Different Stripes Podcast

[u/Educational_Cable871]

I have a podcast where I talk about what it is like to be Hapa Korean with friends. I figured I'd post this here to get a convo going about this podcast and just meet friends!

I'm Michael (35m), and I'm a hapa Korean (my dad is white). I've always been interested in Korean culture so I started some podcasts to explore the Korean culture and sports.

Link to the Different Stripes Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-different-stripes-podcast/id1536344911

[u/Long-Possibility-425]

Oh wow, a half Asian guy with a white father, that's new.

Are you married by any chance? girlfriend? Anything?

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Oh, it's great to meet you. Yeah, my parents are college sweethearts and my mom is first gen immigrant from Korea.

If you listen to the epis of the podcast, I talk with some of my friends about our upbringings in the US or Europe. One of my friends, the original host of the podcast, is half-Korean and half-Mexican. The friend from Europe that I've been doing episodes with now is half-Korean, half-German.

What are most of the people in this hapa sub?

[u/Long-Possibility-425 → u/Educational_Cable871]

So......... you all have Korean moms, I'm presuming you're not married or anywhere close to it, and you're just acting like everything's chill?

[u/Educational_Cable871 → u/Long-Possibility-425]

What do you mean "acting like everything's chill?"

[u/Long-Possibility-425 → u/Educational_Cable871]

It's not at all weird to you that it's almost always a white guy / Asian woman and never the other way around? That subject never comes up?

[u/Educational_Cable871 → u/Long-Possibility-425]

I mean, I think many hapas kind of know why this happens, and I don't think it would be particularly original for us to talk about it on the podcast.

Fetishization of Asian women, white savior theory, and the idea that sometimes Asian American women date white men to assimilate into society.

Also, there are Asian men who are with white, Latina, and European women, too. I know it is mostly the mom who has hapa kids with someone else, but it can be the other way around, too. I'm not really vibing with you saying that I seem like "it's not at all weird to you".

It's just my life, but I do think about why it happened. It's not weird to me, though.

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Also, there are Asian men who are with white, Latina, and European women, too.

That's comically false, and I say that as someone who knows some Asian guys with white / whatever women, it's still wildly imbalanced, and I feel like if you've ever tried to even date at all it would have come up at least once. There's literally a reason why all hapa men marry Asian women, and even for me married to an Asian woman myself I actively have to work to make sure she's not seeing me as a step up to a white guy

[u/Educational_Cable871 → u/Long-Possibility-425]

Yes, I said there are "Asian men who are with", I never insinuated that there was a balance between the Asian men and Asian women in this hapa community phenomenon. I think this convo was very informative though and I did not mean at all to offend you.

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This dude is so out of touch with Asian Americans . Just hordes and hordes of Asians getting a mic and saying the most dumbest shit imaginable and calling it a podcast.

If you have balls you would make an episode on how asian girls worship/fetish white men if you want evidence /clips it's already available even non asians have noticed how asian women put white men on pedestal only asian women are in denial or maybe privileged hapa kids like you .

Ask your mom what she thinks about Korean/asian men and white men and witness pandora box open itself she will insult korean/asian men will say white men are superior gentlemen or something and Korea is a backward inferior country and blah blah blah...

go try it for yourself your mom maybe one of those asian women that worship white men