So you just banned me from your discord. Despite me being one of the most active users there, you just did it because you got annoyed. Let me predict how this will play out: a few months from now you'll create a new discord, or unban everyone because "the discord server is boring now, nobody says anything!". You never learn.
@@HidingInMyRoom1989 The most I did was call you a fool. I never called you stupid (but you did!), and I didn't insult your intelligence. If you perceived it that way, then that's your problem. I'm literally the only member in that server who calls a spade a spade and tells you when you're wrong. Remember that I was one of the only two people who said you were going to return the macbooks, so why even bother buying?
I used to care a lot. I tried really hard to seem like a cool guy that you would like, but it was an impossible battle to win. Everyone just shát on me all the time
@@HidingInMyRoom1989 Everyone doesn't like u because u shit on everything and I do mean everything. ur most popular videos are "DO NOT BUY Elden Ring - VERY Disappointing" "i LOVE living in Japan but..." "My problem with Chris from the Abroad in Japan channel" "my girlfriends face is ugly" "My problem with PewDiePie having a Kid in JAPAN" and "why my love doll is better than a real woman". You just hate on everything
You’re English but you aren’t white Daniel. I’m mixed like yourself, only difference is I’m 50% black. I do not consider myself white because A. I’m not. B. No one would perceive me as white if i was to anyway. 😅 Be proud of who you are as an individual. look at it this way, do honestly think you’d look as young as you do without your Asian genetics? As for the closet racists ignore them, they wont change and neither will you. You are what you are. Hope you had a happy new year too! 🎉
You have a really healthy mindset. To be honest, the world doesn’t really care about who people are “on the inside,” what you identify as, what your sexuality is, what your pronouns are, what culture you identify as, what nationality you are, what ethnicity you are, where you were born, where you were raised, etc. People don’t care about other people that much. It’s how life is actually fair. It seems like the guy in this video is having an identity crisis without realizing that the world honestly will never care about his feelings. Just like it will never care about anyone else’s feelings. He simply cares too much about what other people think.
Asiand used to be idenyified as white people. In HISTORY so he's not far off. Only the last couple of decades asians have no longer been seen as "white"
Man, I totally get it. When I was a kid, I identified as Spiderman. I climbed onto my parents' house to enjoy the view from the rooftop. Unfortunately, I slipped, and as I was falling, it hit me-I couldn't shoot webs from my wrists. I eventually learned to walk again, but ever since that moment, I realized that self-identification is kind of nonsense.
right, you can identify as a potato, but you are still asian. you are whatever people SAY YOU ARE. THAT'S how it WORKS. How do people FEEL when they SEE you. THAT is your race. You can be black but like rock music and anime. You are still black, not white or asian lol.
I'm black and english, but more affiliated with heavy metal, and wearing my baseball cap backwards, rather than rap and today's trends and culture. I also skateboard. Your content is gold 🥇
3:13 “If you wanna see my white side then there are other parts of my body that were not very heavily influenced by me Asian genetics but I can’t show you that on RUclips.” Daniel you kill me man 😂
It's just human instinct, people might call it racism but it's literally imprinted in us, and as you described this is not an issue exclusive to Europeans. My opinion, you were born in England, so you can identity as English (although many English people who aren't mixed may not see it that way), but you are mixed, although due to your genetic makeup, you appear more Asian. It's reality, unfortunately.
@@TB-us7el Not saying this from a place of contempt. Genuinely intending to inform. Your intention could also be different from how it reads without context, but this comment not only doesn't add anything but is often times used as a tool to diminish an experience and discourage people from vocalizing their issues when being verbal is necessary for change.
You are half English and half Maylasian and that's it. Some Black people were born in Japan and they have tough times when Japanese people don't consider them Japanese. Western values aren't even that great because freedom of speech or more cancel culture was made in the West and there's no freedom of speech.
yeah but malaysian is a nationality, malay is a race. Also just to correct you he's half Chinese, not malay and there are 3 major races in malaysia which are malays, chinese and indians so not all malaysians are malays..being called a malaysian is just like being called an american, you can be a white,black or an asian american..it says nothing about your race....@@myalen100
Culturally this dude is English/British. No question about it. He may not look the part, but on the inside, he's a white bloke. I see nothing odd about this. 🙂
You can identify both asian and white. Anyone who says otherwise what you are, their opinion have no value. I identify myself mostly white but im half asian too
Your 'cultural upbringing' is whatever the most popular toxic trend is on the internet at the time. When you were younger is was MMORPGs, then weeb culture, then youtuber drama. This is definitely the closest culture and upbringing you can say you are
im saying that people refuse to accept im english because i look asian. and people probably think whales, dolphins and orcas are fish just because they look like fish when theyre actually mammals. when i tried whale in japan it taste like ham. because its ancestor was a hooved pig
You're mixed. Your asian genes are stronger thats why you get those comments. I'm half asian and white as well. The grey area just comes with being mixed. A lot of mixed people deal with this not just half asians. You can identify being english but that doesn't mean reject your asian side. Just say you are mixed. Both sides are you. Anyone who says you aren't british are being prejudice. You are asian-british like asian americans are.
As a half German, half Turk living in Germany I can relate but dont to heart what some people say, 99% of the time those are losers whose only "accomplishment" is beeing 100% british or whatever but at the same time be aware that these people exist and if you vote for the right you do help them
I see Daniel more proud to be half white than some white people honestly. I've heard some white people (even English people) say that they feel disgusted with being white and that they would prefer to be another race. All because of the past.
Hello Daniel, don't worry. You're white. Btw, did you know that the British Corner Shop went into administration？ It's the shop you used to use to buy British foods when you were in Japan. I used it once to try British pot noodles since you told us it's the best noodle in the world. Today, I wanted to buy some British foods so I clicked the shop page and I discovered it. So sad.
Hey Danny, I get it. Growing up in a village where you stood out might've made you feel insecure about who you are. But think about it - if you'd grown up in, let's say, London, where there are tons of Asian-British folks, you'd probably have felt from the get-go that it's totally cool to be Asian British.
🎯🎯 He thinks being white makes him "More" . Its kinda sad but not so much, there are plenty of people emberrassed by their Color side or Rather be white altogether. There are ALOT of asians (mainly guys) that speak proper english, that wish they were white or are just totally insecure about their asian heritage & would prefer to be seen as a caucasian male🤭
I think Japanese people think Jun Soejima is totally Japanese because he grew up in Japan and Japanese is his native language & culture. Anime man grew up and lived in Australia until the age of 21 and he doesn't know deep about Japanese language and culture. Same as you, having an Asian mom doesn't automatically mean that he knows his mother's country well. You don't know much about Malaysia or China even though your mom is Chinese Malaysian.
@@Kategan totally unintentional babe, happy new year 💋BTW I tried to make an English joke with a Polish person recently, he looked at me like I was mad 😆
It's not that Danny aims to raise awareness about the identity issue. He simply wants this video to go viral, you know, to rack up more RUclips gold. If someone made this video, I'd probably say, 'Well done! Thanks for sharing.'
Gonna be honest - I used to come to this channel for the drama but the last two videos have been genuinely compelling commentary and I pretty much agree with your points. Try and keep up this kind of calm, well thought-out content 👍
I’m sorry to hear that you’ve gone through that. Even when you say that you’re not white, that’s not entirely true - you’re both and of course you’re English. You deserve to claim the country of your origin and both sides of your heritage. It’s a shame that people can be so hateful. Wishing you well.
When that person said that you will never be English, you should have responded with "Sound like something an Asian person would say." (Kind of like that saying "what's good for the goose is good for the gangster.") Hopefully they'll never bother you again with that. Take care. (It's cold here in Tokyo tonight).🥶
If you dont identity with Asian culture; why so keen to be in Thailand or Japan? If you identify as English, why do you say in another video (more recent) you dont find anything appealing in the UK or worth exploring your culture there? You live a very torn life, Daniel. You're constantly at odds with yourself.
Honestly I don't think you'd get this kind of pushback if you had any other type of audience or channel - people just dislike you so will troll you for anything you say lol... also I think a lot of people today want half white people to identify with the other side of their race for whatever reason to seem 'exotic' or whatever (even though in any other area of the world being half white would be the exotic part),
You personality isn't stereotypical of white English people. That's why. If you had 100% the same looks and acted 'more English' in your character, people would be far more likely to consider you that way.
I can relate heavily, I'm fully Mexican but I was raised in a very white mormon town. I could never relate fully with them because I refused to join the church and I also have trouble relating to other Mexicans because the only commonality I have with them is big families. I don't talk to more than half my family cuz I don't speak spanish, neither do my parents. I don't feel Mexican in the slightest but I'm also not fully white either. America has been a melting pot for so long, but they still cling to racial biases to define you as a person.
Say for example if one is half Korean and half White. Good to learn both cultures. If one is half Asian the other half Japanese good to learn both. So u can try to learn of your own too. The Asian one. Even though you said your mom never really taught u the Asian roots. Have a nice day!😊😉😁
Korea is a country, and Koreans are people from that country. And white is an entire ethnicity .. stop trying to separate yourself from Cambodia, Thailand, or Mongolia
Identity is complicated for most people on this island, and the more digging you do into your tree the more this becomes true. Your dad for example, definitely looked of not too distant past Irish heritage, just like I am. I'm only 3rd gen British born, technically, but nobody would ever look at me or people like me through that lens.
@@booshank2327 err no, if you had pictures of 50 english and 50 irish, you would have a hard time telling them from each other. mildy different at best.
I don't know if you're joking or trolling. But, I actually think it is fine for somebody is half white English, wanting to identify themselves as white English. When somebody is half-white, half-something else, people always want them (for different reasons) to identify with that other side. And when they don't, they're seen as being self-hating. That isn't always the case. Also, it is strange people always identify somebody's background with their physical appearance. It is perhaps understandable initially, but after knowing somebody better, you should realize their ethnic identity doesn't always match their physical features.
I will never know what you're going through culturally but I just want to say that if people are shaming you for who you identify as or associate with, that's absolute garbage. Don't let anybody tear you down for not being "authentic". You can't control how you grew up. Absolutely disgusting that people would treat you like a lesser person because of it.
first of all your Thumbnaill is wrong, it should say IM BRITISH. Second, you are an adult man and should have had by now tried to assimilate British Culture and all that goes with it, like racism. Most of other British/Asian are already settled, have families and are going on with their lives. You gave up on your country, ran away, trying to live this fake life in Asia that will never work because you refuse to commit yourself and do the hard work. And Third, Joey is not a good example because he does not look Japanese and I can relate to his complains. If you would live in Malaysia, speaking fluently Malay, no one would think your are not Malay and they would not care.
Idk running away and trying to live in Asia reinforces his point about being white, there are tons of white males in Asia who are here to run away from their home countries, live as digital nomads, and enjoy the low cost of living and local women.
If Daniel was fully Asian, then yes, I think it’d be fine to say he’ll never be English, but he’s not. His father is fully English, he was raised within English society, has an English Accent, etc. I think it’s fair to say Daniel is English. Not white, though.
It's the same the world over, you could be White person born in Japan and speak Japanese fluently but you'll never be treated or accepted as Japanese because you don't look Japanese. A Black guy that was born in Sweden could come up to me and say "guess what nationality I am", obviously most people who are honest would say an African country. Swedish wouldn't be their first guess. It's a tribal thing based on looks.
Some Asians are half white especially the Chinese, or in terms of skin color they are essentially white, and some of them are yellow. If you had a kid with an white European women your child would either look full European White or half Asian, because Asian blood is thick, it would take the third to fourth generation of breeding with only white European blood to fade out such Asian blood. Now about Whales, Whales have reproductive Mammal anatomy but yet overall and nonetheless they are Fish like or half Fish as they have Fins and the body shape of a Fish. There are many people that will base something off of a slight variation of a difference and mistakably leave out the overall Classification, that which unfortunately you have done Daniel, why do people do that?? How hard can it be to understand classification of words of slight variations, but understand and account for what is overall or relative. 🙄😐🤨
Actually Mongoloid and Caucasoid races both come from a common ancestor ..thats in modern science and biblical genealogy. Hence Europeans and far east Asians tent to integrate into each other's countries relatively well .. similar IQ's and mentality
I did my DNA test and i'm %35 eastern european, %35 mongolian rest was southern european, anatolian etc. I look like a more handsome and manlier version of you with paler skin and i'm okay with both asian and white because i love both I think mixed people can identify as anything of their choice. We don't need to put them in special category and in this current political climate, i'm supporting you indentifying as a white
I don't understand the title of your video; you say in this video that "I will never be white or caucasian", and also that you are an English man. Both are objective facts. So is the title satirical? Or is this something like a racial variation on gender ideology, where people attempt to identify into/out of objective realities? I'm sorry that you get hurtful racist messages like that in the video, you're as English as me and all your English viewers.
I feel the same way. I don't have any Asian cultural influence or values, but people only consider me Asian even though I look less Asian than you. I think it is racist.
I can't work out if you're trolling here or not... Either way I feel your frustration. I had an Irish father and an English mother, living in London. My mun went to private school so sounded posher than her actual economic status actually was. We were middle class ish.. So I really found it tricky to find my place amongst my peers. Didn't really feel properly English although I was born here because of the Irish influence of my father who worked for an Irish bank...But my mum couldn't help giving the impression we were more affluent then we were because of all her airs and graces which we naturally copied growing up.. So our own identity was a little confused which was a frustration in itself. Now it's a little different in London because everything is so incredibly diverse. Maybe a little too much which cause even more grouping and less integration.
You're English it never used to be an issue until a few years ago. I'm 1/4 Indian, Scottish, Irish and Welsh, but I was born in England. My parents were both born in England and considered themselves English. If I decided to try and identify strongly with 1 of my grandparents countries it would be ridiculous. I'm English, you're English - no need to identify as white or anything else. I guess you're "more" English than I am if your dad was English.
@@TB-us7el I do a bit if you know what to look for, same as other asian "mixes". I still get called the P word occasionally in summer, I've even been called the C word! But generally I pass for white with the odd "and where are you from?". It's kinda hilarious cos I can get it from all sides.
@@tobyc8668 Lol, I might start putting that on forms. Other (please specify): Eurasian. I generally don't identify or define myself as anything though. I hate labels they're just words that describe reality, people confuse the words for actual reality too much.
So do you eat beans on toast ???. TBH I would consider you of Asian descent first not knowing you simply because of your eyes - it is going to be tough to explain that one away but it is your right to identify as British. Do you speak Japanese, Mandarin or Cantonese btw ???.
my eye colour is light brown with some green, i know it doesnt show well on my low quality camera. but my eyes are also much larger than typical 100% asian people
@@HidingInMyRoom1989what about the beans on toast though? As the American version of you I can say that would definitely differentiate you from an American half-white/half-Asian person
Most cultures and even the Bible determines what a person is by their father's lineage. You are indeed a white man if your father is truly white. I'm sorry you are going through this. You were raised in the English culture and have a good amount of that blood in you, so you are White.
Daniel’s ancestry is white English for several generations - father, grandfather, great grandfather, 2 x Great grandfather … (sorry Daniel, I didn’t mean to intrude on your channel)
People saying you're not English are definitely being rude, though I think a title saying you identify as white isn't going to help at all. I mean, I guess it's clickbait, but it's still kinda weird.
@@folksurvival I mean, if he was born and raised in England, then he's English. If he was born in America, he'd be American. Someone's race doesn't define their nationality.
@@artCharles So if Mike Tyson had been born and raised in Japan he would be a Japanese man and he would have been the first Japanese heavyweight boxing champion of the world?
@@francisbarrera9868 You don't even know what right wing is, black supremacy and white supremacy is opposite things but both of them are right wing. You probably think right wing means white
Identity has always been a big thing. Just look at those crazy Americans who say they're Irish because one of their ancestors was. I think the difference is the world wasn't so small back then so it was easier to make peace with who you thought you were. The internet serves us up lots of stuff to think about it. It's like going through cultural puberty.
ASIAN guy like Eliot Roger.
Ouch
"i'm british"
"come on, man. don't be so hard on yourself"
So you just banned me from your discord. Despite me being one of the most active users there, you just did it because you got annoyed. Let me predict how this will play out: a few months from now you'll create a new discord, or unban everyone because "the discord server is boring now, nobody says anything!". You never learn.
you insulted my intelligence and were rude. over what? because i used a term everyone in investing/trading uses. don't ever patronize me again
@@HidingInMyRoom1989 so now we're banning others because they're rude. Got it. Didn't know you were a snowflake.
Daniel you need to stop banning people. The whole draw of your channel is it is fun insulting you. I always assumed you were feigning ignorance
yep. if you cant speak nicely then i dont welcome you to my discord
@@HidingInMyRoom1989 The most I did was call you a fool. I never called you stupid (but you did!), and I didn't insult your intelligence. If you perceived it that way, then that's your problem. I'm literally the only member in that server who calls a spade a spade and tells you when you're wrong. Remember that I was one of the only two people who said you were going to return the macbooks, so why even bother buying?
You dont care what any of us think. You just want us to click so you can make the ad rev.
I used to care a lot. I tried really hard to seem like a cool guy that you would like, but it was an impossible battle to win. Everyone just shát on me all the time
@@HidingInMyRoom1989 Your personality sucks that's why.
@@HidingInMyRoom1989 Everyone doesn't like u because u shit on everything and I do mean everything. ur most popular videos are "DO NOT BUY Elden Ring - VERY Disappointing" "i LOVE living in Japan but..." "My problem with Chris from the Abroad in Japan channel" "my girlfriends face is ugly" "My problem with PewDiePie having a Kid in JAPAN" and "why my love doll is better than a real woman". You just hate on everything
Europe is blood and soil, that's how it is.
If you don’t like Asian culture, then why do you live in Japan, Korea, Thailand, etc.
its cheap and interesting and people dont make fun of me because of my looks
@@HidingInMyRoom1989probably because you look Asian too
You’re English but you aren’t white Daniel.
I’m mixed like yourself, only difference is I’m 50% black.
I do not consider myself white because
A. I’m not.
B. No one would perceive me as white if i was to anyway. 😅
Be proud of who you are as an individual. look at it this way, do honestly think you’d look as young as you do without your Asian genetics?
As for the closet racists ignore them, they wont change and neither will you. You are what you are. Hope you had a happy new year too! 🎉
Then you are not black either
You have a really healthy mindset. To be honest, the world doesn’t really care about who people are “on the inside,” what you identify as, what your sexuality is, what your pronouns are, what culture you identify as, what nationality you are, what ethnicity you are, where you were born, where you were raised, etc. People don’t care about other people that much. It’s how life is actually fair.
It seems like the guy in this video is having an identity crisis without realizing that the world honestly will never care about his feelings. Just like it will never care about anyone else’s feelings. He simply cares too much about what other people think.
He's not English.
Don't cause they definitely don't accept you. To them your are Asian no matter what you say.
Exactly!!!💯
That’s really not true and I can tell you’re not British, for even saying that.
Maybe he won’t be accepted as a Celt, but then English aren’t accepted as Celts either so… but to British he is British
Exactly. Whites only accept you as their own if you're "pure", as in 100% white.
Asiand used to be idenyified as white people. In HISTORY so he's not far off. Only the last couple of decades asians have no longer been seen as "white"
This is why self-identification never works
Man, I totally get it. When I was a kid, I identified as Spiderman. I climbed onto my parents' house to enjoy the view from the rooftop. Unfortunately, I slipped, and as I was falling, it hit me-I couldn't shoot webs from my wrists. I eventually learned to walk again, but ever since that moment, I realized that self-identification is kind of nonsense.
right, you can identify as a potato, but you are still asian. you are whatever people SAY YOU ARE. THAT'S how it WORKS. How do people FEEL when they SEE you. THAT is your race. You can be black but like rock music and anime. You are still black, not white or asian lol.
I'm black and english, but more affiliated with heavy metal, and wearing my baseball cap backwards, rather than rap and today's trends and culture. I also skateboard. Your content is gold 🥇
Fun fact: if you are half white and half Asian then one of your parents is white and the other parent is Asian.
thats what he said mate ahhaahha
what if both your parents are half white and half asian?
oh gosh darn it i never would have known! thank you arigasankyuu sooooo mochuuuu!!!!
@@AMBATUKAM11111 arigato gozaimasu
@@powerwordbruh1648 they you would be half half white and half Asian and half half white and half Asian
Cut the bullshit, give us Ancestry results 😅
this. ima hafu, and this guy looks more "korean" to me. his mom cheated.
@@HotNoob I wouldnt Rush until results came..DNA mixing has no limits
@@h35biznez ....He did do a DNA test. It revealed that he is half White British and half Chinese.
Chris Broad...now there's an authentic English gent.
3:13 “If you wanna see my white side then there are other parts of my body that were not very heavily influenced by me Asian genetics but I can’t show you that on RUclips.”
Daniel you kill me man 😂
His DNA
I identify as Celt, English not being my first language. But yea for sure I regard you as British- that accent , easily identifiable.
Welsh speaker?
@@cassiuswilliams6988 yea
It's just human instinct, people might call it racism but it's literally imprinted in us, and as you described this is not an issue exclusive to Europeans.
My opinion, you were born in England, so you can identity as English (although many English people who aren't mixed may not see it that way), but you are mixed, although due to your genetic makeup, you appear more Asian. It's reality, unfortunately.
reality is often unfortunate.
@@TB-us7el Not saying this from a place of contempt. Genuinely intending to inform. Your intention could also be different from how it reads without context, but this comment not only doesn't add anything but is often times used as a tool to diminish an experience and discourage people from vocalizing their issues when being verbal is necessary for change.
@@FrenchAudio2000 not sure if 👩response or Ai or...? incomprehensible either way.
You are half English and half Maylasian and that's it. Some Black people were born in Japan and they have tough times when Japanese people don't consider them Japanese. Western values aren't even that great because freedom of speech or more cancel culture was made in the West and there's no freedom of speech.
Japanese people are not of sub Saharan ancestry. It's simple if you stop feeling the need to lie to people to protect their feelings.
malaysian ain't an ethnicity brother...he's half chinese
@@lyhthegreatMalay is a ethnic group for the Malaysian people. He's half Malay and half English but he will never be White lol
yeah but malaysian is a nationality, malay is a race. Also just to correct you he's half Chinese, not malay and there are 3 major races in malaysia which are malays, chinese and indians so not all malaysians are malays..being called a malaysian is just like being called an american, you can be a white,black or an asian american..it says nothing about your race....@@myalen100
@@lyhthegreat No. Malay is not a race. Maylay is ethnic from Asian and Asian is a race you stupid reetard 😂
Puerto Rican & Italian but fully identify as Latina. Married a Japanese/Korean who fully identifies as Japanese. We are American.
isnt that what a latina is though? half native american half mediterranean
@@sergsergesrgergseg Latina means Hispanic/Latin descent (spanish)... nothing to do with native American or med.
@@meijilace what about latinx, is that half latin, half egyptian? (sphinx) 🤔
@@TB-us7el Latinx is a term to include Latina (girl) Latino (boy) and those who don't identify as either.
Culturally this dude is English/British. No question about it.
He may not look the part, but on the inside, he's a white bloke.
I see nothing odd about this. 🙂
Unfortunately you look like your mum. When you walk down the street in England people will think your dad is your lover.
You can identify both asian and white. Anyone who says otherwise what you are, their opinion have no value. I identify myself mostly white but im half asian too
Your 'cultural upbringing' is whatever the most popular toxic trend is on the internet at the time. When you were younger is was MMORPGs, then weeb culture, then youtuber drama. This is definitely the closest culture and upbringing you can say you are
Lol so true
I believe you're English. I think that people who are born in America are Americans and people who are born in England are English.
What was the porpoise of the orca example ?
im saying that people refuse to accept im english because i look asian. and people probably think whales, dolphins and orcas are fish just because they look like fish when theyre actually mammals. when i tried whale in japan it taste like ham. because its ancestor was a hooved pig
You're mixed. Your asian genes are stronger thats why you get those comments. I'm half asian and white as well. The grey area just comes with being mixed. A lot of mixed people deal with this not just half asians. You can identify being english but that doesn't mean reject your asian side. Just say you are mixed. Both sides are you. Anyone who says you aren't british are being prejudice. You are asian-british like asian americans are.
Pulling a reverse River McKeever who insists he's Japanese..
This has to be a fucking joke 🤣🤣🤣🤣
As a half German, half Turk living in Germany I can relate but dont to heart what some people say, 99% of the time those are losers whose only "accomplishment" is beeing 100% british or whatever but at the same time be aware that these people exist and if you vote for the right you do help them
Naber kazım
@@barsbozkurt145 Kazım ağzına yarram lazım
As an Englishman myself, I'd consider you English if at least one of your parents is English and you feel culturally English.
I see Daniel more proud to be half white than some white people honestly.
I've heard some white people (even English people) say that they feel disgusted with being white and that they would prefer to be another race. All because of the past.
You're whatever you look like. No matter who your parents are. It's just the way the world works.
Hello Daniel, don't worry. You're white.
Btw, did you know that the British Corner Shop went into administration？ It's the shop you used to use to buy British foods when you were in Japan. I used it once to try British pot noodles since you told us it's the best noodle in the world. Today, I wanted to buy some British foods so I clicked the shop page and I discovered it. So sad.
" Hello Daniel, don't worry. You're white." Hahahaha you loser
You are a marine biologist.
Hey Danny, I get it. Growing up in a village where you stood out might've made you feel insecure about who you are. But think about it - if you'd grown up in, let's say, London, where there are tons of Asian-British folks, you'd probably have felt from the get-go that it's totally cool to be Asian British.
🎯🎯 He thinks being white makes him "More" . Its kinda sad but not so much, there are plenty of people emberrassed by their Color side or Rather be white altogether. There are ALOT of asians (mainly guys) that speak proper english, that wish they were white or are just totally insecure about their asian heritage & would prefer to be seen as a caucasian male🤭
Eyeroll
I think Japanese people think Jun Soejima is totally Japanese because he grew up in Japan and Japanese is his native language & culture. Anime man grew up and lived in Australia until the age of 21 and he doesn't know deep about Japanese language and culture. Same as you, having an Asian mom doesn't automatically mean that he knows his mother's country well. You don't know much about Malaysia or China even though your mom is Chinese Malaysian.
Daniel don't worry you are my English online youtuber
If Sabrina gets 🤰with her English husbando, it will be interesting to see what 👶looks like!
Turk husband
Lmfao that whale and fish ending killed me. I love the same things aka evolutionary biology and stocks
To me you don’t look 100% Asian and I always thought of you as an Englishman.
His skin is pasty compare to Lightskin Koreans or Japanese, That's about what I can distinguish
Facts he doesn't hes even lighter in skin tones than the average white British person in London. Whites here have darker redder skintones.
@@Saint_MontclairEXACTLY. Apastier white skin tone. BINGO. At least someone is smart online ❤
Unlike Joey its good that you accept yourself for who you are, you arent trying to be somebody you arent.
😂
this is why you dont racemix
ALL of that. ❤
Shame on those who misrace you 🥺 This topic is not talked about enough. I'm proud of you for speaking out!
this must be similar for you Kategan, being half Polish and Half British....you;ve become homeless wanderer too 😥
@@TB-us7el doxing me like that 😱😱
@@Kategan totally unintentional babe, happy new year 💋BTW I tried to make an English joke with a Polish person recently, he looked at me like I was mad 😆
@@TB-us7el 😂😂😂
Happy New Year babes! 💋
It's not that Danny aims to raise awareness about the identity issue. He simply wants this video to go viral, you know, to rack up more RUclips gold.
If someone made this video, I'd probably say, 'Well done! Thanks for sharing.'
Gonna be honest - I used to come to this channel for the drama but the last two videos have been genuinely compelling commentary and I pretty much agree with your points. Try and keep up this kind of calm, well thought-out content 👍
yeah it's better than the all the click bait he tries to get viral
Idiot
I'm a banana, I`m a banana, I´m a banana, look at me now!!!!
this makes me glad I'm not mixed
Funny how you compensate with joey now but a few videos ago you were calling him out right for "not" being japanese and that he can't be accepted
I’m sorry to hear that you’ve gone through that. Even when you say that you’re not white, that’s not entirely true - you’re both and of course you’re English. You deserve to claim the country of your origin and both sides of your heritage. It’s a shame that people can be so hateful. Wishing you well.
I have Roma and Celtic ancestry, I have absolutely no fucking clue what I'm mean to consider my self; stupid lactose intolerance as well.
And only you think you’re white lol
When that person said that you will never be English, you should have responded with "Sound like something an Asian person would say." (Kind of like that saying "what's good for the goose is good for the gangster.") Hopefully they'll never bother you again with that. Take care. (It's cold here in Tokyo tonight).🥶
good for the gander...
@@TB-us7el you have to forgive me. My spellchecker is a piece of carp.
@@bigbigfizziyou are forgiven, no worries 👍
If you dont identity with Asian culture; why so keen to be in Thailand or Japan? If you identify as English, why do you say in another video (more recent) you dont find anything appealing in the UK or worth exploring your culture there? You live a very torn life, Daniel. You're constantly at odds with yourself.
Honestly I don't think you'd get this kind of pushback if you had any other type of audience or channel - people just dislike you so will troll you for anything you say lol... also I think a lot of people today want half white people to identify with the other side of their race for whatever reason to seem 'exotic' or whatever (even though in any other area of the world being half white would be the exotic part),
7:55 “ah herro”
Just like a dude who says he's a girl, and a girl who says she's a dude..... You're not.
You personality isn't stereotypical of white English people. That's why. If you had 100% the same looks and acted 'more English' in your character, people would be far more likely to consider you that way.
how isn't his personality typical?
@@TB-us7el If i have to explain that to you... then I don't think you'd ever understand.
@@luciiza_2116 he is just like a nerdy English guy, make your point or hold your peace.
@@TB-us7el hold my peace? he's nerdy yes, but other nerdy english white guys wouldnt act like him. find me one similar to change my mind.
@@luciiza_2116 it's your point (and wrong), you explain it.
I can relate heavily, I'm fully Mexican but I was raised in a very white mormon town. I could never relate fully with them because I refused to join the church and I also have trouble relating to other Mexicans because the only commonality I have with them is big families. I don't talk to more than half my family cuz I don't speak spanish, neither do my parents. I don't feel Mexican in the slightest but I'm also not fully white either. America has been a melting pot for so long, but they still cling to racial biases to define you as a person.
Lol, you are not white at all. Your just mexican american
"I'm also not fully white either" LOL YOU ARE NOT WHITE AT ALL STOP THIS
Also, you're saying you don't identify as white but as English...yet your video title is "Why I Identify As WHITE."
were all here because daniel is so relatable in some way. good video daniel.
You are pathetic
Did you ever find that Australian rugby player???
Dan am I allowed to be white on the outside but asian on the inside? People will call me a weeaboo which I think is unfair.
Say for example if one is half Korean and half White.
Good to learn both cultures.
If one is half Asian the other half Japanese good to learn both.
So u can try to learn of your own too.
The Asian one.
Even though you said your mom never really taught u the Asian roots.
Have a nice day!😊😉😁
Korea is a country, and Koreans are people from that country. And white is an entire ethnicity .. stop trying to separate yourself from Cambodia, Thailand, or Mongolia
Interesting. I have a half japanese/white son who is 11 and he told me he is white the other day.
Did you correct him?
HAPPY NEW YEAR!🎆
Identity is complicated for most people on this island, and the more digging you do into your tree the more this becomes true. Your dad for example, definitely looked of not too distant past Irish heritage, just like I am. I'm only 3rd gen British born, technically, but nobody would ever look at me or people like me through that lens.
you can identify distant Irishness from looks...press f to doubt.
Errr yeah. Anglos and Celts have very different features.
@@booshank2327 err no, if you had pictures of 50 english and 50 irish, you would have a hard time telling them from each other. mildy different at best.
@@booshank2327 both white so it doesn't matter, west africans and east africans are so much different but they both black
Daniel you are right. I'm surprised these tools still trigger you
I don't know if you're joking or trolling. But, I actually think it is fine for somebody is half white English, wanting to identify themselves as white English. When somebody is half-white, half-something else, people always want them (for different reasons) to identify with that other side. And when they don't, they're seen as being self-hating. That isn't always the case. Also, it is strange people always identify somebody's background with their physical appearance. It is perhaps understandable initially, but after knowing somebody better, you should realize their ethnic identity doesn't always match their physical features.
I will never know what you're going through culturally but I just want to say that if people are shaming you for who you identify as or associate with, that's absolute garbage. Don't let anybody tear you down for not being "authentic". You can't control how you grew up. Absolutely disgusting that people would treat you like a lesser person because of it.
first of all your Thumbnaill is wrong, it should say IM BRITISH. Second, you are an adult man and should have had by now tried to assimilate British Culture and all that goes with it, like racism. Most of other British/Asian are already settled, have families and are going on with their lives. You gave up on your country, ran away, trying to live this fake life in Asia that will never work because you refuse to commit yourself and do the hard work. And Third, Joey is not a good example because he does not look Japanese and I can relate to his complains. If you would live in Malaysia, speaking fluently Malay, no one would think your are not Malay and they would not care.
Idk running away and trying to live in Asia reinforces his point about being white, there are tons of white males in Asia who are here to run away from their home countries, live as digital nomads, and enjoy the low cost of living and local women.
If Daniel was fully Asian, then yes, I think it’d be fine to say he’ll never be English, but he’s not. His father is fully English, he was raised within English society, has an English Accent, etc. I think it’s fair to say Daniel is English. Not white, though.
Friendly reminder that being one part [A] and one part [B] isn't a matter of identity!
What you are is called a "mutt"! I hope I could be helpful!
So basically your a white man in an Asian person's body, based on personality? That is 100% accurate. I emphasis more with the 90s.
It's the same the world over, you could be White person born in Japan and speak Japanese fluently but you'll never be treated or accepted as Japanese because you don't look Japanese. A Black guy that was born in Sweden could come up to me and say "guess what nationality I am", obviously most people who are honest would say an African country. Swedish wouldn't be their first guess. It's a tribal thing based on looks.
Two white people move to Japan and have a white child. Child is not Japanese.
Some Asians are half white especially the Chinese, or in terms of skin color they are essentially white, and some of them are yellow. If you had a kid with an white European women your child would either look full European White or half Asian, because Asian blood is thick, it would take the third to fourth generation of breeding with only white European blood to fade out such Asian blood. Now about Whales, Whales have reproductive Mammal anatomy but yet overall and nonetheless they are Fish like or half Fish as they have Fins and the body shape of a Fish. There are many people that will base something off of a slight variation of a difference and mistakably leave out the overall Classification, that which unfortunately you have done Daniel, why do people do that?? How hard can it be to understand classification of words of slight variations, but understand and account for what is overall or relative. 🙄😐🤨
Actually Mongoloid and Caucasoid races both come from a common ancestor ..thats in modern science and biblical genealogy. Hence Europeans and far east Asians tent to integrate into each other's countries relatively well .. similar IQ's and mentality
@@JST.B-ph9sh And this makes other races mad af lol
Next step….join the 🏴 army 🫡 .
Or enter Eurovision 🤣
I did my DNA test and i'm %35 eastern european, %35 mongolian rest was southern european, anatolian etc. I look like a more handsome and manlier version of you with paler skin and i'm okay with both asian and white because i love both
I think mixed people can identify as anything of their choice. We don't need to put them in special category and in this current political climate, i'm supporting you indentifying as a white
You don't even look Hapa 😂
Don't worry, with all the immigration to the UK, soon being English will have a different meaning.
The new Irish look quite intriguing
Great video idea
This video is well made overall
Don't worry so much. Be yourself.
You're yellow mate
I don't understand the title of your video; you say in this video that "I will never be white or caucasian", and also that you are an English man. Both are objective facts. So is the title satirical? Or is this something like a racial variation on gender ideology, where people attempt to identify into/out of objective realities? I'm sorry that you get hurtful racist messages like that in the video, you're as English as me and all your English viewers.
You are malaysian 😂
Oh but a few videos ago you didn’t mind giving the anime man grief? S M H
I feel the same way. I don't have any Asian cultural influence or values, but people only consider me Asian even though I look less Asian than you. I think it is racist.
I love seeing your vids reccommended to me ❤
I can't work out if you're trolling here or not... Either way I feel your frustration. I had an Irish father and an English mother, living in London. My mun went to private school so sounded posher than her actual economic status actually was. We were middle class ish.. So I really found it tricky to find my place amongst my peers. Didn't really feel properly English although I was born here because of the Irish influence of my father who worked for an Irish bank...But my mum couldn't help giving the impression we were more affluent then we were because of all her airs and graces which we naturally copied growing up..
So our own identity was a little confused which was a frustration in itself. Now it's a little different in London because everything is so incredibly diverse.
Maybe a little too much which cause even more grouping and less integration.
You're English it never used to be an issue until a few years ago. I'm 1/4 Indian, Scottish, Irish and Welsh, but I was born in England. My parents were both born in England and considered themselves English. If I decided to try and identify strongly with 1 of my grandparents countries it would be ridiculous. I'm English, you're English - no need to identify as white or anything else. I guess you're "more" English than I am if your dad was English.
Do you look at all Indian?
@@TB-us7el I do a bit if you know what to look for, same as other asian "mixes". I still get called the P word occasionally in summer, I've even been called the C word! But generally I pass for white with the odd "and where are you from?". It's kinda hilarious cos I can get it from all sides.
I supposed you can identify as Eurasian if you don't look Caucasian enough.
@@tobyc8668 Lol, I might start putting that on forms. Other (please specify): Eurasian. I generally don't identify or define myself as anything though. I hate labels they're just words that describe reality, people confuse the words for actual reality too much.
@@onetwothreefourfivesixlemo638 You probably look like the cornstar Keiran Lee
Bro you are 100% white British
Why are you lying?
Yah there was a white dude who grew up in Japan and couldn't call himself japanese so
That’s a bit different, though. Daniel is genuinely half European, half English. He’s not larping. He’s English, but just not white.
technically this applies to all mixed kids, they cannot fully claim themselves to any ethnicity...@@Lurker27819
@@Lurker27819 English people can pick out Poles as Poles, how are they going to automatically assume Asian looking person is English?
@@Lurker27819He is white, he's got a white father
Because he's not Japanese.
culturally you can identify as a white person but ethnically it will be otherwise lol
So do you eat beans on toast ???.
TBH I would consider you of Asian descent first not knowing you simply because of your eyes - it is going to be tough to explain that one away but it is your right to identify as British.
Do you speak Japanese, Mandarin or Cantonese btw ???.
my eye colour is light brown with some green, i know it doesnt show well on my low quality camera. but my eyes are also much larger than typical 100% asian people
@@HidingInMyRoom1989
Check out Eurasian community. To me, I would say Eurasian is an ethnicity.
Daniel-san speaks Japanese.
@@HidingInMyRoom1989what about the beans on toast though? As the American version of you I can say that would definitely differentiate you from an American half-white/half-Asian person
@@bodazephyr6629Daniel-san? 🤣🤣
I agree atleast my dating app matches have more common with whales than most other creatures:D
Most cultures and even the Bible determines what a person is by their father's lineage. You are indeed a white man if your father is truly white. I'm sorry you are going through this. You were raised in the English culture and have a good amount of that blood in you, so you are White.
Daniel’s ancestry is white English for several generations - father, grandfather, great grandfather, 2 x Great grandfather … (sorry Daniel, I didn’t mean to intrude on your channel)
No, most cultures, historically, are matrilineal
Daniel I think your actually a woman on the inside and when you transition you will finally feel free in being yourself
People saying you're not English are definitely being rude, though I think a title saying you identify as white isn't going to help at all. I mean, I guess it's clickbait, but it's still kinda weird.
Why is it rude to just tell the truth?
@@folksurvival I mean, if he was born and raised in England, then he's English. If he was born in America, he'd be American. Someone's race doesn't define their nationality.
@@artCharles So if Mike Tyson had been born and raised in Japan he would be a Japanese man and he would have been the first Japanese heavyweight boxing champion of the world?
@@folksurvival I assume so.
I bet Japanese people only see Joey as western because he dyes his hair blonde. Why do that then expect to be seen as Japanese?
Many Japanese dye their hair blonde
Because hair color has nothing to do with race, if you color your hair purple do you turn into some alien?
Nice shitpost, Daniel. I approve. He needs that ad revenue. Tough times 😔
Im black n Latino but I fully identify as a westerner as well mostly thanks to western values and culture
Goofy right wing L take
Weird thing to say ngl
@@francisbarrera9868identity politics is literally the essence of leftism.
@@francisbarrera9868 You don't even know what right wing is, black supremacy and white supremacy is opposite things but both of them are right wing. You probably think right wing means white
Daniel, is an Aryan man. Anyone denying it is hating
people so caught up with their identity these days
Identity has always been a big thing. Just look at those crazy Americans who say they're Irish because one of their ancestors was. I think the difference is the world wasn't so small back then so it was easier to make peace with who you thought you were. The internet serves us up lots of stuff to think about it. It's like going through cultural puberty.