You're gonna workout or just take pictures. - Hey, I need a new tinder profile pic.
Girls don't swipe on Asians unless they have abs
Are my pecs uneven? - What are you talking about.
Yeah. Yeah, look. See, my nipples aren't aligned.
Oh sh*t, you're right.
Hey, like what you see?
[gym noises]
Sorry, we're just really good friends. Ugh, you're that guy at the gym, man. - Don't be jealous.
Anyway, what's this I hear about you, uh, seeing a new girl? How come we don't know about it yet?
I don't know. I just, you know, wasn't sure where it was going at first and wanted to make sure I had the right intentions.
Right intentions? Bro, you think way too much all right. I once dated a girl just for her Amazon Prime account.
Anyways, the dating apps kind of left a bad taste in my mouth.
I didn't want to jump into something just for the sake of getting a win, you know?
Plus, she's... (ahh...)
Imaginary? A flat earther? What? - No, she's black. Well half black half Japanese.
Oh, blasian! That's awesome dude. Wait, how'd you guys match? - Well, first of all, it wasn't on an app, okay.
It was through my cousin's dance classes. - Oh
Yeah, I was gonna ask. Since when do you ever even hang out with black people? - That's true...
Why don't we have black friends? - I mean we have some coworkers. Yeah, but we don't ever hang out with them.
Maybe we should. I mean, we're kind of in our own little bubble.
At the same time, is that so wrong?
I mean, I don't think groups of white people or black people feel guilty for only hanging out with themselves.
Why should we feel bad for having similar backgrounds and interests right? - I mean you never know.
Maybe there are groups that are thinking, "we need more Asian friends."
There should be an app for that.
Kind of like Tinder, but for groups of friends seeking diversity in their circles. It could be called Token.
No, Tokn. No E.
Not a bad idea.
Hey, so uh, when are we going to meet this girl?
I don't know. I think it's a little too early.
What you think we're gonna be weird or something? - I mean look how we treat Brett
Hey, we treat Brett the way we do because he's Brett, not because he's white.
Okay, maybe a little cause he's white.
Well speaking of white bring an option next time. This was really embarrassing.
Wait, you don't like matching gym selfies?
Okay Kaleena, so tell us: how did you know that Andrew first liked you?
I knew for sure he liked me when he came in my class the third time.
Okay what? - Yeah, all the other kids just get dropped off or picked up outside
You came into the studio to make small talk again.
So obvious.
Terrible. - That's like the real-life equivalent of sliding into the DMs.
I was checking out Richard, okay?
Ooh, yes.
[gasp] Oh my god, it is more beautiful than I remember. Wait, you know shaved ice?
Yeah
What you guys thought because I'm black I wouldn't know about shaved ice?
[collectively] Noo no no no
Okay, okay, but I have to ask: what did all of you think when Andrew said he was dating a black girl?
I thought it was great.
I'll admit it. I thought you had yellow fever.
I'm like this girl's got to be like a weeaboo or in a kpop or something.
Oh, weea... I don't know what that is, and I wouldn't say I'm into kpop, but I do think BTS is cool!
And if you ever want to learn one of their routines for me...
No, okay, please let's change the subject. - Okay
well, I was just shocked that Andrew even had the guts to ask you out in the first place.
You must be very special
Or he just watched Romeo Must Die one too many times.
[group laughs]
Okay, you wish you Aaliyah. - Oh so you think you're Jet Li? [laughing]
Such a good movie.
Hey, that was really fun, thanks for introducing me to your friends. - Yeah, of course
I actually was a little nervous at first because we like never hang out with anyone who's not Asian, but you did great.
Okay first, sad.
Second I'm still half. I got my Asian card. - Okay. Hey actually now that you've met my friends
When do you think I'll be meeting yours?
My friends. - Yeah
You really want to? - Are you embarrassed? - No, not at all. I mean they all know about you, so. - So...
why the hesitation?
Well, you literally just said you don't hang around anyone but Asians, and now you want to hang out with what, like five
thousand percent more black people than you hung out this whole entire year?
Okay, first of all, five thousand percent of zero is still zero, so your arguments flawed.
And I think you should have a little bit more faith in me and your friends. We might actually have a lot in common
Yeah, right.
Okay honestly,
Your doubt is kind of reinforcing the divide that innately exists between our two cultures and communities.
I mean just because I don't have any black friends, that's not a reason to keep us apart.
I mean shouldn't be taking every opportunity to
share and learn about each other's cultures?
Hmm, I like it when you talk all progressive like that. - Oh yeah? - Yeah.
How about um, representation matters.
Tax credits for renewable energy companies. - Yes. - Yeah.
Universal healthcare. [laughs]
Nice place.
Yeah. - It's okay, Gabby is your college friend.
Yeah, and she just finished... - Nursing school.
Nursing. Yeah. - Got it, I got.
All right.
Here we go. - You are tripping about this way more than you need to be Kalina. - Okay, sorry.
You ready?
Ready? Yes. I listened to J Cole's new album and I watched the latest episode of Love & Hip Hop, okay.
No, I'm not ready. Come on.
Ahhhhh, Dante! [greeting]
Andrew, this is my cousin. - Hi, I'm Dante. - Nice to meet you. - Boyfriend? - Yep. - Good luck with this one! - Shut up.
Anyway, let's go get some food.
Hey, how are you! Nice to see you! Gabby!
Kaleena!
Glad you can make it! - Of course, this is... - Andrew. Nice to finally meet you. You too! And also
congratulations on finishing your program! One of my good friends also did nursing so,
I know how hard it can be. - Aw, thank you!
I'm gonna go put these in the fridge. - Okay. See you in a minute.
So, um, I just want to give you a heads up,
Russ is here. - What? - I didn't invite him. Just heard about it. - Oh my god, you got to be kidding me
It's been like over half a year since you two broke up, right? He should be... - sending me drunk DMs every other week. Yeah
Oh sh*t.
Well, I'm here if you need anything. Thanks, I gotta go find Andrew.
Hey someone brought your favorite. - Hey, thanks. So can we go.
What we just got here why I know um, my ex-boyfriend is here and I just really don't want to deal with it right now.
Okay, um,
well, I mean, I'm cool with it, is he cool? - No, that's why I broke up.
I mean, yeah, I guess if you're that uncomfortable. Yeah, we can go... - Kaleena!
What's up! - Hey Russ.
What are you doing here?
Nice to see you too. - I was actually gonna leave. - Where, where we going?
I was actually gonna leave with my boyfriend, Andrew.
Nice to meet you.
You serious? What the hell's that supposed to mean?
Come on, let's get out of here so we can talk.
No. - Hey, man, you don't need to be like that.
No one's talking to me. - Don't talk to him like that.
That's cute. I need you to protect him? - Dude, what's your problem? - The f*ck you even doing here, man?
Someone order Chinese food? Got another delivery to make? God, you're just so f*cking immature.
This sh*t is the reason why I dumped your ass.
I was like that? - Yeah. - So you prefer this ching-chong dog eater?
Yo, what the f*ck?
You want to say something? Actually I do. Why do you think you can say racist sh*t to me?
What if I said racist insults to you? - You wanna try? - God, go home Russ.
No wait, I want to know why you feel like you can attack Asians. Like, we're both minorities.
Minorities?
You think we're the same? You think just cuz you date a black girl you can show up to a party all of a sudden?
You know what we go through? - That's not what I meant. I'm just saying why are you allowed to bring us down?
Bring you down? Nobody's bringing you down. No one's keeping you out of school. No one's putting you in jail.
Man, you don't even know what it's like to be at the bottom. And ya'll don't even say anything for us, man.
Asians are just like white people. y'all bring us down and you don't even realize it. Get the f*ck out of here.
Russ
Go
Home
Yeah, f*ck this shit.
I'm so sorry babe. He's just being an asshole.
Nah you're right, I probably shouldn't have come.
Let me just go say bye to a couple people and we can go.
Yeah, I'll be outside.
Andrew
Yeah
Hey, don't let what Russ said get to you, man. Okay, he was wrong for that.
You know, he has his reasons but uh, you know, he can't fight societal hate and ignorance with more hate and ignorance.
The thing is he's not wrong,
like I agree Asian people and black people have and continue to go through a lot of different struggles, but
that doesn't mean we can't be supportive of each other right? Like not all Asian
people are what he said. - And not all black people think like Russ.
The door is open whenever you're ready man
Hey, everything, okay? What are you feeling?
A lot of things: anger, confusion, guilt.
Why guilt?
That last thing he said, about Asians being part of the problem.
Kind of got me thinking like, am I one of those people?
We literally just joked about how many my friends were in a bubble.
It was not a joke.
Andrew
That's weird. These last couple months.
It's like I'm seeing for the first time how my life has been affected just by me being Asian
But I never questioned it. I never cared to.
I was comfortable.
But maybe that did more harm than good.
Well, you're here now and
you don't need to beat yourself up about it.
Yeah, but I don't know. I feel like I should do something though, right?
I think you already are.
You're talking about it and you're listening. We all need to listen to one another more.
And you're not doing this alone
And daughter. - Yes, yes. And daughter.
Stephanie. - Oh, Stephanie.
What's wrong with that?
Ma.
Um, yeah, but
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