Steven Yeun & Sona On Being Raised By Immigrant Parents | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2022
- Steven and Sona compare their experiences growing up with immigrant parents.
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I love how Conan can have an intense serious discussion on this topic and then at the last second take an opportunity to crack a joke at Sona’s expense.
It's his little sarcasm demon that has to make itself heard.
It's his little sarcasm demon that has to have the last word.
it's always perfectly timed and delivered
Conan just had to get that dig in at Sona. Poor Sona. I love these podcasts.
considering what she seems to get away with sometimes, it's a low price to pay
Second generation immigrant kids are the bridge between their parents and the adoptive culture. But they're also perpetually a little stuck in the middle and not fully in either. I'm probably on my way to becoming a first gen immigrant, having lived alone abroad in different countries for a while now. I feel like the identity crisis is prevalent amongst immigrant children. I envy their abilities, especially in terms of language. As good as I am I'll never be considered native, while you hear one of them talk and immediately you know they grew up here. But then again what does it say about me that I want to blend in so bad, am I ashamed of my own culture?
oh yeah definitely. Some immigrant kids are talented are lucky enough to be fluent in both languages. But in my case I immigrated to the US and I thought I was american lol, but then "immigrated" to a different country where I was surrounded by people from my country. I was kinda stuck trying to keep my english skills alive AND trying to learn korean (moved to china but originally from korea) and 10 years old.
15 years later I feel like I'm not fluent in either language. So sometimes I wish I just stayed in the US so that at least I could be fully fluent in English, and culturally be more american.
It's too confusing to be stuck in between and I feel like no country is my home country. Home is just wherever my parents are. Which is pretty sad considering they'll pass one day and that's when I'll truly feel like I have no home anymore :/
It’s fascinating how immigrant children can connect with their experience even though they came from different countries.
My parents brought me to the US when I was 5 and they also didn’t explain anything at all to me. I remember crying everyday because I had no clue what the hell was going on. I didn’t even speak English and I was thrown into an English speaking school. It was honestly hell. But now I feel like I assimilated so much to the “American” culture, there’s a very distinct disconnected with my parents and I and even my home country.
haha, i also moved to the US when I was 5, and hearing this makes me feel like little me was not "all there". sure, parents never explained anything, or if they did, i don't remember it. i was clueless about where i was and what was going on, sure, but i wasn't aware enough for that to be an issue, me and my brother (twins) just rolled with everything.
only memories i have are some girl making fun of my accent and then pissing herself right there in the classroom, and some kid handing me a sticky pencil (for no reason) that turned out to be drenched in his boogers. simpler times, to be sure. guessing you were pretty emotionally developed to experience a sense of turmoil at that age.
Steven is so articulate. I love listening to his interviews
Both of my parents are South Korean but they met and married in Argentina. I was born in 1980 and moved to the US in 87. Senior year of high school I remember having having friends from all the groups. Just to paint a picture, I drove a 1990 Chevy Silverado with 3" exhausts, Pikachu sticker on the back bumper, and played tennis in the summer heat with dip in my mouth. Still the same now and completely open to anyone who wants to golf, rescues any animal, or likes to eat good food. You are now my friend.
As much as some people want to kill it, that’s the American dream and American beauty. Those who really grow here and embrace and prosper. I too born in 81 was brought to the states by middle/upper class parents in 1988 who had to work very low income in America. Cut to me crawling out of it , taking even more risks and even if older now married with his first child while owning a home in Los Angeles. I can trace it all back n what drives me.
So many of us share the same story almost specifically. My parents also emigrated in ‘88 n i feel like they’re my grandparents in how different we are and what we value.
The very same happened to me at nine years old. I now have daca but man the displacement and having an abrupt family separation. That pain was beyond comprehension.
I hope they upload the full interviews on youtube someday. Great podcast!!!
Full episodes are already on Spotify tho lol
@@MrGuitaristgamer101 obviously he means the videos
Yes! I hate when people stick to the original podcast standard of "audio only". Everyone does video for full episodes now. I don't get why they go through all the trouble of shooting it with a multiple camera setup but only post a few couple minute clips.
@@peezdoc it's Always sunny podcast is all uploaded on UA-cam. Conans company must not have a deal with UA-cam or something.
+1
Good interview with Conan going sincere and deep…about himself and others…more like this :-)
He held on for almost 4 minutes before cracking a joke, a new record I'd say, and I mean this in the best possible way.
@@mrdaym cones got pretty sincere and deep talking about fears with nikki glaser too
this is what i love about conan, and i think i do the same after years of watching him. He touches a very interesting subject, speaks with knowledge and at the end smacks it with a joke as a way of demonstrating that he is not full of himself and he is just a silly guy.
I'd love to be friends with him :)
why yall so scared of sincerity
I have immigrant parents and so connected with this
Man, Conan set up Sona good. ... "Total lack of morality". Hahaha
he always does it to her so funny lol
i was just waiting for that regular jab at sona, i almost thought wow conan was nice to sona throughout an entire clip, this has got to be record, 5seconds towards the end he viciously jabs her loool
I can relate to this so much. I came to Canada at the age of 12 and now I am 26. I feel like I am suspended in the air not allowed to reach the sky or plummet to earth.
God, i felt that....
I was born in South Korea and raised in MI. I feel such a connection with Steven and appreciate everything he’s done for Asian American representation.
They bring so much joy in my life! Conan is the best ❤️
"My parents both moved from Istanbul... they married here, then had me and my dad--brother here." As the youngest raised by my older brother I can strongly relate to Sona's freudian slip there. When I was a kid I so often absentmindedly addressed my older brother as "dad" and then, on occasion, slipped up and called our father by my brother's name.
Her brother's name is Danny, so I thought she was going to say "me and Dan" and then caught herself at the last second to change it to "me and my brother" but had a brain fart and mixed them both together to accidentally say "me and my Dan-brother".
Oh jeez, alienation from your parents. That's a thing I've known has been happening for a while, but never really said aloud to myself. Chilling but true. Good insight man!
My parents actually did the reverse of Steven's. Moving from the quiet suburbs of Pennsylvania to a crowed city in East Asia in the mid 90s was such a cultural shock to me. I HATED what my parents did, I literally felt like I was robbed from a happy life when school ended at 13:30 to studying past midnight at 8 years old. And it sucked even more cuz every one in my class actually looks like me now yet they treat me and bully me like an alien.
Sona always makes great points! I, too, come from an immigrant family and several points stuck with me.
Steven and Conan!! Love whenever they reunite
i met steve in college, i was friend of his cousins and he visited couple times. he was very nice and humble guy and i thought he was born in US.
Sona totally walked into Conan's trap haha I saw it coming as soon as he involved her looool
I need more Conan & Steven Yeun travel videos. And please do a collab with Best Ever Food Review Show!
It’s so fun to listen to the conversation between Sona and Conan-always ends like that >___
I enjoyed this 🙂
😂😂😂😂 I can’t with Conan, the last sentence 😅
Conan's little sarcasm demon had to have the last word there with his remark to Sona.
That's so funny. My parents never explained anything either.
Love the show
all of these feelings are magnified to the 4th power when you're biracial/mixed
Hey Conan! This here Jewish kid also likes you!
I can totally relate but in my case I’m the parent. Luckily I’m quite fluent in English and also a western pop culture nerd but my accent is still noticeable. It’s my wife who’s starting to have trouble “connecting” with my kids.
3:08 This is very true and very sad situation. Many kids of immigrant parents have communication gap and family lores are not passed on….
Hey :) this made me to open the Podcast left abandoned for the past one+ year~ sorry team hahaha :) Thanks Steven Yeun!
Conan unconsciously rubbing his fingers as he spoke about his childhood seems to be a manifestation of the past anxiety and depression he mentioned that he had growing up.
That’s why he’s king. He was only confident in his knowledge and intellect. He got to the top the right way but has the same basic humanity we all have n isn’t shy to share it.
can relate. being a kid really sucked
I have a friend who can’t understand his parents. They speak Bosnian and don’t understand English too well and he can’t speak a lick of it. But I have a friend who can speak to his parents fluently and it’s such a weird dynamic but it’s been fun
I am from Michigan, I feel bad for this guy, he couldn't have had it easy
Awww where’s the rest of this? What a wildly interesting subject. I’ve known lots who’ve up and moved here and know the kids grow up almost totally just American. My ex had a barrier between his mom. Fifty years and she hasn’t learned English.
you won't have the visuals but you can always listen to the entire podcast
I’m an immigrant and I love my birth country but I also love the USA, I would loved to have a stable house you can grow up and then get married but still go to your childhood home, so now that I have my own family and I’m living in a country where I had the luxury to save up and have my own house I hope nothing ever happens because I want my kids to grow up in this house and move out have their own lives but always come back to their childhood home
I agree with Conan. As a American who has Asian ancestry...I def was an 'outsider' looking-in (grew-up in middle-America during as an 80's baby). And having to 'assimilate' psychologically/socially etc.
In retrospect and after having lived as an adult in various regions of the US...I am 100% glad I didn't live in a 'bubble' or comfort zone w/ 'my own kinda' (aka self-imposed areas/enclaves of segregation w/ your own ethnic group).
It's not about 'assimilating' as in becoming something you're not, but understanding what it means to be different, understanding what other groups are under the surface and then reflecting on your own.
You can't do this while being in your comfort zone w/ your own people doing your own things.
Just saw Nope. I see you Steven with that hat.
Past Lives is one of the few movies I’ve watched that seems to capture that experience of emigrating and assimilating in a real vivid way. I am lucky in some ways cuz my mom was working in an embassy, so we never migrated permanently and we were decently well-off, although ppl always assumed we had a lot more money becuz the embassy could sometimes afford us good houses. I am Dutch, so when I moved to the UK and the US I didn’t stand out too much, there is less of an overly strong sense of sticking with other diaspora’s or people of same nationality. But as a kid it definitely severs whatever ties your parents have, they always think that as Dutch ppl we will always just end up back there, or even implicitly (but not demanding/expecting) we marry a Dutch person and settle there. But i really have none of that, I can survive fine in the Netherlands but I have no want or yearning to go back there, let alone grow old there. I spent way too much of my life in international schools to have any real kinship with Dutch ppl, and thats something that a lot of embassy kids go through, they just get rattled around the globe and then somehow their parent expects them to feel that same sense of nationhood as they do. It brings with it amazing experiences and really opens your eyes to the world but it also makes you completely lost in identity sometimes becuz you have no home, no permanent one at least, when u move around every few years.
Does anyone know where we can watch the full video?
keep it going Conan and send that tee shirt you owe me for using a joke i sent into your show long ago...
Where did he get the Amity Island hat?????
Love u Steven!!
1:44
Fun fact. S Korean economy DID boom big and awhile soon after the 1988 Olympics.
I take it there's no way to buy the full vids?
Yup its highly traumatic and exciting and confusing all at the same time.
I hope they kept that house in Seoul!
Depth of a Howard Stern interview
Steven has a star. Everyone were sad when they killed him on twd.
This is so true, as there are more generations of my family (I’m one of the newest ones) our original culture slowly goes away or changes drastically. And it really makes us kids teens and young adults feel out of place, with our peers who are second or third generation or even first, with the elders in our family and then there’s us. Maybe we don’t speak the language of our people (for many Many reasons but Never our choice)
That's one thing about immigrant parents, they always assume kids don't know what's happening around them so instead of arguing in the bedroom, they'll do it in front of the kids just assuming they don't know whats happening .
hey guys where can i find Steven's hat?!?'
steve and cona visit korea again
Why the hell isn’t Jordan a part of the podcast?
At the same time, if their parents did fully assimilated then they wouldn’t have retained any of their parents culture let alone language. Came from a similar situation and it is a struggle to get the next generation to retain the language
Where is Sona from?
California.
What? That's the end of the clip.??
Conan was just starting to dig into Sona....
BOOOO.!!! LONGER CLIP.!
Total lack of morality 😂
Oh Sona's parents are Turkish-Armenians. Didn't know that. Thought they were from Armenia. Their direct ancestors must have experienced the genocide then..
A problem , perhaps ,, San Francisco is
in west , and then ,, we are in the school ,,
ok,, dude
I was ,, intensity ,, hey ,, San is Francisco
so ,, soo,,
Sona's fam was Turkish Armenian?
Bismillâhirrahmanirrahim
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How his father felt about Korea then is EXACTLY how I feel about the US today....
I'M OUT..!
Likewise.
Well there is that thievery habit.
Why don't you' upload the full interviews on youtube? is it because of money? jeez, get with the times
A lot of people in the comments to these clips want the video feed along with the audio for the full interview on UA-cam. I’m guessing Team COCO can’t do that because then it wouldn’t be just a podcast and allowed on those platforms. Whenever I see a full podcast listed on UA-cam, like Smartless, it’s actually audio only with a static picture, I dunno how the podcast platforms benefit🤷♀️. But more to your point, I agree that there’s a large audience for Conan doing long interviews on UA-cam, we saw that with his TV shows. But that’s not what Sirius, a radio platform, just purchased. So it may well be a legal issue as well as monetary. Conan probably can’t compete with his own podcast by filming and releasing full interviews on UA-cam. These shorts, fun as they are, are teasers/advertisements for the podcast. Which is a helluva long way to say yeah, it’s probably a monetary issue. Sorry, I over analyze stuff!
@@carolz5090 MOST PODCASTS ARE PLACED ON UA-cam and also still with ads on their platform. Friendship Onion, It's always sunny in philly, I don't know about that etc. etc. They are either just lazy, or money scrubbing which is sad because Conan is a multi multi multi millionaire. You're completely wrong.
@@emu_warrior I thought the podcasts on UA-cam were audio only.
👍
Mmh
100% total lack of morality for sure
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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, I think that the frequencies used by mobile phones used to be military in the past, Allah knows (from google transtate)
Whii!
Conan cashing in those Irish heritage healthcare points for free therapy.
While you're here, I imagine in extreme circumstances like yours, they may offer botox on the NHS.
🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖
Conan is usually good about this, but I don't like the way he pinpoints that they're from somewhere else. To be fair, he does start off identifying his own ethnicity though.
He's a third generation so he couldn't relate much, but this is a perfect discussion for Steven and Sona
conans dad was a Doctor and he likes to pretend like he had it rough lol thats the Hollywood in him
Dude they had like 8 kids n it was like the 60s. Even as a doctor they lived more middle income. He wasnt starving but come on he was not a rich kid
Cringe af 🤮
1988, a year after South korea became a fully democratic country but the transition wasn't smooth. many Koreans left the country after losing hopes at that time. a good reference is here ->ua-cam.com/video/5J96XL3cGJs/v-deo.html
Conan and Sona have the most amazing working relationship - very envious 😁