Asians Calling Out Asian Proximity To Whiteness And Wasians Saga #asianamerican #asiancommunity

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Honestly, I think I've Wasion fatigue.

[00:00:02]I'm all about celebrating subcultures, cultures, whatever.

[00:00:05]But something about celebrating whiteness will never sit right with me, ever.

[00:00:11]And we all know Asians have this problem of proximity to whiteness stuff like that. And this just crosses the line a little bit.

[00:00:18]I can't explain this feeling yet, but every time I see a Wasion couple, I'm always like, why do I feel frustrated? Like why something is I don't know.

[00:00:28]Hi guys. The Wasion discussion is blowing up on social media with many people joining the conversation. So I'm bringing you the part two of this video, guys. A lot of things have been said about Wasians. Some of it I agree, some of it I don't agree. People are making a lot of videos. Some people are calling Wasians ugly. Some people are calling them the product of Oxford study. I hate that word.

[00:00:58]I hate that word. I hate Oxford study. I hate calling somebody the product of Oxford study or product of fetishization.

[00:01:07]Guys, on the internet, while you're making your opinion, please can you be mindful of what you put out there because sometimes some words can be very, very irritating. But without wasting much of your time, let's get into this video.

[00:01:21]This video is going to be long because I make sure that I bring a lot of people who give insightful opinion about this to you guys. So let's go. And credit to all the creator I feature here.

[00:01:34]>> Wasion meetup in New York City was made possible by the fetishization of Wasians by monoracial Asians like us.

[00:01:42]And you might be wondering, what does that mean? The biggest fetishizers of Wasians are monoracial Asians. Asian meetup is not an isolated incident that randomly occurred. It is a product of a social media vacuum. One that monoracial Asians participated and accelerated.

[00:02:01]Because this event was made possible through social media and it's a social media phenomenon, you can look at this from a media perspective. And there are studies that essentially show that when you show positive interactions of interracial relationships, that it tends to lead more positive outcomes attitudes by the viewers. And this idea of pushing multiracial, specifically East Asian Wasians, is not new. Even the year when I was born, we see Times magazine that highlighted the new face of America and they were raving about how this was going to be the future, this remarkable face. And then growing up in Hollywood, we see people like Jenny Han or Mindy Kaling produce successful hits that focus on Asian women obsessing over white men. One thing that Asian men are also not participating in this. Who do you think casted Henry Golding in Crazy Rich Asians?

[00:03:03]What I notice from these takes is that they also kind of allow room for monoracial Asians who I would say were the biggest driving force on social media to propel Wasians on this pedestal. We created this pedestal. We made videos about Henry Golding and Constance Wu, about Lana Condor, about Megan Thee Stallion, Liza Soberano. We made hundreds and thousands of videos about these celebrities and we pushed them to the forefront. And we participated in what people were calling the rise of Wasia. And even when Lana Condor was saying, "Long live Wasia."

[00:03:41]And things that could allude to eugenics or you know, had white supremacy inklings, we didn't do anything to stop it. There weren't videos making claims saying, "Oh, we should stop doing this. We should stop celebrating Waisia summer."

[00:03:58]We participated in that. And what I'm seeing is that people would rather push blame to Waisians because they saw the fringe groups.

[00:04:06]This meeting didn't reveal anything shocking. There are fringe groups in both categories. We see the loser Asians now asking, "Who wants to make a Waisian with me?"

[00:04:19]Or they're going to go tell their kids now, "Oh, by the way, you have an Asian dad, so you're special. You're different than an Asian mom." We now have the loser Asians who have come online and say, "Well, genetically, I just think that Dutch and Chinese mixes are the most beautiful on the planet." Asians who have been making story times telling that they would tell white people that they were white too.

[00:04:42]Yes, enjoy. Losers. And in the fringe groups of the Waisians, we see the ones who proudly say, "Well, love having white genes. I think that makes me the prettiest, most superior human being."

[00:04:55]We have Waisians who outright say, "I don't want to include other mixed Asians." Somewhere in the middle is where a lot of us are. Harder for us to admit that because of our historical culture exacerbation by Western colonization, we have produced a culture that not only highlights East Asian Waisians, but also celebrates them in a way that essentially fetishizes them as a product. By definition, if we are centering whiteness, therefore, we are anti-black.

[00:05:28]But that cognitive dissonance is hard for people to accept. We would rather just blame it Waisians. We created the situation.

[00:05:35]We were all there in the social media sphere where we created all these videos to highlight and celebrate Waisia specifically.

[00:05:44]We did that.

[00:05:46]And even my first video where I was talking about Hider Rabery and I said, "I'm tired of the white top Asian bottom trope."

[00:05:54]And people were like, "Shut the [ __ ] up.

[00:05:56]Hudson Williams is so [ __ ] hot." He's not.

[00:05:59]And you should be proud that there's a way Asian Gaysian representation now.

[00:06:04]What kills me the most is that this event had been advertised for I think weeks, right? We had seen the flyers, we had seen people talking about it. There was no intervention.

[00:06:12]There was no point where any of us And I'm blaming all of us, any Asians, even mixed, biracial. There wasn't a point where we intervene and said, "By the way, can you make this more accessible?" Maybe there were smaller voices, but collectively I did not see anyone intervene because it would have been such an easy fix. If you want to celebrate being part Asian, it's so easy to just rebrand the whole thing and say, "Hey, everyone come and we'll talk about >> [snorts] >> being mixed Asian."

[00:06:43]That would have been easy. And they could have, you know, had a nice event.

[00:06:48]So, that's part of the reason why I just think that social media lacks on the accountability aspect because we're not really looking for accountability. We're not giving people the grace to actually change and make something positive.

[00:07:01]We're actually just praying for their downfall. To be brave, I'm going to step forward and admit my crimes and I shared one photo of Hudson Williams shirtless on my Instagram and I thought to myself, I even put a little caption.

[00:07:13]I was like, "I don't find him the most attractive, but I think it's cool that he's getting these opportunities." Why the [ __ ] did I post that?

[00:07:20]>> Mind you, only wages act like this is what I'd say if I didn't understand that Asians act like that. Like, "Oh my god, the meeting was so exclusionary, especially in API month. They didn't include other mixed people, blah blah blah, centered on whiteness." Asians center whiteness. It is not a new thing for Asians, East Asians, to exclude black and brown people. I feel this is why people have such a issue with this meeting is because Asians already have this inherent proximity to whiteness due to global and historical context. And the fact that media, what is shown in TV shows and whatnot in popular culture, already centers Wasians because they are hyper palatable. In- invites some valid questions, honestly. You get a taste of that like ethnic exoticism. But you know, they're still very close to being white. Probably the closest out of all mixed with white POCs. And that's like the problem. That is why people find this so weird. Because Asians already had an inherent problem with that.

[00:08:21]Wasian people are way more attractive, but only if the white gene is kind of strong enough to kind of overpower the Asian gene. Because we don't want a Wasian person who looks Asian. I've been hearing things like this since I was a kid because I have a Wasian cousin who was always told, "So sad that your mom's Vietnamese gene is kind of too strong.

[00:08:37]You just look like a regular Vietnamese person." And I think it's so interesting and weird that the proximity to whiteness is used to evaluate a person's look. What I'm talking about is casting decisions, how actors and actresses had to hide their Asianness, use their passing as white person to get a certain roles. That still happens. I worked as a model booker, as a model agent, and I had a lot of requests from clients saying, "We want diversity, but we don't want a full Asian person. Maybe something ambiguous, like a half Asian mixed Asian person." I think it's also weird that it comes from our own community. This internalized racism is so weird. What do you mean you think I'm more attractive because I look like a white person? What do you mean you think I'm more attractive because I don't look like you? It's so weird, and I just wish that we would kind of acknowledge that, that there is a lot of internalized racism, there's a lot of racism also in the industry. Our proximity and closeness to whiteness is something that has already been celebrated. Waisia is a trend right now, so I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring. I will say finding community is really big and it's great that the Waisians can find a commonality in one another where they didn't fully fit into one side, so it's good that they could share that story and find community. I do fear Waisia becoming a trend will fully affect the way people get hired in Hollywood, the way that we see beauty in the United States. And what it really is is our proximity to whiteness. In Asian cultures, we already celebrate this. We hire actors that are lighter skinned, we bleach our skin, we have products that bleach our skin, and in Hollywood it feels like these are the people that are getting casted first in Asian roles. People that are palatable to the American lens, to the Western beauty standards, that are fairer toned.

[00:10:31]I am not sure if this is the best trend to carry us through 2026. So, there's a lot of talk regarding this meetup of mixed white and Asian kids, and there's understandably criticism regarding white proximity, centering whiteness, and how it may come across as exclusionary, particularly to other mixed individuals.

[00:10:53]And I feel compelled to speak because I feel like this is something my son would have gone to had he been 15 to 20 years older than now.

[00:11:02]Like I said before on another video, they are a walking Rorschach test. And especially for mixed Asian and white individuals, because of that dichotomy of privilege on their white half and the minority status on their other half, which leads to having white proximity in the eyes of minorities, yet you're still the other in the eyes of the white majority. So, I'd assume that this is why they flock to each other. They have common lived experiences regarding this ambiguity.

[00:11:30]And I've said before that ultimately their community will be them because shared experience is the bedrock of communities and that has been demonstrated by this meetup. But this presents a choice, which is that they have a choice in how to wield the strength of that community. In many ways, they can be a powerful ally of minorities, ones who truly understand that duality of acceptance and rejection of privilege and vulnerability. So, the way I see it, people are asking them what they're going to do with that power. Will you use this power for the sake of inclusion, not exclusion? Are you going to use that power to uplift people and speak uncomfortable truths, or are you not going to do that for the sake of convenience and self-gain? I remember last year how so many Koreans pretended that all these detentions in the US weren't their issue, that Koreans are above it all somehow, and then were shocked to find out that we weren't because the reality was that we were just as much a minority as the others getting targeted, and we had and have every reason to ally with all minorities. That's the thing. You are a community now, but like all communities, you exist in relation to how other communities exist. So, how do you choose to exist in relation to other communities? And this is a process that all communities must go through, repeatedly in fact, to grow and mature and most of all become a force of good.

[00:12:57]And as a writer, I know criticism can be hard to take and some of what I'm seeing is so much more harsh than what's warranted, but there is definitely good feedback coming through. So, I'm happy that you found community and have an opportunity to celebrate your shared experiences, particularly because I feel like that means my son will have community when he grows up. He already does kind of. He has mixed best friends.

[00:13:19]But now's also the time to reflect and grow about what it all means because that's also what I'd hoped for my son as well. These Waisian meetups are the talk of the town, so let's just throw our opinion into the ring, shall we? For starters, there very well could have been like a bunch of different mixed Asian people at these meetups. However, the PR team behind the meetups need to get it together because it was very much giving the Laves and the Hudsons to the front, everyone else to the back. Number two, I think we lost the plot a little bit because I think we're forgetting that Waesia doesn't exist. It's not a country.

[00:13:50]So, why are we treating it like this ethnic cultural event? And finally, I am all for community and people just being humans and making friends, but I think the problem here is that whiteness permeates every space, so it's kind of weird for an event that highlights marginalized people to, you know, bring whiteness to the forefront, if that makes any sense. Bottom line, proud to be hapa, but let's not make it seem like you can only be proud when you're mixed with white. Every time there is an Asian diaspora war, it always somehow is you goddamn Waesians.

[00:14:23]I'm joking, partially, but it's always you Waesians for some odd reason.

[00:14:28]And And the issue, the problem is is that some of you Waesians can never just shut the [ __ ] up.

[00:14:32]Some of you Waesians can never just shut the [ __ ] up and you guys have this superiority complex because you're half white.

[00:14:38]That you think you're better than the rest of the Asian diaspora.

[00:14:41]Okay? And you guys never let us forget it that you guys are Waesian, that you guys are half white. And that that's the problem. And a lot of you think that you are superior to the rest of us because you have the genetic superiority of the mixed races of people, right? Cuz I've heard it time and time again from other Waesians that they're the genetically superior mixed race cuz they're Asian and white.

[00:15:03]Yeah. A lot of you unfortunately perpetuate the white supremacy pipeline. Yeah.

[00:15:10]And a lot of Waesians have a really hard time admitting that they perpetuate white supremacy.

[00:15:15]And that is a problem with this whole Waesian meetup. It's like a lot of you have a hard time admitting that you guys perpetuate white supremacy that you guys don't really don't really like claim your Asian side. A lot of you think you are white. And that that's the problem. A lot of you have a hard time admitting that.

[00:15:33]And that is why a lot of people are having this discussion about this WAsian meet-up in New York City. And I think everybody's points are valid in this whole discussion about that WAsian meet-up in New York City because even the organizers of this WAsian meet-up, they kind of skirted around the whole like question. They dodged the question about why not do like a mixed-race like mixed Asian like meet-up, right? And the thing that also kind of annoys me the most um when it comes to this discussion is that WAsians talk about their lived experience as a mixed Asian, right? They're uh they're mixed, right? But they've tend to forget that there are other mixed Asians out there and they think that theirs is like solely the experience of only being half Asian and half white when there are Blasians, there are Lasians, there are Hispasians, there are like lots of other mixed Asians out there. And WAsians tend to forget that. And I think that's also the problem. Because I see time and time again like the think pieces in the comments talking about their experiences as WAsians not being represented in media. Like, what? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Not being represented in Western media. What? That's crazy to me, okay?

[00:16:37]But that's the issue is that a lot of these WAsians because they're half white and they don't let you forget it and they perpetuate white supremacy, they forget that there's a whole 'nother like sphere of mixed Asian races out there and they are not the only ones that have a cultural identity crisis because they're half Asian. And I think that is the problem.

[00:16:57]If they had just like a whole Asian mixed meet-up, I don't think that we'd be having this discussion, but because they had a WAsian meet-up and a lot of this has to center around white supremacy because that's really what it is. Um that is the issue why this has blown up into something much bigger and there's a bigger discussion about this.

[00:17:14]And the The that this is happening during AAPI month is egregious. This is egregious, but this is a conversation that we need to have. And a lot of Wasians have a hard time admitting that they do perpetuate the white supremacy portion of them. Okay, I grew up with a lot of Wasians and I grew like I know a lot of Wasians. They don't and have never really identified with their Asian side. If they do, it's very like embarrassing to them to be Asian. And that's just like the experiences that I've had with other Wasians when I talk to them.

[00:17:44]And I am very understanding and empathetic to with like any mixed Asian race having to grow up in two different cultural like spheres, right? Because it is it is very hard when you are Asian and you have to be with your mom or dad's side of the family and then you go and be with the other race, right? That I am empathetic and I do understand that. But a lot of Wasians like think that they are the only ones that experience that and I think that's what really irritates and annoys me about this whole thing. And if we're going to be honest, a lot of the times like these Wasians and I'm not talking about every single Wasian, but a lot of Wasians like forget that they are product of Western sexual fetishization and imperialism. They are a product and a result of that.

[00:18:26]But they do have the superiority complex and we don't talk about that enough that they think that they are the genetically superior mixed race as well. A lot of monoracial Asians are jealous of Asians who are mixed with white because of their own internalized white supremacy.

[00:18:38]Yes, the Wasian meet up was weird. They excluded South Asian Wasians. They excluded Asians who are mixed with anything other than white. And they got caught saying things like "Oh, Wasians are so up. We're going to take over the world or we're going to make so many more of us." Eugenics much? But a lot of the full Asian commentary on the event has also been weird. People have been straight up calling mixed Asian and white people white supremacists or saying that they're all a product of the Oxford study. You don't know this person. You don't know their parents.

[00:19:02]You're acting as if they can choose their parents. And even if someone's dad did fetishize their mom, what makes you think that they haven't thought about that and and learned and grown from that and become politically aware from that. The full Asians and mixed Asians don't need to be fighting each other. The common enemy here is white supremacy. In the Chinese-American community, which I grew up in, "Oh, look at this family friend's mixed kid. They are so much prettier than you because their hair is lighter and their skin is lighter and their dad is white. I wish I had married a white man." Like yes, this is something that Chinese mothers actually do tell their fully Chinese kids. Of course that creates like an inferiority complex and jealousy. And on the way Asian kids side, they're like, "Wait, I just want to be accepted. I didn't ask for this.

[00:19:42]Why are you acting as if I'm not a full person?" And then we have the nerve to ask why a lot of {quote} way Asian {end quote} people lead with their mix. Like I'm Irish and Chinese or whatever. Why do they talk about what they're mixed with so much? Yeah, because we talk about it so much. We never just treat them like people. Fully Asian people don't need to be jealous of someone who is part white because they are not inherently better. Like yes, they do get treated better by like Hollywood. Out in the world they have a little bit more of white privilege. Yeah, we can't really deny that. The common enemy here is white supremacy. Way Asian people are not your enemy. "Oh, but they're taking the roles of fully Asian people blah blah blah." Well, way Asian actors don't get to play way Asian roles. They're always having to fit themselves into the box of someone that they're not. And then fully Asian people have more trouble getting roles. Like it's all just white supremacy. Nobody's having a good time here. And before you judge somebody just based on what they're mixed with or if they're mixed. A lot of you fully Asian people are more white supremacists than your way Asian children. And I'm going to die on that hill. Some of you way Asians can never just shut the [ __ ] up and you guys have this superiority complex.

[00:20:40]You way Asians. Do you hear yourself?

[00:20:45]Do you do you know what you sound like when you say, "You way Asians?" You sound like the white people that anytime they called out for some [ __ ] they immediately turn around and say, "You people." Only you're saying, "You way Asians." And then to top it off, you talk about their superiority complex. As a Korean woman, it's giving the pot calling the kettle black. One thing I want mono-racial Asians to realize is that when we have diaspora wars between Asians, it's not always the way Asians. So, to blame it solely on one group in the community, it's kind of [ __ ] up to do. It really is, and it perpetuates harm on people who are actually a part of our community, too. And this video isn't to call out just that one creator who is a monoracial Asian, it's to call out all the other ones as well. Cuz it gets to a point where we need to start looking within and to start holding ourselves accountable, too, because the last time I checked, there are a lot of monoracially Asian people who perpetuate white supremacist ideologies, as well.

[00:21:46]And to pin it solely on the way Asians, that's just wrong. It's wrong and very hypocritical to do, considering that way Asians are byproducts of that. We don't just exclude way Asians, we also exclude lay Asians, we also exclude lay Asians, native Asians.

[00:22:05]Sometimes it's ethnicity on ethnicity crime, too, like multiethnic Asians also get excluded within their own respective ethnicities. Um sometimes it's monoracial Asians on monoracial Asian crimes, like, come on now, Siblings vs. South Korea. That's monoracial Asian on mono racial Asian crime. On top of that, right?

[00:22:25]Monoracially Asian people enjoy our proximity to whiteness to the point where some of us don't even give a [ __ ] that some of us are being kidnapped, thrown in concentration camps, and forced back to a homeland that they don't even know.

[00:22:43]Let's not also forget how monoracial Asians are so anti-black that when you see monoracial Asians get on this app, most of the times they will say, "When I was a kid, I wished I was white." Why is it always when I was a kid, I wished I was white, but it's never when I was a kid, I wished I was black? That's something that we need to look into, and I'm not saying we should wish we were back or we should wish we were white.

[00:23:05]We should in fact embrace the fact that we are Asian and be proud of it. Oh yes, there are some Wasians who perpetuate white supremacist ideologies. There are also Wasians putting in the work and I'm seeing it on the app. Putting in the work to help other Wasians unpack that. They're putting in the work to help monoracial Asians to see them as humans. Because at the end of the day they are humans, too.

[00:23:30]And I feel like sometimes monoracial Asians don't treat them as such. So I do understand why some of them are weary of us. Because we don't just exclude them. Like I said, we exclude the other Asians, too. In fact, sometimes depending on what region you are from, you are completely ignored and forgotten. Okay? Like let's talk about how the South Asians feel. Let's talk about how the West Asians feel. The Central Asians feel, too.

[00:23:55]So to talk about privilege, we also have to acknowledge that some of us in the monoracial Asian community do have privilege over others as well. And some of us do perpetuate the upholding of white supremacist ideologies. Uh-oh, Blasian has entered the chat. I already know there's a lot of discussion around this um Wasian meetup. So I just wanted to propose a question and also maybe put in my two cents a little bit. But basically, I want to know what makes you inherently so different as someone who's mixed white and Asian than someone who is other like you know, black and or Hispanic mixed race Asians. Like what makes you so different to where you have to have your own community meetup?

[00:24:33]Because in all honesty, I personally think that having a Blasian meetup, it would be different because you know, not only do we also experience not being accepted by both sides at times, but also there's a sentiment of anti-Asian in one community and anti-blackness in the other community. So that would be a totally different topic of discussion.

[00:24:51]But I don't understand like why you would exclude that kind of voice from a like a Wasian meetup and not want to learn more about mixed-race identity and how, you know, that operates in your own community as someone being mixed-race Asian, you know? Like, why wouldn't you want to hear about that? But, also like, what is so inherently different? Because last time I checked, like, I also take my shoes off before I enter the house.

[00:25:13]All jokes aside, I just want to know Yeah, can someone tell me because I just want to learn more about that.

[00:25:20]Like, obviously it it's kind of annoying.

[00:25:22]I I saw a black creator on this app talk about how, um, if in the black community, if there was a mixed-race black and white meet-up, that would be weird as [ __ ] So, why does that make you different on a global sense?

[00:25:36]It's just very interesting to see because I'm someone who grew up in Tokyo. I went to an international school, so a lot of people that I went to There weren't First of all, there weren't um many black Americans that went to my school. I probably There were some, um, mixed, you know, race like African and Japanese people, but not a lot of black American. And it was I I'm thinking about it now. I think my sibling and I were the only ones. Um, but yeah, it's just very interesting because there were white American and Japanese people that went to my school, and they made it so glaringly glaringly obvious to me that we were different. We were not the same even though we were both American. And as I'm older now, it's truly because of the race. And so, that's why I think it's interesting that this is coming up again. And obviously obviously obviously not generalizing that that's the same thing, but it feels pretty similar. It feel It feels pretty damn similar. So, I just want to hear from my white mixed Asians in the chat because Yeah, why it If your experience is different, how so? And why would you exclude other mixed-race Asians from the discussion? Wouldn't you want to know Wouldn't you want to hear other voices so we can uplift the community as a whole instead of focus around whiteness?

[00:26:49]Just a thought. I I know. I've been thinking a lot about this, but and I know other people have been talking a lot about it. I just wanted to throw my two cents. Um yeah, let me know. Although this is a very uncomfortable discussion to be had within the AAPI community, I'm glad that we're having it because it has it just has to be had. It is a prevalent problem in our community to divide ourselves and center whiteness, um especially being, you know, Asians being the model minority, East Asians might I add. Um so I'm glad that we're just having the discussion. Um happy AAPI month.

[00:27:21]So yesterday one of my followers DM'd me and invited me to a Wasian meetup. I'm flattered, but uh guys, I'm not Wasian. I'm Central Asian.

[00:27:31]Two completely different things.

[00:27:32]Obviously I didn't take any offense to it, but then she also wrote, "Because you're from the land of Wasia." Hey yo, since when is Central Asia considered the land of Wasia? Matter of fact, since when are Kazakh people considered Wasian? Like I appreciate you for the invite, but to all the Wasian supremacists out there, um Central Asians have been doing it way longer than you, bro.

[00:27:53]Oxford study chopped Wasian labe Alyssa Liu Mad Woman music Tell me why other Wasians themselves are downplaying the experiences of other mixed Asians. Like the whole Wasian meetup thing. Like at first it was marketed as half Asians, but then later they changed it to just Wasians and that's because of like the sudden trendiness of being Wasian, half white and half Asian.

[00:28:16]Because of Asian fetishization mixed with white supremacy. And the reason they're so trending is not because of the culture. They only care that it's white people plus the new exotic Asian culture. And one of the experiences that literally every mixed person has experienced is not fitting into your culture. And I don't know why people are trying just to say that Wasians are the only one who experienced this because it's literally every mixed Asian. And now we're just watering down being having Asian culture and being mixed to being Waisian. And those same people are suddenly saying, "Oh, my first time being Chinese and stuff like that." Even though they were just making fun of people for being Asian before. And now since Wasians are suddenly trending, non-Asians are watering down being Asian to just being Waisian and watering down the culture and pretending like it's theirs. And a lot of those Wasians participating in like the Waisian Discord servers and stuff, they don't really acknowledge like the other mixed races and stuff.

[00:29:25]And at first when I heard about this Waisian trendiness and stuff, I thought it was finally representation to mixed people. But other mixed Asian experiences exist, too. And people are saying API month is just about Wasians, which is not. And I think that all mixed Asians should be included in API month.

[00:29:45]I think that all Asians should. I don't think it should be centered around a type of Asian. So the topic of the Waisian meetup came up and I asked my friend if he's going to attend cuz he is half Scandinavian, half Bangladeshi. So I'm like, "Girl, are you going?" And he's like, "Girl, do you really think that I'm the type of Waisian that they want there?"

[00:30:03]And I'm like, "Probably not. Um and we were right because when we were watching the videos back, it was basically like a whiteness competition. Um someone in the comments called it spiritually Israel.

[00:30:16]>> Why everyone's mad about Wasians. By the way, do you think Asians are getting mad about stuff way too much? So Waisian means someone of white and Asian heritage. And the term is going viral right now because of a recent Laofei video and the huge success of many Wasians. Also because of this massive Waisian meetup in New York. This Substack had some pretty interesting takes. Achille Camargo writes that Waisian's popularity is insidious because the identity will always be defined by its proximity to whiteness.

[00:30:43]You can't be Wasian without the hard W.

[00:30:46]He attended a Wasian meet-up in New York and found that most of the participants couldn't define what Wasian culture actually was. His takeaway was that the identity of Wasian seems to revolve more around appearances. And he writes, "If Wasian identity begins and ends with aesthetics, it's eugenics." What interests me is when I was growing up, we used the term hapa for mixed Asians.

[00:31:06]When I first started hearing the term Wasian during the pandemic, I was like, "What the hell is that?" Why did the language switch from hapa, which is more inclusive, to Wasian? In my experience during the Asian pride days, hapas really didn't hang around with us that much. They seemed to choose to hang around white people instead. When they did hang out with us, they were super celebrated as better looking than the average Asian and cooler. The most hilarious part about it is that black TikTok is all over this. Why Wasian?

[00:31:33]Just that. Why not half Asian?

[00:31:36]>> I don't have a strong opinion on this matter, but what interests me is what the shift in using hapa to Wasian means and reveals about beauty, whiteness, and belonging. What do you think? The Wasian meet-up is the weirdest thing ever because, okay, Asia and white.

[00:31:52]What about the rest of the Asians? Do you only see Chinese, Japanese, and uh Korean as the Wasians? Because if you really really kind of take a continent, that makes everybody like from Jordan, Palestine, all the way to Japan is Asian. You're taking a whole continent.

[00:32:09]What is South Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia? Like everything.

[00:32:14]Everything is Asia. So, what about all those white mixes? What about Jordan and white? What about Iranian and white?

[00:32:20]What about What about Afghani and uh white? What about Indian and white? What about uh Pakistani and white? What about uh Bangladeshi and white? What about Filipino and white? What about Thai and white? Like What about those Asians? What What about those Asians and all the other Asians?

[00:32:34]Why weren't they there? And also, what's weird is why was there a white only East Asian? I think they should start calling it WeAsian because it's not really including all Asians. You guys are only including the East Asians, right? And bro, what about the black mixes? What about the other Asian and Asian mixes?

[00:32:52]What about the other mixes? What about all the other mixes? What if like it this was so kind of racist?

[00:32:58]Like my nieces are Korean and Indian mix and Filipino and Indian mix. Like what about what about mixes? You guys could have done a huge party of mixed kids.

[00:33:07]Like literally first generation mix. It would have been such a cool but no, why it just seems so racist. Sorry. Why it why does it seem so racist?

[00:33:16]I know people have already kind of talked about this but I just wanted to give my perspective and reaction to the WeAsian meet up because you all asked.

[00:33:24]At first all the part of all I was immediately like amused a little bit and I screenshotted and sent it to my boyfriend who happens to be WeAsian. Um we're both Filipino. I'm black and Filipino.

[00:33:36]Um and we were both just laughing cuz I just thought it was like funny and kind of weird. Not to you know, there's no hate to like people trying to find community and shared experiences but at the same time like when this is coming from an organization that claims to want to create community for specifically half Asian mixes and then is only marketing to half white and Asian mixes, it's just like what So what is your actual goal then?

[00:34:08]Um and it's just like the centering of whiteness. Um the centering of just the proximity to whiteness I guess as well is just a little off-putting to me.

[00:34:20]But [music] again, like no hate to wanting to find community in like shared experiences. I think it's just a little bit can come off as like tone deaf especially when your goal was to highlight [music] and try to create an event for specifically half Asian mixes.

[00:34:41]But yeah. Waisian meetups are a joke.

[00:34:43]You're telling me the two most judgemental groups of people in our society are meeting up in one area on AAPI month where we're supposed to come together.

[00:34:52]You just have to show how white centered you are.

[00:34:55]You're an embarrassment. The worst part about these Waisian meetups is seeing how many Waisians are chopped.

[00:35:03]I'm looking at these videos and I'm only seeing a 30% hit rate.

[00:35:08]What happened? Ugh, old done. Done. Ugh, old done. It was more pronounced [music] in the San Francisco chapter, which makes sense. As a vintage mixed Asian, there used to not be that many of us, but at least we [music] were fine [ __ ] We don't have any shared culture beyond that. What are we going to talk about? I think it's a lesson.

[00:35:30]Sometimes when you dip your toe in the milk, it's spoiled. The second worst thing about these Waisian meetups is that they're kind of racist, which is almost as bad as being chopped.

[00:35:41]>> [laughter] >> Okay, as somebody who's not Waisian, just Asian, I don't have much to say about the discourse. I think that the mixed Asians should like duke this out amongst themselves, but I got to say, and like this is coming from like a third party perspective. I've only ever seen people who say I'm not white enough and I'm not Asian enough. I've only ever seen Waisians who are mixed with like Chinese, Japanese, or Korean say that.

[00:36:07]Like it's never like a South Waisian or like a Southeast Waisian. You know what I mean? Like I don't know if now is like the right time to address it, but like I just think that like if one side of the family is white and the other side of the family is an Asian that is very likely to be racist against other Asians, like it does sound like something that needs to be addressed amongst your own community.

[00:36:31]Like my mixed Vietnamese friends, they're chilling.

[00:36:34]The mixed Filipino friends, they're they're all chilling. Like the the whole family's mixed. I do think that it is a complex that is specifically with the East Asian community. No one is mad at you for being Wajian. This whole Wajian meetup thing was weird. You want to know why it was weird? There's a couple reasons, but my main one is this. I've never seen at that scale a mixed person meetup. And I'm talking real mixed, like me. I'm Blasian and Latino. My dad is Japanese and African-American. My mom is from Ecuador. And I've never seen anything that would include a person like me. Let alone another Blasian or just like someone who's Latino and black or like Latino and Asian. Like I've never seen a meetup for them. Why haven't we seen a meetup for them? It's because we're probably as far away from white as we could possibly get. [laughter] And [clears throat] that's just what it gives. And if you're not ready to have a talk and engage in meaningful discourse around race, especially in the United States as it is, then you don't need to be having meetups or going to meetups like that. Because yes, they come with racial and colorist undertones. And yes, Blasians are hotter.

[00:37:44]No one is mad at you for being Wajian.

[00:37:46]This whole What the NYC Wajian meetup got wrong is that they branded themselves as an organization that would create mixed Asian meetups. Asian only East Asian Wajians. And that's something that frustrates me as a South Asian Wajian, as someone whose mom is Indian and whose dad is white. I've always had to like clarify, yeah, I'm Wajian, but you know, my mom's brown, so I don't actually [ __ ] count. It's no secret that you know, Wajians have done their big one. Liv Bay and Hassan Williams and Eileen Gu and Alyssa Liu, like they've been killing it this year and they should be celebrated. But those are the faces of what social media and society thinks of when they think of the mixed Asian identity, which is unfortunate and it's exclusionary. The biracial Asian experience is so vast. A lot of my blasian, South Asian, blasian, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Latin Asians, African Asians, like the community for the rest of us. It's really unfortunate that and that was supposed to bring the entire community together is like again given us this division. Being said, I think we can use this as a bit of a learning opportunity. Next time you want to organize a meet up like this, think about whose stories are we leaving out?

[00:38:57]Who haven't we considered? And how are we promoting this so that everyone feels seen? Asian heritage and biracial heritage and blasian heritage, it's all beautiful and it should all be celebrated. Anyways, so that was my two cents. Happy AAPI month, guys. So, the cancel culture mob has decided that these blasian meetups are discriminatory and that we are all problematic. And naturally, I have some thoughts. I just find it quite ironic that these same sentiments that are being used to discredit these blasian meetups are essentially the same sentiments that necessitate a blasian meetup in the first place, right? It's this idea of like, you you guys aren't Asian enough.

[00:39:35]You can't have your own meetups. You're you're part white. Like we have literally been hearing that our entire lives, which is why it's nice to come together and be like, oh, hey, blasian.

[00:39:44]Like, yeah, things in common. And it is quite ironic that the loudest voices in the room trying to cancel these blasian meetups are coming from far left people who you would assume have some sort of grasp of intersectionality, but clearly have none. It's the idea that everybody can have their own experience and that my experience as a blasian person, for example, does not negate the experience of any other Asian person or any person of color for that matter. And yes, blasian people are people of color even though we have a white parent. And yes, while we might have a certain proximity to whiteness, we are still Asian Americans and that's not debatable. And although I haven't been to one of these meetups, I'm willing to bet my 401K that these are very inclusive environments.

[00:40:27]No one's getting turned away for being a different flavor of Hapa. Okay, so this biracial eraser that you guys are trying to pull off is again pretty ironic coming from all of these liberal leftists. Like let's [laughter] be so for real right now. Like you guys are up in arms about bunch of gleeful whimsical Asians coming together in Central Park and having like lay they look alike contest. Like are we like are we dead ass right now? And speaking of lay they there was nothing wrong with her Mulan video for the exact same reasons. And I'll end with this and this is really important. So pay attention. Not everybody can be represented every time in every space.

[00:41:04]It's not possible. So again, according to the laws of intersectionality, it's okay for a one little group of people to have their one little moment because it does not negate anybody else's experience or identity. So I need you guys to touch some grass.

[00:41:17]Stat. Actually, what you should do, go to your local Asian meetup at a coming to a park near you, okay, and touch some grass and hang out with some cool Asians. I bet they're going to be really really nice people.