Japanese Are Officially America's "Favorite Asian"

this is America's favorite Asian language to learn but does that mean they are also America's favorite Asian people you know Japan's history with the West has always been up and down but we are glad that right now it's up uh we got to talk about it Andrew Japanese is the most desired Asian language to learn amongst Americans and a lot of people are asking the question Andrew by proxy does that mean they're America's favorite Asian group wow I would say maybe but anyways guys we're going to go through the comment section uh we'll give you our own thoughts please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot pop boys guys currently we are sold out of SMA on the online store but please check back in very very soon maybe a month from now all right let's take a look at the rank number one came uh with Japanese with a average monthly search volume this is all based off SEO search engine optimization by the way of uh 170 th000 then you've got number two Korean coming in at 133 real close Andrew Japan and Korea Andrew Andrew we talking about Ichiro getting mad at Korea playing the flag on the pitching man we talking about Korean pitchers throwing sidearm they're right there people like Kpop K-pop and K drama right now but no but Kpop has to defeat anime U moving on to number three Andrew we've got mandrin all the way down at 52,000 then Hindi those are your two big countries right China and India but they're multi- dialect or multilingual because there's a lot of different languages in those countries then it goes TI that's pretty close TI is right up there with Hindi Andrew some people had some theories about passport Bros here com we'll get into it Vietnamese Persian they counted that as an Asian language interestingly enough I I get it geographically they don't consider themselves Asian Filipino Kamai AKA kimer but Kamai I I Kamai is a little higher up than I thought it would be and some people said that too number 10 and talugu which is a southern Indian dialect that is completely different from Hindi more jid that makes sense it's almost like um you know I don't know if this is the best comparison but like Cantonese and Mandarin you know like Telugu might be the Cantonese to the Hindi that's Mandarin oh Andrew some people were sad that Cantonese wasn't in there but I actually think I don't know is Canton there's not that many Cantonese schools to learn but I feel like cantones is like number 11 or 12 d uh we got to about it do these stats surprise you immediately off the rip look at the macro stats this is across State's aggregate Nebraska was the only one where I believe I want to say Korean was above Japan so 49 out of the 50 states Japanese do you think Koreans are mad because they're like we've done so much over the past 15 years and people still want to learn Japanese no I'm just kidding uh I think I think some of them actually did have that reaction we'll get into the comments Japan Japan's a much bigger country and yes it has a longer history it has actually way more media still like the anime world is it's huge well people have been looking up to Samurai and ninjas and busho blade and the art for like hundreds of years and Japanese Food globally is still more popular so I'm not surprised because I think that for quote unquote Geeks or weeaboos or like Asia nerds that Japanese is definitely the language they still want to learn I think Korean a lot of people want learn the basics of it because it's a hot language and then Mandarin I feel like when people learn it they might take it more seriously but definitely less people are trying to learn it right right right yeah I mean just to stay in this Frame of Mind of like Japan versus Korea I and I gotta got shout out to linga from uh worst Asian podcast he said that people would be more fascinated by Japan as a fantasy world but if Americans had to pick between being Japanese or Korean they'd rather be Korean because they view Koreans as more similar to Americans I I think so I think that there is a sense that it's more like clear what Koreans are versus Japanese are way weirder right they got they're like do I got to act like a Pokemon like that be interesting but it'd be weird where a Korean it feel like I would just be me but like more hipper well you know I don't I'm not sure if I would marry an octopus you know I don't know yet so you know I don't know about this know how the tentacles would feel on my skin um interestingly enough Andrew Japan has gone through a crazy Arc so Japan was viewed as a economic competitor to America in the 1980s when Honda Toyota crazy Trade Surplus they bought up all the buildings on Fifth Avenue in New York City however 1985 America signs the plaza Accords the plaza Accords is meant to e economically potentially contain Japan it uh creates or contributes to a Japanese asset bubble so people no longer are learning Japanese in 2024 Andrew for Japan's economic dominance they're learning it because they're just into animes or being a weeaboo or an otaku right and would you say for example for Mandarin more people are learning Mandarin because of its usefulness and for business reasons and for like kind of I guess academic reasons rather than because it's just so fun and cool to learn Chinese yes well the here's the thing about Chinese Andrew is that even though China become the country in the world with the largest GDP not GDP per capita just overall GDP their The Arc of learning Chinese has actually gone down recently due to bad geopolitical relations so it's actually got two like competing factors like like the economic and then blah and then there's I feel like six or seven years ago before like covid and other stuff happened uh before the relationships got real tense that people were thinking oh there's going to be this Open Door between China and America it's going to be super easy to do business in between lot of opportunities didn't really turn out that way for a number of reasons so yeah now it's like it's discouraged a little bit of people and been like I mean even there was a time when we thought part of our careers could be in China yes we got a offer to spend six months a year in Shanghai it was an offer that was sort of it was a soft offer it was a a little years ago so but then we end didn't end up taking it because it was a soft offer and then obviously a bunch of stuff happened so now it doesn't look like that's going to be the case right right right um obviously the reason why people love learning Japanese and Korean right now economically developed pop cultural cool oh by the way guys I do want to say just to be clear this offer was from a media like a a new digital media company by the way not like the government or something yeah no cuz I know what the comments were going to say it was not it was it was like a new media from Hong Kong compan from Hong Kong a Hong Kong based company yes Hong Kong B just be clear geopolitically friendly with America Andrew here's the Co interesting thing the guys and the girls the I meant the girls and the guys are both viewed as hot Commodities in Japan and Korea no so I want to say this though I want to tell the people this this doesn't mean that if you're not an Asian that is Japanese or Korean you can't have a great time in America but you know what it does mean when you do have a great time people are probably not they're just going to like you for you and not your culture right right like cuz I know a ton of really good uh looking or like cool Philip guys but it's true they might be dating like cool like hot white girls or black girls but I don't think those hot white or black girls know anything about Filipino culture whereas if you were like a hot Korean or a Japanese guy I think those girls almost want to become your culture yes do you see what I'm saying like it doesn't mean that you can't do it it just means that they're not going to like assimilate to you I get I get what you're saying well I think for example a lot of Filipino fly Filipino guys like you know they they date a lot of different types of people but it's almost like date as an American they dat yeah they just present as like a lightskinned black guy or a Latino or something like right or or just one of the cool dancing agent it's not like the girls like trying to learn to goet for them but if they're a hot Korean or Japanese guy I do think there's about a 75% chance that girl's trying to learn phrases go get omaz go get kbbq or GP Jong or whatever yes yes yes yes yes anyway let's get into the comment section somebody said uh this is a Korean guy interesting oh no he he would be like oh this is interesting I wonder why and then of course Andrew this turned into a little bit of uh I guess friendly jostling between Japanese and Koreans I thought I thought he was trying to make a play at the uh whole like guys like Japanese girls thing because you know how like there's this whole thing about uh Japan has a negative birth rate so they need more babies and they need more foreigners so then some guys might be learning Japanese now because they're like oh I want to go help repopulate Japan I don't know if that's actually a significant number of guys but maybe May that's some of the thought process right right right other people were just talking about how it's so weird that different people like because basically this turned into an exclusive conversation between Japanese and Koreans about meeting white people who wanted to become Japanese or Korean because it's true that you don't other Asians would you agree Andrew they can't really fully be a part of that conversation right where people are like and then this Korean guy said man it is so weird one time I met this white guy who hated me because he thought that Japanese would hate me and he was trying to so Japanese that's fascinating right right right right um moving on somebody just said yeah learning Mandarin is so fun and useful I can't recommended enough this is what somebody else said who was a I believe he's African-American and then this guy said uh of course Mandarin just sounds awful to the ears and who wants to talk to them little pinks so that turned into a back and forth argument uh that also was like pretty major in the next shark comment section Andrew is that very representative of the current environment Mandarin is like nails on a chalk board well that's what somebody said I I don't but I've never Mandarin doesn't sound I don't feel like Mandarin is one of those awful like that has that stereotype I'm just literally talking about how other people view Mand if I had to do an impression of someone pretending to speak Mandarin they usually go like but that is a little bit more time when he Mandarin though okay but like no a lot of people don't know what Chinese is because a lot of people that you hear on the street speaking Mandarin even if they are speaking Mandarin they're not a native Mandarin speaker they actually primarily speak their original provincial dialect which could be this it's complicated guys Mandarin is not a bad sounding language though it might not be the best it might Korean or Japanese might sound smoother like because the it's non-tonal the tonal thing but I actually think Mandarin can sound very nice depending on who speak I think every language can sound nice a controversial opinion I don't know if people agree with me I think Viet can sound really nice I I think that Viet can sound Vietnamese can sound very harsh but I've heard it sound very smooth and cool where I was like I'm bang I don't even know I I it's not even that apparently that guy had a a whe accent though drop that one um somebody said man nobody wants to learn cantones man D poke guy yeah I think cantones is like I said I think it's like got to be up on the list though like if it's an option to learn I just don't think there's a lot of cantones language material right now I just think that if people want Kanto to pop first of all I I I think you're just going to be able to burn the phrases in it's almost like Latin you know how nobody speaks full Latin anymore but people say person n grada and like Latin phrases all the time especially if you speak legales I think that that's the way Cantonese is going to go but I would like to promote sikon or something you know what I mean like you got to it can't just be dle I just feel like I'm just I that could stay but come on guys no I think langai like langlo and then like uh I'm saying you can find the places for it to be sticky it can't just be the to to guys maybe we'll do a video of top 20 cantones phrases that could be embedded into even your English life Dima dimo's good uh uh the Thai language is going to grow on the list because of the passport bro was basically people were theorizing about the different languages obviously Hindi it's pretty obvious India is a gigantic country but a lot of them speak English you know what I mean but but but honestly a lot of the people learning Hindi could be indian-americans too I think that's legit too oh that's a good quote Yeah like like a lot of people that are trying to learn the man Mandarin too are probably also a like Chinese people that are just trying to get better at Mand right yeah because it doesn't have uh the race and the age and the location I would assume that these are all non-asians learning they like but I I do think the people learning Tai Andrew it might be more relationship driven be honest be honest it ain't learning tie to do business maybe I think that there are number I think a number of Thai Americans probably are are trying to learn it to get better at it but yeah I think yeah there is that that tourism aspect for sure um somebody said oh my goodness I was surprised to see Kamai even on the list in ninth place a lot of people that I talk to in America don't even know where it is yeah yeah I would say I was surprised to see kamay even on the list so shout out I think that some people could be cambodi Americans who are trying to learn more Kamai you know what I mean I'm cool was it I just know you know jamb J um somebody said uh nope I want to learn Mandarin sorry guys other people I mean man the learning thing about Mandarin right now is it's just like I feel like a lot of people from China Andrew they do speak English but if you want to tap into like more deeper cut conversations you got to speak Mander and you got to actually read and write it too because that's a whole another thing you know um somebody said please do one based on race and gender that's going to give a lot more context so people are saying like if we could see the search engine like male a uh males in Nebraska aged blah blah blah they learned this language for this and then you could confer yo yo what if the number one Asian language learned in Nebraska's tie yeah we're the Nebraska T language Association we were all trying to learn T because uh you know it's a warm place to go to we just love caprow that's really the reason why it's no other it's not beyond the be like oh yeah we're trying to learn uh the Thai language yeah I know they speak like Canadian talk about people Fargo Fargo in Nebraska I need to know the where Fargo granular data for what people and Fargo are thinking oh Fargo's in North Dakota all right anyways guys uh let us know what you think about this what are your theories on why Japanese is number one or why some of these are even on the list uh let us know because I guess it's not a mystery why Japanese is up here you know what I think you know why I think Japan and Korea for all other reasons that we said geopolitical pop cultural soft cultural hard cultural whatever blah blah blah blah blah GDP per capita you know why I think that they're bolstered so much is because there are some probably in my opinion more like nerdy non-asian girls who really like the guys from those countries that's why it's double if the guys are hotter and more adding a whole another gender into the SEO pool that's a good point man that's what because yeah Asian women everybody likes Asian women but yeah once you like the Asian guys then you're definitely learning some words of the language no cuz look at the stats it's literally numerically statistically double plus some so that double is just a whole another gender yeah that's true uh what do you guys think about David's Theory let us know in the comments down below uh which of these Asian languages would you try to learn please let us know hit that like button check out other episodes of hop hot boys and until next time we out peace