- The conversation's great, yeah,
but I think we do need to maybe start to figure out
if someone is trying to hide in the conversation.
- So what would you suggest Sam?
- See? Yeah, that was...
(laughter)
- [Narrator] We brought together six white people,
and one fake white person.
- I am Asian.
- [Narrator] If the group discovers who the liar is,
they'll win a cash prize.
If the liar survives,
they win the cash prize.
With no cameras and only audio,
can they find the fake?
This is Odd Man Out.
- So I don't think there's anything
that will really tell me if someone isn't white
- Hopefully mentioning that I don't live in the US
won't get me eliminated immediately,
but we'll see how things go.
- I feel like the mole is going
to have prepared a lot of things
and have a little bit of an act going.
- I wrote up my life and printed it out.
This is gonna be so exciting.
Let's go.
(air whooshing)
(upbeat music)
- Hi.
- Hello.
- Hey everybody. - Hi everyone.
- Does everyone wanna say where they're from,
and like, whatever?
- I'm from Spanish Fort, Alabama.
- I'm from Argentina.
- And I'm from San Diego, California.
- I'm from Indiana originally, but I live in South Korea.
- And I'm from Croydon, near London.
- I am from outside of Chicago.
- I'm in like the New York area.
- Have we all done ancestry.com?
I feel like that's a place to start.
- Yeah - I've done an ancestry.
- Same. - Yeah, I've done it, yeah.
- Yeah.
- I'm like 60% English, 30% Dutch,
so like an exotic combination of white and white.
- 35% Irish,
and then like kind of split
between Italian and German.
- 33% German, 33% Swedish and 43% English.
- Half Italian, 30% Irish.
And then there's like some fun German,
Greek, Norway, Scottish in there.
So like I got a fun assortment of whiteness in there.
- We love that.
- I got like 50% French, 25% Irish and 25% Polish.
- I am mostly Norwegian.
And then the rest is mixed up between Swedish and Irish.
- Yeah, actually, I'm the odd one here.
I haven't done ancestry, but I know my ancestry.
So we are Scottish and English.
That's white, man.
- Oh sure, yeah.
- Let's see, what kind of like foods do y'all like?
I guess we could talk about that.
- I don't know if it plays in my favor,
being not like white food necessarily,
but I'm a big fan of Japanese food,
really into like ramen and sushi.
- I love sushi. - Me too.
- Sushi is so good.
- I'll try to eat a bit of everything, I guess.
I quite like Chinese food.
- I almost always eat Italian food,
like a lot of pasta, a lot of lasagna.
- I like pasta too.
- I eat a lot of Korean food,
but Korean food is spicy.
So often I'll go into restaurants and they'll look at me,
and they'll be like, "No, it's too spicy for foreigners."
And I'm like, "No, give it to me."
- I feel like being white, I have a good heat tolerance.
- Palate, yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah. We eat a lot of spicy foods around here too.
Lots of hot sauce.
- What brand of hot sauce?
- Oh what brand?
Man. You know what? I don't know.
We kind of go with whatever attracts us on the shelf,
but we have, I don't know, 20 different hot sauces
in the fridge right now.
(bell rings)
When we were talking about hot sauces,
sure I heard somebody go "interesting".
- I'm most suspicious of Rob, great voice by the way,
would definitely listen to your podcast.
- I think I'm just gonna go for Lauren.
I don't know.
- I will vote for Sam, but I feel quite bad about that.
- Wendy
- Ross.
- I feel like people are gonna vote for Rob.
- Going after Rob and his hot sauces.
- Lauren, you get my vote.
- Fingers crossed.
- [Narrator] The votes are in and we have a tie
between Rob and Lauren.
- What?
- [Narrator] Each person has 20 seconds to state their case.
Rob, you're up first.
- Well, I can't believe I'm in a tie already here.
Guys, I don't understand why you would vote me out.
We wanna try to get the mole out first.
And I am clearly not the mole.
My strategy was to get the mole out early
and then we can fight it out
for who's gonna end up with the prize money,
but getting me out early,
it decreases your chances because you've got a mole
still sitting in there with you.
(bell rings)
- He didn't say anything to actually prove it.
He just kind of went, "not me".
I don't think so.
- You wanna know how I'm white?
Because whenever anything needs to be returned,
like in my family, my family will give whatever
to my grandma, because one,
she's like an old white woman, and she's also a Scorpio,
so she gets things returned for us,
regardless of receipt or not.
Why do I know that? Because I'm white.
I'm a Caucasian. Thank you very much.
I only need 19 seconds.
(bell rings)
- It's gonna be Rob, I think.
- Rob. - So I think I will
just go with Lauren.
- So I think I'm gonna vote for Rob.
- Sorry, Rob.
- [Narrator] Okay. The votes are in
and the person eliminated in round one is Rob.
- Oh. Why do I think I was eliminated?
I don't know, maybe it's my smooth voice.
(gentle music)
- Do you guys feel like there's a white culture?
- I don't think there's specifically a white culture.
Everyone has their own culture.
So like me being white English is a different culture
from a white American to a white German,
a white Australian.
- White Argentinian here. - Yeah, exactly.
- At least being a white person,
I don't have strong ties to my English or Dutch heritage.
I more strongly identify with the culture I grew up,
like in the Midwest and now living as an expat abroad.
- I agree completely with that.
- Most of my school, growing up, was white.
And it wasn't really until I moved to Texas,
I'm at UT now, it wasn't until I got here
that I really got to see what diversity even really means.
- Okay. So here, I think the conversation's great, yeah,
but I think we do need to maybe get
to a couple things that we could start to figure out
if someone is trying to hide in the conversation
or something like that.
- So what would you suggest Sam?
- See? Yeah, I was like, I'm gonna say this,
but then also I don't have any picture of that.
- Say your peace.
So what's the whitest thing about you?
- I mean, I don't know if this is like a...
I guess it could be like a white stereotype,
but I'm really into cheesy reality TV shows
like The Bachelor.
Oh my gosh.
- I try not to watch that kind of stuff,
but when I do start watching it, I get hooked.
- Yeah. It's hard to stop.
- They are very addictive.
(bell rings)
- A lot of the time,
the people that speak a lot can be the mole.
- Because he spoke the least, I'll be going for Ross.
- Yeah. I think I'm gonna vote for Sam,
just 'cause he was like quiet.
- I feel like I probably will be voting for Lauren again.
- But I'm going to go vote for Sam.
I'm going after the guys.
- I think I'll go with Sam again.
- Yeah, I voted Sam.
- [Narrator] We have counted all the votes
and the person eliminated this round is Sam.
- Hey, had my shot and it really didn't go well, that sucks.
(gentle music)
- I wanted to know
if you have any experiences with white privilege.
- As I said, I'm from Argentina.
I grew up, it was mostly 80% white.
It's down to 65% white.
I never really realized what white privilege was
until I left the country,
the first time I went to the US
and I noticed the difference.
- One of my really good friends is mixed race.
And then I have a podcast and we were talking on the podcast
during the Black Lives Matter things in the summer,
he spoke about things that I didn't notice.
I think it's good that in the world now,
especially the last few years, people are realizing.
- Yeah. I feel like we're making progress
but there's still just so much more out there.
And like it's true, if I get pulled over,
the first thing that goes through my mind
is not like scaredness or anything like that,
it's more just like "I'm gonna be okay",
which is really sad.
- I've been pulled over and sort of been scared away.
- I feel like being white, at least in America,
it's like we always just have one up in this situation.
- Yeah, like a lot of people are steps behind us,
like racism and slavery had so many insidious effects.
- I've had the interesting experience
of going from being a majority and Midwestern US
to being a minority here.
Even among the minorities, there's still a hierarchy.
I have more privileges as a white American
even though I'm a foreigner
than other people of color who's here.
All of my experiences are not comparable
to those experienced by people of color here,
who have it far worse.
(bell rings)
- I was suspicious of Ross, but not anymore.
And I'm gonna go Corinne.
Don't ask me why. I have to choose someone.
- I'm gonna go for Ross.
I don't know, he didn't really talk that much.
- Sorry Ross.
- I will go for Kristen.
- I might vote for Wendy.
- I think I might be going this round.
Oh God. It's hard, it's hard.
- [Narrator] We counted all the votes
and the person eliminated this round is Ross.
- I knew it.
Oh, I knew it.
The girls are ganging up against us.
Obviously disappointed.
I think I was kind of getting onto something
but it is what it is.
- [Narrator] Okay. If everyone feels confident
that you already caught the mole,
you can end the game now.
If the majority has doubt, the game will continue.
- I am afraid that if I can't continue the game,
I will be eliminated.
I don't wanna be eliminated.
- [Narrator] Please vote in 3, 2, 1.
(bubbles popping)
- Okay, we don't wanna go.
- Dang it. Okay.
(gentle music)
- Would you guys say that you're proud to be white?
- Ooh, I feel like that has a lot of negative connotations.
- I know. See it's hard 'cause it's like,
obviously you're not proud of the past,
with slavery and oppression. - I mean, I think
it's sort of like a paradoxical statement, you know?
Like the KKK and like proud boys nowadays.
- Exactly. Yeah.
- Why don't we say like white power and like all that.
- I'm not proud to be white, I just happen to be white.
I've benefited from it - Oh.
- But I don't have strong identities to my white heritage.
- It's very sad to say that I always,
growing up it was just normal.
I really started questioning what was so normal
about being white way later in life.
So it's kind of, I don't really,
again, I don't think too much about being white.
It's just, I feel like it is what it is.
It's the same. I'm blonde, I'm white,
I have brown eyes, it's just all part of the same deal.
Like it's just an adjective.
- And it's different,
'cause when people say like "I'm proud to be black",
I feel like that comes from a place
of the history they've had.
- Yeah. They've had to overcome so much.
- Yeah. Yeah.
And it's like, what have we overcome?
(bell rings)
Y'all, we're talking about such deep issues
and it's obviously not being white,
it comes through my mind,
like it's not my place to talk about this.
But at the same time, these are issues
that everyone in society faces and sees.
- I think the fact that we all voted to continue
means that we are all white.
- I guess I'll be voting for Corinne,
just because she was
the least aggressively-white person of the bunch.
- I'm gonna go with Corinne, probably.
- It just felt right.
- It's hard.
But yeah, I think I'm gonna go with Wendy.
(sighs) Here goes nothing.
- [Narrator] We have counted all the votes
and the person eliminated in round four is Corinne.
- No,
y'all. Dang.
That sucks.
I wanna know what it was.
- [Narrator] If everyone feels confident
that you already caught the mole,
you can end the game now.
If the majority has doubt, the game will continue.
- I think we're good.
- I'm done with this, I'm done.
I wanna finish the (laughs)
- Yeah. We all said no.
- [Narrator] If the color that shows up is green,
you all win.
If it shows red, the mole is still in the game
and you all lost.
In 3, 2, 1.
- Yay.
(gentle music)
- [Narrator] Here we go.
The game is over and the white people have won.
That means that the winners will be receiving a cash prize.
And we're also gonna be gifting them the Akinto experience,
where they'll be able to pick their favorite basics
from our new interactive apparel brand.
Now, I would like everyone to turn on their cameras
and we'll reveal who the mole really was.
Turn on your cameras in 3, 2, 1.
- Hey y'all.
- I knew it. (laughs)
- God, you girls were ganging up
against us guys, weren't you?
- I thought of that, I was like (laughter)
- It was unintentional.
- So my real name is Fariha, and I'm actually Indian.
We didn't even bring up like last names
or anything like that.
Like I had a good, full name prepared.
- Oh my God, what was it?
- My real name was Beth,
and my last name was Walker.
- Yeah, that's pretty white.
- Yeah.
I'm glad I got to be a part of this video
to just kind of hear from different people
then how their background has affected their perspective
on being white on the world in general.
- I mean, I feel like there isn't really
one one-size-fits-all or one collective experience.
- My culture is not defined by how I look.
It's more defined by where I live and where I grew up.
- There's a lot of white privilege.
And if you don't think that's real,
you're not paying attention.
Is it something that I relish in?
No, I don't think it's fair
and I wish we could eliminate all that.
I wish we could even the playing field
and just say, "You know what? We're all human.
Let's just be cool to each other."
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)