Asian Musicians on YouTube

The Asian Musicians on YouTube are absolutely amazing.

Like I had said in my previous blog post, DavidSoComedy also does music. He has recorded music for the movie Gook, which he also acted in as one of the main characters. One of my favorite songs he recorded for the movie is the song I’ll Do. Also another good song that he wrote himself is called All I Need. He is also Korean America.

Another amazing Asian musician is DanAKADan, who is a Korean American. He is a rapper and his songs are absolutely amazing and his music videos are produced very well. My favorite songs from him are Runners, Stuntman, Is There Anybody Still Out There?, CRAZY RICH ASIANS, Keep to the Path, Count On Me, and many more.

Another amazing Korean American Musician is JunCurryAhn. He does violin covers of KPop and Pop songs. He also has some solo music that he does and he has had a collaboration with DanAKADan where he raps during the song. He also does dance covers of some of the songs.

^JunCurryAhn

Please do check out these amazing musicians. They need to be recognized more.

 

-Author

Asian YouTube Community

The Asian YouTube community is very abundant of amazing people. The only thing is that most of them don’t have as many subscribers as the more mainstream people.

For example, WongFu Productions. They have three million subscribers, yet they have been on YouTube since 2007. Another amazing group of YouTubers is JK Films. They have many channels but the ones that they mainly post videos on now are Justkidding Party and Justkidding News. But the one that started it all was Justkidding films. Both of these groups of YouTubers create videos professionally, where they have a studio and office to film and edit the videos. WongFu is still creating skits but as for JustKidding films, they don’t create skits anymore.

Another amazing Asian YouTuber is DavidSoComedy. He originally started as a comedian on YouTube creating skits, but now he does more vlog type videos. He also does music, but I’ll be doing a separate blog post for Asian musicians on YouTube.

Then there’s the famous Ryan Higa aka NigaHiga. Currently he is the most popular Asian YouTuber with roughly 21.2 million subscribers.

Reasons to listen and pay attention in classes

There are many reasons why you should listen and pay attention in classes, so listen up. You can actually get work done. Also you can know what to do when directions are give to you. The final reason why is that you will get good grades in class.

When you listen and pay attention in class you can get a lot of work done. You know what to do and you get your work out of the way. That way you don’t have homework to do when you get home. Only doing these two things will help you during class and during life in general. Then when you get home, you can just relax or take a nap if you really wanted to.

The second reason is that you know what to do. When you listen and pay attention, you already know what to do right away. Also it helps your teachers because then they won’t need to repeat the directions. When a teacher had to repeat things they already said, it could get frustrating for them. But it’s proven that it takes a teacher to repeat a direction three times to get everyone in the same page.

The third and final reason is that you can actually get a good grade in the class. I know right, shocking. Like I said in the previous paragraphs, you get your work done and you know what to do when you start working. Everything goes smoother in the classroom when everyone listens and pay attention. It makes it easier for everyone as well.

In conclusion, you should listen and pay attention. School will be way easier if you do those two things. Not only will it be easier for you, but it will also be easier for your teachers. That way everyone can actually enjoy school. You would also be able to relax at home instead of stressing over homework.

Being Tan vs. Being Pale in Asian Culture

There is a very big difference being tan and being pale in Asian culture.

As you can see from my previous blog posts, Asians prefer to be pale. In places like China, Korea, and Japan, they like to be pale so that they can look like a porcelain doll.

But in the more rural areas of Asia, like India, no one cares about appearance that much. They are more worried about how to make enough money to feed the family.

In those areas, they don’t care if you are tan or pale. They care about takin care of the family more.

In China and Korea especially, if you are tan, they think of you as a foreigner or poor.

These are the differences between being pale and being tan in Asia.

What It’s Like to Have Immigrant Parents

I have immigrant parents and they worked their butts to get here.

They came here to make sure I have a good life and I don’t need to deal with the hardships they had.

My father left China at age 17 and started working at night and going to college during the day. Keep in mind he didn’t speak English at the time, but he still manage to get one of the highest scores in his classes. He also got into the most advance class, which he had to drop out of because of difficulty understanding the class.

Fast forward to present day, he can speak English fluently.

As for my mother, she married my dad at age 28 and then moved to the U.S.A.

A year later she had my older brother and then a year and a half later she had me. She didn’t go to work until both of us were in school. She worked three jobs until a few years ago when she left one of the jobs. Now she is working two jobs.

She still can’t speak English that well but she can speak a little bit.

My dad’s family left their businesses in China because it was made illegal to have your own business, or something along those lines.

As for my mother, she left her family to move to the U.S.A. But my grandparents did come over here when I was about five.

Sometimes it’s hard with immigrant parents because they don’t understand what you’re going through and you don’t understand what they went through.

But I still appreciate all the sacrifices they have made for me to have a better start in life.

-Author

 

The Problem with Kpop Companies

 

There is a huge problem in the Kpop community.

Firstly, there’s over 50 groups but only 3-4 groups get noticed by the public. Also, people that sign onto one of three main companies are typically the only ones who get noticed.

Those three companies are YG Entertainment, SM Entertainment, and JYP Entertainment. These companies are what the public recognize the most.  The groups that are apart of these companies are extremely talented, but in other companies, there are even more unique and talented artists.

For example, Seventeen from Pledis Entertainment and Sf9 from FNC Entertainment. These groups aren’t as recognized by the public because they aren’t under the “Big 3”, which are the companies I mentioned before.

Seventeen

Sf9

But there are some diamonds in the rough, i.e. BTS from BigHit Entertainment. They are the Kpop group that won the Top Social Media Artists at the Billboard Music Awards in 2017.

They did get some major backlash though. People say that they look like girls and that they don’t deserve to get this award because they aren’t American. But that didn’t stop them from going to the BBMA’s this year as well and performing there. Now they are having a tour all over the U.S.A.

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BTS at 2017 BBMA’s.

Chinese society vs. American

This blog post will be more towards the female region in society since I am a female and I don’t know much about how males are treated in society that much.

Chinese society and American society is different in some ways.

Firstly, how they treat each gender differently. In America now, it is more liberal with how they are treating each gender more fairly. Over in China, the society still is quite strict. How it’s like how women stay home and men are the breadwinners. But it is not too bad because women still do work.

Then there is how your looks have to be. In America, you typically want to be tanner, skinny, but will toned muscles, which most people aren’t. In China, the ideal look is to be pale, straight eyebrows, skinny, double eyelids,  V shaped jaw for women, and big eyes. That’s the reason why most people started to wear circle contact lenses. For them it’s not for being able to see better. It’s for looks, to make themselves look more western.

Also, it’s considered taboo to dye your hair in China other than the color black or brown. Any other color would consider them to be “bad”. They also cannot have nail polish, earrings, no accessories, no long nails, uniform only and a lot of other stuff.

In America, they could careless about what you wear. Most public schools, you don’t wear uniform, can have nail polish, long nails, and any accessories you want to wear. Just as long as you stay in dress code of your school, which most schools have different versions.

This is just a photo on the Chinese streets.

Crazy Rich Asians is Just the Start (warning: spoilers)

Crazy Rich Asians is the first mainstream fully Asian cast in Hollywood. Yes there are some TV shows that have Asian characters, but typically they are the sidekicks or the nerdy character, with the stereotype that they are great at math and have straight A’s. But Crazy Rich Asians actually did something that hasn’t been seen before in Hollywood. They created a movie with and entirely Asian cast and all the main characters are Asian.

The lead female role is played by Constance Wu. You might know her from the show Fresh Off the Boat, which is a show about living as a Chinese family with parents that immigrated from China. She did an amazing job at portraying the role of Rachel Chu.

The lead male role is played by Henry Golding. This was actually his first acting role and he did an amazing job considering the fact that he’s a rookie. He portrayed Nick Young very well. Now he is going to be in a new movie called A Simple Favor, which stars him, Anna Kendrick, and Blake Lively. It should come out on September 14th of this year.

There are many other amazing actors in this movie like Gemma Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, Chris Pang and many others.

It has taken years for an all Asian casted movie to be main stream in Hollywood. This really is just the beginning for Hollywood to start changing and start adding more Asians in the main cast where they are significant to the film or show.

I would highly recommend this movie to anyone. It’s just such an amazing film and since I am Asian, I related a lot to the film. Like how the mother isn’t accepting of Rachel and Nick together saying “I know you aren’t what Nick needs.” That is how most Asian families are when it comes to you son or daughter’s significant other. Especially when it comes to the son since they are the one who will be carrying the family name.

Crazy Rich Asians is actually a clear representation of extremely rich Asians from Singapore, Malaysia, and other places. I just love the fact that there is finally a movie that I can relate to.

My favorite character from this movie has to be Peik Lin Goh, which is Rachel’s quirky best friend from university. Her family is also quite rich. Peik Lin is portrayed by Awkwafina. Her acting made me and my mom laugh so much. If she can make my Chinese mother, that understands limited English, laugh, then its a win. Even during interviews, she still has the same enthusiasm as in the movie. That’s something that I like about Awkwafina. How she is in the movie, personality wise, is the same way she acts in real life. I think that’s why she was able to play the role so well during the movie.

This movie is PG-13 and does have some cuss words as well, but its worth it to watch it.

Also in the opening scene, it was a flash back to ten years before Rachel and Nick went to Singapore. In the opening scene, Nick’s mother was asking for a room in an expensive London hotel. The manger had said this to them “I think you should check in at some where else. Perhaps Chinatown?” Trust me this isn’t just some acting in a movie. Though this isn’t supposed to mean anything to the actors when the manager says that. But this stuff does happen in real life. I feel like the director, Jon M. Chu,  wanted to show that this is how it was ten years ago and this is still how it is during present day.

Long story short, Nick’s mom made a phone call to her husband, who bought the hotel and the previous owner said that the manager will be working under Nick’s mother now. I don’t know about you, but that had me cackling. Karma is wonderful isn’t it?

Another amazing thing about this movie is that they actually spoke their native language. Which I believe is Cantonese, correct me if I’m wrong. But it was awesome to here they were speaking their native language. I could under stand parts of the dialect since is speak Twaisanese, which is a form of Cantonese.

Overall, I think that you should definitely watch this movie. It was such an amazing movie. The cinematography was amazing, the acting was well done, and it was absolutely hilarious. This movie is like a roller coaster on your emotions. Like you are happy one minute, laughing the other, and then sobbing of happy tears. This movie is a rom-com but it’s not like one of those terrible ones. It’s actually amazing.

Anyways, that’s all for now

Bye

-Author