Scot here, because we love Rugby so much everyone in Scotland loves it. my father still calls me through whenever he watches a game that has the all blacks in so we can watch it. it's so unique and cool :)
@@FM-dm8xj NZ and aus are not connected culturally in the slightest... someone from aus is more likely to know out traditions than say someone from america sure but that doesn't really mean much
I agree, but recently Ive been cutting back on adding lime to all my tacos. Like Connor mentioned with Yuzu, sometimes adding the chile and the lime just overpowers everything. I want tacos al pastor, de lengua, carnitas, tripitas, barbacoa, etc. because I want the taste of the meat. I don't want to be hit in the mouth by onion, cilantro, chile y limon I want the meat flavor. Hell yeah I still add lime to most of my food, but now I cut the amount I add by half so its still there, but it doesn't cover up the taste of all the other goodies. Better experience overall, but yeah, lime for everything. Ill even drink limeade over lemonade. Connor knows whats up.
Love how deep this episode is with culture and language. I relate with Garnt with feeling an outsider in both cultures. I had an identity crisis but I slowly embrace both cultures.
I’m Japanese and Mexican. It was VERY unique hearing Connor defending limes and Joey talking about half Japanese backgrounds. Now with that being said too, Ya siempre vamos a invitar a Connor para carne asada
I mean, he's half-Japanese, so it's like he's passionately talking about how super hot he himself is, hahaha (or at least half super hot). Not that I disagree, all three of them are super hot
I'm half Alaska native and half white, and listening to the boys talking about how parents won't teach their kids the native language hit really close to home. My grandparents went to the native boarding schools and learned to not speak their language, and so they didn't teach their kids and now I don't know it. Our language is actively dying and hearing about you guys talking about parents not teaching their kids the mother tongue was really cool. Never related to an episode more
That’s sad cause there were clearly measures in your case put in place to essentially not give you a choice, as opposed to choosing to learn it. I had the chance to learn my native language but essentially chose to call it quits as it is incredibly rare as a language. I’d be interested to know more about your language , I hope it has a resurgence.
I highly relate to what you're saying. My father is Nubian, he grew up in Wadi Halfa which is a town with most of the Nubian population in Sudan, so they spoke the language even though the main language in the country is Arabic, but the town got flooded after a dam was constructed, which made the people spread all over the country, Which made the language useless because everyone around you spoke Arabic. I was born after the immigration so when my father raised me he chose to not teach me Nubian. Now the language is nearly extinct, and the only way to learn it is to go to the very few schools in Egypt and Sudan. It's not in the Google translate database, but there is a Microsoft keyboard for it.
I love that the boys brought up Haka. I think the coolest thing about Haka is that if you actually know what they are saying, the lyrics have almost nothing to do with being directly hostile to the people in front of you. It’s usually something beautiful like the story of a chief who survived a battle and expressed his gratitude at seeing the sun again, or how if you’re having trouble, the answers are inside of you. I just think it’s so beautiful to express those deep, sincere, vulnerable feelings through what was originally a war cry.
That is the story of the haka that the All Blacks use, the most famous one. I really like your perspective on it. Not sure if you were aware but there are actually many different haka with different lyrics and different stories associated with them so you can get all sorts of stuff lol
im gonna be real with you, as a rugby player haka does absolutely nothing. you're made to stand and look at a bunch of people silly dancing just because its interesting for viewers. its not intimidating at all, nobody in your team actually cares. its literally for people to go "ohh so beautiful intimidating scary" while its not, its just a waste of time.
Love seeing all the comments about Haka. I had a middle school teacher from New Zealand who was one of those teachers who terrified you until you actually had them, and normally he would be completely expressionless and nonchalant, he was a good teacher but exuded this kind of apathy towards the whole school system. He always used to mention in class when it was his turn to do an assembly because he hated coming up with a topic for it (one time he ended up just talking about Iron Maiden's Powerslave album for 15 minutes), but one time he talked a lot about New Zealand and Māori culture, and then did the haka in front of everyone in a full suit and tie and it was fucking amazing on so many levels.
@@samba-v8c the assembly was ostensibly about water shortages and drought around the world but it was really just an excuse for him to talk about 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and by extension the Iron Maiden song of it, and then he just went off on a tangent about him buying the album as a kid and so on for the rest of the assembly lol
Love Connor speaking up about ‘if you’re sick, just don’t go to work!’ Most ppl in America get no sick days, get treated poorly after for taking off sick. My mom couldn’t ever AFFORD to take a day off. Even with the flu. Yeah sorry she may have gotten some ppl sick but we can’t go starving
@@lachlank.8270 what illness would someone be walking around with that is completely deadly and is going to stop in it’s tracks and kill my mom. That person would be dead first lmfao. Stop trying to reach. It’s not a brain parasite. Obviously people should stay home. People don’t have that option. If a mom with the flu has to come to work yeah that sucks. I don’t want to get sick. You know what’s worse? Having your lights shut off. Having no food in the fridge. Having your water shut off. Your kids wondering why there’s no electricity. Which I’m sure you’ve never experienced. Do you know what living paycheck to paycheck is? What are you even trying to defend?
@@lachlank.8270 This isn't the right question. This person isn't saying "MY MOM DOESN'T CARE IF PEOPLE GET SICK SHE'S GOING TO WORK ANYWAY AND YOU CAN SUCK IT HAHAHAHAHA". They're explaining why, even though it would be better for literally everyone if her mom could stay home, she literally has to choose between starving or putting others in danger. And that's one of the worst decisions you can be forced to make, but it happens every day in the USA because labor laws favor corporations so heavily. This person agrees with you, their mom agrees with you, but being able to exercise your moral values is a privledge not everyone has. It's easy to stand there and claim someone is a terrible person when you have all your needs met.
That part about USA immigrant parents strongly teaching their kids English is true. I genuinely struggle with Spanish, and every time I go to Mexico, it’s really embarrassing. I can’t go anywhere by myself. I’m like a 3rd grader at best. I very much assimilated. Also yes, Connor, Lime is much better than Lemons.
Yeah, I can speak a bit of Spanish. But not even to hold a conversation longer than 5 min or so. When I go to Mexico it's definitely a bit embarrassing. However I think I used to speak better Spanish when I was younger weirdly enough. I remember being really young visiting Mexico and being able to talk to strangers.
@@kermitdathug3953 I, as well as my brother and sisters obviously struggled with English when we went to school, so we had special classes for English in Elementary. Kindergarten to 3rd Grade, so much so that we pretty much adopted English as our first language. It’s so strange, to think that we all spoke Spanish at home until we turned 5-6 years old lmao.
My parents were the opposite, they always forced me to speak Vietnamese at home and they always corrected me when I used the English word for something. Ultimately, it still didn’t work though because I was stubborn as fuck as a kid and just wanted to speak English lol. I guess it’s a pros vs cons kinda thing because now I also can’t proficiently speak my native tongue and I’m pretty sure my children will barely be able to speak it at all, but on the other hand I can speak English without a funny accent I guess.
@@dajokahbaby1506 as long as you learn the language before 11-12 years old, you won't have accent , even if you household is trilingual, it's a brain development thing. While as an adult, even if you master a foreign lenguage you would get accent no matter what, your brain doesn't have the same plasticity anymore and it's already developed. Second generation Mexican-Americans may not speak or learn Spanish properly because it's by design, they don't want be accuse of not been American or not been enough American, they don't want to be discriminate specially.if.they look latino , and if they are passing white even less.
"The yen is running it down midlane" and "The yen just went on a cliff and it committed jump king" Are 2 great back to back expressions that the boys came up on the spot. Really impressive.
In year 12 I did a research project on "The Identity Crisis of young Asian Australians". It was pretty damn interesting I managed to talk to a professor who specializes in immigration of cultures. Found out that there are so many sub-cultures within the term "Asian Australian" and so many sub-groups as well. The fact that Australia is already a mixing bowl filled with all sorts of cultures you can imagine how diverse the sub-culture within young Asian Australians there are. From Vietnamese to Chinese to Indians forming their own sub-culture together is amazing to research about.
i live in australia in victoria and our country is very very multicultural, mostly because of a plan the Australian government came up with called populate or perish, this was during ww2 when our troops went to war and we lost population so we let in immigrants from asia, vietnam and lebanon
@@harrisonsiler5439 yup you're 100% right, also even before then we had the Chinese gold rush in NSW where thousands of Chinese would come over to mine for gold. Most of them actually just stayed in Australia too
@@FM-dm8xj you would be surprised on how many people calls themselves Asian Australian. On one hand their nationality is Australian and the other their ethnicity is a mix of Australian values with Asian values. Young Asian Australians (especially those who were first generation) tend to have an identity crisis around their puberty stage as they don't understand where they fit in. Luckily for Australia, it's a large mixing pot with all difference races and nationalities/ethnicities. Yeah you're right, people just call themselves Aussie to be short, however I can assure you most will call themselves Asian Australian and agree with it We have so many sub-cultures of Asian Australians it's pretty damn wide and the rabbit hole is deep. I'm unsure how much has changed since I last did my research paper on it but I doubt anything would've changed within the last 2-3 years
@@SilencePandaa I would disagree. Its logical as australia is a multiculutral country with people from various background immigrating to australia. Sure its logical to say their are asian australians but thats not what would be said-it would be either X and aussie (when asked overseas) or just aussie or just X when asked domestically where are you from.
Occasional philosophical discussions like this are part of why I love Trash Taste. This talk about culture and languages is quickly making this my favorite episode of Trash Taste season 3!
Koreans have the Korean alphabet (hangul) and Chinese writing system called hanja. My grandma can tell me the deeper meaning of certain plants being named the way they are because she knows both Korean and hanja, the Chinese writing. I feel like knowing the language does bring a deeper appreciation for culture, but it’s definitely not the only way.
Oh for sure! You can experience it! As my UCSP teacher said about culture and one of its aspect is that culture can be transmitted, shared, learned, and experienced. Philippines for example, you don't need to speak the language exactly to learn the culture, you can experience it! Same with so many culture!
Mudan putting in clips and visual references to these awesome mentions of the cool little traditions that are from around the world. Shows you how great of an editor he is especially since i remember a mention of this man doing these videos at minimum 2x speed on playbacks.
My dad is welsh and ive lived in england my whole life. he's always spoke welsh to me and for a long time i could only understand, but it made it super easy to start speaking later on very grateful he spoke to me since i was young
This episode was fucking wild for me as a Mohawk person because like, their discussion of language was so nuanced and well thought out and I loved it. These guys put more thought into this question than 90% of “allies” in Canada and it’s kinda renewed my faith in humanity just a lil
I remember when Garnt and Sydney tweeted about the "Italian Incident" a while back, I was wondering when we get to hear more about it on the podcast and I can say that I'm not disappointed in it being retold the 2nd time.
That’s it. Yeah when he was talking about it I actually got confused if this wasn’t a new video but that’s right I remember them talking about it on Twitter. lol thank you for that.
I worked at a Filipinos house one time renovating before they put te house up for sale and they let me and my co-worker pick their calamansi trees clean, pretty damn good stuff
calamansi is honestly the best citrus like ive travelled all over the world and it is the best. hands down. if the government does nothing to help farmers, i bet it would be stolen from us and be marketed as coming from china, indonesia or vietnam in the near future
I just got back after watching the wedding ceremony with the haka. I know nothing of the culture of New Zealand, but there was such a deeply engrained sense of communal love and welcoming there that I got chills. Thanks for introducing that to me boys!
First 7 minutes: Garnt: Brings up a case study Connor: Picks it apart with a dry-humorous tone Joey: explains the Japanese way; why the Japanese do it AI-generated episode
@@ankleblad4727 yea there's a few variations of the story out there, last time it think it was him & Sydney but it actually did ended up being too much food and it was embarrassing having to tell the chef or whatever
Yes, I heard that story from a previous episode. Him and Sydsnap ate at a restaurant and the waiter asked once again if they really want to order 2 large meals meant for 3-4 people. I can't remember which episode it was though.
Garnt, as a half Thai woman I’m so glad that you’re planning to teach your kids thai. Thai was my first language but growing up in Germany I wasn’t able to use it much as a child and now I unfortunately can’t speak any of it. It’s quite sad for me because the more I grow up the more I connect with the culture of my roots. Now, at 26 y/o, I’m looking into taking Thai classes for years but the biggest obstacle is to start taking them. I have Thai friends and even if they would never say it, they do treat me differently. It will forever be hard for me to find a place or a group of people that I fully belong to. Not speaking the language of my own roots makes it even harder. It may get difficult to teach a child your language especially because the child probably won’t understand why it is necessary but I encourage you to try your best. Your children will thank you later. I promise that. 😊♥️
Seeing the boys talk about Haka brings me back to my elementary days. One day, our class teacher decided to let the boys do Haka or a "Haka War Cry" as it's also called, during our sports fest. It was so hype that the following year, a teacher asked us to teach their students how to do it.
Oh I did a Haka in the 4th grade and I volunteered as one of the boys to do the Haka. It was such a phenomenal experience and sometimes makes me want to learn more about Maori culture, despite having a limited understanding.
As an American who moved to Thailand when I was young, what Garnt was saying about never fully fitting in anywhere really resonated with me, especially because my parents were also from two very different cultural/ethnic backgrounds.
Thank you boys so much for discussing culture and identities. It wasn't until sophomore year that I began to relearn my mother tongue. My parents wanted me to focus on English so that I would have more opportunities for my future, and they were very supportive when I decided to relearn it. However, whenever I made mistakes, other kids in my family gave me a hard time (even though they were in the same boat as me). I began to feel really insecure and sad. However, my school offered a course called "Cultural & Global Issues" and it immediately made me feel more confident. I was in love with learning about cultures all around the world. I even learned more about the "haka" and even the "hongi." It helped boost my mood and love. I even began writing stories centering on world cultures. It even helped me in my confidence in writing. I wish to continue my work on characters with multicultural backgrounds. As for my Cantonese skills, I'm not fluent, but I can say that I knew more compared to when I started, and I'm still on the journey of improving myself. All that matters is that I learn at my own pace. Again, thank you so much, Trash Taste, for discussing this topic. Maybe as a special, you can all hold a small cultural festival amongst the crew and your friends. Express your culture and your love proudly. I wish you all the best for your future. Or, for my Cantonese speakers, "kung hei faat choy." It's usually said during Lunar New Year, but it translates to something on the lines of wishing "great happiness and prosperity."
im a native cantonese speaker, and it is true that natives do sometimes give a hard time on people trying to (re)learn the language. thank you for reminding me that natives should be more accepting to those that are literally helping us to preserve the language, and 恭喜發財 to you too pal.
During my final school year the pandemic begun to calm down and we were no long required to wear masks while sitting at our desks. I was the only one sitting there with a mask for months. I felt self conscious about how I look, what face I may be making, and just being seen in general. A mask became a sense of security and privacy to some extent. And keeping in mind that the most people in my class were ages 17-19, I can imagine it must be much more of a problem for the younger kids
The culture and language part hits so hard for me. My dad is half Mexican, my mom is Russian. My grandfather on my dad’s side wanted to be as American as possible during the 1920’s. Even though my dad is fluent in Spanish, I never learned Spanish or the Mexican culture and neither did he because his dad wanted to experience the full American life. My mom is a Russian immigrant, she is fluent in Russian and has a Russian daughter who she’ll talk to in their native language. I never learned Russian. They admitted it was due to laziness and we live in a super white American town. It honestly hurts and frustrates me that my parents never taught me their native languages and all I know is English. At the very least I know the food of both cultures and they’re delicious. Luckily my mom wants to help a bit and will show me Russian culture (My mom is fully against the Russian invasion of Ukraine btw) so that’s nice.
I'm in the same boat. As I child I would beg my dad constantly to teach me his native language, but he just wouldn't. I've never been able to even speak to my grandma because I don't know the language. I still hold a huge grudge against him for that and always will, so I can't stand parents who won't teach their native language to their child.
It's never too late to learn languages :D Yeah, it can be easier when being young, but at any age you can start and for some people the discipline we have as adults can be the key to learn in a more efficient manner, since it's not a question of speed but building up knowledge over the years. You got already an advantage over many people: you have native speakers to speak to while learning. It can help you understand grammar or pronounciation more easily by asking them questions, get your ear used to the language, and most importantly help gain confidence on the long run. And yeah, it can be a really cool bonding experience with your family. Also, we have access to so many good apps, books and online course to learn new languages nowadays that I'm convinced you can find a method suited for your personal way of learning. I won't lie, there will be struggles, but if you don't give up and embrace the fact that we learn as humans by doing some really stupid mistakes, it's gonna be alright. Maybe even faster than you would think. Anyway, sorry for the long reply. As someone lucky to speak 2 languages beside english, I feel your pain since I can't imagine how cut from my family I would feel in your place. Oh and btw, I started learning english at 22 (now 30) and I can assure you it has nothing to do with neither the other two (hungarian & french) so yeah, when I say you can learn at any age if you don't give on the long run I speak from personal experience.
Kinda similar to mine but with ethnic language. I'm a filipino and my father knows 'waray' while my mother knows 'bisaya' which is like their respective mothertongue. They never bother teach us siblings those languages 😂
the culture talk in this episode really hit home with me. I'm 1st generation American Born Chinese and my mom gave me a name that can be pronounced in both languages (although I did get made fun of for my name as a child since it's not a common name ...) I feel really lucky now that I'm grown up that I got to spend my childhood in China and got some basic education and a good understanding of the language before going back to the USA. I feel the same way with Garnt about feeling I'm both Chinese and American, even though I don't really participate in the culture of either... One thing in America about "where're you from?" is it has lots of different meanings. I haven't even heard of anyone asking "what's your background?", it's always they ask the same question again but in a different tone or "where're you really from?" ... so personally I'm not offended with the question, but I always get confused with it and have to ask them to clarify what'd you mean by that.
I was born in New Zealand, but raised in Australia and I'm beginning to learn more about my culture. It's great to hear Māori culture being discussed with such positivity and respect and it honestly made me smile to hear you guys talk about it. It made me happy enough to the point I left Spotify, (I'm an audio listener who rarely watches the videos) and come here to express my thoughts. A very hard thing to do - I know 😂
Love when you guys talk abt your traditions. I feel the same as Garnt when he was thinking of non-asian culture first as his own culture (e.g. he thought of brit culture first instead of thai bc he grew up in britain). As an asian-american it's interesting to compare a thai-brit's perspective to these things. Like Joey said being asked "where are you from" implies that you don't belong in America. Yall are confident enough to talk abt herbivore topics n we appreciate that 🔥 (Also glad that joey explains the herbivore is an actual term in jp 59:41)
Who says that asking "where are you from" implies you don't belong? They just want to know your heritage, not commenting on whether you belong or not. If I as a white guy moved to Nigeria, it would be very natural for people to ask me where I'm from. Why do you people have to see racism everywhere? At least when it's westerners doing it. Everyone else tho? They're just curious.
My dad is 50% Slovak. My grandmother was first generation born in Canada her brother and parents fled Slovakia sometime in the 1930s-1940s. My dad really wants to visit there and id like to as well but we don't feel like we can because none of us speak Slovak. My grandma speaks some but her family is from a small town with a very specific dialect that makes it hard to understand people without this dialect.
the welsh did poetry rap battles in ancient magus bride cosplay, that's the coolest tradition i ever heard and kinda sounds like it came straight out of a Monkey Island game
in Italy drinking coffee while you eat your meal is unheard of, coffee here is almost always espresso and you wouldn't wanna cover the food's flavour with it
In Finland too, coffee in a restaurant is normally drunk with dessert so having coffee before would be like having cake before food but I don't think anyone would make too much of a fuss is someone would just want it before. :'D You do know that Speedo boys is another name for Free! (we need the edit). And yes, beta boys turned to that in my head. x) Also horse head knocking door thing sounds similarish to "Nuutipukki"-tradition which is bunch of kids dressing up after Christmas to collect leftovers or candy (similarish to trick or threat too).
I believe in all of Europe. Probably most places in the world with the USA (and maybe neighbouring countries that just assimilate their norms) probably being the exception...
Loved this ep cuz the culture talk is so complex and always an interesting topic when u include different perspectives. Im Chicana aka Mexican-American and I gotta say my community has molded it’s own, very marked Mexican-American culture and perfected the “ni de aquí ni de allá” (“not from here or from there either”) identity because we pull from both (but we pull a little bit more from the Mexican side). U guys should look into Chicano culture in Japan (there’s a video on UA-cam showcasing how some Japanese ppl dress like chicanos/cholo and drive low riders) 😅🇲🇽🇺🇸❤️🔥
Speaking as an Asian American, (specifically Korean-American) I think it's a sensitive topic (at least in part) because a lot of Americans only know China and Japan, so a lot of Korean, Filipino, Thai, etc. Americans have had the experience of being asked "Are you Chinese or Japanese?" or being asked the follow up question of "Is that in China or Japan?"
The coffee after the meal it's not just a Japanese thing, in a lot of European countries, coffee is usually an espresso after the meal. You will get strange looks if you ask for coffee during the meal.
What? No that's not common at all in my experience. As a European citizen who has traveled to many European countries I can't remember being asked this even a single time in my life. I tend to order hot coffee when I go out to eat and the waiters have always just brought it as soon as the drink is ready.
@@victoriazero8869 I'm pretty sure Italy is after full meals, tho in Australia brunch has been huge for like 20 years and you normally have a coffee with it
When Connor said about that comment about him not a Welsh... It kinda made me sad af. He may joke around it but I feel like it actually hurts hearing those stuffs. I hope that man who commented it get tiny ants in his bed for a week
"This is what you think is enough to feed me" Connor saying this about the pasta in such a menacing voice was too good lmao "I LIKE BETA BOYS" Connor 2022 XD
I thought I had heard this pasta story before and lost my mind, triple checking the release date of the video before I realised Garnt told this story like a month ago in his stream
About the accent shifting, it's so true! We've learned American English in my country, but since I moved to England, my accent's been converted slightly to British.
As one of the 0.1% Japanese fan of this channel, I’m glad Joey would occasionally bring up Japanese part of himself to explain the customaries in Japan because with Grant and Connor, it’s just going to be “Oh yeah Japan weird blah blah blah”.
@@keinick4569 keep in mind that they're just a couple of friends hanging out. you can't expect one half-japanese guy to fully represent your country unfortunately. Though getting their facts checked when talking about cultural stuff would be a neat addition.
@@yaboiaxl1216 Don’t get me wrong, I’m not expecting Joey to have a PhD on Japanese culture and be correct about every single line of conversation. Even I don’t know everything about my country and you probably don’t know everything about yours too. I just find it pity that nobody seems to be able to complement Joey’s knowledge kind of in a same way that Garnt and Connor can complement each other’s knowledge of UK… Joey is the authority when it comes to topics of Japan and there’s far few “Nah that doesn’t sound right -We need some fact checking” moment …but perhaps I’m asking too much.
Damn its a shame that Garnt didnt mention muay thai when talking about badass culture from thailand. I mean muay thai is one of the most influential and dangerous combat sports in the world. You see muay thai in animes such as kengan ashura and baki, movies like Ong bak and Jean claude van dammes Kickboxer.
Definitely related to the discussion of balancing between cultures. My parents immigrated from South America to Canada before I was born. Also have a bit of an identity crisis, can’t speak my mother language that well (Spanish - mainly because I refused to speak it when I was young and there is little to no Latinos where I grew up, only my parents and I) and occasionally get those annoying “No, where are you REALLY from?”
This was honestly driving me crazy because I had heard this before and they just joked about an AI generated episode and I couldn't tell if it was a joke or I was losing it.
its so funny to know that Kai is my irl friend and he's your fact checker cause I can totes imagine him just panicking when being asked to look something up sksksks
In Norway, people usually have coffee after the dinner or along with dessert. So I was a bit weirded out at first by connor expecting it to be the norm that you get coffee with the dinner.
I love when you guys talk about culture. I'm second generation Polish from the US and my Mom never taught me the language. It's honestly the biggest regret of my life that I didn't learn it. Especially since I'm from Chicago, which has a HUGE Polish population. :'(
Pretty much any polish person would be thrilled to try and take baby steps with you into the language, a very proud people ..Just make sure you're not black oof
I bet everyone’s hearts almost leaped out of their chests after reading the title and thinking that Andrew Tate was invited as a guest to join the podcast 😂
Yuzu is quite big here in sweden, a lot of fish/seafood resturants use yuzu ponzu for a shit ton of stuff. Also sparkeling Yuzu drinks are pretty common, and I love it
I am so happy the boys talked about the Haka, as I myself am Maori, I was so happy that they all think it’s very powerful and amazing! Loved the episode today.
The culture conversation is one I've tried to have with friends. Growing up in western Canada the biggest thing I remember was being told "you're Canadian not American remember this" due to the cultural pressure from them. It's only the past ten ish years that I've really begun to start apricating how different all the cultures are around the world. Now I just need to travel and see some in person hopefully soon.
I am half german and half Kosovo albanian. My dad is super nationalistic (moved to germany when he was 20) but failed to teach us his language when we were young because it was more convenient to speak german to us (now he blames my siblings and me for not speaking it and only understanding it a little). I cannot tell you any stereotypical german thing we do in my household because there aren't any. the lines are blurred and I can relate to 'tiktoks only brown/ desi/ Arabian people understand' because we are muslims. when I meet Albanian people they tell me that I am just a german + my dad's family always treated me shitty for being half german. when I talk to germans I cannot (I never did) relate to the culture because it's inherently different from what I grew up with. I can neither identify as Albanian nor german. over the years I started hating people who identify themselves as their home country and especially nationalists. I really don't care about countries or cultures at all and see myself as an individual that isn't connected to any country but only to myself, my parents/siblings and my faith. that's why I despise people who always talk about how great their country is and make their culture their entire personality.
This was a really good episode. The conversation topics were really good. I'm happy that you have such a large audience, you feel like mature adults full of life experience and not some cookie-cutter "influencers". Keep making your audience proud. Stay cool!
Boys, it's not only in Japan. In Brazil coffee is also thought of as an after meal beverage. It's actually weird for us here to think of having coffee or tea along with a main meal.
The thing to remember is that in the US, there's a real undercurrent of xenophobia underlying the "where are you from" question. And also there's a large portion of the country where you are 100% considered "not truly American" if you don't stay where you're from and want to explore the world.
Getting asked “Where are you from” feels like a stop & frisk or being demanded to see my license and registration when I’m literally driving the speed limit. I’m biracial and a nurse and had a patient ask me “what are you?” When I was confused (because I was busy trying to listen to their heart) they said “what breed are you?” Completely shocked dumb I said I’m Mexican and white AND THOSE DUDE ASKS “What kind of white?” LIKE I WASNT EXPECTING 2 POP QUIZZES ON MY BLOODLINE
I'm a white American so I've never really got it-but I understand that I'm more the exception than the rule when I ask others where they're from out of genuine curiosity and interest. I want to know about people's cultures and history! I find it all super cool and fascinating, especially in a state where it's heavily White and Native American.
The culture talk hit too close to home. I'm half Japanese half Taiwanese born and raised in Brazil. Spoke Portuguese from birth and as they mentioned in the video my parents told me to focus on learning English since it would bring more opportunities for me in the future. But I also grew up with cultural influences from both countries but never knew how to speak either languages properly. So while studying through highschool I'd always wonder if I could study those languages or even experience these cultures in their respective countries. And now I can finally say I can and I will. I got a golden opportunity to study in a Japanese College, although I still have much to learn I'm going into this with a will to learn and evolve from this experience. Also wanted to comment to anyone reading who's also in a similar situation, Joey put it best, you're not one or the other, you are BOTH. You are not losing an identity, you are being given the opportunity to have multiple, when you realize and truly believe that, you will be prosperous in either country. (Sorry if my English is bad)
For sure related to the culture thing because I’m a Chinese adoptee in America and even felt the culture shock when I went back in 2019 for a tour in China. Never felt 100% in either. The question, “Where are you from?” is something I still get asked. I don’t know my mother language and am more interested in Japanese and Korean culture. It’s conflicting and people can’t tell where I’m from, but I think I’ll have more trouble if I go to either of those places because they’ll also assume I’m Japanese or Korean and can speak the language, just like when I was in a China
Thank you for commenting! It's lovely to read your story and perspective, you actually call this inbetween culture! It's so cool and interesting, might be an idea to look into it! (i'm nerdy about it don't mind me)
I enjoyed this episode a lot ! I was born in the U.K. but my grandad came from the south of Ireland. I was raised by him and my grandmother and we were taught a lot about Ireland and always went back 2 times a year when I was younger. But a lot of people always told me “you aren’t really Irish” or “your not a true blooded Irish person” and it always hurt me. I know I’m Irish descent and I’m aware of the Irish/English history and hate between eachother but i just wanted to get to know my roots more and learn more about my family’s history. I’ve always loved Ireland and even called it home since I was a child.. it’s a hard one but I still want to continue learning about Ireland and loving it despite what people keep saying to me. It’s worse online and sometimes these comments come from people who aren’t even from England or Ireland but claim you are not Irish at all 😂
As a danish person whose father lives in Thailand and recently married a Thai, the culture is very different and fascinating. The concept of ‘face’ for example almost doesn’t exist in Denmark but it’s (from what I’ve been told by my dad) but it’s very important in Thailand.
@@samuraijosh1595 match making is an very common thing, especially in South East Asia, the elderly are very concerned if you aren't married after a certain age threshold, and you'd be nagged at every gathering.
Garnt's pasta and pizza story remind me of my friend group during eating out. We usually order 2 or more dishes per person...I can feel the piercing judging eyes of the waitress. 🤣🤣🤣
In Italy coffee is always served at the end of the meal. Obviously you can have coffee on its own or with something light like a pastry pretty much throughout the day, but having it before or alongside a full meal would be considered extremely weird.
Y'all probably won't see this, but I loved seeing y'all on tour in Dallas. You made my friend's day by calling him out from the crowd for being from Ohio
I think in Europe it's also more normal to have coffee after dinner but if you wanted coffee after your meal you'd never order it before you got your food though. Like I've never heard anyone say "I'd have a pasta please and then once I've finished that bring me a coffee".
@@line7596 yeah exactly. Like maybe if you're almost done eating they might want to clarify? But usually they would just ask you after dinner if you want coffee.
I got genuinely happy when Conner said “Mexican Brothers Rise Up!!”
Went out and bought a bag of limes
dominos is to Italy what tacobell is to you guys I imagine 💀
@@-Strike Taco Bell is American. No way is any part of that Mexican 🤣 so yes, you’re pretty accurate lol
@@EyeVan00 Del Taco 🌮 😆
He should save it for their texas show this weekend
@@-Strike for them if a goku making quesadillas isn't painted on a wall that place ain't autentic
"Oranges and Tangerines don't have distinct flavors between each other" Garnt said while firmly griping the clown shoes he had previously taken off
98.7% of people who have some sort of Mexican heritage, felt an instant connection to Connor this episode.
Not even Mexican just Latinos man 😂
I'm like as white as people come and garnt's and joey's citrus takes were clown tier
I love my calamansi to death but them saying lemon is better than lime hit me deep in my core
Never in a million years did I think I'd ever hear Connor yell, "Mexican brothers rise up!"
Timestamp???
As a Mexican, I'm so proud of Connor defending lime.
Connor is an honorary Mexican confirmed...
Bienvenidos al Hombre Mono!
@@alfonsobiggers2452 Carnal te falta afinar un poco tu español 😂😂😂💀 pero concuerdo, el chango es bienvenido en México.
Imo out of all Citrus fruits lime is probably the best
Connor hermano ya eres Mexicano 🎉
Same,mexican pride as well
"lime is the beta lemon."
Never in my life have I been disgusted by a food take in my life.
Mexico is coming for your asses Joey and Garnt
They better live in fear. Beta lemon? Not in my barrio. Vamos a partirles el hocico.
At some point they’re gonna start a world war with all countries hunting them down
if anything lime is the chad lemon
lemon is the sigma chad lime its soo much stronger and better
they literally taste different
As a Māori, it’s crazy to hear the boys recognise our culture and speak so highly of it. Love to see it lmao
Scot here, because we love Rugby so much everyone in Scotland loves it. my father still calls me through whenever he watches a game that has the all blacks in so we can watch it. it's so unique and cool :)
Fellow kiwi :)
As a Māori myself, I also find it crazy hearing them talk about our culture lol. It's cool though.
joeys from australia tho lmao
@@FM-dm8xj NZ and aus are not connected culturally in the slightest... someone from aus is more likely to know out traditions than say someone from america sure but that doesn't really mean much
Connor is officially invited to the carne asadas
time stamp?
@@ArialSpit the worst citrus fruit
A huevo
In Japan, it'd be the Carne Cicadas.
I like how Trash Taste hired a person to google all their questions.
It's their Jamie
@@Isaac_eins Kind of funny that Jamie is understood as the 'background guy that googles'
@@Prostaniks who is the original jamie?
@@RonaldoVODS Joe Rogan's audio engineer (i believe) and Googler
A Jamie is the mark of a successful podcast
I swear I thought Tate was a guest today and I was freaking out
Lmaoooo
lmao
Me to lol
I was disappointed
Same
As a Mexican, I connected to Connor when he said Lime was great.
When he said Mexican Brothers Rise up I rose with pride
I agree, but recently Ive been cutting back on adding lime to all my tacos. Like Connor mentioned with Yuzu, sometimes adding the chile and the lime just overpowers everything. I want tacos al pastor, de lengua, carnitas, tripitas, barbacoa, etc. because I want the taste of the meat. I don't want to be hit in the mouth by onion, cilantro, chile y limon I want the meat flavor. Hell yeah I still add lime to most of my food, but now I cut the amount I add by half so its still there, but it doesn't cover up the taste of all the other goodies. Better experience overall, but yeah, lime for everything. Ill even drink limeade over lemonade. Connor knows whats up.
As a Mexican, my limes tasted a little more delicious when Connor defended them. LETS GOOOO!!!
Love how deep this episode is with culture and language. I relate with Garnt with feeling an outsider in both cultures. I had an identity crisis but I slowly embrace both cultures.
Glad they brought back deep taste
Philosophical discussions like this are a big reason why I love Trash Taste.
Garnt and Conner: So we agree that grapefruit is the worst citrus
Joey: “I don’t know, I kinda fuck with it”
bro be doin the grapefruit technique on it
Lol joeys response to everything.
Such a contrarian
Same tbh
Classic trash taste-isms
I’m Japanese and Mexican. It was VERY unique hearing Connor defending limes and Joey talking about half Japanese backgrounds.
Now with that being said too,
Ya siempre vamos a invitar a Connor para carne asada
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
QUE SE ARME LA CARNE ASADA CON EL CONNOR ALV
Damn. I'm Filipino but that last sentence, i can agree on that.
de paso darle arrachera
@@johneralddayrit7833 what does it said?
I love how passionate Joey got when discussing Japanese people being hot
The man's spitting
He was mostly only talking about ugly white guys and Japanese women with no standards.
Patriotic as an Australian and now patriotic as a Japanese
I mean, he's half-Japanese, so it's like he's passionately talking about how super hot he himself is, hahaha (or at least half super hot). Not that I disagree, all three of them are super hot
I mean he is not wrong
I'm half Alaska native and half white, and listening to the boys talking about how parents won't teach their kids the native language hit really close to home. My grandparents went to the native boarding schools and learned to not speak their language, and so they didn't teach their kids and now I don't know it. Our language is actively dying and hearing about you guys talking about parents not teaching their kids the mother tongue was really cool. Never related to an episode more
That’s sad cause there were clearly measures in your case put in place to essentially not give you a choice, as opposed to choosing to learn it. I had the chance to learn my native language but essentially chose to call it quits as it is incredibly rare as a language. I’d be interested to know more about your language , I hope it has a resurgence.
I highly relate to what you're saying.
My father is Nubian, he grew up in Wadi Halfa which is a town with most of the Nubian population in Sudan, so they spoke the language even though the main language in the country is Arabic, but the town got flooded after a dam was constructed, which made the people spread all over the country,
Which made the language useless because everyone around you spoke Arabic. I was born after the immigration so when my father raised me he chose to not teach me Nubian.
Now the language is nearly extinct, and the only way to learn it is to go to the very few schools in Egypt and Sudan.
It's not in the Google translate database, but there is a Microsoft keyboard for it.
"half white" sorry but cringe
@@tomgu2285 come again?
@@tomgu2285 how so?
I love that the boys brought up Haka. I think the coolest thing about Haka is that if you actually know what they are saying, the lyrics have almost nothing to do with being directly hostile to the people in front of you. It’s usually something beautiful like the story of a chief who survived a battle and expressed his gratitude at seeing the sun again, or how if you’re having trouble, the answers are inside of you. I just think it’s so beautiful to express those deep, sincere, vulnerable feelings through what was originally a war cry.
It literally gives me goosebumps and sometimes emotional, it's powerful
That is the story of the haka that the All Blacks use, the most famous one. I really like your perspective on it.
Not sure if you were aware but there are actually many different haka with different lyrics and different stories associated with them so you can get all sorts of stuff lol
im gonna be real with you, as a rugby player haka does absolutely nothing. you're made to stand and look at a bunch of people silly dancing just because its interesting for viewers. its not intimidating at all, nobody in your team actually cares. its literally for people to go "ohh so beautiful intimidating scary" while its not, its just a waste of time.
@@Rocek it's ok not to like it
@@Rocek hey so, nobody cares about your opinion lol
Love seeing all the comments about Haka. I had a middle school teacher from New Zealand who was one of those teachers who terrified you until you actually had them, and normally he would be completely expressionless and nonchalant, he was a good teacher but exuded this kind of apathy towards the whole school system. He always used to mention in class when it was his turn to do an assembly because he hated coming up with a topic for it (one time he ended up just talking about Iron Maiden's Powerslave album for 15 minutes), but one time he talked a lot about New Zealand and Māori culture, and then did the haka in front of everyone in a full suit and tie and it was fucking amazing on so many levels.
Your teacher was a real one for just talking about Powerslave for 15 minutes, and even more for the Haka.
ah powerslave, great album.
@@samba-v8c the assembly was ostensibly about water shortages and drought around the world but it was really just an excuse for him to talk about 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and by extension the Iron Maiden song of it, and then he just went off on a tangent about him buying the album as a kid and so on for the rest of the assembly lol
@@TheDustyForest Chad behaviour
Love Connor speaking up about ‘if you’re sick, just don’t go to work!’ Most ppl in America get no sick days, get treated poorly after for taking off sick. My mom couldn’t ever AFFORD to take a day off. Even with the flu. Yeah sorry she may have gotten some ppl sick but we can’t go starving
So you wouldn't care if someone got your mom sick and she died right? Cause they can't go starving
@@lachlank.8270 what illness would someone be walking around with that is completely deadly and is going to stop in it’s tracks and kill my mom. That person would be dead first lmfao. Stop trying to reach. It’s not a brain parasite. Obviously people should stay home. People don’t have that option. If a mom with the flu has to come to work yeah that sucks. I don’t want to get sick. You know what’s worse? Having your lights shut off. Having no food in the fridge. Having your water shut off. Your kids wondering why there’s no electricity. Which I’m sure you’ve never experienced. Do you know what living paycheck to paycheck is? What are you even trying to defend?
@@lachlank.8270 This isn't the right question. This person isn't saying "MY MOM DOESN'T CARE IF PEOPLE GET SICK SHE'S GOING TO WORK ANYWAY AND YOU CAN SUCK IT HAHAHAHAHA". They're explaining why, even though it would be better for literally everyone if her mom could stay home, she literally has to choose between starving or putting others in danger. And that's one of the worst decisions you can be forced to make, but it happens every day in the USA because labor laws favor corporations so heavily. This person agrees with you, their mom agrees with you, but being able to exercise your moral values is a privledge not everyone has. It's easy to stand there and claim someone is a terrible person when you have all your needs met.
@@misteryA555 w comment
Ppl in western Europe: i got sick for 2 weeks and didn't end up in debt... MAGA clearly didn't fing work
The thumbnail change to avoid the Tate confusion has been a small, yet funny, addition to the Trash Taste Lore: “The Lost Tate Episode”
It was the parallel timeline where andrew tate comes on trash taste and the boys join his alpha course.
@@zLcx *next episode* “WE BECAME ALPHAS”
@@zLcx tbh I feel like if Tate actually came on it would quickly become a debate podcast. The boys are NOT aligned with his ideas.
@@Necroskull388 hes banned lmao so he never will
i think its also cuz tate is banned and people that talk or mingle with him can get banned too
That part about USA immigrant parents strongly teaching their kids English is true. I genuinely struggle with Spanish, and every time I go to Mexico, it’s really embarrassing. I can’t go anywhere by myself. I’m like a 3rd grader at best. I very much assimilated.
Also yes, Connor, Lime is much better than Lemons.
Yeah, I can speak a bit of Spanish. But not even to hold a conversation longer than 5 min or so. When I go to Mexico it's definitely a bit embarrassing. However I think I used to speak better Spanish when I was younger weirdly enough. I remember being really young visiting Mexico and being able to talk to strangers.
@@kermitdathug3953 Same here. I think that’s the common second-generation Hispanic immigrant experience in the US.
@@kermitdathug3953 I, as well as my brother and sisters obviously struggled with English when we went to school, so we had special classes for English in Elementary. Kindergarten to 3rd Grade, so much so that we pretty much adopted English as our first language. It’s so strange, to think that we all spoke Spanish at home until we turned 5-6 years old lmao.
My parents were the opposite, they always forced me to speak Vietnamese at home and they always corrected me when I used the English word for something. Ultimately, it still didn’t work though because I was stubborn as fuck as a kid and just wanted to speak English lol. I guess it’s a pros vs cons kinda thing because now I also can’t proficiently speak my native tongue and I’m pretty sure my children will barely be able to speak it at all, but on the other hand I can speak English without a funny accent I guess.
@@dajokahbaby1506 as long as you learn the language before 11-12 years old, you won't have accent , even if you household is trilingual, it's a brain development thing.
While as an adult, even if you master a foreign lenguage you would get accent no matter what, your brain doesn't have the same plasticity anymore and it's already developed.
Second generation Mexican-Americans may not speak or learn Spanish properly because it's by design, they don't want be accuse of not been American or not been enough American, they don't want to be discriminate specially.if.they look latino , and if they are passing white even less.
"The yen is running it down midlane" and "The yen just went on a cliff and it committed jump king"
Are 2 great back to back expressions that the boys came up on the spot. Really impressive.
In year 12 I did a research project on "The Identity Crisis of young Asian Australians". It was pretty damn interesting I managed to talk to a professor who specializes in immigration of cultures. Found out that there are so many sub-cultures within the term "Asian Australian" and so many sub-groups as well. The fact that Australia is already a mixing bowl filled with all sorts of cultures you can imagine how diverse the sub-culture within young Asian Australians there are. From Vietnamese to Chinese to Indians forming their own sub-culture together is amazing to research about.
i live in australia in victoria and our country is very very multicultural, mostly because of a plan the Australian government came up with called populate or perish, this was during ww2 when our troops went to war and we lost population so we let in immigrants from asia, vietnam and lebanon
@@harrisonsiler5439 yup you're 100% right, also even before then we had the Chinese gold rush in NSW where thousands of Chinese would come over to mine for gold. Most of them actually just stayed in Australia too
yeah but no calls themselves asian australian, its just aussie.
@@FM-dm8xj you would be surprised on how many people calls themselves Asian Australian. On one hand their nationality is Australian and the other their ethnicity is a mix of Australian values with Asian values. Young Asian Australians (especially those who were first generation) tend to have an identity crisis around their puberty stage as they don't understand where they fit in. Luckily for Australia, it's a large mixing pot with all difference races and nationalities/ethnicities. Yeah you're right, people just call themselves Aussie to be short, however I can assure you most will call themselves Asian Australian and agree with it
We have so many sub-cultures of Asian Australians it's pretty damn wide and the rabbit hole is deep. I'm unsure how much has changed since I last did my research paper on it but I doubt anything would've changed within the last 2-3 years
@@SilencePandaa I would disagree. Its logical as australia is a multiculutral country with people from various background immigrating to australia. Sure its logical to say their are asian australians but thats not what would be said-it would be either X and aussie (when asked overseas) or just aussie or just X when asked domestically where are you from.
Ah yes, sitting down with Alphuk, CAlphVA, and the The Alpha Man
Alphuck, it happened again
The Alpha Zone
Alpha Taste
Alpha taste
It's a NEW TIMELINE!!!!!!!!
Occasional philosophical discussions like this are part of why I love Trash Taste.
This talk about culture and languages is quickly making this my favorite episode of Trash Taste season 3!
Koreans have the Korean alphabet (hangul) and Chinese writing system called hanja. My grandma can tell me the deeper meaning of certain plants being named the way they are because she knows both Korean and hanja, the Chinese writing.
I feel like knowing the language does bring a deeper appreciation for culture, but it’s definitely not the only way.
Oh for sure! You can experience it! As my UCSP teacher said about culture and one of its aspect is that culture can be transmitted, shared, learned, and experienced.
Philippines for example, you don't need to speak the language exactly to learn the culture, you can experience it! Same with so many culture!
Mudan putting in clips and visual references to these awesome mentions of the cool little traditions that are from around the world. Shows you how great of an editor he is especially since i remember a mention of this man doing these videos at minimum 2x speed on playbacks.
It would have been such a power move if Garnt and Sydney ordered dessert at the restaraunt and ate it all too
My dad is welsh and ive lived in england my whole life. he's always spoke welsh to me and for a long time i could only understand, but it made it super easy to start speaking later on very grateful he spoke to me since i was young
Whole conservation about not knowing even your parents mother tongue while feeling not at home anywhere is so relatable
This episode was fucking wild for me as a Mohawk person because like, their discussion of language was so nuanced and well thought out and I loved it. These guys put more thought into this question than 90% of “allies” in Canada and it’s kinda renewed my faith in humanity just a lil
I can't believe Garnt failed to mention Muay Thai as one of the coolest cultural exports ever.
I was waiting for so long to hear Muay Thai and Garnt never even got CLOSE to mention it
I was itching for him to mention it
I remember when Garnt and Sydney tweeted about the "Italian Incident" a while back, I was wondering when we get to hear more about it on the podcast and I can say that I'm not disappointed in it being retold the 2nd time.
Oh okay, I was so confused why I've heard this exact story before. Thanks.
That’s it. Yeah when he was talking about it I actually got confused if this wasn’t a new video but that’s right I remember them talking about it on Twitter. lol thank you for that.
Same I was like, is this a re-upload?
There will be a time where they'll forget that they have discussed this topic here and there. Still good to me though
While I was thinking if this was that time when Sydney asked Garnt for pizza or pasta during Garnt's stream.
As a Filipino, I'm crying at the fact that calamansi wasn't even discussed as an S tier citrus..
Truly the gigachad of citruses. 😤🇵🇭
Calamansi IS Lime, which is the specific citrus that was wrongfully criticized.
I worked at a Filipinos house one time renovating before they put te house up for sale and they let me and my co-worker pick their calamansi trees clean, pretty damn good stuff
inang to
calamansi is honestly the best citrus like ive travelled all over the world and it is the best. hands down. if the government does nothing to help farmers, i bet it would be stolen from us and be marketed as coming from china, indonesia or vietnam in the near future
Calamansi would be the SIGMA citrus
I just got back after watching the wedding ceremony with the haka. I know nothing of the culture of New Zealand, but there was such a deeply engrained sense of communal love and welcoming there that I got chills. Thanks for introducing that to me boys!
I love the thought of a traditional Maori war dance at a wedding. It just seems so out-of-place that It makes me laugh about the thought.
@@Killrrhubarb it's not actually a war dance when it's at a wedding or funeral, it's like calling any song a rap because some of the words rhyme
@@Deadbeatcow I am a new zealand Maori, and it's definitely still a war dance.
@@Deadbeatcow also the one they sung was about young teenage boys not going down the right path in life, so definitely a choice.
First 7 minutes:
Garnt: Brings up a case study
Connor: Picks it apart with a dry-humorous tone
Joey: explains the Japanese way; why the Japanese do it
AI-generated episode
Is it just me, or didn't Garnt already said this story before?
@@ankleblad4727 he 100% did, or at least someone did
@@ankleblad4727 He said it in his own stream
@@ankleblad4727 yea there's a few variations of the story out there, last time it think it was him & Sydney but it actually did ended up being too much food and it was embarrassing having to tell the chef or whatever
Yes, I heard that story from a previous episode. Him and Sydsnap ate at a restaurant and the waiter asked once again if they really want to order 2 large meals meant for 3-4 people. I can't remember which episode it was though.
Garnt, as a half Thai woman I’m so glad that you’re planning to teach your kids thai. Thai was my first language but growing up in Germany I wasn’t able to use it much as a child and now I unfortunately can’t speak any of it. It’s quite sad for me because the more I grow up the more I connect with the culture of my roots. Now, at 26 y/o, I’m looking into taking Thai classes for years but the biggest obstacle is to start taking them. I have Thai friends and even if they would never say it, they do treat me differently. It will forever be hard for me to find a place or a group of people that I fully belong to. Not speaking the language of my own roots makes it even harder.
It may get difficult to teach a child your language especially because the child probably won’t understand why it is necessary but I encourage you to try your best. Your children will thank you later. I promise that. 😊♥️
Seeing the boys talk about Haka brings me back to my elementary days. One day, our class teacher decided to let the boys do Haka or a "Haka War Cry" as it's also called, during our sports fest. It was so hype that the following year, a teacher asked us to teach their students how to do it.
Oh I did a Haka in the 4th grade and I volunteered as one of the boys to do the Haka. It was such a phenomenal experience and sometimes makes me want to learn more about Maori culture, despite having a limited understanding.
As an American who moved to Thailand when I was young, what Garnt was saying about never fully fitting in anywhere really resonated with me, especially because my parents were also from two very different cultural/ethnic backgrounds.
I'm glad Connor spoke my exact thoughts in the beginning about the intro sounding like an AI script HELP there's no way this was a real intro
Garnt not bringing up Muay Thai and the rituals they do before kicking the shit out of each other was such a missed opportunity
exactly. The culture around it is so awesome, I'm sad that Garnt didn't think about it
@@devBadgerJ I don't think he even knows about it
@@didllynutz hes a fake thai
@@HidingInMyRoom1989 I'm sad he doesn't even know Sepak Takraw despite it being a popular Southeast Asian sport
Thank you boys so much for discussing culture and identities.
It wasn't until sophomore year that I began to relearn my mother tongue. My parents wanted me to focus on English so that I would have more opportunities for my future, and they were very supportive when I decided to relearn it. However, whenever I made mistakes, other kids in my family gave me a hard time (even though they were in the same boat as me).
I began to feel really insecure and sad. However, my school offered a course called "Cultural & Global Issues" and it immediately made me feel more confident. I was in love with learning about cultures all around the world. I even learned more about the "haka" and even the "hongi."
It helped boost my mood and love. I even began writing stories centering on world cultures. It even helped me in my confidence in writing. I wish to continue my work on characters with multicultural backgrounds.
As for my Cantonese skills, I'm not fluent, but I can say that I knew more compared to when I started, and I'm still on the journey of improving myself. All that matters is that I learn at my own pace.
Again, thank you so much, Trash Taste, for discussing this topic. Maybe as a special, you can all hold a small cultural festival amongst the crew and your friends. Express your culture and your love proudly. I wish you all the best for your future.
Or, for my Cantonese speakers, "kung hei faat choy." It's usually said during Lunar New Year, but it translates to something on the lines of wishing "great happiness and prosperity."
im a native cantonese speaker, and it is true that natives do sometimes give a hard time on people trying to (re)learn the language. thank you for reminding me that natives should be more accepting to those that are literally helping us to preserve the language, and 恭喜發財 to you too pal.
During my final school year the pandemic begun to calm down and we were no long required to wear masks while sitting at our desks. I was the only one sitting there with a mask for months. I felt self conscious about how I look, what face I may be making, and just being seen in general. A mask became a sense of security and privacy to some extent. And keeping in mind that the most people in my class were ages 17-19, I can imagine it must be much more of a problem for the younger kids
The culture and language part hits so hard for me. My dad is half Mexican, my mom is Russian. My grandfather on my dad’s side wanted to be as American as possible during the 1920’s. Even though my dad is fluent in Spanish, I never learned Spanish or the Mexican culture and neither did he because his dad wanted to experience the full American life.
My mom is a Russian immigrant, she is fluent in Russian and has a Russian daughter who she’ll talk to in their native language. I never learned Russian. They admitted it was due to laziness and we live in a super white American town.
It honestly hurts and frustrates me that my parents never taught me their native languages and all I know is English. At the very least I know the food of both cultures and they’re delicious. Luckily my mom wants to help a bit and will show me Russian culture (My mom is fully against the Russian invasion of Ukraine btw) so that’s nice.
wait so you have a sister you can’t talk to?
@@vivvy_0 Luckily she’s fluent in English so we can talk.
I'm in the same boat. As I child I would beg my dad constantly to teach me his native language, but he just wouldn't. I've never been able to even speak to my grandma because I don't know the language. I still hold a huge grudge against him for that and always will, so I can't stand parents who won't teach their native language to their child.
It's never too late to learn languages :D Yeah, it can be easier when being young, but at any age you can start and for some people the discipline we have as adults can be the key to learn in a more efficient manner, since it's not a question of speed but building up knowledge over the years. You got already an advantage over many people: you have native speakers to speak to while learning. It can help you understand grammar or pronounciation more easily by asking them questions, get your ear used to the language, and most importantly help gain confidence on the long run. And yeah, it can be a really cool bonding experience with your family.
Also, we have access to so many good apps, books and online course to learn new languages nowadays that I'm convinced you can find a method suited for your personal way of learning.
I won't lie, there will be struggles, but if you don't give up and embrace the fact that we learn as humans by doing some really stupid mistakes, it's gonna be alright. Maybe even faster than you would think.
Anyway, sorry for the long reply. As someone lucky to speak 2 languages beside english, I feel your pain since I can't imagine how cut from my family I would feel in your place.
Oh and btw, I started learning english at 22 (now 30) and I can assure you it has nothing to do with neither the other two (hungarian & french) so yeah, when I say you can learn at any age if you don't give on the long run I speak from personal experience.
Kinda similar to mine but with ethnic language. I'm a filipino and my father knows 'waray' while my mother knows 'bisaya' which is like their respective mothertongue. They never bother teach us siblings those languages 😂
nothing has scared me more as an American than when Connor said you could pick up a large pasta with your hand… WHAT IS A SMALL THEN??
Pasta happy meal.
Tapas portion or smaller, basically.
Japan is that one friend who always asks for show recommendations, but never watches any of the recommended shows.
the culture talk in this episode really hit home with me. I'm 1st generation American Born Chinese and my mom gave me a name that can be pronounced in both languages (although I did get made fun of for my name as a child since it's not a common name ...) I feel really lucky now that I'm grown up that I got to spend my childhood in China and got some basic education and a good understanding of the language before going back to the USA. I feel the same way with Garnt about feeling I'm both Chinese and American, even though I don't really participate in the culture of either... One thing in America about "where're you from?" is it has lots of different meanings. I haven't even heard of anyone asking "what's your background?", it's always they ask the same question again but in a different tone or "where're you really from?" ... so personally I'm not offended with the question, but I always get confused with it and have to ask them to clarify what'd you mean by that.
Give respects to Joey's Dad to contributing Japan's baby problem just by liking Japanese people
Suki but not Daisuki
I was born in New Zealand, but raised in Australia and I'm beginning to learn more about my culture. It's great to hear Māori culture being discussed with such positivity and respect and it honestly made me smile to hear you guys talk about it. It made me happy enough to the point I left Spotify, (I'm an audio listener who rarely watches the videos) and come here to express my thoughts. A very hard thing to do - I know 😂
Love when you guys talk abt your traditions. I feel the same as Garnt when he was thinking of non-asian culture first as his own culture (e.g. he thought of brit culture first instead of thai bc he grew up in britain). As an asian-american it's interesting to compare a thai-brit's perspective to these things. Like Joey said being asked "where are you from" implies that you don't belong in America.
Yall are confident enough to talk abt herbivore topics n we appreciate that 🔥
(Also glad that joey explains the herbivore is an actual term in jp 59:41)
True, you could born and raised in America but that's not what they want to know.
Who says that asking "where are you from" implies you don't belong? They just want to know your heritage, not commenting on whether you belong or not. If I as a white guy moved to Nigeria, it would be very natural for people to ask me where I'm from.
Why do you people have to see racism everywhere? At least when it's westerners doing it. Everyone else tho? They're just curious.
I can already feel the sparkling water run through this episode
My dad is 50% Slovak. My grandmother was first generation born in Canada her brother and parents fled Slovakia sometime in the 1930s-1940s. My dad really wants to visit there and id like to as well but we don't feel like we can because none of us speak Slovak. My grandma speaks some but her family is from a small town with a very specific dialect that makes it hard to understand people without this dialect.
the welsh did poetry rap battles in ancient magus bride cosplay, that's the coolest tradition i ever heard and kinda sounds like it came straight out of a Monkey Island game
in Italy drinking coffee while you eat your meal is unheard of, coffee here is almost always espresso and you wouldn't wanna cover the food's flavour with it
HERMANOS MEXICANOS TODOS JUNTOS POR EL LIMON!!!!
no sabes que minuto es ?
Отныне я Мексиканец
In Finland too, coffee in a restaurant is normally drunk with dessert so having coffee before would be like having cake before food but I don't think anyone would make too much of a fuss is someone would just want it before. :'D
You do know that Speedo boys is another name for Free! (we need the edit). And yes, beta boys turned to that in my head. x)
Also horse head knocking door thing sounds similarish to "Nuutipukki"-tradition which is bunch of kids dressing up after Christmas to collect leftovers or candy (similarish to trick or threat too).
I believe in all of Europe. Probably most places in the world with the USA (and maybe neighbouring countries that just assimilate their norms) probably being the exception...
As a kiwi, hearing the boys talk so highly of the Haka was such a delight
Loved this ep cuz the culture talk is so complex and always an interesting topic when u include different perspectives. Im Chicana aka Mexican-American and I gotta say my community has molded it’s own, very marked Mexican-American culture and perfected the “ni de aquí ni de allá” (“not from here or from there either”) identity because we pull from both (but we pull a little bit more from the Mexican side). U guys should look into Chicano culture in Japan (there’s a video on UA-cam showcasing how some Japanese ppl dress like chicanos/cholo and drive low riders) 😅🇲🇽🇺🇸❤️🔥
its crazy to see how these three got so much better at talking in such a short time
Lmao
That as well as becoming better friends
The fuck you talkin bout?
I never felt they weren't good at talking to each other.
It's not crazy at all, considering how much practice they get
I am here before Tate was removed from the thumbnail.
Same
Speaking as an Asian American, (specifically Korean-American) I think it's a sensitive topic (at least in part) because a lot of Americans only know China and Japan, so a lot of Korean, Filipino, Thai, etc. Americans have had the experience of being asked "Are you Chinese or Japanese?" or being asked the follow up question of "Is that in China or Japan?"
Shoutout to the editors for putting Andrew Tate in the thumbnail as the Alpha then replacing it later
LMAOOOO TRUUUUU
true, that piece of crap should not recieve any more attention
The coffee after the meal it's not just a Japanese thing, in a lot of European countries, coffee is usually an espresso after the meal. You will get strange looks if you ask for coffee during the meal.
I was thinking the same thing. It's a valid question, esp if the order is hot coffee.
What? No that's not common at all in my experience. As a European citizen who has traveled to many European countries I can't remember being asked this even a single time in my life. I tend to order hot coffee when I go out to eat and the waiters have always just brought it as soon as the drink is ready.
Yeah, that discussion honestly blew my mind. Of course you want the coffee after the meal. Unless the meal is a sandwich.
I'm sure meal coffee is literally European minority. Maybe British and Italians and that's it.
@@victoriazero8869 I'm pretty sure Italy is after full meals, tho in Australia brunch has been huge for like 20 years and you normally have a coffee with it
When Connor said about that comment about him not a Welsh... It kinda made me sad af.
He may joke around it but I feel like it actually hurts hearing those stuffs. I hope that man who commented it get tiny ants in his bed for a week
"This is what you think is enough to feed me" Connor saying this about the pasta in such a menacing voice was too good lmao
"I LIKE BETA BOYS" Connor 2022 XD
I thought I had heard this pasta story before and lost my mind, triple checking the release date of the video before I realised Garnt told this story like a month ago in his stream
About the accent shifting, it's so true! We've learned American English in my country, but since I moved to England, my accent's been converted slightly to British.
As one of the 0.1% Japanese fan of this channel, I’m glad Joey would occasionally bring up Japanese part of himself to explain the customaries in Japan because with Grant and Connor, it’s just going to be “Oh yeah Japan weird blah blah blah”.
Well, Joey is not 100% accurate all the time so I hope they’d bring in Japanese fact checkers too.
@@keinick4569 keep in mind that they're just a couple of friends hanging out. you can't expect one half-japanese guy to fully represent your country unfortunately. Though getting their facts checked when talking about cultural stuff would be a neat addition.
He he, Grant
@@RCSG02 ah iPhone auto correct… that was an unintentional faux pas haha
@@yaboiaxl1216 Don’t get me wrong, I’m not expecting Joey to have a PhD on Japanese culture and be correct about every single line of conversation. Even I don’t know everything about my country and you probably don’t know everything about yours too. I just find it pity that nobody seems to be able to complement Joey’s knowledge kind of in a same way that Garnt and Connor can complement each other’s knowledge of UK… Joey is the authority when it comes to topics of Japan and there’s far few “Nah that doesn’t sound right -We need some fact checking” moment …but perhaps I’m asking too much.
Damn its a shame that Garnt didnt mention muay thai when talking about badass culture from thailand. I mean muay thai is one of the most influential and dangerous combat sports in the world. You see muay thai in animes such as kengan ashura and baki, movies like Ong bak and Jean claude van dammes Kickboxer.
Definitely related to the discussion of balancing between cultures. My parents immigrated from South America to Canada before I was born. Also have a bit of an identity crisis, can’t speak my mother language that well (Spanish - mainly because I refused to speak it when I was young and there is little to no Latinos where I grew up, only my parents and I) and occasionally get those annoying “No, where are you REALLY from?”
Me, listening to garnt talking about destroying pasta and ordering too much:
"Wait didn't they talk of this before?"
He did. I don’t think it was on the podcast though. Might have been on his Twitch channel.
It was during the genshin streams
This was honestly driving me crazy because I had heard this before and they just joked about an AI generated episode and I couldn't tell if it was a joke or I was losing it.
Same xD
its so funny to know that Kai is my irl friend and he's your fact checker cause I can totes imagine him just panicking when being asked to look something up sksksks
In Norway, people usually have coffee after the dinner or along with dessert. So I was a bit weirded out at first by connor expecting it to be the norm that you get coffee with the dinner.
In brazil too, who drinks a cup of coffee before? Maybe here in japan there’s also ice coffee but idk, who drinks coffee during their meal kkk
@@a1de2o3silva????? Literally in the balkans it's like that.
I love when you guys talk about culture. I'm second generation Polish from the US and my Mom never taught me the language. It's honestly the biggest regret of my life that I didn't learn it. Especially since I'm from Chicago, which has a HUGE Polish population. :'(
It’s never too late!
Pretty much any polish person would be thrilled to try and take baby steps with you into the language, a very proud people
..Just make sure you're not black oof
Go to Poland and live there. Thank God my parents tought me that. And Chicago has a huge serb population to lol.
I bet everyone’s hearts almost leaped out of their chests after reading the title and thinking that Andrew Tate was invited as a guest to join the podcast 😂
I swear😭
I'm so ungodly glad the boys didn't stoop so low
@@saintariser8507 it would be such a fun episode tho
@@NostalgiaVivec no, no it wouldnt. Any time spent listening to andrew tate is aweful. Seeing someone so insecure try and act confident just hurts.
@@jambott5520 💀 how is he insecure
I love that Garnt and Joey always take the same side but 9 out of 10 times I side with Connor, LIME IS KING
Yuzu is quite big here in sweden, a lot of fish/seafood resturants use yuzu ponzu for a shit ton of stuff. Also sparkeling Yuzu drinks are pretty common, and I love it
If its now big in Sweden.. maybe in year or two it will come to Finland as big xD ..we do have yuzu ponzu in supermarkets but it's not branded big
This summer yuzu had a big hit like tea in one of the biggest coffee chains in Sweden so yeah… delicious
I am so happy the boys talked about the Haka, as I myself am Maori, I was so happy that they all think it’s very powerful and amazing! Loved the episode today.
omg me too I always feel more proud of being māori when ppl talk about our culture but the boys talking about it made me appreciate them more yk
@@Gyummii Yess! This is exactly how I feel!
1:06:37 love how 50% of Trash Taste is just Garnt and Connor disagreeing, while Joey laughs 😂
1:19:43 "I am the result" 🤣🤣🤣
The Haka is truly one of the most chilling spiritual experiences out there! was great to hear the boys perspective on my homes culture :)
The culture conversation is one I've tried to have with friends. Growing up in western Canada the biggest thing I remember was being told "you're Canadian not American remember this" due to the cultural pressure from them. It's only the past ten ish years that I've really begun to start apricating how different all the cultures are around the world. Now I just need to travel and see some in person hopefully soon.
I am half german and half Kosovo albanian. My dad is super nationalistic (moved to germany when he was 20) but failed to teach us his language when we were young because it was more convenient to speak german to us (now he blames my siblings and me for not speaking it and only understanding it a little). I cannot tell you any stereotypical german thing we do in my household because there aren't any. the lines are blurred and I can relate to 'tiktoks only brown/ desi/ Arabian people understand' because we are muslims. when I meet Albanian people they tell me that I am just a german + my dad's family always treated me shitty for being half german. when I talk to germans I cannot (I never did) relate to the culture because it's inherently different from what I grew up with. I can neither identify as Albanian nor german. over the years I started hating people who identify themselves as their home country and especially nationalists. I really don't care about countries or cultures at all and see myself as an individual that isn't connected to any country but only to myself, my parents/siblings and my faith. that's why I despise people who always talk about how great their country is and make their culture their entire personality.
This was a really good episode. The conversation topics were really good. I'm happy that you have such a large audience, you feel like mature adults full of life experience and not some cookie-cutter "influencers".
Keep making your audience proud. Stay cool!
Boys, it's not only in Japan. In Brazil coffee is also thought of as an after meal beverage. It's actually weird for us here to think of having coffee or tea along with a main meal.
The thing to remember is that in the US, there's a real undercurrent of xenophobia underlying the "where are you from" question. And also there's a large portion of the country where you are 100% considered "not truly American" if you don't stay where you're from and want to explore the world.
Getting asked “Where are you from” feels like a stop & frisk or being demanded to see my license and registration when I’m literally driving the speed limit.
I’m biracial and a nurse and had a patient ask me “what are you?” When I was confused (because I was busy trying to listen to their heart) they said “what breed are you?”
Completely shocked dumb I said I’m Mexican and white
AND THOSE DUDE ASKS “What kind of white?” LIKE I WASNT EXPECTING 2 POP QUIZZES ON MY BLOODLINE
I'm a white American so I've never really got it-but I understand that I'm more the exception than the rule when I ask others where they're from out of genuine curiosity and interest.
I want to know about people's cultures and history! I find it all super cool and fascinating, especially in a state where it's heavily White and Native American.
The culture talk hit too close to home.
I'm half Japanese half Taiwanese born and raised in Brazil. Spoke Portuguese from birth and as they mentioned in the video my parents told me to focus on learning English since it would bring more opportunities for me in the future.
But I also grew up with cultural influences from both countries but never knew how to speak either languages properly. So while studying through highschool I'd always wonder if I could study those languages or even experience these cultures in their respective countries. And now I can finally say I can and I will.
I got a golden opportunity to study in a Japanese College, although I still have much to learn I'm going into this with a will to learn and evolve from this experience.
Also wanted to comment to anyone reading who's also in a similar situation, Joey put it best, you're not one or the other, you are BOTH. You are not losing an identity, you are being given the opportunity to have multiple, when you realize and truly believe that, you will be prosperous in either country.
(Sorry if my English is bad)
Typically non English speakers. Saying "sorry for bad English" even though you just wrote your comment perfectly.
@@Marmalad23163 These people be flexing lol
For sure related to the culture thing because I’m a Chinese adoptee in America and even felt the culture shock when I went back in 2019 for a tour in China. Never felt 100% in either.
The question, “Where are you from?” is something I still get asked.
I don’t know my mother language and am more interested in Japanese and Korean culture. It’s conflicting and people can’t tell where I’m from, but I think I’ll have more trouble if I go to either of those places because they’ll also assume I’m Japanese or Korean and can speak the language, just like when I was in a China
"golden opportunity" your portuguese is showing :P
Thank you for commenting! It's lovely to read your story and perspective, you actually call this inbetween culture! It's so cool and interesting, might be an idea to look into it! (i'm nerdy about it don't mind me)
dang, as a micronesian born in america to 2 parents that grew up on the islands, i felt this episode.
When it’s just the boys it’s the funniest. The takes per second rate is off the charts. 😂
I enjoyed this episode a lot ! I was born in the U.K. but my grandad came from the south of Ireland. I was raised by him and my grandmother and we were taught a lot about Ireland and always went back 2 times a year when I was younger. But a lot of people always told me “you aren’t really Irish” or “your not a true blooded Irish person” and it always hurt me. I know I’m Irish descent and I’m aware of the Irish/English history and hate between eachother but i just wanted to get to know my roots more and learn more about my family’s history. I’ve always loved Ireland and even called it home since I was a child.. it’s a hard one but I still want to continue learning about Ireland and loving it despite what people keep saying to me. It’s worse online and sometimes these comments come from people who aren’t even from England or Ireland but claim you are not Irish at all 😂
I completely get this I’m part Irish too and people will always say this😢
Alot of serbs tell me that I'm not a serb for some reason. Lol. And I hate it. Like what?
As a woman, I'm so glad that you're not an "alpha male" podcast
I never stop to think that all of the guys are bilingual and Connor and garnt are on their 3rd lenguage
As a danish person whose father lives in Thailand and recently married a Thai, the culture is very different and fascinating. The concept of ‘face’ for example almost doesn’t exist in Denmark but it’s (from what I’ve been told by my dad) but it’s very important in Thailand.
bro you can't make this shit up....old wrinkled white guy from rich scandinavian country goes to poor asian country for a wife....WTF!!
@@samuraijosh1595 Ok dude
@@samuraijosh1595 match making is an very common thing, especially in South East Asia, the elderly are very concerned if you aren't married after a certain age threshold, and you'd be nagged at every gathering.
@@heAMnify you'd be nagged to marry a gross fat old neckbeard from a rich country cuz he can't get girls back home?
What's "face"?
Garnt's pasta and pizza story remind me of my friend group during eating out. We usually order 2 or more dishes per person...I can feel the piercing judging eyes of the waitress. 🤣🤣🤣
In Italy coffee is always served at the end of the meal. Obviously you can have coffee on its own or with something light like a pastry pretty much throughout the day, but having it before or alongside a full meal would be considered extremely weird.
same in spain. i was surprised they find that weird
I love this episode. It's been a while since we've had a funny but also deep and interesting episode with just our boys.
Y'all probably won't see this, but I loved seeing y'all on tour in Dallas. You made my friend's day by calling him out from the crowd for being from Ohio
I was listening to this on my morning walk and I couldn't stop laughing. The "beta boys" bit sent me 😂 You boys deserve all the nice things.
1:06:41 yes, lime is god tier. Joey and Garnt better have they clown shoe money saved up, cuz they gonna need more
Grant got me ready to punch out my monitor when he said that lime was the beta lemon. It's like the man has never touched a lime.
Loved when you talked about the haka, it's such an awesome part of growing up in NZ, learning kapa haka and its meaning. Joey is right, it is poetic.
I think in Europe it's also more normal to have coffee after dinner but if you wanted coffee after your meal you'd never order it before you got your food though. Like I've never heard anyone say "I'd have a pasta please and then once I've finished that bring me a coffee".
Wouldn’t you just.. order the coffe after you’ve eaten?
@@line7596 yeah exactly. Like maybe if you're almost done eating they might want to clarify? But usually they would just ask you after dinner if you want coffee.
Thats bullshit.
@@tomgu2285 what part of it?