Comments by "K `" (@user-jt3dw6vv4x) on "Asian Boss" channel.

  1. Yeah that's where it gets grey in Western or rather American contexts. Some Westerners say Indians are "culturally Asian" but not "racially Asian". Anyway, it's wrong either way as Asian is just geography.
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  2. I hope you can get a correspondent in Singapore to interview Singaporeans about the fertility crisis there too. Singapore has a fertility rate of 0.97, the second lowest in the world and the fertility rates among Singapore's three main ethnic groups are all below replacement level too - Chinese: 0.94, Indian: 0.97 and Malay: 1.83.
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  3. His character and the character of Ali provided a good way to showcase the treatment of South and Southeast Asian migrant workers in the whole of Asia and not just Korea. I've already seen discourse emerge on the internet about the treatment of South and Southeast Asian migrant workers in Singapore, Malaysia and the Maldives (three countries that house a lot of SA and SEA migrant workers who are exploited quite severely). The important thing is that actual Singaporeans, Malaysians and Maldivians were the ones starting these discussions. I also remember coming across comments on Korean forums (using Google translate) where Koreans were talking about the hypocrisy of calling out anti-Asian violence in the US but failing to recognise that South and Southeast Asian migrant workers were being mistreated in Korea. I think this drama has reinforced these emerging discussions and it's made people more aware of reality regarding this issue.
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  4. Yeah that's why in some languages the local version of "oriental" still describes Middle Easterners (Lebanese, Turks, Syrians, Persians) and not anybody east of Iran because they're the "first Asians".
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  5.  @Alternatives_Universum  It has a negative connotation primarily in the US.
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  6.  @vanlin9107  In East Africa, they think of Indians as "Asians". In Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi etc. Asian means Indian for them.
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  7. Curry originated in ancient India but curry is truly a pan-Asian dish. Many Asian countries have their own versions of it, developed using their own indigenous ingredients and spices. You could really do a curry tour of Asia and try different curries from around the continent, I wonder if anybody has done that before. There are also curry dishes outside of Asia developed through the migration of Indians and other groups such as those in the UK and the Caribbean.
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  8. @LeWonder This is why Bollywood really ought to start representing India's diversity at a greater level than selecting people from the north west only. It would make Bollywood more interesting in my opinion and more relatable too.
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  9.  @Jsarmy87124  None of my Indian friends from India were offended and the people the video weren't either. People in Asia aren't easily triggered by things. Ronny Chieng is also Malaysian too and there are many Malaysians of ethnic Indian descent.
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  10. This was very interesting. I think it would be great if you could conduct the same interview in Singapore and Thailand too.
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  11. I agree. By saying Indians and their culture are not Asian, it's basically saying 50% of cultural aspects of other Asian cultures aren't "Asian". China and India are the mothers of Asian civilisation.
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  12.  L  They're not from India. I saw some of their other comments and it proves that they're from another country and they support the CCP too.
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  13.  @reach2prasanna  India is most definitely multiethnic. Just because they're all native to India doesn't erase the fact that they are all from different ethnic groups. You can easily break India up into 20 countries and it would make sense. You can't do that in a country like South Korea or Japan.
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  14. ...and there's nothing wrong with that. Most of the time South Asian countries always select fair skinned women for big beauty pageants but now they're selecting dark skinned women which is a good thing to showcase that light and dark skinned Asian women are beautiful.
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  15.  @asianprince8718  Not like the US or UK at all. Singaporeean society is a mix of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian people and influences. They've all influenced one another and Singaporean society basically revolves around CMIO (Chinese-Malay-Indian-Other). It is the most successful multiethnic nation in Asia, so much so that a survey revealed most Singaporeans believe class division is what most will experience discrimination for, not race. Nobody in Asia comes close to Singapore.
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  16.  @EthanSoFar  Yeah Malaysian (of Indian descent). Indians from India are a different group.
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  17.  @sovietwizard1620  Actually among all SEA countries (except Malaysia and Singapore), I would say Myanmar is culturally the closest to India.
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  18.  @Fals3Agent  Actually most countries in Asia are muticutural. The difference is that most diverse Asian countries are made up of different ethnic groups native to these countries unlike Singapore where most people have migrated from other parts of Asia during the 17-19th centuries.
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  19. He's also from Malayia which is "Malaysia Truly Asia" due to the mix of Malay, Chinese, Indian and Orang Asli groups.
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  20.  @vlrsvvn791  Russia is definitely Eurasian and politically they are leaning towards creating stronger ties with Asian countries like China and India and beefing up ties with Central Asia.
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  21.  L  No, I'm pretty sure they're a CCP supporter from China.
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  22.  @stephongrowingup6073  Stop believing the mainstream media. You probably think "Rohingya=Muslim" but that's not correct. There are many other Burmese Muslim groups living in peace in Myanmar such as the Kaman, Bamar Muslims, Panthay (Chinese Muslims) and Burmese Indian Muslims. The Rohingya issue is due to ethnicity/history and the military is responsible for the genocide.
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  23. Whenever it's a mixed person, it's almost exclusively someone who is half white. This is the same across other parts of Asia too like Singapore, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka - all of which have a history of selecting Eurasian candidates to represent themselves at major pageants.
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  24.  @hitthedeck4115  As a country becomes more educated the fertility rate will decline. This isn't just a developed nation issue anymore when we look at how developing Asia is facing a fertility crisis too. Thailand has the second lowest fertility rate in SEA and it is a developing nation. Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations in Asia, has a fertility rate of 1.95 which is below replacement level. The only reason they brought their fertility rate down is due to educating their people which allowed the government to teach their people about family planning, including contraception. So fertility decline isn't something can be avoided, it's going to happen. The goal should be to maintain a low fertility rate instead of letting it drop which is what's happening everywhere. If a nation can maintain a fertility rate of 1.9, still below replacement level, that would be good as opposed to letting it drop to below 1 which is what's happening in Singapore and South Korea.
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  25. Oh they're definitely different but there is no denying that there is overlap between the two spheres though. Imperial Japan wanted to unite the East Asian Cultural Sphere (East Asia + Vietnam) and Indian Cultural Sphere (South Asia + Southeast Asia) and form what they termed "Greater East Asia". We see that overlap quite visibly in places like Singapore and Malaysia which are home to large ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indian communities. As another user said, Asia is actually a gradient, a group of cultures that bleed into each other at the peripherals of each subregion.
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  26.  @rodrozil6544  Have you seen how Middle Eastern people look like? Goodness gracious you are so wrong it's not even funny. A lot of people in Northeast India look like her (Southeast Asian look). Middle Eastern people generally have olive skin and many look quite European.
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  27. This situation has arisen primarily in the US where there is a need to categorise people based on appearance as a result of the country's history fraught with poor race relations. In the US, "Asian" means East Asian and so other Asians who don't fit that image are excuded. This definition also exists in many other Western countries such as Australia and Canada. However, there is much greater awareness that despite looking physically different, Indians and other South Asians are still "Asian" just not the type of "Asian" people immediately think of. In the UK, it's the complete opposite where South Asians are seen as the default Asian. For South Asians, however, we are aware of the sheer diversity of our community. I am of ethnic Sri Lankan descent and anybody aware of Sri Lanka's diversity will know there are a variety of ethnic groups (Sinhalese, Tamil, Moor, Malay, Eurasian, Vedda, Chinese etc.) on the island. For other people of Sri Lankan descent, they know I am Sri Lankan but for many non-Sri Lankans or non-Asians there is a struggle in understanding certain characteristics of my appearance. I have epicanthic folds (or as understood in a Sri Lankan context, "Malay eyes" or what some may call "almond eyes"). As a result, I have had people assume I belong to other groups are mixed with Southeast Asian groups. People think that almond eyes or East Asian features only exist in East Asia or Southeast Asia but that's not the case. On "South Asian TikTok", I see South Asians who look stereotypically "South Asian", East Asian, Southeast Asian and West Asian. Our features are so diverse. The idea one is "Asian" based on how they look like doesn't make sense to me and it doesn't make sense to my Southeast Asian friends either. I have Southeast Asian friends who are diverse. One of my SEA friends could be mistaken for "Indian" and I knew a Timorese girl who had dark brown skin and round eyes. A Thai girl on Quora went viral on the platform for encapsulating SEA diversity in one sentence, "There is no other place in the world where you will find Chinese-looking people using their right hand to eat rice or Indian-looking people eating noodles with chopsticks". Asia is a diverse place. The concept of "Asian" is simply about geography and that is how it is understood in Asia. The reason why "Asian" becomes a term to describe appearance outside of Asia is because Asian ethnic groups are minorities. It's a trivial issue to focus on.
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  28.  @莫念x酱  With that comment of yours, I don't think you're even Singaporean or know about Singapore.😁 The Malays are native to Singapore and the four founding political fathers (aka Lee Kuan Yew's political team and close friend group) had a Tamil politician.
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  29.  @rodrozil6544  Have you seen how Middle Eastern people look like??? Moment of silence for you
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  30. Why are people disagreeing with you? Have they forgotten about Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya or Mizoram. Many people in these states look like her.
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  31. Most people know Kdramas for their romance plots and thus there are many people who may not be fond of them because they have only seen a facet of Kdramas. Kdramas first became popular in other parts of Asia in the 2000s and the ones that gained popularity back then were all romance dramas. Dramas with dark themes were never popular back then. Kdramas, at the time, were considered family-oriented and a culturally suitable and family-friendly alternative to American films/shows and were the reason why they gained popularity outside of Korea in other parts of East, South and Southeast Asia. So when Kdramas were introduced internationally, the romance ones were the ones which received attention because producers already knew that romance sells (as seen in Asia).
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  32.  @ahmedzakikhan7639  They're known as Asians as well. The three main Asian groups in the UK are Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. In a broader sense, the Chinese are also another major Asian group in the UK.
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  33.  @danielyu6399  What they're talking about is the lopsided ratio of women to men. There aren't enough women for every man in China. So you can't create families or anything like that. This has created a demographic and social issue in the country. So that has led to the establishment of the Asian migrant bride business in China (which also exists in other parts of East Asia), where women from neighbouring countries like Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Christian women from Pakistan are sent to rural parts of China through marriage bureaus to make up for the shortage of Chinese women in rural China. Chinese marriage bureaus specialise in foreign Asian women because they are the closest cultural proxy to a traditional Chinese woman so they'll still maintain those traditional family values that exist in Asia pre-globalisation. This phenomenon first emerged in Japan in the 1980s and eventually emerged in South Korea, Taiwan and now exists in China too.
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  34.  @cobidbeksin5200  I know this is a joke but it's kind of true, I'll try to explain in simple words. 1. The first humans in Asia gave rise to the ancient group collectively known as East Eurasians during the Pleistocene 2. There were two main sub-branches of East Eurasians, the lighter skinned East Asian-looking farmers and the darker skinned Veddoid hunter gatherers (represented by groups like the Andamanese, Orang Asli and Paniya). All of these groups are distantly related to one another. 3. Southeast Asia was first settled by the Hoabinhians (dark skinned Veddoid-type group) in addition to other groups like the Negritos, later East Asian farmers moved south from China into Southeast Asia intermixing with the locals to create modern-day Southeast Asians. 4. In South Asia, the Veddoid groups mostly mixed with the West Eurasian-related people who brought IE languages to create modern-day South Asians. Some also mixed with the Austro-Asiatic people and so on. 5. The ancestors of the Jomon emerged from the same clade that gave rise to the Andamanese, Orang Asli, AASI, Hoabinhian etc. and settled in Japan who later intermixed with the East Asian-looking Yayoi to create modern Yamato Japanese.
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  35. 100% agree, anybody that has studied population genomics will know how meaningless "race" is. There are four broad ancestral groups: East Eurasian, West Eurasian, West/East African and Khoisan. Everybody in the world today descends from one or more of these populations (which can be broke down into several different genetic lineages). So the idea that people can be divided into "races" makes no sense because people like Tamils and Native Americans for example carry both West Eurasian and East Eurasian genetic markers whilst Malagasy carry East Eurasian and West/East African genetic markers and Arabs carry West Eurasian genetic makers and Aboriginal Australians carry East Eurasian genetic markers. It just shows how widespread these four ancestral lineages are in the world that "race" makes no sense. Ethnicity which is defined by DNA, culture and language makes way more sense. In Asia, it seems people will identify by both nationality and ethnicity but in the West, especially in the US, people like to define themselves through "race" (which makes no sense).
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  36.  @Nom_AnorVSJedi  What??? Malaysia and India are two different nations. The BJP and whatever you're talking about has nothing to do with Malaysia.
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  37. India is quite interesting, it's called a subcontinent because each of their states are divided along ethnic lines so it's like a continent made up of smaller countries. Each state has its own ethnic group, language and culture. They really are quite diverse. It's a shame they don't use that to boost their soft power.
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  38. Understandable since Singapore's fertility rate is below replacement level, like China. That's why the Singaporean government has allowed strict, regulated and limited immigration which favours migrants from Malaysia, China (inc. Hong Kong) and India due to ethnic similarities but there has been rising resentment from Singaporeans towards immigrants. Hard to please everybody especially since the fertility rates for the local Singaporean Chinese and Indian communities are below 0.
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  39.  L  Yeah I'm not from India but I like Indian culture and history. It's a very interesting country. Tbh, the CCP is really problematic and their behaviour in the Asia-Pacific towards India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, Japan and Australia is very concerning. What they did last year is very concerning, it shows that they aren't going to stop. They're so antagonistic and I don't like that all. The CCP supporters on the internet are also very loud, problematic and extremely irritating. I can't even speak to my friend, who lives in mainland China, because the CCP became even more controlling last year with internet access.
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  40.  @shakiMiki  To be honest, I want them to do a video on what they think of Modi's plan on making India a developed country in 25 years and if they think it'll happen. Asian Boss sometimes misses with their interview topics.
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  41.  @deusmachinima1189  Yeah I definitely agree.
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  42. I agree
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  43. Yes but Asian isn't a race. Asian is more of a term to describe geography and culture. For example, Imperial Japan used pan-Asianism as an ideology in hope that they could unite the various parts of Asia that are culturally Sinic (Chinese) and Indic (Indian) during WWII. So their hope was to create a union centered on Asian culture and practices and led by Japan. As you can see the use of the word "Asian" in this context is in reference to culture. It's really outside of Asia in the West and Africa where "Asian" is used in a racial sense. Priyanka is biracial because she's half Japanese and half Indian. At a basic level, Japanese and Indians are genetically different from one another. One is East Asian, the other is South Asian. Hope this helps.
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  44.  @Dli230  Some people love to obsess over anything Japan-related so the general public thought it was Japan that was suffering from the lowest fertility rate in the world but it's actually countries like South Korea and Singapore that are dealing with that, they also have smaller populations compared to Japan.
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  45.  @danl.hollowellsr.1768  Yes you're right, it's because in the West "Asian" is used in terms of appearance that's why this issues exists, particularly in the US. The truth is Asian is just geography. People native to Asia are Asians. All of the people in those countries are Asian as is everybody else on the continent. Also, India culturally influenced Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia etc.) too. Most of South and Southeast Asia is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. They all have the same cultural root. There is a lot of cultural overlap across Asia. Many outside of Asia are unaware of that.
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  46.  @omi4470  Of course you don't, so typical of you 💀
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  47. How is the latter weird??? t's actually become more common in Singapore since 2011. There's a very famous Singaporean couple who is composed of a Chinese guy and an Indian girl.
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  48. Singaporeans as a whole are more open to interracial marriage compared to other Asians. Singaporean-Chinese, Singaporean-Indians and Singaporean-Malays are more open, especially the former two who don't have religious restrictions. This is different to the US where you are from which is home to East and South Asian immigrants that have come directly from places like China and India.
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  49. @@Robey-si8ed I don't know why anybody would want to illegally migrate to Delhi or anywhere in North India for that matter. Clearly they are desperate and deserve respect.
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  50.  @rodrozil6544  As the others said, Northeast India is a diverse region (most look like Southeast Asian or Chinese, there are others who look stereotypically Indian). She could pass as Assamese or Khasi. Also, as the other user said, Thailand is also diverse. There are Chinese looking Thai, stereotypical looking Southeast Asian Thai, Thai Malay, some look almost like Indians - especially in the south). You're just generalising a whole region which has a long history of human settlement.
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  51. I wonder what they think of some of the darker Montagnard tribes of Vietnam who look quite "Indian" in comparison to the majority Kinh Vietnamese.
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  52. Singapore mostly brings in Malaysians who are ethnically (Chinese, Malay, Indian) and culturally virtually the same as Singaporeans. Chinese, Indonesians and Indians are the second, third and fourth largest groups to be accepted into Singapore and they aim to bring in the good ones. However, it is hard to get PR in Singapore. So don't you think for a second that the Khalistanis, Hindu nationalists, Mohammads and Muslim Indians are going to be brought into Singapore. Keep dreaming, Ali.
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  53.  @randomly_random_0  I started laughing, I just know that the first one talking about Pakistan is a man from North India and the other one talking about India, is a man from Pakistan. They're trolls and always fighting, clogging up the comment section with their troll comments.
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  54.  @sasukespride8922  The reason why China and India have such big populations is because people didn't leave en masse in the way Europeans did during the era of colonisation. The lands of China and India were fertile and were able to maintain a human civilisation that did not face collapse, so their populations grew. European countries were also able to maintain this and their populations grew but when European nations began exploring and colonising other parts of the world it provided more land for Europeans to settle on. This allowed for the dispersal of European people who continued to have children and create new generations in the new lands they lived on (especially the lands of North and South America, Australia and New Zealand).
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  55. Yet genetically speaking, Indians are "mixed race". The first inhabitants of India were an East Eurasian people who are genetically closer to East Asians known as the AASI. Adivasi people in India are comparatively closer to East Asians than most other Indians as they carry the most amount of indigenous South Asian (East Eurasian) ancestry. Most other Indians, on the other hand, carry higher levels of West Eurasian ancestry. So in conclusion, Indians are a separate race. They can't be placed into "Caucasoid", "Mongoloid" etc.
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  56.  L  I'm talking about Su has.
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  57.  L  I'm from Australia :)
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  58.  @AyanAli-py7ci  Okay and??
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  59.  @KaitoverMoon  North Korea's fertility rate is declining too. Kim Jong Un said it's a woman's patriotic duty to have children as a way to get North Korean women to have kids.
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  60. Why do Western people care so much about this? Japan isn't even your country. Asia knows how to manage things, so stop worrying.
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  61. You feel more connection to Central Asians? Is this culture or appearance? You mention the Silk Road but I don't see how that's comparable to Indian influence. Hinduism is popular in Bali in Indonesia and actually Hindu mythology has had a big impact outside of South Asia in Southeast Asia, where it exists as cultural influence. Most of South and Southeast Asia is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. You mention Nepal, do you feel anything for Nepalis or is it the same as your feelings for India? I think it's fair to point out that Ronnie's comments were jokes. Ronnie is a Malaysian and in Malaysia there are four main groups: Malays, Chinese, Indians and Orang Asli and thus is known as "Malaysia Truly Asia" and "mini Asia". Most people in Malaysia don't look like Ronnie and all of Malaysia's prime ministers have been Malay (none of whom look Chinese, like Ronnie - a Malaysian Chinese). He's making a mockery of the Western idea that "Asian" is a race (meaning East Asian in the US and South Asian in the UK).
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  62. Indians are Asians. The "Chinese guy" on The Daily Show was mocking people like you lmfaoo. He's Malaysian Chinese, of course he knows that Indians are Asians, Malaysian Indians are one of the main ethnic groups of Malaysia. He was mocking Americans who think Asians are only people who are East Asian by contrasting it to how British think Asians are only South Asians (e.g. Indians). He literally inferred this at the beginning of the skit. The fact that you didn't understand his skit shows just how American you are. 😂
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  63.  @peteck007  Everybody's ancestors came from Africa. This type of hair is not specific to African people and just because he has that hair type, it does not mean he has recent African ancestry. The only African-descended people in India are the Siddis.
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  64. Yeah people in Asia think of being "Asian" as a secondary thing, it's not an everyday thought unlike in the West where East and South Asian people are minorities.
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  65. Me when I'm delulu and think people simply choose their sexuality. Tell me when did you decide to become straight?
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  66.  ༼ཆ༽  Singapore's ethnic demographics are 75.9% Chinese, 15% Malays, 7.5% Indians (mostly Tamils) and 1.6% others (mainly Eurasians). The percentage demographics won't change. Singapore uses the CMIO (Chinese-Malay-Indian-Other) model and this is in order to maintain Singapore's ethnic harmony. Extremely low fertility rates among the Chinese (0.94), Malays (1.83) and Indians (0.97) means the Singaporean government brings in migrants from certain other Asian countries to maintain the percentage demographics.
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  67.  @ishanbajpai6940  It's Indocentric because the term "Indian subcontinent" was coined by the British to describe India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (British India). Now you're using it to describe the whole of South Asia. It infers that all of these countries revolve around India, that they don't have their own cultures but that's not the case. It's Indocentric.
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  68.  @saisamsuri  Not all, only some have done that. Just like how there are some Japanese and Korean men that have married Thais, Vietnamese, Filipinos and Nepalese among other Asians.
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  69.  @user-pd9ju5dk5s  Literally haha
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  70. When a developing Asian nation employs democracy, they prevent development. Why? It's because whatever new policies and development that occur under one government can easily be overturned and stopped if a new government comes to power and we've seen this happen before.
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  71. ​ @markpetters9064  Calm down haha, he can pass in north-eastern South Asia (especially Austro-Asiatic Indians). South Asians don't all look the same.
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  72. @ It's not a race. Sikhs are sometimes considered separate from other Indians (Tamils and Malayalis) in Singapore and Malaysia.
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  73. Fertility rates are declining rapidly across most of Asia, only a 2 or 3 countries in west and central Asia will still be growing by the year 2100.
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  74. Indians are Asians. The Indian subcontinent literally culturally influenced most of Asia. Most of Southeast Asia is part of the Indosphere, along with the Indian subcontinent (South Asia). You're basically saying 50% of all Asian cultures isn't "Asian". No logic.
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  75.  @maelgwni  Yeah I differentiate, it's so much easier. My friends do the same and nobody ever gets confused.
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  76.  @doit2810  Agreed, I've seen Chinese people who are more empathetic. I'd also say that some Asian groups in Asia are more empathetic than people outside of Asia because I see a lot of hate peddled by people from outside of Asia on social media towards Indians. One of the reasons I say this is because there are ethnic Indians/pop culture who are popular or have gone viral in other Asian countries besides India that generates a positive image in some areas compared to outside of Asia.
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  77. You visited Singapore, you don't live there. So you can't just base your short experience on what actually goes on in Singapore.
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  78.  @AA-ok5jz  Well imo I don't think there's anything "Western" about Priyanka Yoshikawa - she looks Southeast Asian, Northeast Indian or like some Nepalis or Bhutanese, but that's just my opinion. Her dad is Bengali if it means anything.
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  79. Asian is not a race, it's a continent. Nobody understood Ronnie's joke it seems tsk tsk💀
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  80. and you know that how?
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  81. India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan and Bangladesh are NOT Arabia. They have nothing to do with Arabia.💀💀
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  82.  @malithaw  You can make the same argument for the rest of the subregions of Asia. You can also make the same argument for the East Asian Cultural Sphere (East Asia + Vietnam) and Indian Cultural Sphere (South Asia + Southeast Asia). You can make the same argument for many other subregions within other continents.
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  83.  @ishanbajpai6940  Indians use that term, not other South Asians because it's Indocentric.
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  84.  @ashutosht10  Rohingyas want to move to Malaysia, Thailand or Indonesia (They'd be going to Singapore too but the country doesn't allow refugees). Rohingya refugees have always been a thing ever since they began facing discrimination under the military government in the 1970s and when they leave as refugees, they've always moved to other Southeast Asian countries. There is a big Burmese refugee population in Thailand, so Thailand is attractive to them. Same thing with Malaysia. Rohingyas moving to India is out of sheer desperation, that's not where they want to be. Rohingyas never moved to India until the 2017 genocide but the genocide was unprecedented. Rohingyas began fleeing as refugees to into every neighbouring country possible, they even made their way to Nepal by crossing into India and then into Nepal. Rohingyas prefer to be back in their country of Myanmar but due to the military government, they can't go back. So Rohingyas moving into India (especially North India) is not because they want to go to India, it's because they have no choice but to go there.
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  85.  L  Yeah I know, that's why I'm teling you that you shouldn't believe them because they're some CCP supporter and we all know how those CCP supporters behave.
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  86. It's about Singaporeans, why would Malaysians be interviewed?
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  87. The fertility rates of Singapore's three main ethnic groups look like this: Chinese - 0.94, Indian - 0.97 and Malay - 1.83. The Chinese and Indians have the lowest in Singapore and the Chinese and Indians have been living in Singapore for many generations before the modern nations of China and India were even formed. Chinese, Indians and Malays they all share Singaporean culture. Thus, they are far removed from the cultural psyche of China and India respectively and cannot be compared to places like Canada. It would be like comparing French-Quebec Canadians with French in France. The report you quoted is from 2010 and there are several factors as to why that is now outdated, one of which is that the fertility rate for South Asian women would've declined for natural reasons, it would've been low to begin with considering the people in question would've been of a higher status and thus having probably 2 kids while Chinese immigrants came from a One-Child Policy era China and were used to being an only sibling and thus would've only had 1 kid. Additionally, when we look at the fertility rates in India which now stands at 2 and everywhere else in South Asia, except for Pakistan, it's below replacement level so the idea that the fertility rate of South Asian women in Canada, even with new immigrants, wouldn't have decreased doesn't make sense. It would've decreased and regardless, the difference would've likely been 1 between the two groups anyway. We're talking about higher quality immigrants and then their first generation offspring, who are adapted to the local culture.
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  88.  @downtomars6268  Well in Singapore, you can clearly see that the Chinese and Indians have the lowest rates, the Malays have below replacement level fertility too but it's higher simply because they are Muslims. The case of Singapore however cannot be compared to Canada where people are composed of recent immigrants and ethnic groups with different cultures. Singaporeans may be ethnically diverse but they all share the same Singaporean values that Lee Kuan Yew called "Asian values". The fertility rates among Singapore's three main groups are all below replacement level and they are all from the same Singaporean cultural background and so this talk of ethnic differences or culture makes no sense here.
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  89. Asian Boss has done more for the ASIAN community than any of the so-called Asian American YouTube channels and social media accounts that are based in the Western world that continuously speak about their limited and warped ideas on what "Asian" identity is have ever done. Thank goodness for Asians in Asia actually helping Asians in Asia. This is real ASIAN SOLIDARITY, not the stuff those people peddle under the YouTube videos on so-called "Asian culture". Thank you Asian Boss, you truly are the best Asian channel on YouTube.
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  90. Also, this is literally about Singapore. Your stereotypes about Indian men or whatnot don't apply in Singapore where everybody speaks English.
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  91.  @doit2810  For example, an Indian Kpop idol went viral in China, South Korea and Southeast Asia for the way she looks and for being Indian last year and she gained so many fans as a result. Additionally, there is a Malaysian singer of Indian descent that sings in Mandarin that is popular in China and won one of the Chinese TV singing competitions. An Indian movie, I can't remember the name, became really popular on Netflix in other Asian countries besides India, including Thailand and South Korea and sparked a makeup trend. It was a Malay woman that started the San Sanana trend that went viral on TikTok this year. For people outside of Asia, there is very little Indian representation in pop culture so their hate is way worse compared to other Asians hating on Indians.
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  92.  @andrewg7610  There are no victims. Nobody's life was destroyed because he was caught when he arrived in Singapore. Drugs don't go floating around society in Singapore. So no, there are no victims.
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  93. That's why I say "East Asian" and "Southeast Asian" and "South Asian". Some people also use ESEA to describe East and Southeast Asians in some appropriate contexts.
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  94. It's so annoying when people say this because it just shows one's ignorance of Asian history and cultures. China and India are the two main cultural powers in Asia and culturally influenced East, South and Southeast Asia. People always make this distinction that "Asia" makes no sense and talk about East Asia and South Asia simply because the majority of people of East Asia and South Asia look different from each other but the reality is that culture is the binding factor here, not facial features. Ancient Asians had their own ideas of Asia such as the Japanese with the concept of "Sangoku" which centred on China, India and Japan and defined due to cultural similarities. When Imperial Japan invaded and colonised large parts of Asia during WW2 they were doing so in order to unite the areas of Asia that were culturally influenced by China and India in order to create the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Since the Age of Exploration, Europeans have tried to divide Asians up - they did this in Singapore creating ethnic ghettos and separating the Chinese, Malays and Indians from living together, they did the same in Malaysia and sowed division in other colonies of the regions such as Myanmar and Sri Lanka. This ignorance of Asia and this idea that the concept of "Asia" makes no sense is why the Chinese government's pro-Asian rhetoric is at an all time high today, so high that it has gained sympathisers in other parts of Asia believing in ideas that Americans and Westerners in general are a threat to the stability of Asia and being radicalised into believing in Asiacentrism - in order words the CCP is echoing the same views that the Japanese did during WW2 and people in the West continue to think the concept of "Asia" makes no sense.
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  95.  @hannesRSA  The conclusion of my comment would be that since colonisation - which resulted in the emergence of Eurasian communities and the idea that proximity to Whiteness gave you greater chances of success, American military intervention which boosted the sex industry in Asia during R&R as well as Westernisation has meant people in certain parts of Asia (specifically the countries I previously mentioned + East Asia) have become open towards intermarriage with White people. As a result, there ismore acceptance towards Eurasian features in pageants than there are for other mixes. In the entertainment and modelling industries in parts of Asia, looking Eurasian is considered exotic. They look Asian enough to appeal to full Asians but European enough to look exotic. Asia has a long history of considering fair skin to be attractive (before the Europeans arrived), this development of looking Eurasian is just a modern extension of an ancient ideal. That's why you have Eurasian women like Catriona Gray of the Philippines and Ornella Gunesekere of Sri Lanka representing their countries at major pageants. Both women are fair, both women have typical Asian features (black hair, dark eyes) but also have European features that make them stand out. It seems to be the case across the world that mixed race people are considered beautiful, no matter the mix.
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  96.  @annegracyliberal7327  The Japanese people generally don't want that. However, with a shrinking workforce, rapidly aging population and declining fertility, the Japanese government has had no choice but to bring people in. However, they're selective of who comes in and they gravitate towards accepting people from other Asian countries due to the cultural similarities. That's why the largest foreign groups in Japan are all Asian (Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Nepali). The Japanese government signs agreements with other Asian countries like Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar and some other South and Southeast Asian countries to allow temporary migration where people temporarily come to work and then go back to their home countries. Generally speaking, Asian countries that allow this form of temporary migration (e.g. Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan) tend to accept people from other Asian countries.
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  97. There's always the other side of the coin too. There are many White people who are interested in Asian wellness practices and philosophies like yoga, meditation and Buddhism and fascination with Eastern imagery like Buddha statues, Asian tattoos as well as martial arts, those who go to Asian countries like India and Nepal for spiritual trips (e.g. hippies), those who are interested in anime, manga, Kpop, Kdramas and general East Asian culture and aesthetics and those who enjoy living in tropical Southeast Asian lifestyle and culture like Thailand and Bali among other things. Ever since the East and West came in contact with each other, there has been a deep fascination and idolisation of each other.
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  98.  @YashSharma-zp8yu  That's okay, all good
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  99. You call yourselves Asians
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  100.  @uwet.8826  How is that related to the topic of this video?
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  101. Indians are mixed. Their indigenous component (AASI) is East Eurasian and thus closer to east Asians and Australasians. Tribal Adivasis and low caste Indians carry high levels of this ancestry. The majority of other Indians (including high caste Indians) mostly carry West Eurasian ancestry which is related to Europeans and Middle Easterners. The northeastern and some other groups in the north of India mostly carry ESEA (related to East and Southeast Asians) DNA.
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  102.  @williamdripspeare741  Indians aren't racially "East Asian". Asian is not a race and is simply just a geographical term and that is how it is understood in Asia.
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  103. ​ @williamdripspeare741  Yep I agree, it's quite hard to categorise people into neat categories of "races". Population clusters make more sense based on PCA plots imo. So there would be a West Eurasian cluster (Europe+Middle East), North Africa cluster, Horn of Africa cluster, ESEA-East Asian-related cluster (East+Southeast Asia), South Asia cluster, Central Asia cluster, Pacific Islander cluster, Native American cluster, Australasia cluster (Australia+PNG) and Sub-Saharan Africa cluster. Those are the broad clusters that form on PCA plots when measuring genetic distance.
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  104.  @williamdripspeare741  Yeah I agree but that's in the West, many in the West use "Asian" as a race. I wouldn't say East Eurasian genes though imo, more in regards to Asians with epicanthic folds as many predominantly East Eurasian groups like the Kondh of India and the Semang of Malaysia don't look typically East or Southeast Asian. Outside of Asia, "Asian" is used to describe certain physical features.
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  105. It's such a trivial thing to talk about lmao.
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  106.  @LordYamcha  She looks Northeast Indian
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  107. China, Japan and Korea are not just Asia. 💀💀
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  108.  @malithaw  The term "Indian subcontinent" was coined by the British to describe British India (modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh), not the whole of South Asia.
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  109.  @doit2810  Whatever helps you sleep at night
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  110.  @ishanbajpai6940  Indian land? Only Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of ancient India or what you call "Indian land" (Bharat). Do not claim Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives and even Myanmar as Indian. They were never part of India.
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  111. Agreed. Ronnie is just making a joke but many people dont' know about Malaysia's diversity and so don't realise he's joking.
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  112.  @WastedBananas  Yes they are Asians and always will be.
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  113.  @reach2prasanna  Thank you for your comment. I still think there is hope for India because it still has a young population but India's window of opportunity is closing. The reason I say this is because India's fertility rate is now 2.0, its urban fertility is 1.6. Every state in India now has below replacement level fertility, except for 5 which also happen to be the poorest in the nation. That's pretty alarming in my opinion because India is still a lower middle income nation. [PART 1]
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  114.  @reach2prasanna  I'm not a fan of Modi (I think aggravating minorities does not help in development, there are more important things imo to do than to engage in present-day nationalistic views which is really just water under the bridge). Leaders must look at the future and understand that everybody has a role in developing a country, by alienating a portion of your population you prevent sound and robust development because you are opening up potential wounds that can destroy your plans and your momentum [PART 3]
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  115.  @reach2prasanna  However, I think Modi is hardline and I think if he focuses solely on development (really empowers his belief in making India a developed country within 25 years), then it can be possible but India only has 25 years left. By the middle of the century, it will be losing steam with its growing elderly population and declining fertility. [PART 4]
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  116.  @riorio745  Yes I agree, prosperity brings democracy. Democracy works best in developed nations in my opinion.
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  117.  @wuhuhu1390  Sorry but who's saying the dictatorship in Korea was a good thing? Nobody is but the fact is that economic reforms were enforced under Park's rule and that laid the foundation.
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  118. Are they though? All of those countries along with Southeast Asia (Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia etc.) are part of the Indosphere (Indian Cultural Sphere). They all share things in common (I guess with the exception of Pakistan which is now very Islamic). For example they celebrate Songkran (the South and Southeast Asian New Year -kind of like the equivalent to the East Asian Lunar New Year), linguistic scripts all derive from the Brahmic script, Sanskrit influence is widespread, traditional clothing, mythology, architecture, culinary influences, religion and dining etiquette among many other things trace back to Indian cultural influence.
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  119.  @Spasticmir  Firstly, caste system discrimination is not racial discrimination. Caste has nothing to do with race. Secondly, this is Singapore and this case involves a Malaysian man. His ethnicity has nothing to do with this. His nationality has nothing to do with this. Thirdly, Indians discriminating against other Indians is not racism if they're from the same country and if it's an Indian discriminating against another Indian from another country (say Singaporean Indian discriminating against a Malaysian Indian) it's called xenophobia.
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  120. @@Robey-si8ed Did you just comment and delete your reply? Also, to answer your question, I'm not.
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  121. @@Robey-si8ed Singapore doesn't want any refugees because they claim they're too small but the fact is that they prefer to maintain their culture hence why they prefer accepting Malaysian immigrants over anybody else who are the same ethnicity as Singaporeans (Chinese + Malay + Tamil). Thailand doesn't want more Burmese refugees but they still accept them. You're speaking about other things but the point is that Rohingyas aren't moving to India (especially North India) because they want to, they're moving there out of sheer desperation. They have no choice but to move to India. If they had a choice they'd be moving to other Southeast Asian countries like every other Burmese refugee has in the past.
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  122.  @kunalgohil7628  Like I said, nobody is moving to India, especially North India of all places, willingly. The richest states in India are located in the south which is far away from Myanmar. They moved to North India out of sheer desperation. So many Indians move to my country (Australia) each year, in fact they are now the largest source of migrants to this country overtaking the UK. There are zero opportunities in India compared to other Asian countries. SO anybody who is trying to get into that country is doing so because they are desperate. This is why Rohingyas deserve respect. They face extreme persecution and so escaped to India out of sheer desperation because they simply needed to escape. They have been moving to Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand for a long time and until recently there were no issues. They have always had opportunities in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand because those countries are far richer and economically well off with a focus on social development but that's not the case in India. Rohingya refugees have zero opportunities in India. They'd much prefer to be back in Myanmar, not in India. Compared toother refugee groups, Rohingyas actually want to go back to their nation but their military government continues to persecute every minority group that lives there and so they're barred from going back.
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  123. They don't need a three child policy. Their fertility rate is 2, that's the replacement level and the level that is expected for a population to be sustained.
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  124.  @WastedBananas  They're all Asians. Asian is just geography. Stop conflating race with geographical terms. 💀
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  125.  @UnlimitedWere  How is that even comparable? India is an artificial nation, it's made up of many different ethnic groups. A Tamil is genetically closer to a Maldivian than they are to a Punjabi from North India. They are all different ethnically speaking.
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  126.  @UnlimitedWere  Race is a flawed construct but what you are referring to can be described as "South Asian" which broadly covers other nations close to India.
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  127.  @ar2r1an04  All of you are correct. There are ethnic Tibetans in India and Tibetan-related people who are indigenous to India. There are also Indians with what you call "Tibetan-like" features elsewhere in India like in Northeast India but also in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Ladakh (areas all located in proximity to the Tibetan Plateau) that are not Tibetan-related but completely different. So, all of you are correct.
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  128. Most of Southeast Asia is actually culturally related to India. It's part of the Indosphere, not Sinosphere. Also, Indians aren't Black Africans...
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  129.  @wangtrista5019  I'm not blaming the whole of China. I'm talking about the CCP. Did I say that I'm blaming the whole of China? No I did not. Stop jumping the gun.
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  130.  @wangtrista5019  I never blamed the whole of China. I said CCP. Read my comment! Stop jumping the gun.
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  131. No, it's because they need people for an economy to function. Without people, you have no economy.
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  132.  @indo-pacific5940  There absolutely is. The native hunter-gatherers of South Asia are known as the AASI and they are genetically related to East Asians and Australasians. So that's one ethnic link. Secondly, ESEA (East/Southeast Asian) people have genetically contributed to certain populations in South Asia. I'm of Sri Lankan descent, Malays have settled in Sri Lanka in large numbers since the 13h century. My eyes are more like Malay-like eyes. The problem here is that you're homogenising us and being incredibly Indocentric. Stop calling us "Indian subcontinent". It's South Asia, not Indian subcontinent which is a term created by the British to refer to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (British India). Really Chindians? So you just ignore all of the indigenous ethnic groups in South Asia that are connected to East and Southeast Asia. Let me repeat, the indigenous people of South Asia are genetically closer to East Asian people. The majority of Indians (e.g. Hindi speakers) are primarily of non-indigenous descent and there is an irony in someone suggesting South Asians have no genetic ties to East or Southeast Asia when all of the indigenous people of the land are far closer to East Asians than the typical North Indian who is closer to a European than an East Asian as they mostly carry West Eurasian ancestry.
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  133.  @milkandspice1074  She looks Northeast Indian and could pass in Southeast Asia and Nepal too.
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  134. 💀
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  135.  @Anonymous-qb4vc  Only in some Western countries does "Asian" mean "Mongoloid" appearance. In the UK and eastern African countries, "Asian" means Indian/South Asian appearance. Desi is too narrow of a term to use and really only applies to Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. Asian is not a race, people outside f Asia have turned it into one but nobody in Asia thinks it's a race. Hong Kong has a large colonial-era Indian community, they are considered Asians and in colloquial language they are known by the Cantonese equivalent for "South Asian". This issue of Asia's definition is only a non-Asian issue.
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  136.  @anasian8894  It has a negative connotation in the US only and it's primarily propagated by East Asian Americans who claim calling someone "Oriental" is degrading because the term "oriental" is used to refer to non-human objects like rugs (e.g. Oriental rugs of the Middle East and Central Asia).
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  137. I mean I can understand why someone in India may feel that way. English was adopted out of a necessity due to the sheer ethnic diversity and it came with colonisation. Japan's relationship with English has no nationalist undertones
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  138. Well Asian's not a race anyway and Indians aren't Caucasian either. Genetically speaking, Indians are "mixed race". The first inhabitants of India were an East Eurasian people who are genetically closer to East Asians known as the AASI. Adivasi tribal people in India are comparatively closer to East Asians than most other Indians as they carry the most amount of indigenous South Asian (East Eurasian) ancestry. Most other Indians, on the other hand, carry higher levels of West Eurasian ancestry (which is related to Europeans and Middle Easterners). So in conclusion, Indians are a separate race. They can't be placed into "Caucasoid", "Mongoloid" etc. India's cultural output is also different. They culturally influenced most of Asia. Most of South Asia (India, Nepal etc.) and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia etc.) is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere and the spread of Buddhism across Asia transported Indian ideas to East Asia. Imperial Japan tried to colonise India during WW2 and unite it within "Greater East Asia" due to this very fact of cultural commonalities. Europeans tried to divide and conquer Asia one time and that led to Imperial Japan, they're trying to do it again and now we're having China talk about "Asia for the Asians" all over again. Trying to designate them as a separate entity doesn't do anything, geographically India is in Asia. Asia is just geography, that is all.
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  139. I thought the video was good but yeah the comments are interesting, good discussions are happening.
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  140. Exactly, Asian is a secondary identity for actual Asian people in Asia. Nobody thinks of it first. Such a trivial thing to talk about.
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  141.  @stephanatlas5331  Bollywood loves that pale white Punjabi look, let's be real. Nobody is looking for that round faced Assamese or Bengali look (e.g. Sayani Gupta) or the dark skinned South Indian with neotenous features (e.g. Shaun Romy). There is a specific idea of what is considered the standard in Bollywood and that's the sharp featured fair skinned Punjabi look.
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  142. Asian is just geography, only people who seem to struggle with this are people in the US.
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  143. You can get hints of the Singaporean accent but a very Westernised version of it. It's definitely a mixed accent.
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  144. If you're wondering, most Singaporean-Indians have dark skin like the girl in the video. There's a famous Singaporean influencer who is in an interracial relationship, she has really dark skin too and is beautiful and of Indian descent. I can't remember her name though.
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  145. ​ @Andy-P  Yep, Kishore Mahbubani is a prominent Singaporean-Indian representative of China's pro-Asian and pro-China rhetoric. His career began in Singapore when Lee Kuan Yew practiced the ideology of Asian Values and his worldview is completely shaped by that Asiacentric, anti-West worldview that 1990s Asian leaders and modern CCP-led China profess. I would say Kishore Mahbubani is the most prominent non-ethnic Chinese Asian figure to have a worldview that aligns very closely with China's. It is why, while respected, his views are questioned in the West and among Western-leaning Asian people.
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  146. They are. They just said they are in the video and Ronny was making a joke anyway. He's Malaysian so of course he's joking. Malaysians are of Malay, Chinese, Indian and Orang Asli descent and is known as "mini Asia" as a result of it.
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  147.  @aliya_aqeel  Yeah you're right but as the OP said there's a difference depending on context. For example, the mainstream Western media and those social media users on YT and other platforms who look down negatively on India and Indian people and then there are those outside of the internet (and even on the internet) who praise Indians for their academic and intergration success in Western countries.
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  148.  @Justin_Why  No but many Indians are dark with rounder eyes (except for northeastern or some tribal groups). Some of the Montagnard tribes of Vietnam have rounder eyes and darker skin. They look more "Indianish" than typical "Southeast Asian". I don't like comparing them to Indian features because they aren't "Indian". Those tribes, like many of the tribes of India and various parts of Southeast Asia, descend primarily from an ancient East Eurasian lineage that traditionally had rounder eyes, darker skin straight or wavy hair before the development and arrival of lighter skinned neo-East Asians into Southeast Asia. There just isn't a word in the English language that can describe that type of phenotype. I just say "Indian" because that's the largest country in Asia that has a similar phenotype even though the majority of Indians are actually mixed.
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  149.  @WastedBananas  Yes they are. 💀
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  150. @imyourrealfather-yes There are people like that everywhere, doesn't change what they said.
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  151. If you permanently settle in the country and take up PR then you're an immigrant but most of these people are temporary migrants who will eventually leave. They don't plan on staying forever and anyway, it's very hard to permanently settle in Singapore in part due to the country's ethnic demographics.
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  152.  @Jtnn713  WRONG
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  153. Talks about "race" but mentions a bunch of stuff related to culture lol
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  154.  @dmitryballonov5742  Being Asian doesn't correlate to appearance. At this rate, Southeast Asians won't be considered Asian because they're culturally related to Indians or vice versa, Indians would only be considered "culturally Asian" because they influenced Southeast Asia and parts of East Asian cultures. Kazakhs are predominantly Muslim which is why people may think otherwise. A "Indian-looking" Bhutanese who practices Vajrayana Buddhism has more in common with a Mongolian than a Kazakh. Appearance doesn't mean anything here. Asia is just a gradient of different ethnic groups and cultures, you can see cultural overlap across the continent.
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  155.  @आयुष_पराशर  Nepal is not part of India, sorry.
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  156. Well this video is in response to a segment on a US talk show...
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  157.  @somedeepbarat9852  Yes I suppose you are correct. I'm just talking about the current circumstances per 2022.
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  158. Yes they are a minority, doesn't matter if their population is bigger than the population of some countries. They do not form the majority of India's population, hence they are a minority.
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  159. Myanmar is just culturally Asian (a mix of indigenous Burmese culture with Indian and Chinese influences). Most Asian cultures have absorbed Indian and Chinese influences. Indian is Asian and Chinese is also Asian. So Myanmar is no different.
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  160. Agreed, idk why they spent time talking about this lmao
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  161.  @jameschristophercirujano6650  Last time I checked most of Southeast Asia is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere not East Asian Cultural Sphere. The traditional clothing, the linguistic scripts, the mythological stories, the architecture, traditional music, the religion, the festivals, the culinary influences and linguistic influences among many other things are derived from Indian culture. None of that is Chinese. The most important festival of mainland Southeast Asia (exclude Vietnam) is the traditional Solar New Year (South and Southeast Asian New Year). That's not Chinese-derived. Idk why you think China's influence is greater because it's not. What part of SEA are you from?
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  162.  @jameschristophercirujano6650  Yes it's definitely part of SEA cultures, it's not "Indian" but the fact is that India is culturally related to most of Southeast Asia. They're not a world apart. To infer India is not culturally Asian is to infer the base of SEA cultures is not "Asian". You are also Filipino which is quite different to other SEA (especially mainland SEA) if we're being pedantic. I'm not Indian but I'm ethnically South Asian (Sri Lankan Buddhist) and when we celebrate Songkran at the temple in my country (Australia) we have Thai, Cambodian, Burmese and Malaysian Chinese celebrate with us. Upon finding out I was of ethnic Sri Lankan descent, my Cambodian co-worker began speaking about our similarities as a way to relate to me as I am also a lot younger than him. He also happens to be of ethnic Chinese descent. I think you, as a Filipino, will find it hard as the Indic influence in the Philippines has rather faded away from modern Filipino society (nobody uses Baybayin for example and those SA/SEA-style shawls you see in old photos are now a thing of the past). I can't speak for Indians but at least for the South Asian Buddhists or those that were historically influenced by Buddhism (Sri Lankan, Nepalese, some Northeast Indians), I can see the similarities we share with both the mainland Indian Hindus and Southeast Asians. Appearance could play a role overseas in the West but see, I have epicanthic folds which has made people think I'm mixed with some Southeast Asian group (and maybe because Sri Lankan Malays exist - I have to do a DNA test to find out) but for me it doesn't affect my view, maybe because South Asians are already very diverse and many SEA are diverse too (I have seen southern Thai and Khmer who look more Indianish than typical SEA).
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  163. Which is why this video makes no sense because they're interviewing Indians who live in India (a country in Asia).
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  164. I don't hear it
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  165. Exactly, I fully agree with what you're saying. You said it perfectly. People in specific Asia will be aware of the diversity within their country but may not be aware of the diversity in other countries in Asia. Same thing applies to people in the West, those who are familiar with particular Asian countries will know of the diversity. I know someone who is White Australian and he has done backpacking across India and other parts of Asia and he knows about the Indians who look "Chinese". This is why I think pop culture in these countries can be used as a tool to showcase the diversity of their people, instead of relying on one beauty standard and phenotype. I've already seen some people who watch Thai dramas make comments on the diversity of Thai people because they've seen extras in the background or characters who look more "Indian". I think Bollywood ought to start showing more of their country's diversity, it would actually make it more interesting to watch imo.
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  166. No it's only outside of Asia that it has become a racial term. Asian languages have different terms for "race" and "geography (continent)".
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  167. The rise of Korean pop culture on the world stage is clearly a sign of the projected Asian Century. For decades, aspects of Asian cultures have entered the mainstream conscience in the rest of the world, particularly the West. We saw the rise in popularity of Buddhism, meditation and Karma (popularised in the West by John Lennon's single "Instant Karma") in the 1970s and the decades after we saw Asian wellness culture (yoga, mindfulness, acupuncture and other traditional Chinese medicine, cupping, gua sha, Thai massage) gain mainstream popularity. In general, we also saw the popularity of symbols and ideas of Eastern religions and a general interest in Eastern spirituality (dating to the 1970s) as well as the rise in popularity of manga and anime. Now, we've entered a new phase in which content in Asian languages have become popular (as seen with the rise of Kpop and Kdramas). Half a decade ago, I never thought Kpop or Kdramas would become popular in the West simply because they are not in English but it really shows how much times have changed.
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  168. 1. East Asia doesn't need to accept immigration if they don't want to 2. Japan and Korea already accept temporary immigrants from other parts of Asia like India but most come from other areas like Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and the Philippines. They are temporary migrants who eventually leave. 3. Japan and Korea have their policies in place that allow blue collar and white collar workers from other parts of Asia to work temporarily in their countries. This is due to cultural compatibility so if you look at the bilateral agreements that Japan and Korea sign with other Asian countries, the furthest west they go is India or Kazakhstan. They don't go further because they know that even though immigration is controversial, the most suitable option is to allow people who are most culturally compatibile to temporarily work in the country. They know that other Asians are the type to look down and do their work without making a scene so it's easier for employers and for the society in general. That's why most foreigners in Korea and Japan are foreign Asians. The same thing applies to the rest of Asia which accepts temporary immigration.
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  169. She's from an older generation hence why she even prefers to communicate in Chinese (only the older generation will be more comfortable speaking in Chinese, Malay or Tamil rather than English). Singapore was one of the poorest nations in Asia in the 1960s but now it's one of the richest and most technologically advanced nations on earth.
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  170.  @Ccb88888  I don't know why you think Singapore was some well off nation in 1965, it absolutely was not and there is a reason why Singapore is marvelled for its economic transformation within a generation. Singapore was a bona fide poor country and comparing Singapore to other Asian nations in 1965 doesn't mean anything really because in 1965, the continent was poor. Israel was at #1 with US$1389 GDP followed by Japan with US$857. Singapore came in at #4 with US$494. That is not the definition of "rich". Singapore was poor through and through. So like I said before, that woman is from an older generation who was alive when Singapore was still a poor nation. The very fact that she chooses to communicate in Chinese rather than English is a clear testament to the bygone era she belonged to. You will only ever see Singaporeans who speak an Asian language (Chinese, Malay, Tamil, maybe Hokkien) as a first language among those from the older generation.
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  171.  @Ccb88888  No, Singapore was not a middle income country. I'm really confused as to why you think it did. Having a national income of US$500, which is what Singapore once had, is far from a middle income nation. South Sudan of 2023 has almost US$500 but it is not a middle income nation. Singapore was not classified as a middle income nation in 1965 by the World Bank. It was classified as a "low income country" and rightfully so. I don't know why you want Singapore to be classified as a middle income country so bad when that was not reality.
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  172. He's actually making a mockery of the American idea that there is only one type of "Asian" which contrasts to the UK's idea of "Asian" which means Indian or someone who looks Indian. Ronnie is Malaysian. Malaysians of ethnic Indian descent are the third largest ethnic group in the country and played a significant role in shaping Malaysian culture. He knows what he's doing.
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  173. True.
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  174. The comedian is from Malaysia. The comedian was making a joke. The comedian knows that Indians are Asian as Malaysia is known as "Malaysia Truly Asia", it's home to Malays, Chinese and Indians. The comedian knows that in the US, "Asian" means East Asian and that in the UK "Asian" means Indian or South Asian. The comedian is making a joke about the way non-Asians view Asian as a descriptive term for appearance, when it's not. The idea that "Asian" is dictated by how close you are physically to East Asians makes no sense. So why would Indians not think of themselves as Asians? Asia is just a continent, nothing more. People are reading way too much into this and the joke is flying straight over their head.
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  175. 💀
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  176.  @sardinesandpyjamas  They could be from Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh or Uttarakhand too. Majority of NE Indians look more like Southeast Asians than East Asians.
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  177. So loud and wrong and for what??? Traditionally speaking, the Chinese-Singaporeans and Indian-Singaporeans have been better off compared to the Malay-Singaporeans but your analysis is so wrong. I see you everywhere saying these types of things and you're an Indian-American. 💀
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  178. Self hating Indian-American, constantly trying to fish for compliments and pity. Malaysian is a nationality, not an ethnicity. Don't know anything about Singapore or Malaysia? Then don't talk!
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  179. Embarrassing comment.
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  180. Singapore will never sit around and ait for that to happen, it will do everything it can legally do to prevent it from happening.
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  181. Yeah true, ever since the rise of TikTok I have come across so many South Asian TikTok videos of ethnic Indians in the US, UK etc. who have East Asian features (either from Assam or places like Uttarakhand). Their traditional clothing, names etc. are all Indian.
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  182.  @starsign0805  He's North Indian and is claiming his experience and identity is applicable to the whole of India, he just replied to one of my comments about Austroasiatic-speaking Indians trying to downplay what I said even though India is a diverse country.
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  183. because they're not Middle Eastern and they don't distance themselves from Asian. Ask anybody else in Asia if they identify as "Asian" first and the answer will be "no".
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  184.  @kyopo18  No they don't. Indians share cultural ties to other South Asians (Sri Lankans, Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Pakistani, Bhutanese etc.) as well as Southeast Asians (Indonesians, Burmese, Thai, Cambodian etc.). South Asia and Southeast Asia are part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. Arabia has nothing to do with them. Arabians are Muslims and most Indians are Hindu. Idk why you would think that.
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  185.  @kyopo18  Wow, you are extremely racist. Well I'm not Indian so idk what you're talking about but only Indians in the West call themselves "brown" and that term is also used by Pacific Islanders and Latinos too.
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  186.  @kyopo18  Koreans respect other Asians challenge (impossible)
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  187.  @kyopo18  It's time you educate yourself on other parts of Asia if you're going to start speaking about them.
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  188. Well they kind of did in the sense that they developed a "community" through overlapping cultural similarities. We've seen it more clearly during the era of pan-Asianism which peaked in the 1940s when Japan invaded other parts of Asia in order to unite the areas of Asia influenced by Sinic (Chinese) and Indic (Indian) cultures akin to the irredentis movements in Europe (Greater Germany, Italian irredentism). While the Europeans had their idea of "Asia", people in Asia had their own ideas of "Asia".
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  189. Well it was a joke and Ronnie is Malaysian. Malaysia is known as "Malaysia Truly Asia" because it's home to different ethnic groups that originally came from other parts of Asia, including Malaysians of ethnic Indian descent. The funny thing is people actually believing he thinks Indians aren't Asian when he's pointing out how Asians are physically diverse and that we are not all the same.
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  190.  @WastedBananas  India is literally a country in Asia... 💀
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  191.  @life_is_a_myth  To be fair, it's much more than just the genre. The drama is an allegory of modern Korean society and how inequality and the hypercapitalist system of this era has affected vulnerable lives within Korea.
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  192.  @life_is_a_myth  Yep you're right but I guess what I meant to say is that this genre was used to discuss the reality of inequality and South Korea's debt crisis.
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  193.  @ishanbajpai6940  Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka are not debatable. They were never part of India. Yeah they're part of the Indosphere but so is most of Southeast Asia. The claim on cultural similarity does not work when everything beyond India including Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia etc. are Indosphere nations too. I didn't say you claimed Myanmar but many nationalists do. I see the Akhand Bharat maps include Myanmar and Tibet too. Yeah I know that but I'm just saying they weren't part of ancient India. They're all culturally Indosphere nations but are not part of India.
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  194.  @alpacacomentadora413  What about other parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia that share cultural ties to India and are part of the Indosphere?
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  195.  @alpacacomentadora413  Well I said one can make an argument for all subregions and Southeast Asians are actually genetically closely related to East Asians. They are culturally related to Indians but genetically related to East Asians.
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  196. Same view as the ones in this video because Asian is not understood in physical appearance terms in Asian countries. It's just geography.
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  197.  @tendwa5263  Well they've done videos on India, including this one and their channel is meant for street interviews in Asia and related to Asian topics so I think you have the answer haha
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  198.  @sleepEasy2  Most of them speak English because they have so many languages. English is the unifying language for them.
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  199.  @sleepEasy2  They're Indians living in India. Sounds authentic to me.
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  200.  @sleepEasy2  Well firstly, I'm pretty sure all those Indians you speak of would say the same thing. Everybody in Asia knows that they're Asians but it's not the first thing that comes to their mind, nobody thinks of "Asian" first but they still know they're Asian because they're from Asia. It's a trivial thing. Secondly, the video is in response to a skit/a joke done by Ronnie Chieng in English for an American comedy show. The interviewees are going to have to know English if they're going to understand the context of this video.
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  201.  @uzzab6937  Miss World and Miss Universe are two different pageants...
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  202. Yeah and the Malaysian comedian knows this because Malaysia is home to Malays, Chinese, Indians and Orang Asli. Malaysians don't all look the same. None of Malaysia's prime ministers look like Ronnie Chieng (the comedian). People took the joke way too seriously.
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  203. I agree that India's development is impended by democracy and it's not just India, it's all developing nations (especially Asian ones because I am most familiar with Asian cultures). The truth of the matter is India is not a Western country and just like what the think pieces of the China's Global Times say and its avid reader's who post comments, India is a traditional country controlled by typical Eastern mentality. By believing modernisation comes with Westernisation, India will never develop. Only one Asian country was able to Westernise and develop at the same time, that is Japan but that happened at a very different time period. The rise of the Asian Tigers and China show that traditional modes of Asian development is how Asian countries must develop. It is no surprise that the Southeast Asian nations of Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines as well as the South Asian nation of Bangladesh have adopted the Asian Tiger/East Asian (China+Japan) economic model. India was once on the right path when it engaged in manufacturing in the 1990s but its decades of closed economic borders, socialist policies and now a desire to align with the West has prevented the country from reaching its full potential.
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  204.  @reach2prasanna  So India's window of opportunity is closing, with less children being born and that means less economic development and more pressure on the system to aid those older people who will retire. There needs to be people on the younger end that can support the growing elderly population. [PART 2]
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  205.  @reach2prasanna  This is why Modi must unite the entire Indian population and pursue rapid development, by proving he his worthy he can be re-elected by people of all types (including minorites like Muslims). Maybe I'm too optimistic and I do not like Modi at all but I feel like he's the only one in India tm that can do anything. I don't think Rahul Gandhi or whoever is going to contest will be suitable for a developing India. You need someone hardline in my opinion but India does not have many options, it has to make do with what it has before the window closes. [PART 5]
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  206.  @reach2prasanna  I must also say that India really needs to work with China in a better way. Every once in a while we see comments made by Chinese or Indian officials about how China and India must work together to realise the Asian Century and extend hands of support but they're only gestures. I think India is the one who is reluctant in accepting Chinese cooperation and I truly believe that a multi-polar Asia-Pacific is the only way tis region is going to survive. That means the Indians must work with China and somehow and urgently reinstate the status quo in regards to their disputes. It's not an easy thing to do but I hope it happens. I hope there are more people like you in India, you have the right ideas and forward thinking mindset that is needed in a country like India. [PART 6]
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  207.  @wuhuhu1390  It's most definitely democracy in my opinion. South Korea began its process of economic modernisation under a military dictatorship. India is so far behind because of democracy. One can't speak of unity and culture when India is such an ethnically diverse country. As a democactic nation, those in the majority will vote for those who they view benefit them. Why is it that it's always northern Indians who vote for BJP and other Hindu nationalist figures whereas the southern states are not supportive of BJP? Majority rules. They are so incredibly far behind first because of socialist policies of the past and now because of democracy and their failure to open up their country. They can't move forward because of democracy. There is a reason why some states and territories in that country are more advanced than others. Culture would play a role in why some of those most advanced states are more advanced but it's also because they vote in leaders that benefit their states and territories.
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  208.  @wuhuhu1390  Park Chung-hee, dictator of South Korea, initiated economic reforms in the 1960s which led to the Miracle of the Han River in the 1960s and 1970s, giving South Korea one of the fastest growing economic growth rates in the world at the time and making it in Asian Tiger. Chaebols (family-run conglomerates like Hyundai, Samsung) were also established under his rule and played a huge role in pushing South Korea into developed status.
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  209.  @wuhuhu1390  South Korea was already a fully developed country by 2000. It, along with Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong experienced rapid growth during the 1960s-1990s and were collectively known as Asian Tigers. Their economic growth rates became a model for other Asian nations, specifically those in Southeast Asia from the 1990s-present and Bangladesh from the 2010s-present.
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  210.  @wuhuhu1390  Sorry but you're not understanding my point. A dictatorship in South Korea ushered in the Miracle on the Han River. I'm not talking about developed status, I'm talking about the road to getting to developed status. South Korea as an Asian Tiger economy that emerged in the 1960s under a dictatorship. India is struggling to move forward rapidly in comparison to China and Asian Tigers because it is a democratic nation.
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  211.  @wuhuhu1390  India's leaders come and go every 4 years, maybe some will last two terms but there is no concept of honouring in a democracy of a developing country. The new leader will undo everything the previous leader did because they have their own vision of development. That is not something that happens in an autocratic nation.
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  212.  @wuhuhu1390  India is developed at such a slow pace because it stops and re-starts every time a new leader comes to power.
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  213.  @wuhuhu1390  You didn't prove a single thing, instead you rambled on and on and on and on thinking you were making points... but you weren't. I'm done with this useless conversation. I only deal with facts.
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  214.  @barryram2605  That's correct but you can easily make the same argument for the subregions of Europe too. Malaysia is a blend of Southeast, East and South Asian cultures. It's home to Malays, Chinese and Indians who have mixed together to create a cultural that is most similar to neighbouring Singapore than anywhere else in Asia. Absolutely correct but that's the thing, that's an outsider's perspective, it's not based on reality. If we were to divide Asia (exclude Central and West Asia) we could divide it into two main spheres, Sinosphere (East Asia + Vietnam) and Indosphere (South Asia + Southeast Asia). The cultural foundations of these two spheres are either Chinese (Sinic) or Indian (Indic). An equivalent in another continent would be the way Roman and Greek culture underpin southern and western European cultures, while Russia underpins eastern European culture and Nordic culture underpins the cultures of Scandinvaia. Each of the subregions of Asia can be divided up and those subregions can also have stark differences. For example, I actually can't find anything that a Sri Lankan or Nepalese could have in common with a Pakistani. Same thing with a Burmese and Filipino, despite both being Southeast Asian.
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  215. These are Malaysian Indians, not Indians from India. Type M
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  216.  @alexputra-w1u  I'm not even Indian. Everything about Malay people and culture is rooted in Indian culture, you even have some Indian ancestry and now you're trying to be Arabs by becoming Muslims and thinking to be Muslim is to be Arab. Malaysia wouldn't be all that without the Chinese, Indians, Orang Asli and other groups. It's no wonder y'all are so bitter and fear domination that you had to introduce bumiputera.
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  217. I'm not even Indian. Everything about Malay people and culture is rooted in Indian culture, you even have some Indian ancestry and now you're trying to be Arabs by becoming Muslims and thinking to be Muslim is to be Arab. Malaysia wouldn't be all that without the Chinese, Indians, Orang Asli and other groups. It's no wonder y'all are so bitter and fear domination that you had to introduce bumiputera.
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  218.  @alexputra-w1u  I'm not even Indian. Everything about Malay people and culture is rooted in Indian culture, you even have some Indian ancestry and now you're trying to be Arabs by becoming Muslims and thinking to be Muslim is to be Arab.
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  219. Malaysia wouldn't be all that without all of the other ethnic groups. FYI, I'm not even Malaysian but know so much about it. Nobody is going to Malaysia to see hyper religious Malay Muslims.
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  220. I'm not even Indian. Everything about Malay people and culture is rooted in Indian culture, Malays even have some Indian ancestry and now they're trying to be Arabs.
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  221. I'm not even Malaysian lol
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  222. @ Gagged
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  223. It's crazy how you think Singapore is an oppressive authoritarian regime with a lack of accountability or transparency. Idk what country you are from but wherever you live clearly is promoting propaganda to you if you think Singapore is on the level of a place like China or North Korea or Myanmar.
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  224. Yeah true, nobody cares about this stuff in Asia.
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  225.  @cladnow  Rohingyas are not moving to India for opportunities, they are moving there because they have no choice. They would much prefer to be back in their homeland of Myanmar than to be in India, that is a fact. India doesn't have many opportunities generally speaking and that's why Indians keep leaving India. Chinese are not migrating outside of China as much as they were in the past. India is now number #1 for source of immigration for many countries like Australia and Canada.
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  226.  @cladnow  India can't provide enough jobs for its young people so its young people continue to leave. If there were opportunities back in India, all of the Indian international students would move back to India but they don't because their governments has failed them and continues to fail them.
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  227.  @cladnow  India continues to lose some of its brightest minds to other countries. It really is suffering from a brain drain. So you can continue to bring up statistics about its huge economy and all that but the truth is that the average Indian is not benefitting in the way India's top 10% are benefitting. The Ambanis, Adanis, the Bollywood elite and all the other rich billionaires live comfortably in India but the educated continue to suffer and so have to leave. India has a huge middle class because of its population but if things continue to go the way that they're going, then India won't have a middle class anymore because that entire middle class would have migrated to other countries. What's delusional is not being able to recognise flaws in addition to positives and I never said there weren't other areas of success in India outside of South India but if you're going to sit here and tell me that a place like Delhi is comparable to a place like Bangalore, then I have news for you. Everybody has seen the quality of life in Delhi on TikTok and YouTube and it's unbelievable that the government hasn't done anything to improve anything.
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  228. @@swp-ou8mf It's out of sheer desperation. If there are plenty of opportunities in India then how come 225, 620 Indians gave up Indian citizenship and acquired the nationality of 135 other countries? That's because there are limited opportunities in the country.
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  229.  @cladnow  They move out of sheer desperation to flee a military government (Tatmadaw) that is brutally violent against all of its minorities and backed by China, India and Japan. They aren't trying to find opportunities but Malaysia is a much more economically well off nation compared to most other developing countries in Southeast or South Asia. It will become a high income nation this decade, according to the World Bank, if it manages its brain drain and curtails its rising Islamic extremism. So there is a reason why I said Malaysia before, the country is much better in terms of living standards than the rest of the region, with the exception of Singapore.
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  230.  @cladnow  Plenty move to the West and many also go the Gulf (difference is that those Gulf countries rely on foreigners to do everything for them so they're always in need of white collar or blue collar workers because the native Gulf people don't work). However, the thing is that India has a lot of young people compared to China. Middle aged people and older people are not going to feel the need to move overseas because they already have lives that they have established. India is completely different, it has a young population and the government does not have enough jobs for its people so its young people continue to leave. 225,620 Indians renounced their citizenship in 2022 and acquired the nationalities of 135 other countries. I'm sure the vast majority of those people were young people in their 20s and 30s, people who will go on to establish families in their new countries.
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  231.  @jyotirups4006  Yes but the situation in India is rather different to the rest of Asia because of how big its youth population is. When I say Asia I am not referring to borderline failed states like Pakistan or anywhere in the Middle East (excluding the Gulf, Iran or Turkey) but rather the stable nations in the region like some parts of Southeast Asia. India's huge youth population contrasts to much of the rest of the region which have aging populations. So India's youth continue to leave because there just isn't enough work to meet the demand of graduates that India keeps producing. In regards to the Gulf, there are plenty of white collar workers who are part of the backbone of these nations' economies. Foreigners make up 94% of Qatar's workforce for example and that includes those in white collar positions such as Qatar Airways (which is dominated by foreigners and not locals).
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  232.  @shenanigans4177  You should look into Burmese history before you make such remarks. Rohingyas, along with certain other minority groups, sided with the British in WW2 after the Japanese invaded Myanmar instead of siding with the Bamar. General Min Aung Hlaing explicitly said that the "clearance operation" in 2017 was rectifying an issue started in WW2. So don't don't tell me they're barbaric and militarized because they aren't. Out o all the demonised minorities of the developing world, they're the ones that are the most patient. They're also the only one that actually prefers to go back to their country.
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  233. ​ @shenanigans4177  Well they aren't potential threats, the real threat in India are the predatory men (and even little boys) that roam the streets and gang r*pe and s**ually assault women, little girls and even female infants (e.g. a 4 month old baby that was r*ped by her 30 year old cousin in Lucknow). When India has all sorts of problems, the majority always make scapegoats out of foreigners or minorities when the real threat is themselves.
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  234.  @sakshigupta8603  Since when do I represent all Australians? Logic left the chat.
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  235.  @patronam9396  You can tell when someone doesn't know anything about the world when they post comments like this. Among the poverty-stricken in developing nations, child mortality rates are higher. So people have more kids because only a few will make it to 18.
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  236. Yeah others have pointed that before, especially on Quora. Large parts of Asia would only be part "Asian" if we used this logic.
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  237.  @oioierwinpp7843  Yes you're right, it's just that traditionally in many Asian cultures, fair skin is promoted as beautiful at the expense of dark skin so it creates this narrative that one can never be beautiful if they have any shade that is not considered "fair".
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  238.  @sumeet3773  Not really per her skin tone in the video. If you've seen Nepali celebrities, they all have pale white skin as in the colour of snow or a white sheet of paper.
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  239. This literally has nothing to do with skin colour. Around 25% of Singaporeans are "brown Asians" (Indians and Malays). The people in the Singaporean government who are supportive of the death penalty have brown skin. The US really thinsk everything revolves around skin colour smh
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  240.  @WastedBananas  Yes they did. Go read the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere manifesto. Go read about Subhas Chandra Bose who fought for the Japanese. Google is your friend.
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  241. Most of their ancestors are West Eurasian (closer to Europe and Central Asia) but part of their ancestry (the first inhabitants of South Asia) are more related to Southeast Asians and Australasians. Tribal groups in India still retain high levels of indigenous South Asian ancestry compared to most Indians.
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  242. Agreed
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  243.  @jsways3048  Never said I was a scientist. I'm just repeating the things actual scientists have said. Those categories are outdated racial terms. They have no meaning today when we can see how modern Indians exist because of so many successive waves of humans that intermixed with one another (some male dominated and others female dominated). On a PCA plot, Indians are located in between Europeans/Middle Easterners, Australasians and East/Southeast Asians. Why? It's because they have genetic components that are related to all three of those groups. They're mixed. The indigenous component of South Asia is completely unrelated to the dominant genetic component of most Indians which is related to Europeans and Middle Easterners. They are mixed in the way many others are not. The only skull found in India dating to the Pleistocene is a skull that had physical characteristics similar to both western and East Asian groups. India is located between east and west, it only makes sense that components from either side would end up in the country. Sources: 1. The Formation of Human Populations in South and Central Asia - Vagheesh M. Narasimhan et al. 2019 2. A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia - Melinda A. Yang 2022
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  244.  @jsways3048  Yeah and their modern DNA is literally mixed.
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  245.  @WastedBananas  No because Australasians and AASI are closely related to East Asian-related populations. They aren't genetically distinct in the ay West Eurasians are. All of these populations have affinity to Tianyuan Man, so geneticists now say "East Eurasian". Source: A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia -Melinda A. Yang, 2022
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  246.  @WastedBananas  Within East Eurasian there are three distinct lineages: AASI, Australasian and ESEA (East/Southeast Asian). Source: A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia - Melinda A. Yang, 2022
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  247.  @jsways3048  Haplogroups only constitute a small portion of a human's genetic makeup. Please don't bring that up as an argument because that is not what I am talking about. You can learn more about what I am talking abut by reading these two sources. Cheers. 1. The Formation of Human Populations in South and Central Asia - Vagheesh M. Narasimhan et al. 2019 2. A genetic history of migration, diversification, and admixture in Asia - Melinda A. Yang, 2022
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  248.  @jsways3048  Yeah that's right, tribal people in India (and low castes)have the most AASI ancestry which is why they are comparatively genetically closer to East Asians compared to most Indians who are further away due to more West Eurasian ancestry as opposed to East Eurasian. High caste Indians (particularly high caste North Indians) are comparatively closer to Europeans due to higher West Eurasian (Steppe) ancestry. Low caste Indians (Shudras, untouchables etc.) are comparatively closer to East Asians.
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  249.  @jsways3048  Asian does not equal East Asian. Asian is not a race, it's just geography. What you are talking about is appearance (Mongoloid) but a lot of Adivasi tribes in India don't look "Mongoloid" or only have some "Mongoloid" traits and they are all comparatively closer to East Asians (e.g. Kondh). Genetics is more than just appearance. Adivasi/Janajati - they're all tribals and is also why some of them are classified as "other backward classes". All of these groups have higher indigenous AASI ancestry which is why they're closer to East Asians. Indo-Aryan-speaking North Indians are comparatively closer to Europeans due to higher West Eurasian ancestry. High caste North Indians are the closest to Europeans among all Indians (excluding Anglo-Indians and others with recent European admixture). In India (excluding the majority of NE Indians/Ladakhis), the Indians closest to East Asians are low caste people, many Adivasi tribals and the "Other Backward Classes" groups. The lower one is on the Indian caste system, the closer one is to an East Asian. The higher you are, the closer one is to a European. These are the facts.
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  250.  @jsways3048  Yep, we agree on the facts. Just the use of terminology that we don't seem t agree on.
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  251. Malays in Malaysia get discriminated against? Lmfaoooo I wonder what Malaysia you are living in.
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  252.  @NukeMiddleEast101  What????
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  253.  @sruthi671  Yep and then there are Singaporeans Indians who are xenophobic towards Indians from India and racist too because many Indians from India who have settled in Singapore are North Indians and thus are ethnically different to most Singaporean Indians who are of South Indian (Tamil/Malayali) descent. It happens everywhere but Singapore is a much more ethnically harmonious country than any other Asian country.
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  254. Yeah correct while the tribals and low caste Indians have East Eurasian (or what the 1990s/2000s era scientists called "proto-Asian" ancestry).
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  255. @Aa Low castes too. Those closer to the bottom of Indian society have higher rates of East Eurasian ancestry that places them closer to East Asians than to Europeans. Indo-European-speaking and high caste Indians are comparatively closer to Europeans. In terms of genetic distance to populations outside of South Asia, the higher you are in the caste system the closer you are to West Eurasian populations (European+Middle East), the lower you are in the caste system (low castes, tribals and Other Backward Class) the closer you are to East Asians and related populations. This has been established for a long time and was first confirmed in the 1990s through a major genetic study done on caste genetics and was controversial at the time as a result. I found some news articles online from Indian English language media that spoke about this and they said it was controversial because it was confirmation that there is a genetic element to caste.
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  256. High caste Indians are comparatively closer to West Eurasian populations (Europe+Middle East) while low caste Indians (including low castes and Other Backward Class) are comparatively closer to East Asians and Southeast Asians. So basically the higher one is in the Indian caste system, the closer they are to a European or Middle Easterner, the lower one is in the Indian caste then the closer they are to a Southeast Asian or East Asian. You can see this in terms of physical appearance too. Many high caste North Indians have sharper features like high bridged nose and prominent eye brow bridge akin to those found in parts of Iran and Central Asia. Among many low caste Indians and the "Other Backward Class" Indian groups, you will be able to find neotenous features akin to those found in Southeast Asia like flat face, flat and/or broad nose, sometimes epicanthic fold and shorter stature.
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  257. St Petersburg is in European Russia.
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  258.  @efreitorkjelberg1646  What do you mean by "strong culture and features"? Do you mean a single culture and generally one set of features?
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  259.  @propottylegend9439  She could also be from Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand or Ladakh for all we know. Indians with East Asian features aren't just native to Northeast India. In fact, the majority of NE Indians look more similar to the majority of Southeast Asians whereas those from areas like Ladakh look more like East Asians.
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  260.  @kokekuka24  Y'all want to be European so bad 💀
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  261.  @aleenaprasannan2146  Curry is an overarching term that refers to similar dishes. You know exactly what I mean. Stop trying to cut me down please. I literally said something positive and you're here making everything negative. Who said pan-Asian only means East Asia?? I was referring to Southeast Asia and other parts of South Asia too like Sri Lanka and Nepal.
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  262.  @aleenaprasannan2146  There are dishes in Sri Lanka called black pork curry among others. Like I said, "curry" is an overarching term to describe similar dishes. Idk why you're so upset.
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  263.  @aleenaprasannan2146  No it's used to describe overarching dishes with similarities Stop throwing a tantrum. It's really not that serious Aleena.
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  264.  @aleenaprasannan2146  I say something positive about similarities between Asian countries and India's cultural influence but then someone comes along and starts writing up think pieces and getting offended at what I said. There are bigger issues in the world, including in your own country of India, so focusing on my usage of the term "curry" is trivial to the point that it's not even funny.
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  265.  @aleenaprasannan2146  It's not just your culture. 💀 Curry dishes are found across Asia.
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  266.  @aleenaprasannan2146  Stop coming here and spreading your negativity.
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  267.  @aleenaprasannan2146  So you're not saying we're culturally appropriating curry? YouTube needs to be banned in India cause what even is this???
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  268.  @aleenaprasannan2146  The more you speak, the better you are at revealing your true self as a troll, Indian female racial nationalist and racist who think she's superior to other Asians. You can't even walk safely in your own country and you're here spreading this hate.
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  269.  @aleenaprasannan2146  The more you speak, the better you are revealing your true self as an Indian nationalist that thinks they own the whole of Asia.
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  270.  @vaishakviswam1970  What on earth are you talking about????? Omfg these Indian nationalists are insane.
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  271.  @vaishakviswam1970  What on earth are you talking about??????? READ MY COMMENT AGAIN!!!
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  272.  @chrisc.5848  Huh? Most Southeast Asian cultures (Thai, Cambodian, Indonesia, Burmese etc.) are all culturally related to India and the rest of South Asia from linguistic scripts to cultural traditions and is known as the Indosphere. East Asia and Vietnam form what is known as the Sinosphere (the areas of Asia that were influenced by China). There is still interaction between Sinosphere and Indosphere. There is no such thing as "Oriental Asian". If anybody is "Oriental" it's actually Middle Easterners like Arabs, Persians and Turks. The term "Oriental" was first applied to them. Also, South Asian and Southeast Asian food is not "really weird". What a thing to say. Nobody in Asia looks Black African except for the Andamanese and Negrito tribes like Aeta.
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  273. Malaysians are mostly of Malay, Chinese, Indian and Orang Asli descent.
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  274.  @problemperson4221  Malaysia is a multiethnic nation. Stop getting mad triggered over the ethnicities of the people in the video, they are all MALAYSIANS. Of course this thing is hung up about ethnicity.
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  275.  @problemperson4221  Acting like the video was 90% Indian when it's not. The people at 7:10, 7:55, 8:10, 13:52 are all Malays (4 Malays in the video), there are 2 Chinese people in the video and there are 4 Indians in the video. Throwing a literal tantrum when there are literally 4 Malay in the video, not ONE hijabi like you claim there was (stop making everything about race and religion ffs)! Can't believe this behaviour. They are all MALAYSIANS, what's the problem????
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  276. There are Malaysians of Indian descent. They are one of the main groups of Malaysia.
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  277.  @seohn  No. There is a difference between "Asian" and what you describe as "Eastern". In Chinese, "Asian" is known as "亞洲人" and refers to everybody from Asia (Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Kazakh etc.) but the word "黄种人" means "East Asian race" and is not the same as "亞洲人". If you use, "黄种人" then you are referring to Chinese, Japanese, Koreans etc. (i.e. East Asians) but if you use "亞洲人" then you are referring to all Asians (i.e. the native ethnic groups of Asia). "黄种人" is racial and "亞洲人" is geographical.
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  278.  @seohn  For example, in Hong Kong there are the native ethnic Chinese people (including Cantonese, Tanka etc.) but also there are South and Southeast Asian minorities, who either came during the colonial era or from the 1980s onwards. These minorities are grouped as "Asian" and differentiated from the White expat community in academic and legal circles. Among these minorities are the South Asians (Indian, Nepalese), Filipinos, Indonesians, Vietnamese and Thai. The South Asians are often grouped together because they have a similar history having settled in Hong Kong during the colonial era either as part of the Gurkha contingent or as traders. They are known by the Cantonese equivalent of "South Asian". The way "Asian" is understood across Asia is not racial. The subregions of Asia are understood more through the lens of "race" if that makes sense.
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  279.  @seohn  Okay but in Asia, "Asian" (in its broadest extent) isn't understood in the sense of race if that makes sense.
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  280.  @indo-pacific5940  They're all connected to Asia. Tamils spread Indic culture to Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. They are the bridge between India and the rest of Asia. Ironic to hear someone say this because every time I say that "indic" culture is not a united thing and that Tamils are the only people to spread their culture to other parts of Asia, some Indians get upset at me. Now to hear someone actually say that it's only the Tamils that are the sole reason for this is amusing to see. Tamil Nadu has connections to other parts of Asia (including other parts of South Asia) and the rest of India has connections to it in their own ways(North Indian scripts are related to the Tibetan script, for example and Vajrayana Buddhism made its way into East Asia from North India), so yeah India is not separate or something. This argument doesn't make any sense, it's like the Japanese who say they are not part of Asia - it all comes down to nationalistic views in which y'all want to make yourself the centre.
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  281.  @visenyatargaryen9130  OP believes in Indocentrism
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  282.  @SuperAghori  All of those regions were NOT part of India. That's Indocentrism and you're not acknowledging the histories of these countries (except Pak and Bang which were part of India).
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  283.  @visenyatargaryen9130  They think the whole of South Asia belongs to India, that's wrong. It's called Indocentrism. There are nationalists in India who think the whole of South Asia and even Myanmar and Tibet are part of India.
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  284.  @SuperAghori  That doesn't mean anything
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  285. Just use "East Asian", "South Asian", "Southeast Asian" etc. easy. Asian people already use it to differentiate us from each other.
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  286.  @someonejustsomeone1469  Actually that term is already being considered offensive by some circles in the US who prefer the term "Black American", I have noticed online.
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  287. Do Canadians just make everything about themselves or is it just you? The fertility rates of Singapore's three main ethnic groups look like this: Chinese - 0.94, Indian - 0.97 and Malay - 1.83. The contribution of Chinese immigration to Canada will not be the same as South Asian immigration to Canada because everybody knows that most immigrants to Canada are from India. There are way more Indians entering Canada than Chinese. The population of South Asians is rising in Canada because you keep accepting immigrants from India (especially Punjab). Singapore is made up of Singaporeans who have been living in Singapore for more than a hundreds years. Don't bring your race issues here please.
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  288.  @johnlesoudeur3653  Singapore was actually once a part of Malaysia until 1965 when it was expelled from Malaysia. It won't become Muslim-majority despite the Malays having the highest fertility rate in Singapore. The Singaporean government offsets this by accepting large numbers of immigrants from Malaysia (especially Chinese and Indians) to maintain the percentage demographics of the Chinese and Indians of Singapore. Malaysians being culturally and ethnically virtually the same as Singaporeans means that the government prefers them more than anybody else.
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  289. You're not even Indian. Which self professed Hindu Indian person thinks they are influenced by Muslims when most of them are Hindus? 💀
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  290.  @alexzhangdragonn3438  Stop speaking from a place of ignorance and actually understand what China is doing in Myanmar and how China is the closest ally of the Burmese military. Stop pretending that China doesn't support it when China publicly refused to condemn the military coup at the UN Security Council. Everybody knows.
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  291. They pick the most peculiar topics, idk why
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  292.  @YashSharma-zp8yu  No
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  293. The older generation is much more accepting the younger generation is no longer accepting and tolerant. I'm speaking generally, many young people across the world are adopting radical views because of 24/7 internet access. It's ruining our generation. The older generation has their issues then and now but in hindsight we can see they were the better generation. Young Gen Z and Gen Alpha is going to undo everything and make the world unliveable.
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  294. Exactly, India and China are also like the mothers of Asian civilisation. Ronnie's remarks are jokes, a mockery of how the West has narrow ideas of how Asians look like (East Asian in the US and South Asian in the UK). He is from Malaysia, would be strange for him to actually think Indians aren't Asian considering so many Malaysians are ethnically Indian and influenced the country greatly.
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  295. Well only Siberians are Asians (who are related to East and Central Asians). Slavic Russians are not native to Siberia (Asian Russia)
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  296. Nothing cultural about it. it's all due to physical appearance because most Southeast Asian cultures are culturally closer to India, not East Asia (China, Japan etc.). Only Vietnam is close to East Asia in terms of culture. So it's all due to physical appearance.
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  297.  @YashSharma-zp8yu  No
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  298.  @stephanatlas5331  Yeah but they all have that certain look to them. It's all homogenous.
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  299. How though when most of Southeast Asia is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. If anything, it is East Asia is that is radically different.
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  300. If you're referring to Indian food with other cuisines from Asia, you can say "Asian food" but if you're referring to only one cuisine from an Asian country why would you say "Asian food"?
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  301.  @aey2579  I know that, I just said that because some people use "Asian" when only referring to one country which really doesn't make sense. Someone could say, "I'm going to Asian food tonight", what does the "Asian" mean in this context? That's what I meant.
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  302. People always speak about the European view but never look at the Asian perspective. Ancient Asia had its own ideas of "Asia" such as the Japanese, these definitions may not have encompassed the entire continent as defined today but it did encompass most of the continent. Imperial Japan used these ancient ideas of "Asia" as the basis for its pan-Asian ideal it propagated during the 1940s.
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  303. @ There is nothing wrong with being gay or transexual. Maybe Jehovah Witness people need to start showing more compassion. Complaining about one thing but then demanding others be discriminated against. Yes, the whole of Asia needs to prevent such people from becoming a force on the continent. They are culturally incompatible with Asian cultures.
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  304.  @Syiepherze  That makes no sense, I'm sorry. SEA is nowhere near America so regardless of the map, it's not going to change its location
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  305.  @Brave_Pirate  The way people are trying to justify this is concerning. Singapore is a neutral nation unlike his nation of Japan which is literally a US ally.
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  306.  @Brave_Pirate  No it is not common worldwide and that man is Japanese, he should be knowledgeable about Asia at the least. Singapore is well known as the "Switzerland of Asia" because it has pursued geopolitical neutrality since its independence. It is not an ally of the US.
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  307.  @Brave_Pirate  It's very concerning that that Japanese male thought Singapore, a well known Asian nation, is located near the US, a non-Asian nation. Singapore and the US couldn't be more different from one another. The only thing they have in common is that they both speak English as a first language and both are democracies, the similarities end there.
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  308.  @owo4470  Thank you for explaining that
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  309.  @grouchypatch9185  The same in every way possible
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  310. Ronnie is Malaysian, it was a joke. Malaysians are of Malay, Chinese, Indian and Orang Asli descent. Why would he think Indians are not Asians when Indians are one the main groups that contributed to the formation of Malaysian culture? Malaysia is after all known as "mini Asia" as a result of this. Also, East Asians don't think Indians are not Asian. In Hong Kong, there is a large community of Indian that settled there during the colonial era and they're known by the Cantonese equivalent of "South Asian". India also culturally influenced large parts of Asia. South Asia and most of Southeast Asia is part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. In the UK and countries in the Gulf and East African nations, "Asian" means Indian. The term is subjective but all of these groups are Asians. BTW, in Chinese, "Asian" is known as "亞洲人" and refers to everybody from Asia (Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Kazakh etc.) but the word "黄种人" means "East Asian race" and is not the same as "亞洲人". If you use, "黄种人" then you are referring to Chinese, Japanese, Koreans etc. (i.e. East Asian people) but if you use "亞洲人" then you are referring to all Asians (i.e. the native ethnic groups of Asia). "黄种人" is racial and "亞洲人" is geographical.
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  311.  @Justin_Why  Yes I know that.
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  312.  @himanshisharma487  No we don't what?
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  313.  @Justin_Why  I know you have so many different features, I never said that Indians have the same look. I'm just talking about the majority.
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  314.  @doit2810  Exactly, I've seen so many Chinese on Douyin who can speak about India without making racist remarks. I'd also say that many Asian groups in Asia are more empathetic to Indians than people outside of Asia because I see plenty of racism peddled by people from outside of Asia on social media towards Indians. One of the reasons I say this is because there are ethnic Indians/pop culture who are popular or have gone viral in other Asian countries besides India. For example, an Indian Kpop idol went viral in China, South Korea and across Southeast Asia for the way she looks and for being Indian last year and she gained so many fans as a result. Additionally, there is a Malaysian singer who is of Indian descent that sings in Mandarin that is popular in China and won one of the Chinese TV singing competitions. An Indian movie, I can't remember the name, became really popular on Netflix in other Asian countries besides India, including Thailand and South Korea a few years ago and sparked a makeup trend. It was a Malay woman that started the San Sanana trend that went viral on TikTok and then eventually on Douyin. For people outside of Asia, there is very little Indian representation in pop culture so their hate is way worse compared to other Asians hating on Indians.
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  315.  @doit2810  Exactly, I've seen so many Chinese on Douyin who can speak about India without making prejudicial remarks. I'd also say that many Asian groups in Asia are more empathetic to Indians than people outside of Asia because I see a lot of racism peddled by people from outside of Asia on social media towards Indians. One of the reasons I say this is because there are ethnic Indians/pop culture who are popular or have gone viral in other Asian countries besides India. For example, an Indian Kpop idol went viral in China, South Korea and Southeast Asia for the way she looks and for being Indian last year and she gained so many fans as a result. Additionally, there is a Malaysian singer of Indian descent that sings in Mandarin that is popular in China and won one of the Chinese TV singing competitions. An Indian movie, I can't remember the name, became really popular on Netflix in other Asian countries besides India, including Thailand and South Korea and sparked a makeup trend. It was a Malay woman that started the San Sanana trend that went viral on TikTok this year. For people outside of Asia, there is very little Indian representation in pop culture so their hate is way worse compared to other Asians hating on Indians.
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  316. The weeb has spoken
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  317. I agree. My friend is Balinese and she has dark brown skin (like dark brown skin of some Indians) but her facial structure is more typically Southeast Asian with rounder eyes. Everybody knows she's Southeast Asian but nobody would ever mistake her for East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean).
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  318. Nobody wants to hear about that
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  319.  @Jtnn713  Where are you from?? Eat Asian success has nothing to do with race, maybe if you actually understood the cultural values that make a person a person, you'd understand this but I can't expect much from a raging incel that hates Indian men and thinks that Indian men speak about Chindian marriages to make themselves feel better. Oh my days, Western incel detected.
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  320.  @Jtnn713  No race has NOTHING to do with it! You just mentioned a set of factors that correlate to culture, not race. Oh my days, these incels need to get educated ASAP
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  321. @ It's actually you sounds that way. This man said race is the defining factor and yet it mentioned a bunch of aspects that are correlated to culture (something anybody can adopt) rather than race. No, nothing you said is correct. You're a Westerner probably of East Asian descent. F off
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  322.  @Jtnn713  No it doesn't! Everything you mentioned is determined by culture, not race. Gosh, these people are so...
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  323. @ The man doesn't know the difference between race and culture, everything that was mentioned is correlated to culture not race. Must be a white person
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  324.  @Jtnn713  Don't you dare call me dumb when you don't even know the difference between culture and "race"
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  325.  @roh-mj6em  Actually maybe it's India schools that refuses to acknowledge the impact of East and Southeast Asia on India but they had some impact too. While rice was cultivated in the IVC as recent studies show, widespread rice farming (particularly of the aus-type variety) in India came to the country through the spread of Austroasiatic farmers from Southeast Asia. These people today are known as the Munda groups, SEA-related male farmers who had intermixed with predominantly AASI-rich women to create groups like the Munda, Santhal and Ho that exist across central, eastern and sub-Himalayan South Asia today (all Austroasiatic-speaking peoples). East Asia's impact came through Chinese immigration to India (especially Kolkata), birthing the cuisine known as Indo-Chinese cuisine as well as the introduction of East Asian architectural elements and garment styles that exist in various parts of the Himalayas like in parts of Himachal Pradesh (e.g. the Kinnaur people, Kinnaur architecture - even their language is a Sino-Tibetan language related to Mandarin).
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  326.  @आयुष_पराशर  You're joking right?
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  327.  @आयुष_पराशर  Tell me you are joking
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  328.  @आयुष_पराशर  No it's not
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  329.  @WastedBananas  Since when are all Indians North Indians?
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  330.  @WastedBananas  Stop liking your comments, there is no way anybody liked that comment in 43 seconds
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  331.  @WastedBananas  More influenced by Muslims??? Where on earth did you get this information from?? Most Indians are Hindus 💀
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  332. Exactly, Asia is just a continent. People are making Asian into a descriptive term to describe East Asian-type features when nobody in Asia sees it that way.
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  333. Kind of, people outside of Asia like in the US view "Asian" in terms of ethnicity/appearance and not continental.
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  334. In Asia, people don't view Asian as just East Asian only. There is actually a greater understanding that "Asian" is much more than just phenotype. This predicament only exists outside of Asia and is trivial.
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  335.  @deusmachinima1189  Yeah I agree but I feel like that's more of a US issue regarding East Asian Americans. In the context of Asia, China's economic rise is also connected with the rise of other Asian countries.
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  336. Not everybody believes in Islam. You really need to learn how to respect other people's beliefs.
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  337.  @Jtnn713  Make themselves feel better??? What incel stuff did I just read? You are an incel
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  338. @ The couple is correct and nobody says that to make themselves feel better. What type of incel BS did I just read?
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  339.  @Jtnn713  We just came across a raging Chinese supremacist that hates Indians and Malays.
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  340. Asia was never about race or phenotype anyway and actually they do have things in common but many outside of Asia are unaware of that.
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  341. The comedian is from Malaysia. He knows that Indians are Asian as Malaysia is known as "Malaysia Truly Asia", it's home to Malays, Chinese and Indians. He's just making a joke about the way non-Asians view Asian as a descriptive term for appearance, when it's not.
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  342. 💀
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  343.  @jiafeibitch4190  Singapore and China aren't even close to one another and they're two separate countries. That's like saying when you think of Germany you think of the United States.
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  344.  @superpowerdragon  You make a valid point and I am well aware that East Asia and South Asia have cultural and genetic differences but the cultural differences aren't stark in the way that you're describing if I am not mistaken. It's not like comparing the cultures of Europe to East Asia. I'm South Asian and a Buddhist so I really do notice the similarities between the regions in a broader sense owing to the cultural impact of India and Buddhism. Yes at the base level, East Asia is Sinic and South Asia is Indic but the two cultural spheres came in contact with each other and influenced one another to a great degree. For example, the Five Precepts of Daoism are the exact same as the Five Precepts of Buddhism, the important ritual and holiday of the Hungry Ghost festival and one of the most popular deities in Asia, including in East Asia, Guanyin is of Indian origin and the pagoda style used across Asia is of Nepalese origin. This is why the Indic and Sinic cultural heritage of most of Asia is compared to the Greco-Roman heritage of Europe. It is also why concepts like Sangoku emerged in ancient Asia because the cultural division isn't as stark as you're making it out to be. The Sinosphere and Indosphere are distinct but came in considerable contact with each other and we can see the cultural elements that emerged from this contact in various parts of the continent, particularly in Southeast Asia.
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  345.  @superpowerdragon  Culturally speaking, Asia and Europe can be divided. The only Asian region that would fall within the European side would be West Asia due to its historical connections to Mediterranean Europe and being the birthplace of Abrahamic religions. Genetically speaking, the concepts of Asia and Europe make no sense hence why "Eurasia" is used in genetics because Eurasia is made up of two broad genetic components, West Eurasian and East Eurasian. West Eurasian is the dominant and native component of Europe and West Asia and East Eurasian is the dominant component of North, East and Southeast Asia. Central Asia and South Asia are a mix of West and East Eurasian DNA and are a bridge between the western and eastern regions of Eurasia. I assume you already knew this because you seem to be knowledgeable on this subject.
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  346.  @superpowerdragon  I brought up the CCP because the CCP is echoing the pan-Asian views of Imperial Japan. The CCP is using common Eastern cultural heritage to gain a foothold in various Asian countries whilst propagating anti-Western sentiment - a very similar strategy to Imperial Japan. For example, the CCP has engaged in something that has come to be known as "Buddhist diplomacy" in various countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand and is successfully broadcasting Chinese culture and ideas through TV dramas and radio broadcasts in countries like the Philippines - capitalising on the already big obsession with Asian (Korean, Thai, Japanese) TV dramas in the Philippines.
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  347.  @spicyjicken  Do you say the same thing to Singaporean-Indians or is this just something you say to Malaysian-Indians?
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  348. Not usually, they aren't point blank considered Singaporeans because they're not citizens of the country.
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  349.  @hannesRSA  So yes as Christina said, there is a bias towards Eurasian features at pageants in some parts of Asia due to ideas that have developed over a few centuries of contact with the West which has created an idea that looking Eurasian is considered beautiful. It wasn't always the case, there was a time when Eurasian people were looked down upon in Asia starting first with the colonial era and then when Amerasian people emerged in Southeast Asia, Japan and Korea. Vietnam, in particular, had a long history of looking down on Eurasian people. Things only started to change at the start of this century in the early 2000s when Eurasian people suddenly became the poster child of modern Asia spearheaded by things like MTV Asia which featured Eurasian VJs. Suddenly looking Eurasian became the trend in parts of Asia.
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  350. The whole thing makes no sense because "Asian" is not even about appearance, it's just geography. The comedian is from Malaysia. He knows that mainland Indians are Asian as Malaysia is known as "Malaysia Truly Asia", it's home to Malays, Chinese and South Indians. He's just making a joke about the way non-Asians in the US and UK view Asian as a descriptive term for appearance, when it's not.
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  351.  @jayaratnam599  That's not correct lol
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  352. Correct
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  353.  @ashaypallav4158  No in the US, Chinese people may identify as "Asian" because they're Asian.
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  354. Exactly, India and China are the mothers of pan-Asian civilisation.
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  355.  @pokemonsr9  LGBT is a minority community. People are born LGB, it's not a movement. Whoever is LGB may likely never have children so what on earth makes you think that LGB is contributing to fertility decline? They were never a part of the equation. You speak as if people become LGB and that LGB makes up 50% of the population or something.
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  356. because Trump's usage of "Indo-Pacific" became mainstream and now Asian leaders use the term too. Before Trump, we called Indo-Pacific, Asia-Pacific but doesn't matter, it's the same thing.
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  357. Well India culturally influenced much of Asia. Most of South Asia (India, Nepal etc.) and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia etc.) are part of the Indian Cultural Sphere. So where does that fit in? The term "Asia" is just geography, nothing else.
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  358.  @jameschristophercirujano6650  Many of the Chinese communities in places like Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Indonesia assimilated into the local culture which is Indianised. Thai Chinese use Sanskrit names instead of Chinese and Shenism (traditional Chinese folk religion) has absorbed Hindu influences as a result of interaction with Southeast Asian cultures. Cult of Brahma (Thai: Phra Phrom) is widely popular among ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia (and Hong Kong). So the Chinese have assimilated aspects of Chinese culture with the local SEA cultures.
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  359.  @jameschristophercirujano6650  The only area of Southeast Asia that is part of the East Asian Cultural Sphere is Vietnam (Kinh Vietnamese). It's only the southern tribal peoples of Vietnam like the Cham and some Montagnard groups that were Indianised.
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  360. 💀
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  361.  @shougeirin4849  Yeah that's right, it's because outside of Asia people view "Asian" in terms of appearance. It's all subjective. That's why I just say "East Asian", "South Asian" etc. and when talking about continental/geographical terms I just say "Asian" (e.g. Asian geopolitics).
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  362. I knew someone who is Thai who had a problem with this. Their physical appearance was nothing like East Asians and Americans would think he was Indian, Latino or Native American and with the ones more educated on Southeast Asia, would say Southeast Asian.
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  363. Why are you everywhere repeating the same thing and wanting to be a victim? Please stop.
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  364.  @matthewmann8969  1. Stop liking your own comment. 2. You're an Indian. My gosh, I can't believe you're larping as a Latino.
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  365.  @matthewmann8969  Stop liking your own comment + you're Indian. I've seen you on YouTube and Quora before. Lmfaoo stop lying.
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  366.  @matthewmann8969  You're literally an Indian, stop liking your own comments
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  367.  @matthewmann8969  I can't believe this Indian man just lied and said he's Hispanic and liked his own comment.
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  368. You're literally an Indian, not a Hispanic person. Acting like I've never seen him before on YouTube and Quora. Stop lying and stop liking your own comments.
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  369. You're literally an Indian. Stop lying and liking your own comments.
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  370.  @matthewmann8969  an indian pretending to be hispanic lol
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  371. Matthew Mann is an Indian larping as a Mexican
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  372. Indian man
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  373. An Indian man pretending to be mexican lol
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  374.  @matthewmann8969  My gosh pretending to be Hispanic???? Lol
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  375. Yeah you're right, Ronny is kidding because he's Malaysian (10% of Malaysians have ancestry from present-day India). He's just making a joke about how Americans think Asian only means Chinese-looking people and British people think Asian only means Indian-looking people. Only native Siberians are Asians, not Slavic Russians a they come from eastern Europe. Most Israelis are in fact descendants of the Jewish diaspora in Europe. In Israel, they seem to use "Asian" to refer to countries east of them so I don't think Israelis view themselves as Asians.
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  376.  @yehezkielnainggolan8403  Yes everybody native to Asia is Asian but I guess it depends on the individual due to subjectivity.
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  377. well Asian and Mongoloid are not the same thing
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  378. I was just thinking about this today, Asia has phenotypes that exist all over the world.
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  379.  @uwet.8826  Okay and who cares? If somebody has that big of a problem with LGBT then it's then their issue. Why are you getting so worked up over LGBT when it doesn't even affect you? If you simply can't accept that someone can be homosexual or bisexual then you clearly can't accept reality because normal people don't care about this stuff. Stop bringing up unrelated topics up.
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  380. What's your country? Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladesh classified as Middle Eastern? 💀 I'm of Sri Lankan descent, most of us are Buddhist. The Middle East is totally different in appearance and culture, even Pakistan (which is South Asian) is still somewhat foreign to me.
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  381.  @Ccb88888  No it absolutely was not. In 1965, Singapore had a GDP per capita of around US$500. It was a part of Malaysia throughout the first half of the 1960s before being expelled in August 1965 and becoming an independent nation against its will. Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister and the lead architect for Singapore's transformation from developing to developed, cried on national TV out of an extreme fear that Singapore will not survive on its own. Singapore had been plagued by racial tensions, high illiteracy and high poverty. The country was bona fide poor and Singapore was a fishing village, it was a fishing village back in the time of the Sultante of Johore. When people say Singapore was a fishing village they are referring to the period just before it was colonised.
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  382.  @Ccb88888  Compare Singapore's 1965 US$494 to South Sudan's 2023 US$467, will you say South Sudan is a well off nation with wealthy people? South Sudan ranks among the poorest nations in Africa in 2023. Just because Singapore was higher in Asia, does not mean it was well off with wealthy people. It was "richer" than most of Asia but it wasn't rich. It was incredibly poor and being ethnically diverse like neighbouring Malaysia, its cosmopolitan population of Chinese, Malays, Indians and Eurasians spoke a creole-like language called Singlish and an Asian language, it had become racially divided as a result of the British colonial segregation policy and the effects of its union with Malaysia and its inhabitants were largely of a lower class. It also had no natural resources. It had nothing going for it.
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  383.  @Ccb88888  "In Singapore's case, the British colonial authorities were not doing their job properly" Sorry but why are you talking about the British colonial authorities? Singapore was not under full British rule for at least 10 years before it became the Republic of Singapore in 1965. It was partially self governing from 1955 until 1959 when it became fully self governing, then in 1963 it joined what is now Malaysia before being expelled from the union in 1965. Singapore was nothing but a low income nation in Southeast Asia, surrounded by other low income nations. Lee Kuan Yew marvelled at Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), particularly of its capital of Colombo. At that time, Ceylon was considered a model ex-British Crown colony and on times that Lee would visit Ceylon, he would make remarks at wanting to create a "Garden City" like what Colombo had become. If Singapore was a middle income nation with good things going for it, Lee would not need to look at Ceylon for inspiration. However, Singapore had nothing and being so small it has no natural resources. Singapore turned itself around due to the sheer need of survival. It is why it is described as one of, if not, the greatest economic miracle of the 20th century.
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  384.  @humnnn  No, the Indo-European Steppe ancestral component is not the dominant component of Indians or Europeans. Europeans are closer to Middle Easterners than they are to Indians as they descend mostly from farming societies that developed in the Fertile Crescent and moved west through Anatolia into Europe (known as Anatolian Neolithic Farmers).
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  385.  @humnnn  The dominant ancestral component of Indians is not Steppe ancestry. The dominant ancestral component of Indians is IVC ancestry (mix between Neolithic Iranian and AASI-related hunter-gatherer ancestry).
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  386.  @humnnn  I'm using actual scientific terms. There were four main migrations into India: AASI hunter-gatherers, Neolithic Iranian Farmers, Austroasiatic Farmers, Western Steppe pastoralists and Tibeto-Burman farmers.
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  387. Yeah it's Western because in the West "Asian" is understood in terms of facial features whereas in Asia, "Asian" is just understood as geography and is an afterthought.
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  388. Well kind of, the dark skinned Veddoid (South Asian-type) hunter gatherers lived in South and Southeast Asia during the Pleistocene. Then, lighter skinned East Asian farmers settled in Southeast Asia mixing with the locals to create modern-day Southeast Asians.
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  389.  @life_is_a_myth  Also, how India and China both culturally influenced Southeast Asia from ancient times through to 19th century migration. It's actually quite interesting thinking about it all. It's like Southeast Asia is the baby of India and China. 😂
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  390. Yeah and the comedian made a joke too. He's Malaysian and one of the main groups of Malaysia are ethnic Indians. Malaysia is a mix of Malays, Chinese, Indians and Orang Asli groups and is known as "mini Asia" or "Malaysia Truly Asia" because Malaysians are descendants of people from different parts of Asia.
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  391. if you're indocentric that is
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