Is ASIAN History Month Useful or Not?

here are eight unique and easy ways to help celebrate Asian-American heritage month because it is May yeah whether you call it a a NPI a AI API that's up to you number one go eat some Asian cultures food that you have yet to try a lot of people Andrew they eat the basics from a lot of cultures but they don't go that deep oh yeah and also you know obviously a lot of people most people have had some type of Chinese food but what type of Chinese food we want go pick uh sichan food if you haven't had it or Hunan food or maybe non-chinese I always like to recommend people try La food La food's very delicious La food is incredible I've got Burmese cuz if we look at these stats of restaurant availability in America more than likely like you said people have had the big three Japanese Korean chinese vietnamese Thai for sure even Indian food they bought a lot of Indian food but with the Indian food would you agree that they're just only eating butter chicken and garlic naan for the most part yeah how about just try to get some layers deep yeah and also it just takes you into a different place man when you go to a little hole in the wall Mom and Pop Shop uh it just like it'll feel more like their home or I don't want to say maybe their Village but either way it's just a different experience than just ordering from the main spot that you usually do you're saying going to The Enclave it feels like you're more going to a mini version of that country venture out how about this at work this sounds cliche Andrew I think that a lot of people in Corporate America especially if they're older have still yet to have Boba or bubble tea so for at work buy everybody at work or or get your work realistic you know because you don't want to dip into your own savings um get your work to sponsor it or invite your just your co-workers out and be like hey guys uh you know I don't know have you guys tried bubble tea before have you tried Boba te before now for some people they don't have the geographic availability of all these different Cuisines or they don't want to spend the money and why not just listen to the top songs from every culture across Asia for example ENT this Viet trap song from Tik [Music] Tok yeah I think listening to music from different Asian ethnicities even if it's in that language and you don't understand it I think it's really cool to Just Vibe out to a different language and I think that that'll just kind of open you up oh you love sub kaab oh man I love some uh yeah some Ty RP and uh yeah I don't know just even Chinese songs I don't fully understand you know what I mean anyways Point number two I would say lwh hanging fruit very easy you and unique way is to just purchase some asian-owned or Asian inspired products that you've been meaning to purchase like now is the month I'm not saying spend a lot of money I get it the econom is down but there's a lot of really good asian-owned products out there like actually they're good like even of our friends wi coffee Supply Richie Lee collection if you want a hard SEL sir you know nectar lunar uh for shoes I think 1587 does very high quality for chili oils SMA sauce that's our own but also there's a lot of other chili oils out there I'm not going to O omia there there's hot boy chili I think all these are great and I think that if you've been looking to add something new to your pantry to your wardrobe there are actually good asian-owned brands where the money is going to go back to an Asian they're thinking about the community and it's good quality yeah and some of them are Asian theme but a lot of them are not right you don't want to see you know some people are not into wearing like Asian themed fash exactly I'm not telling you you have to wear a dragon with Chinese characters on it on a shirt or something I'm not saying it has to be L Asian Point number three go and learn some phrases from each Asian culture or if you find that too difficult or like almost too diverse which is okay whatever some people don't have the brain capacity for it or the desire learn to write something from your own culture because a lot of people they can speak their parents language out of level what 1 to six out of 10 somewhere in between depends right different siblings maybe even different levels but how many people can write their languages culture uh write their cultures language yeah and I would just say even learning like different phrases of different Asian languages it's just kind of cool I mean I I I think it shows respect it does it does Point number four watch YouTube videos on the history of every Asian country listen guys on YouTube in an infographic animated sense some are more serious some are more like light in tone from you can watch the history of every region in Asia Andrew in five minutes but there are like 35 minute versions to it depends on how deep you want to sink your teeth into it right this is what I love about YouTube is like everything you'd probably read about on the internet like if you went through Wikipedia or like even more legit sources to be honest like and you went through history class there's actually good credible History Channels that do a pretty good job of summing up the history of Vietnam and the trun sisters and all this like the history that like maybe you're not always thinking about or the history of China which is very complicated and big there's history of India like philippin far beyond what a public school or even private school education would teach yes and I don't think everybody out there is super accurate with their information but usually the larger History Channels that have like you know some credibility and some views and have had peer reviews through the comments yeah I think they're pretty number five go to an API aapi comedy show listen look at this stat Andrew spending on live comedy shows is at the peak of History right now wow you mean like more people are going to comedy shows than ever before yeah but I'm saying that with that there's an explosion of like I guess more ethnic themed comedy too right yeah yeah yeah because comedy is very contextual it's very cultural and I would say you know uh there is a lot of comedy shows in any of the big cities and like you know I think that laughing about asy ASI anology is one of them you know but uh By the time this video comes out you probably won't have time to go to our show on May 14th but anyways uh there's like I think that Asian comedy shows are really fun to me because that's when Asians get to kind of like kind of like have these conversations that are a little bit harder to have in person but you have them in a funny way and it's just a good way to touch on stuff right sometimes it it's sitting in almost like a Alcoholics Anonymous style is a little too serious to Broach some of these topics it's better to just make jokes about it laugh at it uh number six go on a date with a person from an Asian race that you haven't dated before whoa you know DAV this sounds like some fetishization no no no no no cuz here's the thing a lot of asian-americans not all they're like only open let's say for example what there's like 14 countries in Asia right I I forgive me we'll pop up the right amount here they might only date like two or three of them or four them why not date all 14 you're just saying that you need to be more open-minded because basically a lot of people out there are close-minded first of all I think you should be open-minded to even other races especially if you're an Asian dude and you you like the pool is small or whatever for dating that we talk about but ultimately be open to other Asian ethnicities like just open just just be open and here's the interesting thing if you date all like 14 types of Asian girls or whatever let's just say that as a guy you'll see that like some girls like feel like different types of Americans so it's almost like if you don't feel whatever reason you can't date a a Latina or a black or a white girl you can date Asian girls that feel like those things Point number seven take a martial arts class guys martial arts is I mean especially like think about it martial arts is a way of fighting and a lot of the martial arts most of them are actually from Asia a lot of ones yeah and then like whether you're talking about mu you're talking about karate tawo you're talking about Kung Fu you're talking specifically ones with a lot of kicking are from from as yeah but anything aside from Western boxing and maybe Krav Mah even though Krav MCA takes influences from other martial arts essentially a lot of the great martial arts are from Asia right so you think about it the way that everybody's fighting even in UFC essentially is a mixture of Asian types of fighting right that is because uh from the Western old fighting that it was like this say put up your dukes well then you know they're also good at creating weapons and guns and stuff like that so other ways of f yeah I would say even Explore single classes you know obviously most people are going to do jiujitsu Brazilian jiu-jitsu Muay Thai but I mean you could you could get into more esoteric ones or you could stick with the mainstream ones yeah take a class and also you'd be surprised a lot of these classes even though it's not taught by an Asian you are learning about Asian culture like you know Zen breathing staying Cal sometimes the words are still in the in the traditional motherland origin language uh and and last but not least guys number eight follow Asian accounts on Instagram or on social media man I remember a time where there was only subtle Asian traits on Facebook and that was like a little bit kider a little bit a lot of Pokemon Pikachu memes now there are IG accounts Andrew for whatever tone you're looking for leftwing right-wing Centrist pop culture light tone serious tone there's everything yeah I think if you're Asian and you follow more than 300 people on Instagram and none of them are an Asian account like even next shark at the Baseline jack fruit we're talking about all the F there so many 88 tumble you got very Asian code oh very Asian C subtle Asian traits you got there's ethnic specific ones for the culture which Little Saigon there's uh there's Chinese ones there's Desi ones there's Filipino accounts I follow one down media Filipinos in the six is oh yeah like Urban yeah dude just if you got to follow one you got to follow one to stay tapped in like you you're I it don't be a self-hating Asian dude I'll follow ones from Asians obviously that of a group that I don't even belong to guys it is May and Asian-American Heritage Month stop being a self-hating Asian at least for the month um I pulled some official ones from other websites Andrew like you know more these are more like from companies uh one of them says support organizations that work to solve issues affecting the aapi community yeah if you're more politically minded for sure this point is for you you know specifically Andrew Hepatitis B that is something that uh primarily affects Asians I think for me one thing I try to do is I just try to give these free you know what I think are like good high IQ takes and I try to give them out for free to the internet and that is my way of giving back too um somebody said Spotlight and aapi Community lead and my only caveat to that is I think that there's Community leaders that don't always fit into a corporate structure like you know people in the community Enclave Community maybe a small business owner that is not like uh involved in the industry or or Global Industries it's just hyper local um discuss current issues affecting the aapi community but across a diversity of of groups because different communities are going through different issues and support Asian mental health support physical and mental health organizations for local Asian communities probably one of the most overlooked things in the Asian world and address the lack of Asian leadership ooh o that's a good point um ultimately my whole thing is like technically you shouldn't need a month but sometimes that's just how it is in America right because all the media and like companies and like aapi resource units are more like on the same page during May yeah for sure listen if there's uh some reason that Sparks your thought or leads you down maybe you follow one of those accounts maybe you have extra conversation because it's the month to do it that's okay yeah so just stop being a self-hating Asian that's all I got to say you know you you just do one of these things anyway guys let us know some of the other things that you're going to do to celebrate aapi history month or maybe you're not going to do anything because you already do it on everyday basis anyway let us know what you think in the comments section below like subscribe turn on your notifications share this video until next time with the hop hop boys we out peace