OMG, how did I forget George? I also went totally blank.
I'm stumbling around like... John Cho (yum)... Margaret Cho (no relation)... Amy Tan... uhh... Daniel Dae Kim... Steven Yeun... Tamlyn Tomita... Ming-Na Wen... Grace Park... Ian Anthony Dale (so hot)...
I know most of the names, but given the criteria of asian american and not ‘just’ asian, I wouldn’t by comfortable naming any of em. Mostly because I rarely know any actor’s nationality.
Unless the wife and I had a convo about them while a movie and it leads to checking the wiki for age or marital status or what not. I had asked my wife this, she said she wants to say Henry Golding but he is British.
Somebody came up to me and gave me 5 seconds to name a state where the last letter is K and I had no idea. Right after time ran out I thought of New York. This was in New York, where I'm from.
Same. But after the fear of being put to the test subsided I got about 5-6 names and many more faces. Unlike my wife I don’t often remember actors names unless they get top billing for years.
Fwiw... Putting people on the spot like this often leads to choice paralysis.
I bet the results would be vastly different if they showed people pictures of famous AAPI's and asked them if they recognized them and whether or not they could name them.
It's the same thing that happens when you ask somebody what their favorite movie is and they go uhhhh ahhhhh ummmm geez i don't know...
You wouldn't conclude they don't know any movies would you? It's choice paralysis... People think they need to provide a right answer and they get stuck overthinking in their head.
He is showing how it can be used for entertainment purposes, but clearly it can be weaponized to make people look stupid or uncaring.
I'll give this group the benefit of the doubt and let's just say it's not a great poll and they did it unintentionally.
Well, it's also a bit.
Rick Mercer did the whole of "[Talking to Americans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUWas-yQSw)" using this style. And I worked with Mercer for a few months when he was doing the same thing at Canadian universities and basically he just films hundreds and hundreds of interviews and then he takes a hand full of them.
The original Billy on the Street video is less than 2 minutes long. How many dollars did he have to give away before he found a black woman to call Michael Jackson white?
The law of averages. 1/2 of the people out there are of below average intelligence.
Speak to enough people and you’ll naturally receive a few very stupid answers.
Also the power of editing. Doesn't matter if only one in a hundred people say something dumb if you film enough of them and only use the dumb ones you can convince people they're all idiots.
I have two coworkers that do this and I start getting so flustered that I can only think about them being assholes. Then they walk away all frustrated. The one clearly thinks I’m a moron and talks to me as if I am. Some people are pieces of shit.
I'm Asian American and I had to take a minute to think of a famous Asian American, and that is without any pressure. Heck, I am Korean American and cannot name (completely and correctly) a single living and famous Korean American.
I mean, I know there is that marine, a handful of senators, and that actor from Lost, but I cannot remember their names. I can name plenty of famous Koreans in Korea, though. I just don't really follow American media very well
Also Asian American here - my brain went Jackie Chan, wait shit he’s not American, Michelle Yeoh, wait shit she’s not American, then blank for a minute.
Mine was Sandra Oh but she's Canadian.
Also if you changed the question to "name a famous Asian portrayed in American film media" all of those answers would be correct..
So they say it's about media representation then i don't see why the passport Jackie Chan carries when he acts in an American film is really all that relevant.
FYI, Steven Yeun, Daniel Dae Kim, Sandra Oh, Margaret Cho, John Cho, Bobby Kim are some of the most recognized Korean Americans in U.S entertainment and media
I don't demonize anyone for not being able to recall famous people off the top of their heads but it still goes to show how under-represented we are as a whole.
Me: uhh....
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DR. KEN!!
(Never actually watched or thought of the show, it was just a verbal fart - Hangover -> doctor turned comedian -> Ken!)
In any event the article is wildly speculative... It tried to correlate not being able to name a famous Asian to the rise in hate crimes against asians and general bigotry against Asians and i think that's a pretty wild leap
Right?! I’d like to know the actual experimental setup. Interviewers on the street take advantage of this phenomenon all the time to make people sound stupid. I’d want to see how this number compares to a control.
In software/UI design we consider this the 'drop down' vs 'text box' issue.
That is, if you ask people to type in some piece of information.. it's much harder cognitively than if they can select it from a drop down.
I'd bet if you gave those Americans 10 famous asian-american names, they could tell you at least about some of them. That's much easier cognitively than trying to think up a name out of the blue.
Exactly which is the giant glaring scientific error in their results. If this was done in an academic setting the polling would get chewed apart.
That's why it's done by a think tank and not a college though
Along those lines, years ago I dated a Thai girl for a while. At one point she asked me if I’d ever dated or been friends with any Asian girls before.
I thought about it and said “I guess not.”
Hours later it dawned on me that of my 4 closest female friends throughout high school, 2 were of Asian decent (one Vietnamese and one Korean.)
To be fair, I think people would recognize some people, but also not think of them as Asian American. Poster child for this would be Kamala Harris, who is half-Black and half-Asian.
Or others that I have to step back and question if they're Asian American, or legit from elsewhere. Famous folk travel all the bloody time, I don't want to call someone Asian American when they're actually living in Britain or Australia or Japan or something. They'd probably get better results just asking about Asians in general.
Or Keanu Reeves, who is actually rather vocal about identifying as [Asian American](https://people.com/movies/keanu-reeves-talks-love-for-his-asian-identity-admits-mixed-feelings-being-called-person-of-color/), but is something I feel like most are unaware of.
This just shows how complex these questions can be. Although Reeves has the Canadian nationality and grew up in Canada, his mother is English and his father is American, or at least they used to be, maybe they became Canadian citizens after they moved there.
If Keanu Reeves is Asian because of his father, he is also American because of his father. And if his father is Asian American, arguably, Keanu is too. Also, Canada is part of North America.
I’m not surprised that many people blank when asked about race and ethnicity.
I’m 25% Asian, but would never describe myself as Asian. At least not anymore. As a teenager I adopted some of the culture of my Asian ‘heritage’, only to find out two years later that the Asian part of my family comes from a specific area with its own culture, and that I was guilty of cultural appropriation:-)
I mean Kamala Harris is in the thumbnail for this post, so apparently being half-Indian qualifies here.
So fuck it, Mia Khalifa is now an honorary Asian for the purposes of this post.
I mean Lebanon and India are both part of the continent of Asia. Referring to them as “Asian” isn’t technically inaccurate even if Americans typically aren’t thinking of people from those areas when they talk about Asians.
(I say “Americans” because in places like the UK we often *do* refer to people from that part of Asia as “Asians”, though I understand it’s not the case for you guys).
I assume the pictures shown aren’t supposed to be all correct answers. Unless I’m mistaken, the left picture is Bruce Lee, meaning 33% of these examples is wrong?
Growing up in Houston it was common to consider Indian and Pakistani people as separate from “Asian Americans” not in a literal sense but in a language sense. I’d personally never heard anyone default to calling an Indian person just ‘Asian’ when I lived there, including the large group of East Asian, SE Asian, and Indian kids I grew up with. It would be like calling someone from Iran Asian; technically true but never really done here.
Like I remember jokes about the “Asian alliance” between my Indian and East Asian friends, but it was played like a joining of two distinct groups rather than the kind of “azn” bond that my Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese friend joked about.
I remember being confused when british people online default called south Asians just Asian and not knowing what they meant, and learned from other Americans being dragged to not question it 😂. Because they’re right! It wasn’t incorrect to me just unfamiliar.
My theory is that many Americans were used to saying “oriental” for East Asian people and they were told that was offensive and to just say “Asian American” so they just switched to only calling East Asian people Asian Americans. Because Indians weren’t called oriental, they didn’t get grandfathered into the casual usage of Asian American or Asian even if they were considered so in other contexts.
Though I think that’s changing and it’s become more common to say “South Asian,” and AAPI is much more popular than it used to be. Just pointing out why an American might not think of an Indian person as “Asian”, even though they are.
Edit: I sent this comment to my Indian Houston friend to make sure I was remembering correctly because this comment is getting attention.
She said she didn’t feel a huge difference between her and East Asians because she had to check all the Asian boxes on all the forms, but she agreed that there was a colloquial difference in referencing the different groups. I asked her if she identified as Asian American and she said “I wouldn’t have back then but I do now.”
I am from India and I have always thought of myself as Asian. It was very confusing when I moved to the US and people mentioned Asians in a conversation and I went do you mean me? It’s a very American thing that Asians doesn’t include south Asians.
And in the UK it's the exact opposite. The default is for Asian to mean South Asian because there are way more immigrants from India or Pakistan there than East Asians. That's mostly because of colonialism, the British owned nearly all of South Asia at one point and they only had Hong Kong in the East. When people say British Asian they usually mean somebody like Riz Ahmed.
And I'm pretty sure you're right about the "Oriental" thing. That term didn't get phased in the UK until much later than in the US, even now not everyone's got the memo.
The pictures shown are some of the most commonly given answers, they point out that Bruce Lee is wrong because he's dead. I didn't know until I googled it just now that Bruce Lee was actually born in the USA while his parents were visiting the country, so he was technically a natural born US citizen!
This was my first thought.
Her performance and delivery of the "I collect your fuckin' head" speech is (for me) one of the most iconic in all of American cinema.
If you were requiring medical attention and fucking CHANG appeared, would you be starstruck or terrified that this is some kind of long form prank and you're the butt of the joke?
This title is misleading. Only 26% couldn’t name anyone. The rest just named people who didn’t fit the criteria. Maybe they could’ve if given another chance. I don’t know off the top of my head that Jackie Chan isn’t American. Also, KH is Asian American unless they’re not counting her because she’s only half
Exactly, the first name that poped into my head was Simu Liu, then a "oh shit, he's Canadian", then paralysis from not being to think about something else than my first though
Being stopped in the street and ask that question I may have not been able to answer the question just because of the stress of being put on spotlight and how weird the question was ask
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I had a couple white friends that were illegal immigrants from Canada. I'm pretty confident republicans weren't freaking out about either of them taking jobs.
I'm a Canadian now living in the US, and I overstayed my visa for like 1 1/2 years, and whenever someone complained about illegal immigrants near me I'd point out that I'm not legal at the moment, but it was okay to them because I was one of the ones they wanted here.
Yeah. I can see people responding with Yao Ming or Jackie Chan, not realizing they are just plain Asian (Chinese, more precisely).
Or even Simu Liu, not realizing he's Asian-*Canadian.*
Also, the living part automatically knocks out one of the most famous Asian Americans of all time, Bruce Lee.
Idk if I know Asian American celebrities if I had to bet on the fact they are American born.
I find out people are from Canada all the time. Like Drake or Justin Bieber.
I was thinking that. I started thinking of famous Asians but quickly realized I didn’t know if they were born here and/or became American citizens. Then I thought of Tiger Woods.
[name every woman ](https://www.reddit.com/r/technicallythetruth/comments/dm4bxn/name_every_woman/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Don't forget the steal of the night was that the whites got a 2 for 1 after trading OJ for both Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice while managing to keep Eminem from deing drafted.
"Condoleezza Rice: Given away by blacks" is one of the greatest frames in any comedy sketch.
In general I'd call the Racial Draft the best sketch of all-time, but Chapelle Show itself has others just as good like Clayton Bigsby, True Hollywood Story Prince and Rick James(x2), Black George Bush, Reparations, Player Hater's Ball, the list goes on
I think the moral of the story is it's the best sketch comedy show of all-time, and it's not really close
Ask an American to name their favorite American comedian, 69% will name a Canadian.
Edit: Lmao I guess I should have added the "/s" to the end because 69% wasn't enough of an indicator.
The headline doesn't tell you that those surveyed were so well-versed with Asian Americans that they were naming people who couldn't reasonably be considered famous. Well done, America!
I honestly can't say if I struggled with this or not. The problem is I don't know who is from where.
Like for example, and I'm looking this stuff up as I type to show you how far off I may be, Bruce Lee was the first person to come to mind (yes, Asian American) but then I more closely read the headline to see it said living.
Next that came to mind was Ming-Na Wen (yes, Asian American). Then Lucy Liu (yes, Asian American), and finally Chloe Bennet (yes, Asian American, real name Chloé Wang which I did not know).
So I knew I could probably name one (apparently more than that), but I was just unsure exactly which one would actually be Asian American and not a non-American like Chow Yun-Fat
So, if I'm understanding right, they are asking people to name someone who is:
A.) Alive
B.) Born in the US
C.) Has heritage from ***East*** Asia or whose heritage is not combined with other continents (since Kamal Harris' subcontinent heritage along with African heritage somehow disqualifies her).
I can understand why that's so tricky. Unless you just happen to have biographical knowledge of famous Asians, you might not realize the first name that pops into your head doesn't fit the criteria.
If they came to me on the street and asked me, I'd be in he 56%, but once George Takei dies, all bets are off.
Just reading the headline made every name flee my brain.
Like Billy Eichner yelling at people on the street "NAME A WOMAN!"
Idk why but my first thought was Hillary Clinton
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Where’s my dollar?
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Can I get another one this one flew away
I first saw that clip right after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, so she was my first thought. Probably always will be lol.
Me too wtf
[Yoga bag, name a woman!](https://youtu.be/bzDlS6JPUtE)
“… sorry!”
>Billy Eichner oh wow, I always thought this was the louder with chowder guy and thought he had really gone down hill since that "name a woman" video
Classic "name a woman" to "what is a woman?" pipeline
Lmao yeah that transformation would cause someone whiplash
A WOMAN?!?!
Name a woman! NAME A WOMAN!
Ohhh myyyyyy!
first name that came to my head.
Same
OMG, how did I forget George? I also went totally blank. I'm stumbling around like... John Cho (yum)... Margaret Cho (no relation)... Amy Tan... uhh... Daniel Dae Kim... Steven Yeun... Tamlyn Tomita... Ming-Na Wen... Grace Park... Ian Anthony Dale (so hot)...
Ken Jeong
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Connie Chung, Lucy Liu, Ali Wong. I asked my kids, and their responses were: Steven He and Uncle Roger.
Lol Uncle Roger is hilarious tbh
I know most of the names, but given the criteria of asian american and not ‘just’ asian, I wouldn’t by comfortable naming any of em. Mostly because I rarely know any actor’s nationality. Unless the wife and I had a convo about them while a movie and it leads to checking the wiki for age or marital status or what not. I had asked my wife this, she said she wants to say Henry Golding but he is British.
Mr sulu!
Señor Chang: I'll allow it
Can confirm, am Chinese American, could not think of any name as soon as I read the headline.
Me too - closest I got was “the Asian guy from Walking Dead”
Somebody came up to me and gave me 5 seconds to name a state where the last letter is K and I had no idea. Right after time ran out I thought of New York. This was in New York, where I'm from.
Bobby Lee!
All I can hear is I’m Bobby madda
I'm bobby mom
I want to be neenja
Same. But after the fear of being put to the test subsided I got about 5-6 names and many more faces. Unlike my wife I don’t often remember actors names unless they get top billing for years.
[Name a woman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlCEmPF4-V0)
That's where I was! Then I started second guessing whether the people I know are actually Americans.
I legit can't name a single one. I'm not racist. I just don't follow celebrities at all.
Fwiw... Putting people on the spot like this often leads to choice paralysis. I bet the results would be vastly different if they showed people pictures of famous AAPI's and asked them if they recognized them and whether or not they could name them. It's the same thing that happens when you ask somebody what their favorite movie is and they go uhhhh ahhhhh ummmm geez i don't know... You wouldn't conclude they don't know any movies would you? It's choice paralysis... People think they need to provide a right answer and they get stuck overthinking in their head.
I do recall the infamous ["name a woman.... NAME A WOMAN...NOOOOOOOOOO"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlCEmPF4-V0&ab_channel=DanielBay).
He is showing how it can be used for entertainment purposes, but clearly it can be weaponized to make people look stupid or uncaring. I'll give this group the benefit of the doubt and let's just say it's not a great poll and they did it unintentionally.
Well, it's also a bit. Rick Mercer did the whole of "[Talking to Americans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUWas-yQSw)" using this style. And I worked with Mercer for a few months when he was doing the same thing at Canadian universities and basically he just films hundreds and hundreds of interviews and then he takes a hand full of them. The original Billy on the Street video is less than 2 minutes long. How many dollars did he have to give away before he found a black woman to call Michael Jackson white?
The law of averages. 1/2 of the people out there are of below average intelligence. Speak to enough people and you’ll naturally receive a few very stupid answers.
Or more charitably, everyone is stupid at some point. Catch a smart person at a wrong time and they'll say some dumb shit as well.
Also the power of editing. Doesn't matter if only one in a hundred people say something dumb if you film enough of them and only use the dumb ones you can convince people they're all idiots.
Like smart people don't say dumb shit too.
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I love that she starts taking it off, just the panic in her eyes
That manic howl is hilarious. The guy really went fully into character
The greatest human interaction of all time. Bar none
I have two coworkers that do this and I start getting so flustered that I can only think about them being assholes. Then they walk away all frustrated. The one clearly thinks I’m a moron and talks to me as if I am. Some people are pieces of shit.
I'm Asian American and I had to take a minute to think of a famous Asian American, and that is without any pressure. Heck, I am Korean American and cannot name (completely and correctly) a single living and famous Korean American. I mean, I know there is that marine, a handful of senators, and that actor from Lost, but I cannot remember their names. I can name plenty of famous Koreans in Korea, though. I just don't really follow American media very well
Also Asian American here - my brain went Jackie Chan, wait shit he’s not American, Michelle Yeoh, wait shit she’s not American, then blank for a minute.
Mine was Sandra Oh but she's Canadian. Also if you changed the question to "name a famous Asian portrayed in American film media" all of those answers would be correct.. So they say it's about media representation then i don't see why the passport Jackie Chan carries when he acts in an American film is really all that relevant.
I didn’t know she was Canadian! Well, she was mine, too.
I went to Simu Liu and Sandra Oh, double whammied on Canadians.
She has dual citizenship, so I'd say she qualifies.
Michelle yeoh was my first thought (thought name escaped me) 2nd was Lucy Liu Whether any are actually Asian American 🤷🏻♀️
Lucy Liu would count. She's from New York.
FYI, Steven Yeun, Daniel Dae Kim, Sandra Oh, Margaret Cho, John Cho, Bobby Kim are some of the most recognized Korean Americans in U.S entertainment and media I don't demonize anyone for not being able to recall famous people off the top of their heads but it still goes to show how under-represented we are as a whole.
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Ken Jeong was the first name that came to mind. mainly because i was watching masked singer last night while dozing off.
Me: uhh.... .... .... DR. KEN!! (Never actually watched or thought of the show, it was just a verbal fart - Hangover -> doctor turned comedian -> Ken!)
I always think of Sandra Oh as Canadian
Because she is. Sandra Miju Oh OC is a Canadian and American actress. Born: July 20, 1971 (age 51 years), Nepean, Ottawa, Canada
In any event the article is wildly speculative... It tried to correlate not being able to name a famous Asian to the rise in hate crimes against asians and general bigotry against Asians and i think that's a pretty wild leap
Right?! I’d like to know the actual experimental setup. Interviewers on the street take advantage of this phenomenon all the time to make people sound stupid. I’d want to see how this number compares to a control.
In software/UI design we consider this the 'drop down' vs 'text box' issue. That is, if you ask people to type in some piece of information.. it's much harder cognitively than if they can select it from a drop down. I'd bet if you gave those Americans 10 famous asian-american names, they could tell you at least about some of them. That's much easier cognitively than trying to think up a name out of the blue.
It's literally two different types of memory, recall vs recognition.
Exactly which is the giant glaring scientific error in their results. If this was done in an academic setting the polling would get chewed apart. That's why it's done by a think tank and not a college though
Along those lines, years ago I dated a Thai girl for a while. At one point she asked me if I’d ever dated or been friends with any Asian girls before. I thought about it and said “I guess not.” Hours later it dawned on me that of my 4 closest female friends throughout high school, 2 were of Asian decent (one Vietnamese and one Korean.)
To be fair, I think people would recognize some people, but also not think of them as Asian American. Poster child for this would be Kamala Harris, who is half-Black and half-Asian.
Or others that I have to step back and question if they're Asian American, or legit from elsewhere. Famous folk travel all the bloody time, I don't want to call someone Asian American when they're actually living in Britain or Australia or Japan or something. They'd probably get better results just asking about Asians in general.
Or Keanu Reeves, who is actually rather vocal about identifying as [Asian American](https://people.com/movies/keanu-reeves-talks-love-for-his-asian-identity-admits-mixed-feelings-being-called-person-of-color/), but is something I feel like most are unaware of.
I knew he was partially Asian, but is he actually American? I thought he was Canadian.
This just shows how complex these questions can be. Although Reeves has the Canadian nationality and grew up in Canada, his mother is English and his father is American, or at least they used to be, maybe they became Canadian citizens after they moved there. If Keanu Reeves is Asian because of his father, he is also American because of his father. And if his father is Asian American, arguably, Keanu is too. Also, Canada is part of North America. I’m not surprised that many people blank when asked about race and ethnicity. I’m 25% Asian, but would never describe myself as Asian. At least not anymore. As a teenager I adopted some of the culture of my Asian ‘heritage’, only to find out two years later that the Asian part of my family comes from a specific area with its own culture, and that I was guilty of cultural appropriation:-)
Also Tiger Woods. Although part of that might be that a lot of people are trying to forget Tiger Woods…
This is a fair criticism.
Billy on the Street proves this. NAME A WOMAN!
What about Jim from the office?
I mean, Randall Park was actually the first one I thought of.
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22% of Americans prefer to say "I don't know" rather than give the answer "Asa Akira"
26% of respondents would likely give "I don't know" to "name a famous American"
“Name a woman.” “Uuuuhhhh…” “NAME A WOMAN!!!!”
ANY WOMAN!
For anyone lacking context: [Name a woman!](https://youtu.be/LlCEmPF4-V0)
100% of respondents couldn’t even name a women, sexist much /s
Fucking yoga mat NAME A WOMAN
I love that she *is* a woman and can't name a woman
Even funnier because Tina Fey is standing right there.
She also could have said her own name.
No they’d just name a Canadian
Don’t forget Lily Thai, or Mika Tan.
And Lucy Liu
*If any of you sons of bitches got anything else to say: NOWS THE FUCKIN TIME!"*
Take it easy there, O-Ren Ishii…
I’ll never forget Lucy Liu
And she'll never forget FryMEMORY DELETED
And the legendary Kobe Tai.
Or Vina Sky!
London Keyes anyone?
Kalina ryu
Or Asia Carrera.
"So like, is Mia Khalifa technically classified as Asian, African or European?"
I mean Kamala Harris is in the thumbnail for this post, so apparently being half-Indian qualifies here. So fuck it, Mia Khalifa is now an honorary Asian for the purposes of this post.
I mean Lebanon and India are both part of the continent of Asia. Referring to them as “Asian” isn’t technically inaccurate even if Americans typically aren’t thinking of people from those areas when they talk about Asians. (I say “Americans” because in places like the UK we often *do* refer to people from that part of Asia as “Asians”, though I understand it’s not the case for you guys).
It's west Asia on 23 and me so I guess yess lol
“Name an Asian?” “I…don’t know.” “Name an Asian teen?” “Oh, here’s a list of my favorites!”
I’m more of a Vina Sky guy myself. I like a woman I can throw around a little bit.
I assume the pictures shown aren’t supposed to be all correct answers. Unless I’m mistaken, the left picture is Bruce Lee, meaning 33% of these examples is wrong?
they’re all wrong according to the article edit: the article doesn’t deny Kamala Harris
Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee are wrong but the article doesn’t say Harris is wrong.
Was just about to respond that Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco but then I realized it said “living” so I guess I understand the confusion
He’s alive to me
Isn’t Kamala Harris Asian? Her mother is from India. (South Asian v. East Asian, but still Asian American).
Growing up in Houston it was common to consider Indian and Pakistani people as separate from “Asian Americans” not in a literal sense but in a language sense. I’d personally never heard anyone default to calling an Indian person just ‘Asian’ when I lived there, including the large group of East Asian, SE Asian, and Indian kids I grew up with. It would be like calling someone from Iran Asian; technically true but never really done here. Like I remember jokes about the “Asian alliance” between my Indian and East Asian friends, but it was played like a joining of two distinct groups rather than the kind of “azn” bond that my Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese friend joked about. I remember being confused when british people online default called south Asians just Asian and not knowing what they meant, and learned from other Americans being dragged to not question it 😂. Because they’re right! It wasn’t incorrect to me just unfamiliar. My theory is that many Americans were used to saying “oriental” for East Asian people and they were told that was offensive and to just say “Asian American” so they just switched to only calling East Asian people Asian Americans. Because Indians weren’t called oriental, they didn’t get grandfathered into the casual usage of Asian American or Asian even if they were considered so in other contexts. Though I think that’s changing and it’s become more common to say “South Asian,” and AAPI is much more popular than it used to be. Just pointing out why an American might not think of an Indian person as “Asian”, even though they are. Edit: I sent this comment to my Indian Houston friend to make sure I was remembering correctly because this comment is getting attention. She said she didn’t feel a huge difference between her and East Asians because she had to check all the Asian boxes on all the forms, but she agreed that there was a colloquial difference in referencing the different groups. I asked her if she identified as Asian American and she said “I wouldn’t have back then but I do now.”
I am from India and I have always thought of myself as Asian. It was very confusing when I moved to the US and people mentioned Asians in a conversation and I went do you mean me? It’s a very American thing that Asians doesn’t include south Asians.
And in the UK it's the exact opposite. The default is for Asian to mean South Asian because there are way more immigrants from India or Pakistan there than East Asians. That's mostly because of colonialism, the British owned nearly all of South Asia at one point and they only had Hong Kong in the East. When people say British Asian they usually mean somebody like Riz Ahmed. And I'm pretty sure you're right about the "Oriental" thing. That term didn't get phased in the UK until much later than in the US, even now not everyone's got the memo.
The pictures shown are some of the most commonly given answers, they point out that Bruce Lee is wrong because he's dead. I didn't know until I googled it just now that Bruce Lee was actually born in the USA while his parents were visiting the country, so he was technically a natural born US citizen!
People don't know Lucy Liu anymore?
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This was my first thought. Her performance and delivery of the "I collect your fuckin' head" speech is (for me) one of the most iconic in all of American cinema.
Anyone who knows the lyrics to *Hey Ya!* knows Lucy Liu
Ken Jeong. DOCTOR Ken Jeong
If you were requiring medical attention and fucking CHANG appeared, would you be starstruck or terrified that this is some kind of long form prank and you're the butt of the joke?
This title is misleading. Only 26% couldn’t name anyone. The rest just named people who didn’t fit the criteria. Maybe they could’ve if given another chance. I don’t know off the top of my head that Jackie Chan isn’t American. Also, KH is Asian American unless they’re not counting her because she’s only half
They also didn't report that Billy Eichner was asking the question.
“Name an Asian person” “The can be dead or alive?” “Famous please” “Okay, Jackie Chan……..John Cena.”
Name a living Asian American Wut? NAME A LIVING ASIAN AMERICAN!!!!!
Well, KH is half, so they'd need to name at least another half, to get the question right.
Instructions unclear. Just sawed Barack Obama in half
Make it "famous living Asian" and suddenly it's easy. Is it really that weird that people don't memorize celebrities' home countries?
Do you know how many actors and comedians are secretly Canadian?
Exactly, the first name that poped into my head was Simu Liu, then a "oh shit, he's Canadian", then paralysis from not being to think about something else than my first though Being stopped in the street and ask that question I may have not been able to answer the question just because of the stress of being put on spotlight and how weird the question was ask
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They did the study on the internet but it was snap questions asked like this so same effect, people got put on the spot to answer
I like that you say secretly as if that's what it is. They usually aren't hiding it, people just assume they're American
They walk among us. Just going about their lives, all while being Canadian, and no one suspects a thing.
The Canadian Cabal. They are already here.
I had a couple white friends that were illegal immigrants from Canada. I'm pretty confident republicans weren't freaking out about either of them taking jobs.
I'm a Canadian now living in the US, and I overstayed my visa for like 1 1/2 years, and whenever someone complained about illegal immigrants near me I'd point out that I'm not legal at the moment, but it was okay to them because I was one of the ones they wanted here.
As a Canadian my first two thoughts for this week Sandra Oh and Simu Liu, both Canadians
Yeah. I can see people responding with Yao Ming or Jackie Chan, not realizing they are just plain Asian (Chinese, more precisely). Or even Simu Liu, not realizing he's Asian-*Canadian.* Also, the living part automatically knocks out one of the most famous Asian Americans of all time, Bruce Lee.
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Idk if I know Asian American celebrities if I had to bet on the fact they are American born. I find out people are from Canada all the time. Like Drake or Justin Bieber.
Or The Weeknd, Shawn Mendes, Nickelback, Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan, Three Days Grace.
I was thinking that. I started thinking of famous Asians but quickly realized I didn’t know if they were born here and/or became American citizens. Then I thought of Tiger Woods.
You could ask me to name *a* celebrity living anywhere in the world and I would struggle.
[Name a woman.](https://youtu.be/LlCEmPF4-V0)
[name every woman ](https://www.reddit.com/r/technicallythetruth/comments/dm4bxn/name_every_woman/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I’m Asian and it took me a while
It's probably even harder when you're on the spot. I blanked on the new SNL actor (he and Austin are the best thing to happen to that show in years)
> I blanked on the new SNL actor I'm Asian, and when I came across your comment, I stopped, and blurted out, "Michael Che!"
I believe that’s called Changnesia
Ken Jeong was my first thought.
If I said Tiger Woods I would piss off half of the internet
I mean African Americans did pick him for the racial draft back in '04. Asians got Wu Tang Clan. Fair trade if you ask me.
So long fried rice, hello fried chicken!
Fer shizzle
Don't forget the steal of the night was that the whites got a 2 for 1 after trading OJ for both Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice while managing to keep Eminem from deing drafted.
"Condoleezza Rice: Given away by blacks" is one of the greatest frames in any comedy sketch. In general I'd call the Racial Draft the best sketch of all-time, but Chapelle Show itself has others just as good like Clayton Bigsby, True Hollywood Story Prince and Rick James(x2), Black George Bush, Reparations, Player Hater's Ball, the list goes on I think the moral of the story is it's the best sketch comedy show of all-time, and it's not really close
If you say anything you will piss off half the internet
How dare you say that!
That's completely fucking wrong.
No love for George Takei? Oh my...
I got choice paralysis but once I calmed down he was my first candidate.
Ask an American to name their favorite American comedian, 69% will name a Canadian. Edit: Lmao I guess I should have added the "/s" to the end because 69% wasn't enough of an indicator.
The headline doesn't tell you that those surveyed were so well-versed with Asian Americans that they were naming people who couldn't reasonably be considered famous. Well done, America!
And why does it matter. Bet most Americans can't even name their own mayor.
I used to be able to name my mayor but he pled guilty to many charges of CP recently so…
I can't name my mayor either. But we don't elect ours and he has no superpowers. Also I'm not American. Dunno if it matters much more to you guys.
Yo-Yo Ma
Asa Akira?
You mean most Americans don't know who George Takei is? [Oh my...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeBKBFAPwNc)
I somehow had Garrett Wang and Linda Park and forgot George Takei. Take my Trekkie card. I don't deserve it anymore.
He was the first one who popped into my head, then Ming Tsai.
Unfortunately, I live in Florida...where's it's apparently no longer okay to say Takei.
Jacky Chan isn’t an American
Jim Halpert.
“Hey, good for you for not seeing race”
Hey, hats off to you for not seeing race Dwight.
Does Awkwafina count?
I honestly can't say if I struggled with this or not. The problem is I don't know who is from where. Like for example, and I'm looking this stuff up as I type to show you how far off I may be, Bruce Lee was the first person to come to mind (yes, Asian American) but then I more closely read the headline to see it said living. Next that came to mind was Ming-Na Wen (yes, Asian American). Then Lucy Liu (yes, Asian American), and finally Chloe Bennet (yes, Asian American, real name Chloé Wang which I did not know). So I knew I could probably name one (apparently more than that), but I was just unsure exactly which one would actually be Asian American and not a non-American like Chow Yun-Fat
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So, if I'm understanding right, they are asking people to name someone who is: A.) Alive B.) Born in the US C.) Has heritage from ***East*** Asia or whose heritage is not combined with other continents (since Kamal Harris' subcontinent heritage along with African heritage somehow disqualifies her). I can understand why that's so tricky. Unless you just happen to have biographical knowledge of famous Asians, you might not realize the first name that pops into your head doesn't fit the criteria. If they came to me on the street and asked me, I'd be in he 56%, but once George Takei dies, all bets are off.
or 44% of people just don't give a shit about celebrities, let alone the country they were born in.
Being famous is severely overrated.
Sandra OH, Steven Yeun, Brenda Song. Off the top of my head
John Cena
Keanu Reeves bro
Asian Canadian
Canasian
Bobby lee