Okay, today is going to be a real talk, Malaysia versus America.
Okay, so first thing I've realized after moving to America is that...
every single toilet I go...
when I want to go number two...
there's no bidet.
There's no access to water...
to clean my butt.
Why is that?
You have access to toilet paper everywhere.
You clean it with that.
But, toilet paper doesn't clean everything.
It's poopy. You know, I've gone number two.
How messy do you go?
Like normal, you know.
Sometimes it's hard.
Sometimes it's soft.
Sometimes it's in the middle.
But, whatever it is, I wash it with water.
But, like you can still clean it. It'll get clean.
With just the toilet paper?
Yeah! Okay.
Okay, let me ask you a question.
If your hands touch poop...
how do you clean your hands?
With soap and water.
There you go.
Then, why...
But, my hand goes and touches other things so it doesn't...
But, your butt sits on your pants and things.
Again, how messy are you going?
You can clean it with toilet paper.
It's not about messy. It's about poop there.
Wait!
Are you telling me you still use toilet paper after number two?
Yes?
That's what I'm smelling right now.
Stop it!
Okay, but seriously I have questions about Malaysian's toileting habits.
Okay, what is it?
Why are all of your bathrooms soaking wet?
Because...
Okay, like seriously. Like the shower is right next to the toilet right next to the sink.
So if you do any of those activities, everything just gets wet constantly.
Yeah, because the prime way to clean yourself...
whether it's butt, whether it's your body, or whatever is with water.
And so sometimes it spills throughout the bathroom and that's fine, it's okay.
But, like why can't you just like put up like a shower curtain.
Like have some separation between like the shower and the toilet.
Too much things to buy.
Just wash, water, leave the bathroom.
But, like you can never wear socks inside your bathroom because it'll get soaking wet.
Why do you want to wear socks in your bathroom?
Okay, wear socks to toilets?
Americans have dry bathroom because they want to wear socks in the toilet.
Maybe it's because it's cold here, so we do wear socks a lot.
Oh, yeah! Okay, I can see that.
Yeah, it's probably why.
America!
Yes?
I've got a question for you.
Hit me.
Why is all your breakfast foods filled with sugar?
Why?
Like pretty much we're eating dessert.
As soon as I came here, we had like donuts, waffles, pancakes.
Everything's filled with sugar.
I don't see what the problem is here.
That sounds amazing.
That is the problem.
As soon as you wake up, you want something nutritional.
You want something that's healthy to get your day out right.
Like a chicken rice.
Like... I don't know, something like nasi lemak that has all the...
You want that kind of food.
Hi, buddy.
Why are you scratching your butt?
You gotta go poo poo? Okay.
Okay, America!
This next thing here...
When I moved to America and when I try to go shopping...
So for example the price tag says $5 for something...
I picked that item up, I went to the cashier, the cashier tells me $5.50.
What happened between when I picked up the item and I walked to the cashier?
What happened?
Why did the price go up?
I mean, it's just called sales tax.
It's not that novel of a concept.
In Malaysia, sales tax is included.
So when you see $5, it's already added on.
So you know exactly what you need to pay.
Here, I'm constantly second guessing.
Okay, so I think I could be wrong about this, but I think it's because...
all throughout America, different states have different sales tax.
Even like the state above us, Oregon, doesn't have sales tax.
So if you go somewhere and the tag is $5, it's $5.
That's...
Isn't that crazy?
It's crazy. It's very confusing. It's crazy, but it also kind of makes a little sense.
I mean America is so big.
It would be really hard to regulate things across the entire country.
So I think that's why states have a lot more control in their government.
Okay, so Malaysia...
I have a question for you now.
Because one thing that just terrifies me and confuses me...
is why do you have so many roundabouts?
There's no stop signs.
Everything's just roundabouts.
And it's so scary. All the cars are going so fast.
I don't want to drive in them.
Why do you not have roundabouts?
Roundabouts is one of the greatest things.
Let me tell you this, alright?
Okay, in America... Yeah, you're right. There's no roundabouts.
It's chaos.
But, roundabouts allows a four-way traffic to keep moving.
But, why do you need to keep moving? It's okay to stop. It's very organized.
It's organized, people can take turns.
It's organized, people can take turns, whatever.
But, it slows down traffic.
But...
So you just think of this, when you have a four-way...
Every time one lane can go, the other three lanes have to wait.
So three lanes, 75% of cars are constantly waiting at every single time.
As opposed to the roundabout...
100% of the cars are moving.
But, if there's an accident, somebody rear ended someone, there's an accident...
then, all the cars are affected by that.
Don't get into an accident.
It's a good life lesson there. Yeah!
Roundabout is a great invention. No, I hate roundabouts!
I think they stress me out.
America...
Okay, so this one America, I'm very very disappointed with you guys.
I'm so nervous right now. Yeah!
It's a touchy subject.
I hope we don't ever get demonetized.
But, why does your country have so much guns?
Actually, not only has so many guns, but also it's so easy to access a gun.
Like I could easily walk to Walmart right now...
pick up a gun like an AR-15, which is like semi-automatic gun...
and like own it and shoot.
Like how is it...
Okay, so it kind of goes back to the roots of our country.
When we wrote the Constitution and there are several amendments in it.
And one of the amendments was the rights to bear arms.
And it was in order to fight against, you know, England and all of that.
Again, I don't have a lot of good answers for this...
because I think it's just been so built in the culture of like it is our right to own this.
And I think Americans are very... we're very prideful people.
And we like to have what we have and not feel like we're being told what we can't do.
Yeah and I think the other thing is like people like their freedom.
People like want to feel like they don't want to submit to the authority completely
They want to have some control and the gun is their way of showing that, "I still have".
I think the argument has always been too.
Like would you make guns illegal?
The bad guys are still gonna buy them.
And the good guys won't have them protecting.
I think that's an argument I hear all the time.
I'm not going to go into like the whole debate about why you need or don't need guns.
But, I just feel like personally me, I don't agree with it.
I don't think we should like completely ban guns.
I think we should make it very very difficult to get guns.
I do agree that it should be regulated a lot more than it is today.
Hi, buddy.
Okay, so on a much lighter note, what is with the Malaysian's obsession over rice?
Like there's so much rice in everything.
You guys have rice for breakfast, for dinner, dessert, tea time.
Like there's always rice.
Mango sticky rice.
All your 'kuih' (snacks) have some type of rice in it.
Like so much rice.
Okay, so the thing with rice is the rice is amazing...
because it is a blank canvas to anything that's possible.
If you think about it, we can make like chicken rice, nasi lemak.
We can even transform rice to become porridge.
We can make rice noodles.
Rice is so beautiful.
And you can add flavor to it you can even make it like you said, sweet.
You know, so rice is a blank canvas that you can create something, so that's why.
And even also, the thing about rice too, I feel like it also allows you to enjoy other food.
Because rice, if you have multiple different dishes...
the rice is like the main thing to use...
to neutralize and it makes everything together.
Rice is the one that brings not only food together but people together.
Oh, that was beautiful. I know.
Rice, man! That's why we eat rice.
Okay, so this next thing here...
You ready for it, America?
Sure!
The dollar note.
Why is all your dollar note from $1 to $10 to $20 to $50 to $100, everything is the same color?
First of all, that's a dollar bill, not a dollar note.
You know right?
You call it a... We call it a bill. A bill?
So you don't call it a note?
No, I've never heard anyone in America call it a note before.
I've been here for 11 years and I didn't know this.
Are you serious? Yeah!
What?
Okay, so why is it the same color?
The values are different.
Consistency and like all the expressions like seeing green and all that like it's money.
But then, it's so difficult.
Every time I'm pulling on like a bunch of notes, I'm like, "Wait, which is $1? Which is $20?"
I have to like look at the number.
Literally, the number is right there.
Yeah, but you have to scroll through it.
If we got the color, you'd be like $1.
You know, red is... You know, whatever color.
Okay, how often does this affect your life? Like on a day-to-day basis.
We don't use a lot of notes here.
Bills.
Yeah, that's true. We use a lot of cards.
Like it's not that tricky to figure out what it is.
Like it looks different.
Okay, so my biggest question for you is...
why do Malaysians insist on speaking in like three different languages?
Like just peppered throughout the whole conversation.
Well, because a lot of Malaysians are multilingual.
We can speak a lot of different languages.
Then, you stick with one language when you're having a conversation.
Okay, the thing is when we are talking about something and you have...
you want to use the right word at the right time...
to emphasize what you're trying to say.
For each word, we got three different languages we can choose from.
And sometimes language A can convey the message a little bit better than language B.
So we pick language A.
Okay, so for my example, this has happened multiple times with you and your friends.
You'll be telling a story and the story will be 100% in English...
except for the punch line of the story.
And then, you'll say it in either like Malay or Tamil or Chinese.
Because...
And it's like why?
But, that's my point.
Because the punchline is the funniest in that language. See.
What...
We just got more in our library.
You know, we can pull out more things.
And you like switch words back and forth just like it's been so normalized.
It is.
Like you say like 'da bao/tapau' (take away), even though it's Chinese, right? Yeah!
Or 'nak bungkus' is like 'da bao/tapau'.
The disadvantage of that is we are never good at one language.
We are decent at all of them.
Yeah, so it's like Jack of all trades, master of none.
But, I like it that way.
I think it makes us unique and special.
Okay, so there's this one thing that kind of weirded me out after I moved to America.
There's this one day in the year, it's a random day and all of a sudden you gain an extra hour.
It means that in that specific day, instead of 24 hours, you'll have 25 hours.
Amazing, right?
But then, six months later, there's a day that you lose one hour.
So that day, you'll have 23 hours.
This will completely mess up with your schedule, right?
Suddenly you have like so much light daytime...
and suddenly you have like so much night time, which is weird.
I mean it dated back to the farmers.
And then, they moved the times, so they had more time to harvest and more daylight in the morning.
And like at the time it made sense back in the 1800s.
But now, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
It just makes it really dark when it's winter time...
and really bright in the summer like now.
So you're telling me it's mainly because of farmers and agriculture?
Yes!
End daylight savings time.
I'll vote to end it if I can vote. You can't vote.
So I have a question for you, Mr Malaysian.
What is with your power outlets?
What about it?
Like so many things.
Why do you have to turn on the switch in order to use the outlet?
Why can't you just plug and go?
Because it's a better safety feature, right.
So when you want power, you turn it on.
When you don't want power, you turn it off.
But, in America... Guys, in America...
You just plug it in and it's good to go. You plug it in and it starts.
Yeah! It's good to go.
But, it's dangerous.
Imagine kids.
You can turn off plugs, so that electricity doesn't come through things.
But, kids can turn it back on. That's logic.
But, imagine a baby or a toddler who doesn't know, right.
Yeah, so it's on but it's not like it's gonna electrify them.
So you're saying that if kids are putting their fingers in the socket it doesn't shock them. Yeah!
I could see that but like...
Yeah, you cut off the line.
Second part of that is...
Sorry! One more thing, it also saves electricity.
So it's not constantly running when you have things plugged in.
Such a minute amount of electricity.
But, my other question is why are your plugs so intense?
The prongs that stick out of it are crazy beefy and like the plugs are this big.
In America, everything's just very dainty.
It's just like a little plug.
Yours are huge.
We like to be secure.
Oh my gosh! Like seriously?
It's just so hard when you power back and forth between Malaysia and America.
Okay, so this next one here I kind of struggled the most...
after moving from Malaysia to America.
The fact that healthcare cost is so expensive.
It's insane. It's crazy expensive.
The fact that you won't know how much you're gonna pay...
when you go see a doctor for whatever treatment.
The insurance company decides what medicine you get, how much get. Not the doctor.
The doctor can prescribe something.
But, the insurance company can actually go back...
and say, "Actually, you don't really need this" and deny it.
And deny it and you're not covered.
You got to pay out of pocket.
It costs... whatever you think how expensive the U.S healthcare system is...
It's actually ten hundred thousand times worse than that.
That's how bad it is.
It is pretty bad.
Like I can't even disagree with you on this point.
Like the American healthcare system has a lot of flaws.
There's amazing doctors, but it is incredibly expensive.
People go bankrupt getting medical care.
And coming from a country that has free healthcare, painful.
Okay, American...
What you got for us?
I feel like this one's really shallow.
But, it's one thing I know in Malaysia is that...
if you buy something, you don't like it, you change your mind...
you cannot return things and get your money back.
In Malaysia?
In Malaysia. Like...
It's difficult.
It's so difficult like it has to be in a really short amount of time.
You have to have your receipt, the tags, everything.
And you have to have a reason. A reason. Everything!
And then, a lot of times, you just get store credit.
You don't actually get it back on your card or cash back. Yeah!
Whereas in America, it is incredibly easy to return.
I even bought too much milk one time and I went back to the store and returned it.
Like it's so easy.
And depending the store, like some places take things up to a year after you buy it.
Yeah! And sometimes you don't even have the receipt, they can give you store credit.
But, I feel like there's pros and cons for this.
The cons is obviously like you can't return.
Whatever you buy, you're like really committed to it.
You have to commit.
But, the cons is the fact that you're constantly thinking like, "Oh, I can return it."
Yeah! "If I don't like it, I'll return it."
So you buy and buy and buy and buy things.
And then you're like, "I need to return it", and you never do.
And then you end up just keeping a lot of things.
Yeah, it's actually kind of a smart system for stores to have a good return policy...
because you buy more thinking like, "I can change my mind."
But then, you forget or you're like too lazy to go return it.
I see what you're saying.
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