Mixed ground pepper (green, black)? Salt(s)? cayenne pepper (red powder)? worcestershire sauce (ha ha ha omg i can't spell it and our pronouncing it is off too we include the shire at the end. the stuff is great in tiny amounts to give a more full flavor)? chopped onions, or some green/red/yellow bell peppers? I think it would be intereing to hear how they cook some common dishes for each country. See how different it all is.

As a non Asian rice lover we do the same in Colombia, almost all our traditional dishes have rice, we eat rice with eggs as breakfast, rice with any protein or veggie, rice as a dessert, i mean I just made pasta and my mom asked me to cook some rice, like "ma'am that's doable cereal and calories for lunch"

I’ve worked in Korea for a number of years. My name is Terrance/Terry-hard on the Asian tongue, so I introduce myself as Tae-ri. In Honduras, some difficulties for the locals, so I used my middle name- Albert, which becomes Alberto or Berto…

I never heard anyone ever consider Chinese or Japanese food as spicy, and I live in a place where spicy food is not common or popular. Korean food is widely seen as spicy, not Chinese or Japanese food.

there are a lot of differences in between those too, i worked in a hotel with a lot of those big chinese travel groups and those from hong kong wer always busy apologizing to the staff for the behavior of the others from like shanghai, especially in the breakfast room. also a group from japan i remember had guys from tokyo saying stuff like, don't mind them they are from osaka, they don't know better... whut? but at least, japanese always left tip in the rooms for the cleaning staff, those then always started kind of a race, when they saw japanese names on their lists. thats actually how they managed to lean how to tell the type of names apart, unlike the rest of the staff that doesn't get any tip, they just define them all as chinese and be done with it... even though with japanese names, it's usually very easy to tell, that they are not chinese, since they don't get anything out of it to make sure to get it right, they don't care and since no complains are being made...

"Hi , Ma'am you dropped you Phone-"
2:24

Honestly it's not just Asian names that get butchered. My last name is Cajun-Creole. It is kind of long and I don't expect people to get all the pronunciation right. But people often just see the front and back letters and make up everything in between. Basically if you don't have a name that originated in the British Isles you are out of luck.
I kind of wish this video had gone in on some more terrible stereotypes. I've a few Asian family members and friends and I hear a lot about it from them. Not just the name butchering, but being treated differently.

Rice is vital in asian countries and i can understand it, since here we can't really live without pasta and bread, also pizza at least once every two weeks.
~from italy

7:02 this part of the video was very fun for me, because, as a brazilian i also identified myself. Here in Brazil we also eat rice every day as a accompaniment for the meals, could be Meat, Chicken or Fish, or even pasta in some situations, we will always have rice,personally, i've stopped to eat rice every day, but the rest of my family eats, and every day i have to prepare the rice for the lunch 😂

In some Latin American countries we also eat rice and bread or tortillas or potatoes. It's common to have two sources of carbs. I also consider a subway like a snack. Even burgers don't fill me completely unless I order large fries as well (and sometimes I eat a dessert too).
It's interesting how rice is Asian and we use it a lot in Latin America. On the other hand, hot peppers are Latin American and they're used throughout Asia. At least a few good things came out of European colonization.

7:47
Not gonna lie, as a Brazillian we eat alot of rice too, literally all the meals with exception of the breakfast, you can eat rice with something xD

Guys, if you forget to cook rice in the rice cooker, you can do it fast in a regular pot. Start with cold water, rinsing is pointless with jasmine rice because almost no starch (unless you like extra mushy), High fire until boiling with a little bit of extra water and keep it high until the water is just on top of the rice, then low mid until water is gone, rice should have air holes and it should look like how it looks when cooked, turn that shit off and let it sit. Should be done in less than about 10 mins. Well, he's screwed regardless because 5 mins.

the one i found the most true in this was the hot water stereotype. I worked at a family owned chinese restaurant for 5 years and they would come out in three hour intervals to fill their tumblers with hot water all the time. any time wed get sick they would suggest hot water. if we had acne breakouts they'd suggest hot water, it was always appreciated though

"Somebody named me Timmy".
Could this be a reference to Timothy Taylor's brewery, in the UK? (Their best-known beer is called Landlord, but they also produce some other beers, including Boltmaker.)

As a Chinese American, I can definitely confirm the hot water one. My mom always made me drink hot water even in the middle of summer, she never let me put ice in my drinks at restaurants too lol
The rice one is so real too, like I forgot to make the rice one day and have never forgotten since

Your videos are always so entertaining, but I think it would've been good that you had seated them together.

I like the Yui thumbnail. Gotta love the Keionbu

As a Haitian it is the same thing, rice is the main dish and everything is a side. Our food is also very flavorful and growing up I ate rice virtually every day.

I like how she described food by not saying it's delicious, but comparing the flavors

Im happy to see all 3 of my favorite Asian countries get along (unlike there governments)

Gotta say in Louisiana, Rice is practically a must with SO MANY of our dishes: Etoufe, courtbouillion, gumbo, sauc pecan, so we for sure love our rice down south, in fact, the wet moist environment allows for many many local rice farms.

That ProZD clip was left field, but perfectly used

Out of nowhere an inserted ProZD video

I hope Jane and Kotoha will appear as well.

I can totally relate to the name thing. My name is Gallagher, and most people say it wrong, I have stopped even bothering to correct them. Some also shorten it because it is easier (for them) to say, so they call me Galle, or Gal. It is why I try very hard to get peoples names right.

I can still remember when I was a kid whenever I hear my father’s toyota revo has (distinct sound) I go rush downstairs to cook rice

The names thing I can completely understand. It’s very difficult to discern sounds you’re not familiar with, and English speakers have to work much harder at it, because almost everyone in the world wants to learn that language. Think about it this way: you are expecting a native English speaking person to be able to discern the unique sounds in *dozens* of different languages on first hearing, while each person learning English only has to recognize the sounds in one. Just in my local area, we have people from Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Nigeria, Ghana, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Iran, Israel, Russia, India, and so on. They only have to recognize my name in English, a language they are already learning; I have to be able to duplicate the sounds in *all* those languages, most of which I have never studied. Most of the time I think we don’t get enough credit for trying.

0:41 idk why but i had a feeling the american would have thought she was going to say dog by her laughing abruptly 😂

The legendary fellow coder, and king of segmentation faults in C, my kaibigan (friend), has a Chinese name. I looked up the pronunciation, and try to pronounce it as best I can. To humanity, names are important. Even to people with no last names like in Myanmar (sometimes) or Ethiopia.

Shpishe fooda ees a derriiishas! (Spicy food is delicious!) tried to do that most Korean accent as I could spell it. I was there for 2 years and loved it.

Amazing show💕 for me personally Japanese name comes naturally to me some of them are literally the same names we have in Pakistan eg: Sana and Mina. For Korean names, I have to practice and for Chinese names, I have to practice a lot. Lol.

Can we appreciate that they switched to Korean at some point and didn’t even realise it 😂🎉

i laughed so hard at the guy cooking rice, like what are you doing, washing rice with soap?? lmao

In my country, everybody has some sort of nickname/shortened name of their actual longer name, and the name I usually go with is Sari, but my foreigner friends always butcher the pronunciation and my American ex actually called me "Sorry" lol. Also, they get confused since my first name is not Sari, since it's actually taken from the middle part of my name. I got tired of explaining that in my country we don't go with first name-last name format, so from then on I just tell my foreigner friends to call me "Fi", which is the first two letters of my first name, since they can't spell my full first name anyway.

I like how they bounce between English and Korean as their lingua franca, is it because they all know Korean but not Japanese or Chinese? Is Korean considered the "easy" language to learn between the three?
Also, my Chinese teacher gave me a Chinese name based off my western name like, nearly 20 years ago, I even have a courtsey name now, no Chinese penname tho. What're Japanese and Koreans' opinion on foreigners adopting a local name to make communication easier?

6:01 I find it funny that when we westerners try to get explanatory and pedagogic by explaining something, our Asian audience go like "aaahhh..." but in the back of their minds they are playing us all around.

So, the funny thing about @6:17 where they talk about Japanese food being "simple" or "bland" is that historically, up until about the last couple hundred years, almost no one could even afford to see "spice" let alone afford it. So in this, sort of, "reverse addiction" people just learned to enjoy food exactly the way they got it, without really adding much of anything to it, or spend generations figuring out how to develop methods of cooking it better or bringing out its natural flavors through fermentation or preservation. So even now, there are still people in Japan with this concept in their minds that people who don't like the "traditional" or "simple" foods are either people like foreigners with these burnt-out taste bud-filled tongues or people with too much money.
I, myself, have had plenty of people super excited for me to try their local soup or whatever and when they asked me how it was, I don't lie.
I say, "This is fine."
Almost offended they say, "What do you mean, 'fine'!?"
I say, "Someone dropped grass clippings and a potato chip into this hot water and called it 'soup,' and they clearly have a lot of pride in it to continue repeating the process all these years... But,... It's not bad."
Admittedly, I'm only ever this blunt with good friends. But they often just say the same thing each time.
Shaking their head in disapproval, "Aghh, you just don't understand."
The funny thing being though, I DO understand. I just don't have to like it as much as you do.

The forgetting to cook rice is relatable to my family too. My mom who is Puerto Rican also expects the rice to be done before she starts cooking.

I would like to see them taste Cajun/creole meals.

Many people don't think all Asian food is spicy. Personally, I think Japanese food for example is really subtle and I love that. Korean food is tasty and so delicious - I'm a fan. As for authentic Chinese food, it is so diverse and uses so many ingredients - I love it, especially Szechuan cuisine 😍

My stereotypes would come from actually having been in virtually every east asian nation...but the primary one I developed is that asians have a lot more stereotypes about each other and a stronger tendency to rely upon those stereotypes than you would ever find among mainstream/middle americans toward asians

6:44 lol! That was my exact question. Why was someone just eating flour XD. Not made of flour, but just powdered flour xD translator put flower instead of flour. In the U.S. we wouldn’t say, “that’s just flour”. Flour is the dry product only. For ex. We have coconut flour, wheat flour, corn flour, etc. All different foods, prepared as dry “flour”. We would say, “sir those are just plain noodles”, or something like that.