Romesh Ranganathan - Americans First Reaction
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To clarify, though: to call someone from Sri Lanka "Indian" is like calling an English person Scottish so no, he isn't Indian. But "Asian" includes the separate country of Sri Lanka - whose population would be horrified to be counted as "Indian". Spent my early life there where the Aunties views on the Indians were drummed into me in a way that makes me grin just to remember those conversations!
Personally, I don't use vague generalisations such as "European", "Asian" etc . If I had to describe someone with reference to their origins (as opposed to their Nationality) I'd say they were German, or Sri Lankan etc. which also ensures one isn't consigning them to being part of a country they have no connection with, or are engaged in rivalry with. (As with "English" to refer to a Welsh person or a Scot.)
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@@SJ-GodofGnomes21
You're either a child or an adult acting like one, either way, it's probably time you learn to grow up kid
But, you can't always ask people what their nationality or cultural background is. So, generalisations are sometimes all that you've got.
But, of course, ethnicity is complex and can't always be accurately guessed from physical appearance. What am I? Two of my gravdoatevts of European ethnicity (English and French) and two other grandparents are of Jewish-European ethnicity (with history is England, Germany and Easten Europe). So, what ethnicity am I (not that it really matters to me)? I would probably say that I'm white or pass as white.
The issue with India is that it's both a country and a sub-continent. So, people from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Etc, are not of Indian nationality, but they are geographically from the landmass of India and of Indian ethnicity.
Your analogy is incorrect as Scotland and England are both parts of the country the United Kingdom. Sri Lanka and India are two separate countries
@@zeeone4492 You're perfectly correct that the analogy could have been bettered. (Though don't ever tell a Scot that they are part of the same 'country' as England!! We're separate countries united as the entity "Great Britain").
The reason I used England & Scotland in this context was that until recently the OP wasn't aware of how heinous a crime (!!) it is to count a Scot (or Welsh or Irish people) as English - so I thought that would, in this context, illustrate the way Sri Lankans feel when being referred to as Indian.
In the US, you refer to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc as Asian. In the UK we refer to people from the Indian sub-continent (Pakistan, Bangladeshi, Indian, etc) as Asian - to call them 'Indian', as occurs in the States, would be a gross insult to very different groups of people who frequently have military clashes. The UK needs to be sensitive to that, because of our large 'Asian' populations.
Interesting. It's just another one of those differences I didn't realize existed 😊
... and also because of the UK's leading culpability in the partition of India, which occurred in living memory, and brought over a million deaths and as many as 20 million displaced people to the region. National identity is such an understandably complex but important matter to anyone in the region, absolutely must be for the UK as well, and ideally would be for people from everywhere else as well.
@@joshcairo8480 It was the new Indian Government that partitioned the country, the British just agreed to it. The boundaries were drawn up by the Indian Government. Muslim and Hindu could not get on together in Government, that was the birthplace for separate countries for each. India mainly Hindu and Sikh East (now Bangladesh) and West Pakistan Muslim.
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was always a separate country under British rule.
@@tonys1636 of course, but the instrumental factor in all of this was British colonialism. It's a very nuanced and complex situation, which is my only point here really, but one that goes a bit further to explaining why recognition of national identities in that region is more prominent in the UK than it presumably is in the US.
@@joshcairo8480 not really. The instrumental factor was religion. I’m not British and am from Australia - a former colony - so I’m no defender of colonialism. However, the presence of the British was really the only thing that stood in the way of the religious violence that would eventually culminate in partition.
The fact that the brits held the power meant that Hindus and muslims both shared a mutual desire to end British rule but also weren’t subject to the perceived threat of domination by one religious group over the other. Once the British decided to leave, turmoil began as each community began to express their fear of the other through violence.
Those tensions had nothing to do with the British. The perceived inability of the two communities to live peacefully side by side was so pronounced that partition was seen as the only mechanism to avoid an all out civil war. Unfortunately, the actual mechanics were so poorly organised and implemented that millions died.
The British certainly have their share of atrocities to be ashamed of in the subcontinent but partition is no more their fault as the subsequent indo-Pakistani wars were.
In the UK "Asian" often means people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc.
Well that's central Asia, China Japan and Korea are in east asia and the middle east is west asia, but we say they're all asian
@@more-reasons6655 He was talking about what Asian means to people in the UK.
@@jillhobson6128 I'm from the uk and was showing a counter point, when ever I hear Asia I think of the whole area between Japan to Egypt. Which is why it's such a vague term in my opinion
@@more-reasons6655 In 60 years I have never heard people from the Near or Middle-eastern countries referred to as Asians perhaps this is something new. Asians to me is those people from Central, Eastern and Southern Asia. Yes I am a Brit.
I'm also from England and I've never heard Middle Eastern people referred to as Asian.
“We probably butchered that last name.” Don’t put yourselves down.
You butchered both of them magnificently.
(JK).
Check out the UK RE
/-the difference between
Murder
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2 ALL THE MOMS OUT THERE!
Your feelings are natural and forgiveable
PLZ do not murder your infant
Very nicely played, sir. My favourite comment on the internet today. 😂😂🤣🤣
He's Sri Lankan heritage, its the Island at the bottom of India on the map. Its in South Asia, not the middle east.
I love the way you explain map to Americans
He’s Asian (heritage is Sri Lankan) that’s why he was talking about white people being on the fence about Asian people until they meet him. 👍🏼
If he was born in Crawley, West Sussex, is he Asian ?
@@zeeone4492 Yes, his nationality is British, his ethnicity is Asian… I don’t understand your point? His nationality has nothing to do with his ethnicity - Asian isn’t a nationality
His English
And he can't be English, British and British Asian?
@@zeeone4492
If a Chinese person is born in a predominantly black African country do they suddenly become black? No, they are Chinese by ethnicity and (just as an example) “Nigerian” by nationality.
He's British of Sri Lankan heritage
Now they gotta look up Sri Lanka.
@@SvenTviking It never ends.
He’s an interesting character. He used to be a maths teacher.
He refers a lot to his mum in his routines. He has a TV series in the UK in which his mum often appears. The relationship between the two is really amusing.
Jonathon is about as funny as piles
He taught at the same school that he had attended, in Three Bridges, Crawley. Would have been an interesting situation at first, when he returned to teach some of the senior pupils would have been junior ones when he was a senior.
@@Frank75288 Who is Jonathon?
@@OP-1000 His first names Jonathon , middle names Romesh
@@Frank75288 *Jonathan.
His heritage is Sri Lankan and he's hilariously funny! His Mum's *coded* reference to him as a "Bounty" relates to Bounty bars..a chocolate bar in which white coconut is dipped in chocolate. They're 😋
I think also they were a little confused because he refers to himself as 'Asian' and I believe in America that tends to mean Chinese, Japanese or Korean, whereas in the UK it is more likely to mean South Asian. The UK census forms actually have seperate checkboxes for ethnicity, one saying 'Chinese' and one saying 'Asian' which probably makes no sense to anyone not from the UK.
@@mcallisterwill I think that even tho sri lanka is closest to india most sri lankans ive met would not identify as indian, they would instead call themselfs asian.
@@jfearondasparky or perhaps Sri Lankan....
"Coded" 😂😂😂
Yes but his English
As a (half) coconut myself, I relate to this. I'm half bangladeshi, I've never been Bangladesh, I don't speak any Bengali and I can't eat any spice.
BOOM! I am half Mauritian, speak no hindi or Creole, and hottest thing I can have is a Korma :)
@@AxlMorris1999 Korma on a Friday night, again
My maternal grandparents are Jewish, and somehow this is supposed to mean that i am also Jewish. But, I'm not; i have half Jewish ancestry, and that's it. Hitler and other modern day racists would consider me Jewish, but so what? I don't let ignorant bigots decide my identity for me.
I'm an atheist, and in many ways an anti-theist. I not only lack a belief in the deity of Judaism, I actually strongly disagree with a lot of the content of Jewish religion. I don't follow a Jewish diet. I don't observe Shabbat. I don't go to synagogue. What exactly makes me Jewish?
@@padmelotus 'Jewish' is also an ethnicity, hence why anti-Semitism is racism.
So you're still half Jewish, just as I am half Bengali, whatever that means
@@hareecionelson5875 Judaism may be an ethnicity, but it's not really a race (not a racial categories mean much anyway). Jews are in theory all decended from the 12 Tribes of Israel, but in practice a lot of intermarriage has happened through the millennia, and it is possible (though difficult and unusual) for a person to convert to Judaism.
My issue really is that Judaism can be a pseudo-ethnicity, a heritage and family history, and a religion. And the label of Jew doesn't describe which one of these things applies to you. Yes, coming from Bengal, people might take an educated guess that you and/or your family are Muslim or Hindu, the religion is not baked into the name. And, as an atheist humanist, i don't want a religion baked into the description of who I am.
"Fathers for Justice" (F4J) is an organization for father's rights (mainly for divorced or separated fathers,) which deals with the imabalance of parents rights to access to their children (fathers have less rights to access than mothers, by default!) They organize various public demonstrations, during which some of them dress as comic super heroes - hence the reference to the spiderman costume and the doll in the baby buggy!
Gogglebox is also an older slang term in the UK for a TV sometimes shortened to just box. As in "What's on the box tonight?" . Not sure if Goggle is also a US term too which means "to Stare" which then explains why a TV is called a Gogglebox.
Gogglebox he's referring to is the show on channel 4. Calling the TV the box..is probably because they were box shaped..
The show was named after the slang term though.
The irony of the Gogglebox joke, we're watching you watch the show.
"Goggle Box' is an old slang name for a television set in England; my parents used it in the 1950s and 60s and I have passed it on as well.
I get your confusion when he referred to himself as Asian. Growing up in Australia and in a much less politically correct time, Asian for me meant people from places like Japan, China, Vietnam, Korea etc. You can see the stereotype here I'm sure. Places like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka etc. were referred to as the Sub Continent (which is in South Asia) and the people from those places were just referred to as Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, and so on. I only became aware through watching British comedians like Romesh Ranganathan and Nish Kumar that in the UK at least, people from these places are referred to as Asian. Don't know if that is a more recent thing or if it's always been like that, but I can tell you that it is now becoming more common place in Australia as well.
If you’re interested, there are 48 countries recognised by the United Nations as being part of Asia. They are China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Turkey, Iran, Thailand, Myanmar, South Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Malaysia, Yemen, Nepal, North Korea, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Syria, Cambodia, , Jordan, Azerbaijan, United Arab Emirates, Tajikistan, Israel, Laos, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Singapore, Oman, State of Palestine, Kuwait, Georgia, Mongolia, Armenia, Qatar, Bahrain, Timor-Leste, Cyprus, Bhutan, Maldives & Brunei. Plus 3 more dependencies of China including Taiwan, Hong Kong & Macao.
It's the same the world over. I've travelled to most Asian countries and have worked in Japan and Singapore. People who didn't know me referred to me as 'European'. There are 44 countries in Europe, I am Anglo/ Hungarian and live in the UK. I am not offended. Why would I be? I'm European, that's a fact.
When I was young, we used to refer toTurkey as Asia Minor.Just a thought?
I'm 61 and it has been like this since I was a kid, Indian, Pakistan etc were Asian and Chinese people for example were called Oriental...no offence meant or taken, ultimately, if they were born here then they are just British or may prefer British Asian..
In the UK most people think of the term Asian to mean, Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan just because that's where our main Asian immigrant communities came from. I think in the USA and Australia you have bigger East Asian communities so the term Asian implies different cultural backgrounds to you guys.
I don’t think the people of Taiwan would agree they’re a dependency
'Bounty' is the name of a UK candy bar; coconut covered in chocolate
UK chocolate bar, not candy.
If it's British, it ain't candy.
Now try some Paul Chowdry. He's the more extreme version of Romesh
He was teaching maths when I first knew him- he was usually covering my lessons and taught my twin maths. He used to read the register in the cliche American movie trailer voice. He also DJ'd school discos as DJ Rangaz. His partner was my drama teacher.
meh, someone told he lived in Croydon with his family. He's a laugh :)
@@worstchoresmadesimple6259 I believe he is still in Crawley
Romesh has done quite a bit of tv series double act with his mum, one i believe was a tour of the US, they are quite funny together, ran_gan_nathan is i think the correct pronunciation of his surname, he has a brilliant death stare that un nerves a lot of people
Rom-esh Ran-ga-nathan
"Roe-mesh Ran-ga-naythan"
"Bounty" - blank faces. "Kinder Surprise" - blank faces. A Bounty bar is a chocolate bar full of desicated coconut. So Brown on the outside white on the inside. Kinder Surprise eggs, Brown chocolate on the outside, white chocolate on the inside. Banned in the USA by the FDA because of the small toys inside them. Apparently a choke hazard for kids but guns and live ammo lying around the house are perfectly legal. :¬P
Well said!
@Rheumattica Kid? LOL, I haven't been called that for around 46 years! X¬D
My grandad would have been over 100 years of age this year. He would NEVER have let a racist word out of his mouth. Generation is no excuse. None of my family would drop words like that. He brought us up better than that.
I 100 percent agree, I'm 71 and do not use derogatory terms to describe black or Asian people.
I agree with what you both say but wasn't Romesh's point is that sometimes a person might say something that might offend someone and isn't implied. Forgiveness and a polite, 'don't you mean etc' is much more educational.
My uncle lived in a street which went from being exclusively white to exclusively Indian by 1980. As a 40 year old white English man, what do you think he did?.......
He learned to speak Urdu. (He was an Oxford don with a gift for languages, but still...)
That’s kind of ironic really. My stepfather who is 70yo was a chartered surveyor and travelled all over the world including the Middle East and is very widely cultured and well off, yet he says words that would be considered massively politically incorrect all the time and doesn’t let anyone tell him otherwise. He’s willing to shout you down in an instant. It mostly just goes to show really that a lot of this isn’t the case of trying to be offensive, but simply words that have been deemed no longer ‘correct to our obsessive liking’ and it’s not fair to push that on previous generations.
He's Asian. In the UK, Asian usually means Indian subcontinent and "oriental" was usually used for what the US calls Asian.
I don't think we use oriental any more either, but the US must have at some point because Obama had that word and another removed from federal law text
It's good that you discovered Romesh - I love watching him on TV. He actually used to be a Maths teacher!
Romesh’s parents came from Sri Lanka.
In the UK, Asian means people from the Indian subcontinent.
Nope it also covers China, Japan etc
@@Salfordian Of course, geographically, but in THIS CONTEXT it refers to people from the subcontinent. Most British people, if using a generic term for those from China, Japan, the Far East, would use the term Oriental.
@@secretarchivesofthevatican Must be an area thing then because here in the North we regard them as Indian origin and those from China etc more of 'Asian' because all in all most are of Indian lineage
@@secretarchivesofthevatican I'm from the East Midlands and no one I've ever met would call anyone oriental, they'd say Asian. Also, calling people oriental can be see as racists (it's definitely frowned upon) you can call a flavour or fragrance oriental, but not people.
This is a cool video, he is a very good ambassador for modern Britain and I guess a lot of his jokes are somewhat esoteric having a lot of British references but glad it’s still fun to watch for you guys! Just discovered your channel and love the content! Interesting insight to you guys and life in the Midwest
Gogglebox is an early uk slang term for a TV set
His name is pronounced Ro-mesh Ranga- nathan .🇬🇧
Every one of the UK comedians you've liked has been on the excellent show QI, so it's worth checking that out.
British people commonly usually use "asian" to mean people from India/Pakistan and environs (south asia) rather than Chinese/Japanese (east asia)- he's of Indian heritage (which is in no way "the middle east")
Ranganathan was born in Crawley, West Sussex, to Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu parents.
He isn't of Indian heritage- he's British with Sri Lankan heritage....calling someone with a Sri Lankan heritage, "Indian" is about as bad as you can get!
He literally said in the video he's from Sri Lanka.
I thought you'd get lost when he mentioned being Asian as most Americans think of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam etc as Asian but he's from Sri Lanka which is ASIA central along with the rest of the Indian subcontinent
"Forgiveness" is one thing; "acceptance", quite another. One can certainly forgive honest errors in people who, in good-faith, don't know better. The catch, however, is that a person in good-faith ignorance who makes an error desires to correct it. They don't look for an excuse to continue making the same mistake over and over, especially when that mistake harms others. For example, if you call someone by the wrong name once, that's forgivable and understandable. If you continue to do so despite having opportunities to learn better, and particularly if you know that your mis-naming makes the other person upset (as they would have every right to be), you're just choosing to be an asshole.
I'd be more inclined to accept the "I'm old, I don't need to continue learning" argument if such people also accepted that the rest of their societal expectations and interactions should be subject to such a "time-freeze". If you want to perpetuate harmful ways of thinking just because they were common and acceptable in your youth, fine, but you also have to be consistent and forgo the other advantages of progress since that era, like, say, laproscopic surgery and improved antibiotics/painkillers.
If, on the other hand, you do wish to enjoy the benefits of other people continuously learning and improving while simultaneously insisting that you don't have to do so yourself, maybe you're just entitled and lazy? But surely that would never be the case in a generation with a death-grip on the idea that their genetics make them inherently superior without the need for any work on their part.
Another point would be that the racist terms of the past may have been acceptable at the time, but they were never not harmful. The reason we acknowledge those terms as problematic today is that we understand how they reflect and perpetuate false and dangerous mindsets. That is, in fact, the entire reason the terms exist. For a softer example, "coloured people" contains the implication that the default for being a "person" is being white. Clearly, that's ridiculous from any viewpoint (genetic, statistical, etc.), so why does the term promote it? Because it was always designed to support a system that saw white people as inherently more legitimate than others. These terms are not benign; they are, and always have been, weapons, whether the people using them were aware of that or not.
Thank you for this comment! I’m so tired of people trying to excuse racist actions by trying to sound understanding. As if it actually makes them thoughtful people to be able to sympathise with lazy, privileged people when that actually means they chose to not sympathise with the marginalised people who actually suffer far worse things than having to stop using an offensive term or two. Whenever white people start trying to go down the ”political correctness gone mad” track I just lose all respect for them.
I see your point but you get more set in your ways as you get older. It's not always easy to go against the grain of what's been drummed into you. I've found myself having to stop myself saying things that were habit when I was young. Even though every time I've had to do that it's not meant to offend. Old habits die hard, is the saying.
The Middle East, Sri Lanka and China are all in Asia, the confusion lies in that the word "Asian" in the United States usually refers to people from the Far East/East Asia i.e. China, Japan, Vietnam etc, whereas in the UK it usually refers to people whose heritage is from South Asia i.e. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka.
"I guess he's from like the middle east"
It's like when Americans see a brown person who isn't black they just see middle Eastern lmao
Fr lol
Love Romesh, he's a mood.
He was born in England. His parents are Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu.
Asia includes India. In America I think you use it more for just the east
“Goggle box” is actually an old English term for the television! As in “you sit there all day long watching the goggle box!!!”
Gogglebox in an old fashioned name for a TV.
Yesssssss!!! Romesh!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌💙
Have you guys watched Peter Kay at all? He’s a comedian from Bolton in the north west of England, he’s so relatable and so funny.
Love Romesh. 👌💕
In the US and Australia, "Asian" means east Asian - Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc. In the UK, "Asian" usually means "South Asian" - India, Pakistan. Legacy of Empire, see?
I like your mid-west view on things, but there's one thing I really need to know - what's on that shelf in the left-hand corner on the left of the world map?
Romesh is brilliant. He's British of Sri Lankan extraction
I am liking the way wifey is having her hair lately ☺
There is always forgiveness when there's a willingness to change. Mistakes happen, and that's okay.
Great video. You looked confused in places. A 'Bounty' is a coconut chocolate bar. A 'Kinder Surprise' is a chocolate egg currently banned in the US I believe. It has a brown outside with white chocolate inner. 😂
I would love, if possible to see if you can do some reactions to the UK series task master
From what I know it's only really America / North Americans that calls east asian people "asian" specifically, so for example japanese, chinese, korean, etc. Whereas in many other areas of the world, asian applies to more than just
He's British, English of South Asian (Sri Lankan) heritage.
Hello Ethan and Angela. I was in a class at school where most kids had parents from the former British India. I was seen as one of the minority white kids, though I may have Indian ancestry myself from a couple of centuries back. My dad went to Ceylon in the Royal Navy before it was know in UK as Sri Lanka. It is more recently known for a viscous civil war between the northern Tamils, a people who also live in South India and the Sinhalese majority on the island.
P.S. I have commented before how I used to watch serious educational videos. Now here I am watching this (ask Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the joke).
I watch Gogglebox nowadays as I do not get to watch much TV. You should take a look.
Romesh was in the local news recently. Some bigoted woman in his audience,at the same venue,was spouting racist abuse at him. She got thrown out and jeered by the audience.
Good riddance to her, I'm sure no body missed her presence at the show lol
You two are adorable. You've just gained a subscriber 😃
Do a reaction of gogglebox that would be awesome 😁
I think that would cause a rupture in the space time continuum
Romesh has a very British satyrical and self derogatory humour that we are known for and he does it well,racial and gender stereotypes used for humour are totally acceptable imo as long as it doesnt overstep into derision, what Romesh teaches with his standup is something i learned a long time ago, if you cant laugh at yourself then dont laugh at others and id say thats a very central theme to the way British see humour
Ramish was born in the UK, His parents are Sri Lankan. In North America when people talk about Asians they usually mean people from the Far East (Japan, China, Korea, etc) , there was an alternate term for people from this area, but it is now generally considered politically incorrect. Americans often forget that India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and so on are also part of Asia, and get confused when people from the sub-continent refer to themselves as Asian; in fact in Britain, due to our Colonial past, we would probably assume someone describing themselves as Asian are from the sub-continent. This is not a dig.... While I was educated almost entirely in North America, and I made the same mistake until I moved back to the UK.
The word is oriental and Im not sure there is an issue with the word, or in the UK at least. Many Chinese restaurants have the word in their name.
Orient is derivative of the Latin Oriens which is Latin for East. It was the term used for anywhere east of the Roman empire.
@@grizzlygamer8891 I think it is considered more offensive in the US, but believe it is being discouraged in the UK now as well. Frankly it does get confusing, I not only have the "what words are NOW considered offensive thing" but have also lived in several different countries and have found that what is the appropriate term is different in different countries, or changed during my absence and so on... so I have found myself unintentionally causing offense. For example in some places I have lived it was considered offensive to call a black person black, the less offensive version of the "N" word was the correct way to describe them (and they were the majority there)... And I had an adopted sister who was black and so when I described her by the term that was considered appropriate (at the time) where I had lived when I moved to North America, I got into a lot of trouble, being accused of being racist against my own sister. (very frustrating)
Just because it was acceptable, doesn't mean it was ever good.
He is a minority, yeah. Minorities are kinda weird in the UK.
Cause I was technically considered a minority when I went to England for university despite coming from Northern Ireland which is also in the UK.
So people would call me Irish or kept asking what it was like there despite having more of an English accent.
NI is closer to Scotland in terms of culture than it is to the rest of Ireland, so I just made shit up.
Plus there's also some cultural differences between the 4 countries that contribute to that, so a minority can be someone who isn't white but it can also be someone from elsewhere in the UK itself if the cultural differences are strong enough.
The facial hair suits you, man! I hope yall get back to feeling 100% soon.
Lol I like it too, so of course he desided to shave it all off! Next vid should show that
British Cultural Context (jokes explained):
Father's for Justice - a campaign group for separated fathers to have more parental rights in the courts. They usually dress as super heroes during demonstrations.
Asians - His heritage is Sri Lankan, South Asia. In Britain, because there's more South Asians (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka etc) than East Asians (China, Japan, Korea etc), the term 'Asian' over here relates to people from that part of Asia.
Bounty - a chocolate bar in the UK that is chocolate on the outside and white coconut on the inside.
Kinder Suprise - a chocolate egg that is milk chocolate on the outside and white chocolate on the inside. (NB - contains a plastic toy inside, ergo banned in the USA)
Romesh Ranganathan is British, but his family are of Sri Lankan origins...
There is a lot of Asia between Turkey and China... The middle east for example.
Great vid ethan and Angela
You should check out when he was on a show called taskmaster he was great and the show is amazing as a whole
his mum lives in my town he grew up here and still come back n stays at his mum really down to earth guy xx
brit here, let me just say that your intro/outro, and everything about you two, is magnificent
Damn, 3 months later, no thumbs ups👍??? Better give myself one 😕
"Romesh Ranganathan" and you thought "middle-east"? Yikes. Well, good on you for opening yourselves up to new experiences... some never do and they miss out. Fun video.
This went completely over their heads
His mum is from Sri Lanka
FYI - A Bounty car is a choclate bar (candy) with white coconut suggary strands on the inside.
Romesh is my spirit animal
His parents are from Sri Lanka, which is off the coast of India, which is part of Asia. India and the Middle East are in Asia.
"Gogglebox" is a word used to describe a TV. "Sit in front of the Gogglebox."
Good pick! He can be quite funny and he's from my home town...
Ran-ga-nay-than Is approximately how you pronounce Romesh's surname I think:)
In the native Tamil (which I don't actually speak), the pronunciation is Run-gə-naa-dhən
@@nirmalsuki Thanks :D
Sri lankan background
People are always curious about what other people think about what they like. Especially across borders this is interesting, and a good way to get familiar with how people are in other places. My impression so far is that people around the world are much more alike than stereotypes will have you believe.
I don't think the acopolypse will come before people are watching other people watching other people watching other people watching other people watching a chess game.
That was so good. I don’t believe I’ve seen his stand-up routine here before. I’ve seen a bunch of his others though. He’s a really great comedian. Definitely on point there about the political correctness and how there should be a certain level of exceptions.
Romesh is probably considered a minority in Europe, but as an Asian he is part of a diaspora that comes from almost two thirds of the world's population.
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Here in the U.K. an ‘Asian’ person refers to someone of either, Indian, Pakistani, Bengali or Sri Lankan heritage. This is different to what Middle Eastern is. As in the U.K. “the Middle East’ is referred to as the countries where the majority of the population is considered to be ‘Arab’. You may if been ci fused as to why he said he was ‘Asian’ as I’m aware Asian in the US refers to those of Eastern Asian descent. Whereas in the U.K. we refer to those people as oriental or simply eastern Asian, and use ‘Asian’ to refer to those lacatikns I mentioned earlier.
He has Asian ancestry. For some reason, Americans don't know that Pakistan, India, Bangladesh etc around that area, is also Asia.
Hahaha I’m laughing at you trying to say his name. Hahaha.
he is srilankan (british) and when brits say asian what they mean is south asians (indians,pakistani,bangladeshi and srilankans) in america asian mean oriental people.
These terms change with time anyway. In an old Atlas, "Middle East" meant India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, that area. "Far East" meant China, Japan and so on. Places like Syria and Israel used to be called the "Near East". Which makes more sense now I think about it. Then the Middle East is in the Middle.
10:31 Bounty is Almond Joy or Mounds (depending on the type of chocolate).
Except Bounty doesn't contain any almonds.
13:22 _...you're literally third in line in terms of my level of attention._
*Wifey looking over to Ethan* _'ah, sometimes I feel like that'_
*Ethan* ...
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whooooooaa whoooaaaaa . He is NOT middle eastern/muslim. Judging from his name he is British /Tamil Indian .
In the UK when we say Asians, we firstly think of people from places like Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri-Lanka... basically the Indian subcontinent aka South Asia
You say ornery like they do in Utah. Is that a Midwest thing as well?
There was an Amercan version of celebrity googlebox. I cant remember when tho but i did watch it. Theres also an Australian version too.
He's Sri Lankan British
Definitely watch a video with him and his mum he did a few different series one where he took his wife and kids to the US to crack America also his mum took him to Sri Lanka to educate him on n his culture he’s so funny
" Onery" good expression that we don't have here!
If here is UK then yes we do
There are layers of jokes and accusations in his acts. I think he may not have exactly meant what you or possibly even the audience understood. He is addressing racism as a type of double agent here. He's the coconut.
agreeing with romeshes irony :D
5:35 In America most people think of East Asians when hearing Asian (because of the massive influx of labourers from China in the 19th century), while in the UK most people think of West Asians when hearing Asian, as many people from Colonial India served in the Empire's armed forces. This is because back in the 18th and 19th century there was a racist belief that certain ethnicities were more fit for war, so called "martial races". During the Sepoy rebellion, certain ethnic groups remained loyal to the British (such as the Gurkhas and the Rajputs), and so following the rebellion, members of these groups were recruited en-masse into the armed forces, creating the "British Indian Army", this lead to generations of career military men of Indian descent in the British Armed Forces, and even in during the world wars the British Indian Army had millions of soldiers serving the Crown.
Romesh is Sri lanken lol, located in Asia. In America, I've noticed when you guys discuss asia, it's more east..so China, Korea etc.
He's Asian, in America you tend to just identify oriental people as Asian rather than people from all over Asia. His family is Sri Lankan, its an island just next to India