Fake Butts & Social Engineering the Ugly American

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Transcript:
In this Episode we talk about the social engineering of our environment. How cultural differences can and are exploited for profit. We ask the difficult  question of do women who get giant butt implants need special toilets so there cheeks don’t hit the ground?

Speaker 0 (0s): Well, good morning. How are you? My friends feeling pretty good today. It's Tuesday. You got to, is it taco Tuesday for some of you? Is it a two drink Tuesday? Is it a I'm too tired to go to work Tuesday. That's always a good one. Right? Well, whatever. However you want to describe it. It's definitely Tuesday and I hope I hope the sun is shining where you are. 

I hope the birds are singing and I hope you know that I am thinking about you man, or ladies thinking about you. I hope you have a great day today. Oh, so I was thinking about what kind of interesting topic can we get into today. And it led me to think about kind of my predicament a little bit tonight. I'm going to tell you a little bit about my understanding of culture. I'm going to tell you about a class. 

I took about culture, and I'm going to tell you some hopefully interesting and humorous stories about how I, the ugly American, the white truck driver has made a lot of mistakes about culture. And then I'm gonna try to apply that to today's environment. So it's going to be a little embarrassing for me probably, but those are usually the best stories. 

So I grew up in California, Southern California, and it was predominantly, mostly a kind of a, kind of a white culture with like kind of Hispanic, kind of white, Hispanic culture is where I, I of grew up in between, which is pretty limited, right? It's pretty limited. I learned to speak Spanish. I lived in Mexico for awhile as I got older. 

However, even that just knowing those two cultures is not, it's like a drop in the bucket. Okay. So fast forward until the age of 29, I moved out to Hawaii and I don't know if any, I know a lot of you have been to Hawaii. There's probably some of you that have not been to Hawaii. Some of my friends I've been talking to from the Eastern blocks, what's up Bulgaria. What's up. Who's Becca, Stan. 

What's up with my friends over there, man. I'm super stoked to have you guys over there. What's up Ukraine. I got a big team in the Ukraine now. I love you guys, man. Thanks for listening. And so, so I moved to Hawaii and in Hawaii, Hawaii is a real melting pot in that there was a, a really large Asian influence. And by that, I mean, you have people from the Philippines, you have Japanese people, you have Chinese people, you have Micronesian people, you got white people, you got black people, you got some Mexican people, but a really big influx from, from East Asia. 

And now here's where, so, so I come out to Hawaii and I've, you know, I've, I had never been here before. And gosh, this is going to sound. It's probably going to sound pretty ignorant. However, you have to be ignorant before you learn. And so while it's going to be funny, it's kind of hard for you to tell it. Cause I it's the truth though. When I came here, it was difficult for me to tell, tell the difference between someone from the Philippines and someone from Japan. Now I know to my, to my Japanese friends and my Filipino friends like there's is looking at me like, Oh my God, you are such a white guy. 

You can't tell the difference between a Chinese person and an, an a Japanese person. You know, I was, I was out at work one day and my boss asked me, he says, George, this package went to the wrong place. You said you gave it to a man. What did the man look like? And so I'm trying to explain to my boss, who's a Filipino guy, awesome guy. I go, Oh, he is a, he looked Asian and he's like, well, was he, what was he Japanese? Was he Chinese? What did he look like? And I'm like, I don't know. 

I can't tell the difference. And for, for my Asian friends, I know you're laughing, but for all the, for all the whities out there, I bet you a big percentage of you would have that exact same, that exact same situation happened. But hold on my Asian friends because the shoe fits on the other foot. So at my work a few months later, I'm walking around and there's another white guy in there. 

I didn't even know this other white guy. And he's way bigger than me. He's like six, two doesn't even look like me. And this young Filipino kid comes in and I'm talking to this other white guy. I'm like introducing myself to him. And this Filipino kid comes over and goes, Hey, are you guys related? And it kind of hits me like, Oh, it's not just me being a dumb white guy. It's people who are not exposed to other cultures. Don't thoroughly understand the uniqueness of the individual cultures. 

Does that make sense? Like the Filipino, the young Filipino guy that saw the two white guy standing together, he asks, are you guys related? I have like a, I speak like I'm from California. And this guy spoke like he was from Texas. 

Speaker 1 (5m 59s): Now. She gets a very subtle difference if you're not familiar with those two areas. However, if you are familiar with those areas, you could tell, you know, in a heartbeat, Hey, this is a guy from the South. This guy's not from the South. More importantly as the ugly American and not, not all Americans are, there's a lot of ignorance. However, I wanted to just kind of break this down so that we can understand what's going on. 

You know, when I'm, when I moved here, it's important to not confuse those because there is a lot of history between Japan and China and it's not good. You know, it's pretty insulting to call someone who is from China, Japanese, and vice versa, just due to the long history of war and tragedies that happen there. But most Americans, they don't understand that. Not because not because they're dumb or not because they're ignorant, but because they, they just, haven't been taught that in the schools. 

Another main difference too, is that as Americans, as a guy from California as maybe the Western tradition teaches us, we have a really argumentative style. And what I mean by that is if I'm talking to someone and they say something that maybe I don't agree with, I'm not afraid to challenge that point of view. You see, that's a, that's a uniquely Western type of argumentation. 

We believe that by putting forth the best arguments that we will get to the truth and the best arguments will win. And a lot of the Eastern cultures, they have a different outlook and they believe that there's no need to embarrass someone to their face like that. You should allow them to save face, should allow them to not be in an uncomfortable position by challenging what they have to say. 

On top of that, there is almost a different definition of obedience. I sat in...