Should You Make Your ASIAN Child Work?

there's a debate going on on the Asian internet should you make your Asian child work at the family restaurant growing up or not let's talk about it yeah let's run the clip from Tik Tok as well as some commentary if you ever see this happening don't you dare call Child Protective Services you order the food immediately don't hesitate don't wait you look at that menu whatever you think look best you order it cuz I guarantee you it's going to be smashing son and the only reason he taking the order is cuz he speak the best English out there out of anybody now peep the backat now what you need to take into account all Asians working not one other ethnicity is out there and that is very important to me and that's a good thing to me I don't want you to think that's a bad thing keep withing your people I don't really care I know this food is about to hit because everybody know what they doing back there no matter what you ordering bro it's going to 10 minutes on the way and I'm guarantee you it's going to hit chicken wings smashing you going to be like damn these is fried how put it in the Dipper sauce bro oh man yo I'm telling you this is actually pretty old school this clip is hilarious actually the corresponding commentary was also hilarious what's going on here the kid's like 11 no it's so funny to hear people always like oh man you know the Chinese food was going to hit when you saw the little kid working at the front and the kids doing the homework obviously this is a meme but it's also based in real life because there's still a lot of family even Asian or not but I think the Asian families or at least the Immigrant families do this the most I mean this is a hood Chinese takeout but like it could be in like a rural area as well anyway we're going to break it down for you guys make sure you like subscribe turn on your notifications and you know what would taste good on some Chinese takeout though SMA sauce check it out still selling chefs and food you like uh really enjoy it I mean I feel like I see this less nowadays but I remember I went to a bodega in uh Alphabet City just like four years ago and there was a kid who was like 12 and he was like a like a you know like a middle eastern kid he was like selling me all the gum and everything yeah yeah so it still happens from time to time it's not just the Asian thing but obviously the Asian kid at the Chinese restaurant is Iconic iconic Motif in life I guess I guess David right off the bat when people are debating oh this is you should this is like child labor oh it's Child Services let the child be a child what are you doing you know like that's the debate a lot of people are saying I get it that these Chinese restaurants are Mom and Pop ran by one family maybe it's the holiday season they need help uh the kid is probably the best at English out of everybody you're right yeah he's probably the best at English but he is also a kid should we let them be kids I mean what's your opinion I mean my general opinion is like that family's got to do whatever it takes to survive but in terms of the impact on the kid there was a lot of debate in the comment section because there were some restaurant kids who said it helped them but there was some restaurant kids who also said that it was ultimately a traumatizing experience so I mean the truth is Andrew the devil's in the details right it depends on what type of operation it is you know what kind of systems they run what responsibilities is the kid given what is the kid giving up like in terms of sacrifice to obviously contribute to the family which is ultimately probably a good thing though right cuz the family is is usually immigrants they're not highly educated that's why they run like a hood takeout they they got to stick together but yes for sure there's going to be some pros and cons in terms of uh potential negative impacts on the kid psyche but it can also teach them a lot of discipline I think it really depends on how much they have to work there I think if the kid like from my friends who had to help out at their parents' businesses like on the weekends I think that's cool like expose them to math addition subtraction doing the calculations like at a young age and things that are high stakes because it's the family's like Fortune right yeah yeah keep it within the family I understand that but yeah if you make them work their full-time especially like when they have other things they need to do for their development let's say they want to do Sports and you're like no you got to work at the restaurant for 4 hours after school it's like dang like it's kind of taking over their life and also you as a parent have to understand what am I going to teach my kid what is my kid taking away if we run a very messy kind of like dingy kitchen where like it's kind of a crazy like hairbrain like kind of operation yeah it's going to be stressful on the kid but if you run like a good you know well- ran well-oiled machine then it's different right but you can also argue that if you run a really well-oiled machine you probably wouldn't need your 10-year-old kid to be the cashier too right I I'm assuming this clip is actually during the holiday season or during a weekend cuz there's no way like the kid is working there during the week you know what I mean right I mean I guess the one thought that I had was like man there's some people in 2023 that are almost having like a 1975 like 1985 like like 30 years ago type upbringing you know what I mean like it's still like you you think that this is going away and all the kids are like chasing clout with the broccol cuts you know trying to be gen Z but it's like no we have a cousin Andrew who grew up in rural Pennsylvania and I feel like some of the things that he's saying are some of the you know what I mean like some of things that I heard about his upbringing they reminded me of almost like California in the 1980s yeah like I'm saying the different regions of the country are like so throwback you know what I mean depending on that environment it could be so different um anyway let's get into the comment section somebody said the way he ripped that receipt was enough man he is Bonafide of course other people saying Lil Man is in the zone oh my goodness I literally had a kid get up from their coloring book and come take my order that low mean had to slap um you know it's funny because Andrew everybody's lotting this kid right everybody's like yo man this kid putting in work but obviously nobody would actually put their kid through it or wish that they had his life right yeah or nobody wishes that like no one says like yo this kid is going to be very successful or cool when he grows up I want to be his friend they're just applauding that the kid is doing what's he is responsible enough he probably isn't making a lot of Errors he's probably not happy though right but you're right maybe not not every moment of your life as a kid has to be happy I don't think so right Andrew this got into a uh this turned into a huge debate because when this got posted on jack fruit Andrew there was uh restaurant kids some kids were saying yep childhood trauma programming right there he'll see it when he hits the middleaged like the rest of us other people said bro what are you talking about I started helping my mom out at the age of seven I'm 35 now I'm absolutely proud of what I did and he said yeah you might be proud now but watch when you get older you'll see that you are a people pleaser acts of service you'll realize that basically you um have like a lot of Trauma from those days where you were like not allowed to develop your personality organically and then of course other people are saying oh it's only traumatic for people who didn't didn't make the most out of it and then of course uh basically there was just like a lot of arguing back and forth but isn't the truth Andrew that that guy could be right but the other person who was saying that it was a great experience could also be right because they grew up in different families yeah and it just depends on what you took from it man I and it's so variable you know I had a friend whose parents owned a catering truck growing up and I remember he would tell me stories when we were like in high school or Junior High of how he was helping out on the on the truck and I wanted to work on the truck with him I said yo man like let me volunteer like can you ask your mom so that I can work cuz I was like interested in food at the time and like cooking and and then he was like no trust me dude you don't want to do it and then he asked his mom and his mom was like yeah that's crazy have someone else's kid with us like even though Andrew's a good kid like I don't want to be responsible for that you know what I mean like that that was so I'm saying that I think I was going to learn something from that even though of course that was not my life that was his life not my life yeah the truth is it's going to vary a lot on the restaurant tooo cuz if you take a look at like uh John m2u the famous director Andrew his parents own a famous restaurant in the Bay Area that's like highend and shout out to Larry Chu yeah you know what I mean like you're going to learn a lot from that system because you from the clientele from the pings from the networking you see your because it's a nice restaurant and you're going to meet nice clientele you're going to meet successful people who eat there yeah like Bankers OR tech people or something like you you could learn something from them too um somebody just said man that was me at age nine and somebody said yep um basically you know we this is like how Asians hustle and basically said this wait I'm waiting for the child labor comments but we Asian this is partially why Asian communities are so strong great work ethic and we learned early one thing we're going to do for sure is hustle so ultimately I think a lot of people anderw are proud of this in the sense that you don't really see I mean like this is the most if you had to guess any race or culture putting their kids to work like this I guess you would guess that it would be Asian right yeah it'd be a high likeliness that it'd be Asian but I think think all immigrant groups do this to some level if they run a business obviously Asians own a lot of businesses it's true very enterprising people if you look at Stats the amount of businesses that are opened by Asian people is very high no it is pretty tremendous we are business owners we own a business Tech it's a it is a culture that really loves like just Enterprise yeah Enterprise yeah I don't they really love business man they really love small business they love big business import export I don't know man it's just Asian for some reason it's very you know um I guess my short answer is I'm proud of this little kid I do hope that he's not forced to do it forever you know what I mean right I I hope that he has choices I think that helping out with your family few times a week is great um obviously you know I didn't have to grow up doing it and our parents like didn't own like a really you know I for example like if it's a poorly ran restaurant like that could be stress stressful on the kid so I understand that there is a situation where it is downside and it's negative and he also might not if and I I'm not saying anything about this restaurant in question but if the systems are bad he's going to learn to navigate a bad system which is not necessarily the best thing to learn from me right you know what it is if he knows how to if he runs that you need to also expose him to better systems too and I think that's the best way for people to learn is that they see both sides they see a messy system and they'll help out that's the family you should and sometimes it still gets the job done but hopefully he gets the opportunity to also expand his knowledge and help out at a better rant system of some type even like a Panda Express yeah no honestly I mean Panda Expresses are amazing systems like let's be honest you know so I guess overall if you're a parent just you know your kids are there to help the family but within reason you know like they have other opportunities too but yeah help out I mean look at him he's going to he's going to know addition so fast right so fast for sure for sure I mean I would say the only risk is like if the parents love Enterprise so much that they don't let the kid really explore their studies right because obviously the studying is going to allow him to step either into like higher level B versions of like scaling up Chinese food in the future or just entering just like uh high paid corporate yeah we don't know the situation maybe they were short staff that day maybe a chef couldn't make it they was super sick or whatever I mean obviously you got like I think I saw like the it looks like an older sister in the background too who looks only like 14 years old he looks about 11 they're 14 so just the whole family is hustling hopefully that's not all day every day right but if this is just like during a busy time or a short staff time it makes sense yeah anyway guys let us know what you think in the comment section below it is a hilarious video it's just like man just the way the kid looks with the glasses and he's all like chubby and round and stuff manure to dealing with customers and a small business early on is generally not bad but of course you just hope that these kids are getting their education and have options in life anyway guys let us know what you think in the comments section below until next time with the hot pop boys we out peace