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- [Announcer] The USA celebrates its heritage
and identity as a nation of immigrants.
What adds to the diversity is the Asian American population
that traces its roots to more than 20 countries in Asia,
each having a different culture
and a unique characteristic.
In this episode of Odd Man Out
let's see how easy it is for the Mole to fake an identity.
- [Narrator] We brought together seven Asians, blindfolded.
- I'm Asian.
- I am Asian
- I'm Asian.
- I'm Asian
- I'm Mexican.
- [Narrator] One is a liar.
If the group discovers who the liar is
they'll split a cash prize.
If the liar survives, they win the entire prize.
This is Odd Man Out.
- Hi, my name is Kriselle and I'm the first person in line.
- Hi, my name is Josh and I'm the second person in line.
- My Name is Brianna.
I'm the third person in Line.
- My name is Zaldy
and I am the fourth person in line.
- And I'm Aaron.
I am the fifth person in line.
- My name is Michelle.
I'm the sixth person in line.
- I'm Preet and I'm the seventh person in line.
- I'll start no shoes inside the house.
Plain and simple.
I think, I mean most Asian parents probably have that.
- I don't know if this was like specific to Filipinos.
They always said like not to sleep
with your feet facing the door
because the ghosts can take you,
or something like that.
- We had it.
We don't sleep facing the mirror.
- Okay!
That makes sense.
My strategy going into the game
is trying to ask about different cultural nuances
that people have experienced.
Because a lot of people like Asian culture,
a lot of people like Asian food,
a lot of people like Asian women.
- Were any of you guys born in your native countries?
Or were you guys born..
- No
- No, I'm a third generation.
- I was born in Wittier,
so it's like really White there
but my parents came from India
and yeah, they were just here to come for a better life.
So.
- Can we talk about like
things that your non-Asian friends didn't get
that you had to do?
- Um, they didn't get that I liked Spam.
- Oh I love Spam.
- One thing I didn't get
anytime I like I would spend the night
at my like non-Asian friends house
picking on my white friends,
I noticed some of them,
like if they would get into arguments with their parents
and they would argue back really hard.
And I was thinking to myself,
I would never do that with my mom.
- When White people call their parents
by their first name,
(group talking)
like, how can you do that?
- If I called my mom and dad, their first name
they would've just like, nah
- I personally thought the Mole was going to be
like this White, like anime lover.
- I did think the mole was White.
Yes.
- [Announcer] And why was that?
- Just because I have like a lot of friends
and family that like are Asian
but they are married to someone that usually is White.
So just going off of, I guess, like prior judgment,
I kind of just made that, made that call.
- Does everyone speak in their native tongue fluently?
- I am not fluent.
- I can understand it.
- I understand it.
- Or do you guys have like a Asian name?
- Yes. My Asian name is name is Dubou.
- I feel like there's someone here hasn't spoken much.
- Yeah.
I feel like that would be a good indication
of like,
- Just me, like being like the quiet one in the group.
I felt like that kind of just like gave it away
that I wasn't like telling the truth.
- My parents are like whitewashed,
so it's like, I barely like,
I'm not fluent in our native language, but
- Did they give you a name?
- I have a oh, American name.
It's just Brianna.
Yeah.
- I was like, I feel like every Asian has a Asian name.
- Oh, where you from?
- Yeah. What ethnicity are you again?
- I'm Japanese.
- Oh cool.
- Yeah
- The Japanese one.
When do you celebrate new year?
- January 1st.
- Okay.
- I didn't think I would be as nervous as I was
but once they started asking
like the tougher questions I kind of was like
trying to think fast.
- Have any of you guys been back to like
or have been to your native countries?
- I've never been to never been.
- Never been?
- Yes.
- Really, well. For those of you who have been
when was the last time that you went?
- I went 2013 cause my sister
just got married to a white guy.
(bell ringing)
- All the stereotypes that were discussed
were definitely valid questions.
However, I don't think that's like the best way to judge
if someone is Asian or not.
- I voted for Josh because he was very quiet.
I would think that the mole
didn't want to reveal himself too much.
- A lot of our answers weren't too detailed.
- I hate to be stereotypical
but it was the way that he sounded
(buzzer)
- Bye.
- Bye(Everyone) .
- I feel like Mexicans and Asians
are kind of like
we have a lot of similarities.
You feel like you're kind of in the middle.
Oh, I'm like Chinese,
but I'm American.
So it's like which culture are you more?
- So Josh, tell me about like
when there's a disagreement with your parents.
How's that usually go?
- Oh dude, honestly, man,
it's my parents way or the highway.
- Like what happens if like you really piss them off?
- Um.
- Like when you were younger.
- Me growing up,
I just saw a stark difference between
how my Asian friends acted around parents
versus my non-Asian friends acted around their parents.
- We were pretty like Americanized or,
I mean I grew up pretty Americanized.
So like, like I never really
had too much of a disagreement with my parents.
I would always kind of just like follow the way.
- Kriselle, when was the last time your mom or your parent,
dad told you that, that they loved you?
- I just felt like he was trying to
steer the conversation away from him.
So, just going off of that,
I felt like he was definitely the Mole.
- I'm actually kind of estranged from my parents,
but like I'm kind of like trying to rebuild with my mom.
She used to never say that she loved me
but now every time that we do talk she does
because it's kind of complicated.
- And if you guys ever get in a real big conflict
does ah,
do they ever apologize at all or?
- No, Never.
- I mean my parents
- And that's partially why I'm kind of estranged from
especially my dad.
Like, that's why I'm kind of my parents are divorced
by the way.
Which was unheard of.
Filipinos are Catholic and they like don't divorce.
- I don't wanna be a racist.
Uhg.
In my perception, a lot of like white families
go through like divorce
but also she just sounded very like Americanized.
- What's the most Cambodian thing about you?
- Oh God.
Well we would go the we'd go the New Year's
in April every year.
We have a big festival.
- What's your favorite Cambodian food?
- Oh, simple bulk sauce.
- Have you heard of it?
- What is it?
- Bulk sauce fermented fish.
- Oh no.
- That's like the one thing non-Cambodians
can never stand cuz it's like,
it smells bad.
It looks bad.
- You said that your third generation Preet, right?
- Sorry. No, I'm first generation.
- Oh first generation.
- Why did I hear someone say third generation?
- I said third by accident.
- Oh you did?
Okay.
- I said third by accident.
I'm first generation American.
- So your parents immigrated here?
- Yes. Back in 1986 and then 1990.
- Okay. And what..
- And you do you have a girlfriend?
- Me?
(alarm ringing)
- When he said he was third generation
and then he backed up
and said, oh no, I'm first generation.
That was kind of a red flag to me.
- I meant to say third generation Christian
because my family was Hindu before.
I meant to say first generation American.
- After she talked about the relationship with her parents
it raised a little doubt on my mind.
- But at three people that were to my left
were giving just such great answers.
My boy Josh was just kind of piggybacking off those answers
(buzzer sound)
- In terms of being
like estranged or cutting them out.
It's not something that you typically hear
when it comes to Asian families.
I do think that
not fitting into those stereotypes
is what got me out.
Raise your hand if you have any doubts
and would like to continue the game.
- Did you guys ever like talk to your parents
about like your mental health growing up?
- No
- That, that wasn't ever part of our culture.
- But I feel like, I mean, yeah, they're,
they're very like what, what does that even mean?
Like therapy?
No, but I feel like,
you know, times are changing
and like..
- I was gonna,
- ..if you just talk about it
with them, they'll, they're always there to understand.
But
- Did you ever have the talk
like the birds and the bees talk with your parents?
- NO!
- Nope.
- Yeah, no.
I had to like figure it out myself.
- Did your parents let you like date
in high school or even like middle school?
- No, because it was more of like a
like you weren't ready type of thing.
- My parents were always like, don't date,
don't date growing up.
But then now I'm like, okay I didn't date
and now I'm like single.
And they're like,
go date, go date.
(group laughter)
- Now my dad's like, yo, we're my grandchildren.
(group chatter in agreement)
- Are you guys into like any like Asian trends?
I guess.
- I mean, if TikTok is a trend.
(laughter)
- I gotta say like I do like K-pop
and BTS but some of the older ones
like Girls Generation, I like them.
And then Super Junior.
- I mean, I'm sure you're a fan
of like the, Any Song, you know, the
- 2NE1 ?
- There's like some trend going on,
like people doing videos of like
♪Da na na da na (piano playing) ♪
you know, like this thing.
- Okay. I'm not like super into K-pop,
but like. I, like
(group chatter)
- I was like, if you're into K-pop
you should know that though.
Cause it
- No I mean, if it like, if it like comes up
on my music I'll listen to it.
- I'm not too sure who any of those people are to be honest.
(laughter)
- Wait where'd you say your parents are from?
- They're from
- In India?
- India.
But we live in Ontario, California.
- Oh, but where in India?
- Gujarat. No one really knows where Gujarat is.
- What are your parents' names?
- My parents?
- Yeah.
My mom's name is actually Spanish.
So her name's Leonna
but she goes by Eena now.
And then my dad's name is Ashish.
- My parents have super white names actually
it's Ellen and Dennis.
(laughter)
Like what?
- [Announcer] So when you said that your parents
had "white names" did you think
that people would get suspicious?
- A part of me, yes.
And then someone next to me asked,
"Oh what are their Asian names?".
And I was like, oh gosh, I don't even know.
- Their birth names?
- I actually don't, Youngin?
And my mom's is, I'm not really sure.
- So just to say that I'm Asian,
I don't have any arm hair
if you guys wanna feel.
- What?
- I don't have any arm, hair.
- Feel.
- Yeah. There you go.
- Is that a thing?
- You got that.
- I just don't really have any arm hair.
- I don't feel anything.
(buzzer)
- Yeah. I mean like I had to use stereotypes
to defend myself
because I wanted to be sure I was gonna win.
(buzzer)
- Let's say they'd never see my face
and they're only talking to me.
They would think I'm White.
And that was the reason why I was voted off
because I don't,
I sound too like too much of a surfer dude
and I grew up in the suburbs of Oregon.
So?
- [Announcer] So raise your hand.
If you have any doubt
and you would like to continue with the game.
All right.
- I think we got him.
- I feel like we got him.
- I don't think so.
- Who'd you think it was?
- Josh bro, I swear my man.
Like.
- [Announcer] If the lights turn green,
you voted the mole out.
If the lights turn red,
the mole is still in the box and you lose.
(clock ticking)
- [Announcer] And...the lights turns green!
(noises of excitement)
- Oh my gosh (indistinct). I can't see.
- [Announcer] All right, so you can open your blindfolds.
- Oh my gosh.
(suspenseful music)
- Oh, it was Vienna.
(talking over eachother)
- We were all like
- We were right the first time.
- ..pitted against eachother.
- I definitely thought she was Japanese.
The way she kind of spoke
and the way she kind of carried herself.
- I just assumed she was a quiet Japanese girl.
- Last semester
I did take Japanese class.
I could speak like a little bit.
I'm not like fluent.
- I wanted to see if I was able to distinguish people.
What differentiates people
or as well as,
you know what experiences have they gone through
that I can also relate to.
- Yeah. I, I feel very comfortable talking
about my race ethnicity,
cause yeah, it matters.
- Oh Shoot.
- Ahhh
- Oh my God
- Oh, I've never done that before.
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- I'd always been self-conscious of my nose
and I like beg my parents
like no, no, absolutely not.
- I got plastic surgery.
I got plastic surgery.
- I got plastic surgery.
I got plastic surgery.
- [Narrator] One of them is a liar.
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