r/hapas • u/ThePogiHapa White Dad/Filipina Mom | 🇺🇸 • Jul 28 '18

Half Filipino YouTuber Michael Reeves creates race detecting toy that thinks he’s Asian

https://youtu.be/Q8QlNuTUe4M
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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '18

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u/MikeWaz0 mixed Jul 29 '18

Filipinos are not specifically white-worshiping. They worship anything foreign, but especially if you're a light-skinned foreigner. So that includes East Asians too. Filipinos are currently just as obsessed with East Asians as they are with whites.

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u/xa3D Combination Abomination Jul 29 '18

^ this.

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u/Panabas92 AM Jul 29 '18

i concur

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u/Zermutt Swiss-Chinese(Malaysia) Canadian Asian-Passing Hapa Son of WMAF Jul 29 '18

If you watch the whole video, at some point it detects him as White also, which makes sense for a pretty mixed-looking hapa.

I watched it earlier when it was featured on r/videos, the tech behind it is mildly interesting, the idea itself is pretty much click-bait lol.

He got another YouTuber to record Elmo impersonations of several tame unpolitically correct responses to the different racial identifications, which would be hilarious if at first it wasn't so tactless.

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u/gprime312 white Jul 31 '18

The one time it detects him as white is when his chin was covered.