I think asians are good at studying not cause they started at an early age or study beside from school, its just bc the levels of pressure and stress to which society subjects the student community. A student studies on average 13 hours a day, counting the hours both in school and outside of it. There is a culture of too great competitiveness in the classrooms, i mean each student wants (or is rather required in their homes) to be number one in everything, which is very difficult to achieve considering that the competition is too great since everyone is looking for the same thing.

As an Indian i totally agree with Asians being good at studying because our parents from a very young age put us through that pressure getting good at studies and manners lol.

About the shy thing…we must understand a very important thing: Most Asian countries are rised under confusianism and gregarism principles, that somehow make them more “silent” , they take their time to listen to you, rather than talking first and right ahead. Also they have very interiorized do not disturbing or do anything that could create a conflict with other beings. And so on. So sometimes it might not be about shyness itself, but other principles that make them be a little more cautious and caring for the whole group than for the single person.

As a Chinese I can say Niki's high height is probably from some certain northern area in China, in fact people especially from Shandong, Beijing etc. could be very tall. If you are in a southern university and there is a girl student from those northern provinces, you may find that she could be taller than many men in the university, looks like a European.

An interesting point about the education when it comes to Europe vs Asia as I’ve experienced in my own life as a half Filipino and half Finnish person, is that societal structures matter. I’ve lived and studied in Finland my entire life. We are often at the top in academics along side Korea and Japan, for example. But usually most students here are quite laid back and study kinda “here and there” and not 13h a day everyday. I think it’s mostly rooted in culture and societal pressures and structures. In Asia, especially countries regarded as 3rd world countries such as the Philippines, I can see why it’s very important to succeed in academics because it might ensure a better and hence easier future. But in Finland, because the government takes care of the citizens in need it isn’t as “live-or-die” here to get to the top when it comes to education. At least that’s how I’ve seen things.

I think being humble and ‘shy’ is culturally appreciated so a lot of people act shy even when they are internally confident just so they don’t get hate from people around them. Even celebrities have to act humble when they are praised of beauty otherwise they’ll be hated so much.

As a Japanese I have to say, all these stereotypes have the reason or origin, not just made of null. We ARE shorter than Dutch people for sure, our average IQ is higher than the US, we do feel shy comparing to like Aussies. Stereotypes can exist, but it just shouldn’t be used in bad way.

As a Japanese, Saki is the most active person I ever met. We Japanese need her confidence to speak English!!

On the shyness stereotype, I think it is because of the social norms common in a lot of Asian countries where like in Japan people might be less touchy feely and might look down on public displays of affection like hugging between members of the opposite sex. Also, in the U.S. we tend to call even sometimes strangers by their first name, while in Japan, even friends might call each other by their last name.

Awh, this was such a sweet group. They're so supportive of each other. I adore them all. Thank you for sharing your perspectives ladies. ☺❤💗💖

That japanese girl tried so hard to express herself with so much confidence!! I would love to see her speaking in her mother tongue!

I really appreciate that the participants can talk about differences and just talk about their experiences. No one should use differences as an excuse to be rude to others.

This was lovely; I agree stereotypes depends on cases; but I also think they’re base by base. Historically, asians work extra efforts to get where they are, and hard-earned skills get inherited/developed/advanced through time with continued attitude/culture. Same idea with behavioural stereotypes (shyness etc.) - can be attributed to numerous past experiences. The takeaway is that what makes you you is because you’re you💜; hope you’re proud of yourselves, my asian sisters.

As an asian, I don’t think we’re shy.😅😅 We’re just quiet when we meet someone we’re not close.

All the girls in the video were for East and Southeast Asia, I wish there were some from other parts of Asia like India, Iran, etc. Most people think that there are no other countries in Asia. :)

That racism is not only against Asians it's everywhere.that shy thing is manners n politeness

Cool to see these ladies representing their countries here. They are sisters and should give each other strength and confidence.

8:51 That moon walk was so smooth, and I think these sort of videos are quite interesting on knowing as well as comparing different insights in plenty of cultures.

I think a lot of times being more reserved and polite as a culture is mistaken for "shyness."

"Asians are small" and then I look directly to Niki from China 🇨🇳 😂 , a really tall girl 👧 and then Saki from Japan saying "she is so tall" and Saki is so small, at least compared to Nikki , loved the video

I bet the Filipino woman was thinking of mentioning racism of Koreans towards Filipinos but took a step back when she got to “there’s racism everywhere even-“.

I really am so impressed by how people can learn new languages, like they pronounce things so well, all of them. Good job!

The Korean lady is so beautiful and confident.

About the studying, me personally I think about how my parents would view me. I’m a full Filipino who lives in the USA and the education here is a bit slower than how my parents have gone through. I don’t want my parents to be upset with my grades and with my hard work so this is why I study hard. My gpa is a 4.0 atm 😅

As an Asian person, Filipino in particular, I definitely think Asians are good at studying but not due to starting education earlier than Westerners. It's definitely societal pressure. Even if you're from a richer Asian country, you still get that pressure from your family. For me however, I'm not good at studying as my parents didn't pressure me as much and I just got out of the pandemic in the Philippines where we've been studying at home for 2 years. My parents just want me to do the bare minimum and be responsible so that's proof of how societal pressure can affect your habits. I study in the Netherlands and so far my grades are VERY average, nothing special. A lot of my Indian classmates are studious but I don't know if it's due to the expectations of their parents. I wish I can do better but half of me can't get itself to do more things but knowing I'm surviving AND especially learning some things is what matters the most to me. I don't want grades to affect me as I stopped caring about them for the most part during the pandemic. Getting a high grade would definitely make me feel great though, my grades in Dutch and German (I'm a beginner at both) are higher compared to my other grades but I'm pretty happy with that already. It's like a little boost of joy. I'm at school right now and our first period got canceled so I'm just here watching videos LOL

Just love Saki's personality! 😃 She's definitely not your typical quiet, shy Asian type.

THAILAND IS SO PRETTY!!!!!

what matters most is you are healthy and take care of yourself and that you are kind to other people.

Broo the way Seong-ji let Aya go in front (9:42) is so cute seong-ji is so kind💙

omg that thai lady is so prettier than other girls

They’re not shy they’re just very humble people and respectful

The biggest stereotype, not all Asians are Eastern Asian

I found that Asian also have got much stereo type toward to westerner. Huge. so it's very important knowing each other or trying to understand differences.

In many areas of the U.S., people are actively assimilating many aspects of Asian cultures, especially the cuisines and visual arts, gaming, popular music, etc. Even Asian literature is becoming more widespread in the U.S. In the county where I live, there is a large Korean-American community, so we are lucky to have multiple Korean restaurants (I'm talking upwards of 20 of them), Korean bakeries, etc. That has generated a critical mass to attract Chinese hot-pot, Vietnamese pho shops, Japanese ramen, etc. And that's on top of the mass media, k-pop, anime and gaming culture that is massively present, especially for young people in the U.S.

10:26 this has almost nothing to do with the video but ni hao kai-lan was my absolute favourite show as a toddler, i don’t know, i’m just happy to hear it mentioned but yes, asia is the largest continent in world and as the song says, “more than half of the world lives there but whatever” so many stereotypes generalized as asian, many to keep track of and difficult to see whether accurate or no

I want friends like Saki, she is so funny and special

I think it boils down to history. I am not sure why no one mentioned this but confucianism and history is deeply integrated in east asian societies and other societies living in sinosphere.

6:35 this made me think about that stereotype. Here in Spain there is a stereotype that we are extroverted, loud and very social. In Spanish society, it's true that being an extrovert is well regarded and being an introvert is "frowned upon". (not exactly frowned upon, but I get treated worse for being an introvert than an extrovert and I get made fun of for it a lot, and i even can socialize easily) I always thought that why do others think all Asians are shy when a lot of them aren't. Asians when they don't feel comfortable with their English/another language, they tend to speak less. But with Spanish people it doesn't happen. Even though they don't know how to speak any English, they still try to communicate and at the same time make people laugh. It doesn't matter if our level of English is very basic, we're going to keep talking a lot anyway hahahaha

asian height can also be attributed to things like food in the past, there is a height difference between north and south koreans, very similar cuisine, but after scarcity of food for a couple generations the heights dropped

Seong-Ji and Saki are so amazing.

The Vietnamese girl's name, unless it's how she is really named, it's more likely that it's written wrong. It's Linh instead of Lihn. It happens to me too.

A lot of westerners are taller. Yao Ming: am I a joke to you?

Alicia is Right As an Filipino At 3 -4 yrs old like i already knew and watch Geography,Like History cuz im obssesed with Like Uh History,Ww1,WW2,A.H,and more atleast and asians do study early depending on their Personality,Parents,and if u wanna start things early.

In the Philippines tho, education is like a job.. we go in by 7 am, then 30 mins morning snack, lunch break, 30 mins afternoon snack, then finally out by 4 pm. I got a backpack that time and it was loaded with all the books, notebooks, and like pencils erasers and etc that was needed for the day... it continued til highschool then college is a different thing so yeah

As a Filipino, what Alicia said I can so relate to.

As Indonesian, I think I have to disagree to Aya about our shyness and our culture. A lot of Indonesians actually aren't shy, we just have language difficulty with foreign people. So, when a foreigner comes to our country, some of us probably won't get closer or start a conversation because we're afraid if we say something wrong in English. But still, many of us are actually talkative and likes to talk to foreigner with our standard English. Also for the culture part, I'd say Bali is the perfect example that shows that we actually quite famous (even though maybe some foreigner didn't know that Bali is in Indonesia). For addition, with "beef rendang" that got awarded as best food in the world by CNN in 2011, Indonesian's culture is actually pretty well known in my opinion 😊

I had my secondary and high school in one of the top schools in Singapore, I could say that I may have learnt all the tricks to do well in exams, but I may not necessarily enjoy the subjects nor encouraged to question the fundamentals.

9:42 - Seong-Ji caught my attention in those videos, but this move right there shows trully how beautiful of a person she is 😊🤍 As she said in one of the episodes: "Where do you find these people?" - Where can I find "people" like you? 😊

As a northeastern Chinese (AKA Manchuria area)from a very high lattitude area,we are pretty tall and big size.and we are really humorous and open personality,sometimes when I travel to south EU,I found most people are shorter than us.... so not all Asians are small.

In USA, Asian cultures are being identified depending on the state or city's Asian population, for example, San Francisco, Orange County, Los Angeles, Florida, and Hawaii, there are spikes nos of Asians. Me and my classmates here in Los Angeles are fully aware of Asian culture, we just love the Panda Express and Chinese Fast To Go Restaurants.

Omg They are all adorable 😍 ❤

One big factor in studying I found growing up in Canada, is that there are no exams until much later in education. The education system here is also not competitive at all, unless you actively aim to be at the top.

I appreciate the word "like" so much. For Americans it's slang but for foreigners it's a way to fill in a language gap and give you some confidence to take a moment and continue.

As a Vietnamese-American, my two cents (and how I compare): Asians are good at studying- disagree. Although it might appear that most Asians are good at studying, a better statement would be that most Asian cultures ingrain the conscientiousness in academics (as most of the participants reiterated). However, the results reflect differently and not all Asians receive stellar grades or demonstrate academic excellence like people anticipate. So it certainly depends. In other countries, there's a fair share of students who perform well academically and others who are not so much so. Asians are no exception and it'd be unfair to generalize everyone that way. (Although for me, I kinda reinforce that stereotype as a top honors student since high school.) Asians are small- agree (half). Statistically, the body frames for Asians tend to be smaller than other countries, but with improvements in nutrition, that balance is slowly equalizing. The tallest Asian country (as a whole) is South Korea, with an average height of 172.5 cm for men and 159.6 cm for women (encompassing all adult age groups; the highest average is 174.9 cm for men in their 30s and 161.9 for women in their 30s). Yet, compared to other Western hemisphere countries, South Korea is shorter, but not significantly so. The weights and body measurements tend to be a little smaller, although like everything, there are exceptions, even among Asians. There are big or tall Asians too. In fact, some of the tallest basketball and volleyball players come from China. (As for me, I kinda buck that trend as I'm 171-2 cm and have pretty developed treasures. Although my bone structure tends to be smaller so even though I'm above average in height, I give a more petite impression. Where I would be considered a little below average in size in Western standards, I would be pretty above average in Asian standards. I tend to order a size Large in Asia, and even sometimes, the largest size doesn't fit me. 😕) There is still racism against Asians in the world- agree. It's a sad fact, but when you see other Asians get attacked for being "responsible" for the pandemic, what does that say? Also, the racism against Asians has been historical, from the U.S. passing a Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 or even today, when many Asians are passed over in employment opportunities. And let's not forget the fetishization of Asian women, which has its origins in gendered and racist notions on Asian women's submission and servility. Asians are shy- disagree. Likewise, it's a cultural basis. Some are not predisposed to gregarious behavior but nor is that any indication that Asians are shy. Like some of the participants reiterated, language barrier contributes a lot to that impression, though if another person were to be quieter upon entering a country whose language they don't understand, they don't receive the same judgment of being shy. Try seeing Asians interact in their native languages and you'll notice that even among them, there are people who are more outgoing among the lot. Asian cultures are not as famous as the U.S.- agree. K-pop is gaining global renown, but just the impressions of other Asian countries' traditional cultures are not, unfortunately 🙁 Though the Hallyu wave has made more people around the world more interested in Korean traditional culture and history, that isn't always the case for Asian countries. Even I'm from Vietnam and the impressions I get when people think about Vietnam is 1. Phở 2. Vietnam War 3. Áo dài. We Vietnamese certainly take pride in our cuisine and clothing, but I don't think we should be reduced to only those. Our culture is much more diverse and complex than many people would think. A lot of what is diverse, complex, and beautiful about Asian cultures gets undermined by simplistic impressions that arise out of ignorance, frankly. Even many people around the world have a hard time distinguishing East Asian traditional clothing- like when some respondents to an interview thought the interviewers were from Japan and China even though they were wearing hanbok.

7:11 The people of the Philippines are the friendliest most welcoming people I have ever met. Very often I have gone to a beach resort and a group of guys are sharing drinks and will invite me to join them even though I don't know them.

In my highschool we were learning calculus in middle school. In highschool we were doing calc 2 already. Went to the states to study in finance major, ended up basically taking a free class to remember everything i learned all over again. And school was hell compared to uni, 8:30am to 5:30pm.

Biz 🇹🇭 has such beautiful voice ❤️❤️ When I listen when she speaks - it it good feeling for me

I'm Asian and 1.8m tall, so everybody looks small to me hahaha. Though I went to the US West and East coast, and I was actually quite surprised that I was still taller than most people. I guess if I go to the Netherlands I'll finally feel short.

I'm an European girl, quite small and very shy. But I think, I always had this interest in Asian culture, since I was maybe 5 years old and watched some anime on TV about samurais, or "Spirited Away" by Hayao Miyazaki.

As an asian, I'll have to agree on "asians are good at studies", but this mostly is in the culture. From my experience, I had already started learning some letters and counting to 100 from a very young age, even before I had started school ( but if I'm being honest, I used to keep on forgetting). My parents just to make me study with all my might so that I wouldn't forget things and improve my intelligence. They had also made me study very well in order to pass my exams and many more. Actually this has paid off as I had became the 2nd topper of my class.

That thai girl is sooooo pretty 😀

Rsrs se ela vir ao Brasil ela vai entender o verdeiro significado de mulher com "shape".

Being naturally talented towards academics goes hand in hand with starting early and committing long hours to it. It even affects parents attitudes towards pushing their child's education. If a child is struggling, it's no fun working hard and he or she will lose interest. Paying for an expensive education where the student flounders will appear a poor investment.

Omw Saki

stereotypes tend to come from a tend that people to observe in people. They become a problem when you start to suggest that the reason why this person is the way they are is because of immutable characteristic like race or that all of them are like this. Half my family Italian, and yes, they are loud and so are most of their Italian friends. The other side of my family is black, and yes, they are also pretty loud, along with their black friends. However when it comes to actual trends in genetic make up. We know that different races have physical characteristics that distinguish them because thats what race is to begin with. So yes, some races tend to be taller than others. Asians particular tend to be shorter on average than other ethnicities.

Asia consist of many countries but the asia of the Internet only consist of Japan, Korea and china

This is like a room full of HEAVEN

I wanna be friends with all of them! I have a few friends from other countries and it's always so interesting to meet new people with different backgrounds! Hi from Italy!

Saki is very friendly and pretty 😭❤️

I have watched a lot of interviews in Japan and it seems like most people there are pretty comfortable expressing their opinions and thoughts so idk where the stereotype of Japanese people being shy comes from. Maybe just because of keigo? Idk. Also I think USA culture is so well known because entertainment is our biggest export whereas other countries give more to the world than mainly showing off their culture. Peace and love to everyone out there in world!

2:04 I moved from Calif USA to the Philippines in 2010. One of the things I found better is that in the USA I'm smaller than my own race (white), when I moved to the Philippines there are a lot of women my size. I found my cute wife nere.

As a Filipino introvert guy I agree with these ladies right here and they are very polite.

Biz is so beautiful!

As a chinese, I wouldn't say that I'm small. I think it just depends on what you eat and what environment you grow up in. Obviously it also depends on who you are related to. For example, I'm only 11 but I'm 1.65 metres or around 5'4.

As a filipino i started kindergarten when i was 4 in Philippines also in schools in the Philippines they give us grade1 work in kindergarten and in grade 1 they give us grade 2 work so here they teach advance work ❤❤❤❤ support Asian Cultures ❤❤❤ and people here is friendly, kind and welcoming outher peoples coming here and its very cheep❤🎉❤❤ now im in canada miss you Philippines 🇵🇭

Good at learning book knowledge = less creative advancements Lot of creative freedom = not knowing the things learned from the past. Finding that sweet middle spot is very difficult for countries.

Asians are good at maths due to the way they count numbers in their languages. I can't explain it exactly but the way they say numbers makes it easier to work out sums for them. Plus their parents breath down their necks through childhood

I'm Filipino but i really admire biz from Thailand. damn she's such a fine beautiful lady.. I fell inlove with her the moment i saw her in this video.

such beautiful and talented girls♥️💯

Good at study is an Asian culture thing. Confucius lived about 2500 years ago. His teaching became the education mainstream, governing ideology and the moral principles about 2000 years ago in ancient China. Since about 1600 years ago, imperial examination system was used to select the officials from the best students. So it's deeply rooted in the long Chinese history and then also spreaded to the surrounding countries.

Thailand girl: "asian parents" Everyone : "yeaah yeaah" 🤣🤣

Saki is so adorable

As a half-filipino I’m just shy in general since I think I’m not smart, or I sound ugly. So that’s why I’m shy at home sometimes, or at school or birthday parties.

Thailand, Chinese, and Japanese women are absolutely gorgeous 😍

Hmm. Asia is HUGE. Very hard to apply a stereotype on such large demographics and cultures at once. There definitely are huge variations between the Asian countries represented here and beyond. Also since most of you seem to refer to how you act either out in public or when meeting people in another country or speaking a foreign language especially shyness and demeanor change from normal to a more toned down version of you.

My thoughts on 10:24 as a half Indonesian: I used to think that people would know Indonesians especially since I’m in Australia which is very close (I know this video is about us but still) and it’s not that people don’t know us exactly it’s more so that they don’t know us as Asian or part of Asia which makes me kinda sad because I’ve had white people call me a Pacific Islander and saying that “Indonesia is part of India” which is stupid because they think that India also isn’t part of Asia 💀 or “Indonesia is part of Africa” and they don’t know a lick of the language despite usually learning it at school here and I think westerners should try to do better. It doesn’t have to be mandatory but if they don’t know where it is, maybe just ask???? It’s not that hard.

I’m Latino but I really love asians people and their culture. I always felt and always told myself I would love to be part of Asian culture. It’s just to beautiful and also how education is primordial. Asian people inspire me a lot to be better of myself tbh. Even tho I’m so proud to be Latino , my second favourite community would be Asians. And their food 🤤👌😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 OH MY GOSH. But yeah it’s very nice and beautiful to see all these differences asians that come together in one place no matter the wars that had happened in the past, I can only see peace among them and it’s beautiful🤍🤍

The Korean girl definitely spent time in the US. Hard USA accent. Probably east coast I would say

you need to include Middle Eastern(Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Iran etc) and ex-USSR(Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan etc.) countries since they are technically Asian. Then the answers would be vary, including the height-shape of body-type etc.

All of these women have a fantastic grasp of the English language, not only in the grammatical sense, but also culturally. Usually it's a little annoying to hear other Americans use the word 'like' a lot when they're speaking, but the fact that everyone here uses 'like' like a native English speaker would speaks volumes to their skills. Awesome to learn new things from everyone!

A lot of them are dressed pretty cool but I love Saki's outfit in particular Also Seong-Ji sticking up for the guys, lol

hmm, I think there are some stereotypes that apply to Asians from Asia, but not really Asian diaspora who were born/grew up in Western countries. I'm Asian American and I'm not "small," when I stand next to my relatives, my shoulders are broader? I'm very athletic. Maybe it's the food we eat as babies LOL I also did lots of sports that my relatives never did, like soccer, swimming, tennis. Alsooooo there are lots of Asian Americans who don't care about studying compared to kids from Asia I think. Some of our parents care less, especially if we grew up in very white communities with more liberal parents. Basically, everyone is constantly evolving and adapting to where they come from and live.

about stereotypes. i do agree that asians are smaller or petite, at least if compared to westerners, most asians kind of smaller and shorter in size but that doesn’t mean that all asians are short, there’s people that are tall in heights especially men. for examples, k-pop idols there are lots of them taller. i’m an asian and my height is 163 cm and people could consider that i’m quite tall but it could be different in western countries.

2:54 -3:10 she knows what she is saying 👍

although most things are a case by case thing you can also speak about things in general. Things like average height or average weight or average age isn't hard to get data on and you can compare it with other nations to see whether one nation is generally smaller/fatter/older than the other. Obviously averages mean you'll have people who are much lower than the average and some that are much higher. So in terms of "you can't generalize" it's not completely true. You can talk about a nation & say what the average civilian in that nation is based on statistics but you can't go up to a random person in that country and tell them what they are based on those same statistics.

Props to them for making the effort to speak in a language which they aren't so fluent in

its funny when i meet rusian girl, then i think people in europe very tall, mybe she's 167cm, and me asian 174... and that's change my stereotype about europe.

It's a pity that when the culture question came up they so concentrated on k-pop and modern culture. East Asia has such a rich history and with that a rich culture. Everyone knows about the Buddhist temples of Thailand or the Samurai of Japan, the Forbidden Palace in China let alone the Wall or Angkor Wat in Cambodja. Don't sell yourself short. Culture is much more than music and food. As a European I don't think about those when talking about our culture, I think of the Renaissance and even the ancient Romans and Greeks. I think about art, achitecture, phylosophy. Asian culture is even older than ours and more known than many of these girls seem to realize. Who doesn't know Buddha or Confucius? Who doesn't know Hinduism or Taoism? The Eastern Asian modesty. One of the oldest civilizations, one of the richest history and culture and they think they are not well known. It's charming but at the same time a little bit sad as well. Be proud of your heritage just like everyone should.

It differs* (not defers, which is a synonym for "to postpone").

Around here i've seen very little of the publicized racism. i've schooled and worked with all types of people from all types of backgrounds and cultures. The only thing that is really put down is criminals like a known thief or liar, or a person whos is known to be extremely lazy on the job. A person who consistently does NOT do the job they should be and dump the work on others. But that's around me so it may be different in other places. But that stuff is not about race... it is about the quality of a persons character and their deliberate and consistent actions regardless of race, gender, and age.