To clarify, though: to call someone from Sri Lanka "Indian" is like calling an English person Scottish so no, he isn't Indian. But "Asian" includes the separate country of Sri Lanka - whose population would be horrified to be counted as "Indian". Spent my early life there where the Aunties views on the Indians were drummed into me in a way that makes me grin just to remember those conversations! Personally, I don't use vague generalisations such as "European", "Asian" etc . If I had to describe someone with reference to their origins (as opposed to their Nationality) I'd say they were German, or Sri Lankan etc. which also ensures one isn't consigning them to being part of a country they have no connection with, or are engaged in rivalry with. (As with "English" to refer to a Welsh person or a Scot.)

@SJ-GodofGnomes21

2 жыл бұрын

Yawn

@kookiescream9840

2 жыл бұрын

@@SJ-GodofGnomes21 You're either a child or an adult acting like one, either way, it's probably time you learn to grow up kid

@padmelotus

2 жыл бұрын

But, you can't always ask people what their nationality or cultural background is. So, generalisations are sometimes all that you've got. But, of course, ethnicity is complex and can't always be accurately guessed from physical appearance. What am I? Two of my gravdoatevts of European ethnicity (English and French) and two other grandparents are of Jewish-European ethnicity (with history is England, Germany and Easten Europe). So, what ethnicity am I (not that it really matters to me)? I would probably say that I'm white or pass as white. The issue with India is that it's both a country and a sub-continent. So, people from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Etc, are not of Indian nationality, but they are geographically from the landmass of India and of Indian ethnicity.

@zeeone4492

2 жыл бұрын

Your analogy is incorrect as Scotland and England are both parts of the country the United Kingdom. Sri Lanka and India are two separate countries

@cireenasimcox1081

2 жыл бұрын

@@zeeone4492 You're perfectly correct that the analogy could have been bettered. (Though don't ever tell a Scot that they are part of the same 'country' as England!! We're separate countries united as the entity "Great Britain"). The reason I used England & Scotland in this context was that until recently the OP wasn't aware of how heinous a crime (!!) it is to count a Scot (or Welsh or Irish people) as English - so I thought that would, in this context, illustrate the way Sri Lankans feel when being referred to as Indian.

In the US, you refer to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc as Asian. In the UK we refer to people from the Indian sub-continent (Pakistan, Bangladeshi, Indian, etc) as Asian - to call them 'Indian', as occurs in the States, would be a gross insult to very different groups of people who frequently have military clashes. The UK needs to be sensitive to that, because of our large 'Asian' populations.

@betterhalf6868

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. It's just another one of those differences I didn't realize existed 😊

@joshcairo8480

2 жыл бұрын

... and also because of the UK's leading culpability in the partition of India, which occurred in living memory, and brought over a million deaths and as many as 20 million displaced people to the region. National identity is such an understandably complex but important matter to anyone in the region, absolutely must be for the UK as well, and ideally would be for people from everywhere else as well.

@tonys1636

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshcairo8480 It was the new Indian Government that partitioned the country, the British just agreed to it. The boundaries were drawn up by the Indian Government. Muslim and Hindu could not get on together in Government, that was the birthplace for separate countries for each. India mainly Hindu and Sikh East (now Bangladesh) and West Pakistan Muslim. Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was always a separate country under British rule.

@joshcairo8480

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonys1636 of course, but the instrumental factor in all of this was British colonialism. It's a very nuanced and complex situation, which is my only point here really, but one that goes a bit further to explaining why recognition of national identities in that region is more prominent in the UK than it presumably is in the US.

@goldboy150

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshcairo8480 not really. The instrumental factor was religion. I’m not British and am from Australia - a former colony - so I’m no defender of colonialism. However, the presence of the British was really the only thing that stood in the way of the religious violence that would eventually culminate in partition. The fact that the brits held the power meant that Hindus and muslims both shared a mutual desire to end British rule but also weren’t subject to the perceived threat of domination by one religious group over the other. Once the British decided to leave, turmoil began as each community began to express their fear of the other through violence. Those tensions had nothing to do with the British. The perceived inability of the two communities to live peacefully side by side was so pronounced that partition was seen as the only mechanism to avoid an all out civil war. Unfortunately, the actual mechanics were so poorly organised and implemented that millions died. The British certainly have their share of atrocities to be ashamed of in the subcontinent but partition is no more their fault as the subsequent indo-Pakistani wars were.

In the UK "Asian" often means people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc.

@more-reasons6655

2 жыл бұрын

Well that's central Asia, China Japan and Korea are in east asia and the middle east is west asia, but we say they're all asian

@jillhobson6128

2 жыл бұрын

@@more-reasons6655 He was talking about what Asian means to people in the UK.

@more-reasons6655

2 жыл бұрын

@@jillhobson6128 I'm from the uk and was showing a counter point, when ever I hear Asia I think of the whole area between Japan to Egypt. Which is why it's such a vague term in my opinion

@davidwebley6186

2 жыл бұрын

@@more-reasons6655 In 60 years I have never heard people from the Near or Middle-eastern countries referred to as Asians perhaps this is something new. Asians to me is those people from Central, Eastern and Southern Asia. Yes I am a Brit.

@unicyclist97

2 жыл бұрын

I'm also from England and I've never heard Middle Eastern people referred to as Asian.

“We probably butchered that last name.” Don’t put yourselves down. You butchered both of them magnificently. (JK).

@Cassiel75

2 жыл бұрын

Check out the UK RE /-the difference between Murder and infanticide... 2 ALL THE MOMS OUT THERE! Your feelings are natural and forgiveable PLZ do not murder your infant

@d.sherlock5359

2 жыл бұрын

Very nicely played, sir. My favourite comment on the internet today. 😂😂🤣🤣

He's Sri Lankan heritage, its the Island at the bottom of India on the map. Its in South Asia, not the middle east.

@AdeHida

Жыл бұрын

I love the way you explain map to Americans

He’s Asian (heritage is Sri Lankan) that’s why he was talking about white people being on the fence about Asian people until they meet him. 👍🏼

@zeeone4492

2 жыл бұрын

If he was born in Crawley, West Sussex, is he Asian ?

@jamesmccarthy2655

2 жыл бұрын

@@zeeone4492 Yes, his nationality is British, his ethnicity is Asian… I don’t understand your point? His nationality has nothing to do with his ethnicity - Asian isn’t a nationality

@user-ir1lu1ei4n

2 жыл бұрын

His English

@corleth2868

2 жыл бұрын

And he can't be English, British and British Asian?

@niranwashere1087

2 жыл бұрын

@@zeeone4492 If a Chinese person is born in a predominantly black African country do they suddenly become black? No, they are Chinese by ethnicity and (just as an example) “Nigerian” by nationality.

He’s an interesting character. He used to be a maths teacher. He refers a lot to his mum in his routines. He has a TV series in the UK in which his mum often appears. The relationship between the two is really amusing.

@Frank75288

2 жыл бұрын

Jonathon is about as funny as piles

@tonys1636

2 жыл бұрын

He taught at the same school that he had attended, in Three Bridges, Crawley. Would have been an interesting situation at first, when he returned to teach some of the senior pupils would have been junior ones when he was a senior.

@OP-1000

2 жыл бұрын

@@Frank75288 Who is Jonathon?

@Frank75288

2 жыл бұрын

@@OP-1000 His first names Jonathon , middle names Romesh

@OP-1000

2 жыл бұрын

@@Frank75288 *Jonathan.

His heritage is Sri Lankan and he's hilariously funny! His Mum's *coded* reference to him as a "Bounty" relates to Bounty bars..a chocolate bar in which white coconut is dipped in chocolate. They're 😋

@mcallisterwill

2 жыл бұрын

I think also they were a little confused because he refers to himself as 'Asian' and I believe in America that tends to mean Chinese, Japanese or Korean, whereas in the UK it is more likely to mean South Asian. The UK census forms actually have seperate checkboxes for ethnicity, one saying 'Chinese' and one saying 'Asian' which probably makes no sense to anyone not from the UK.

@jfearondasparky

2 жыл бұрын

@@mcallisterwill I think that even tho sri lanka is closest to india most sri lankans ive met would not identify as indian, they would instead call themselfs asian.

@rusty75ish

2 жыл бұрын

@@jfearondasparky or perhaps Sri Lankan....

@lilydread8136

2 жыл бұрын

"Coded" 😂😂😂

@user-ir1lu1ei4n

2 жыл бұрын

Yes but his English

As a (half) coconut myself, I relate to this. I'm half bangladeshi, I've never been Bangladesh, I don't speak any Bengali and I can't eat any spice.

@AxlMorris1999

2 жыл бұрын

BOOM! I am half Mauritian, speak no hindi or Creole, and hottest thing I can have is a Korma :)

@hareecionelson5875

2 жыл бұрын

@@AxlMorris1999 Korma on a Friday night, again

@padmelotus

2 жыл бұрын

My maternal grandparents are Jewish, and somehow this is supposed to mean that i am also Jewish. But, I'm not; i have half Jewish ancestry, and that's it. Hitler and other modern day racists would consider me Jewish, but so what? I don't let ignorant bigots decide my identity for me. I'm an atheist, and in many ways an anti-theist. I not only lack a belief in the deity of Judaism, I actually strongly disagree with a lot of the content of Jewish religion. I don't follow a Jewish diet. I don't observe Shabbat. I don't go to synagogue. What exactly makes me Jewish?

@hareecionelson5875

2 жыл бұрын

@@padmelotus 'Jewish' is also an ethnicity, hence why anti-Semitism is racism. So you're still half Jewish, just as I am half Bengali, whatever that means

@padmelotus

2 жыл бұрын

@@hareecionelson5875 Judaism may be an ethnicity, but it's not really a race (not a racial categories mean much anyway). Jews are in theory all decended from the 12 Tribes of Israel, but in practice a lot of intermarriage has happened through the millennia, and it is possible (though difficult and unusual) for a person to convert to Judaism. My issue really is that Judaism can be a pseudo-ethnicity, a heritage and family history, and a religion. And the label of Jew doesn't describe which one of these things applies to you. Yes, coming from Bengal, people might take an educated guess that you and/or your family are Muslim or Hindu, the religion is not baked into the name. And, as an atheist humanist, i don't want a religion baked into the description of who I am.

Gogglebox is also an older slang term in the UK for a TV sometimes shortened to just box. As in "What's on the box tonight?" . Not sure if Goggle is also a US term too which means "to Stare" which then explains why a TV is called a Gogglebox.

@ly055sco

2 жыл бұрын

Gogglebox he's referring to is the show on channel 4. Calling the TV the box..is probably because they were box shaped..

@earlgrey6736

2 жыл бұрын

The show was named after the slang term though.

He's British of Sri Lankan heritage

@SvenTviking

2 жыл бұрын

Now they gotta look up Sri Lanka.

@zeeone4492

2 жыл бұрын

@@SvenTviking It never ends.

"Fathers for Justice" (F4J) is an organization for father's rights (mainly for divorced or separated fathers,) which deals with the imabalance of parents rights to access to their children (fathers have less rights to access than mothers, by default!) They organize various public demonstrations, during which some of them dress as comic super heroes - hence the reference to the spiderman costume and the doll in the baby buggy!

"Goggle Box' is an old slang name for a television set in England; my parents used it in the 1950s and 60s and I have passed it on as well.

I get your confusion when he referred to himself as Asian. Growing up in Australia and in a much less politically correct time, Asian for me meant people from places like Japan, China, Vietnam, Korea etc. You can see the stereotype here I'm sure. Places like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka etc. were referred to as the Sub Continent (which is in South Asia) and the people from those places were just referred to as Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, and so on. I only became aware through watching British comedians like Romesh Ranganathan and Nish Kumar that in the UK at least, people from these places are referred to as Asian. Don't know if that is a more recent thing or if it's always been like that, but I can tell you that it is now becoming more common place in Australia as well. If you’re interested, there are 48 countries recognised by the United Nations as being part of Asia. They are China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Turkey, Iran, Thailand, Myanmar, South Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Malaysia, Yemen, Nepal, North Korea, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Syria, Cambodia, , Jordan, Azerbaijan, United Arab Emirates, Tajikistan, Israel, Laos, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Singapore, Oman, State of Palestine, Kuwait, Georgia, Mongolia, Armenia, Qatar, Bahrain, Timor-Leste, Cyprus, Bhutan, Maldives & Brunei. Plus 3 more dependencies of China including Taiwan, Hong Kong & Macao.

@johnegerszeghy9818

2 жыл бұрын

It's the same the world over. I've travelled to most Asian countries and have worked in Japan and Singapore. People who didn't know me referred to me as 'European'. There are 44 countries in Europe, I am Anglo/ Hungarian and live in the UK. I am not offended. Why would I be? I'm European, that's a fact.

@iriscollins7583

2 жыл бұрын

When I was young, we used to refer toTurkey as Asia Minor.Just a thought?

@lynnhamps7052

2 жыл бұрын

I'm 61 and it has been like this since I was a kid, Indian, Pakistan etc were Asian and Chinese people for example were called Oriental...no offence meant or taken, ultimately, if they were born here then they are just British or may prefer British Asian..

@davidwhite5800

2 жыл бұрын

In the UK most people think of the term Asian to mean, Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan just because that's where our main Asian immigrant communities came from. I think in the USA and Australia you have bigger East Asian communities so the term Asian implies different cultural backgrounds to you guys.

@sherlockrobin597

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think the people of Taiwan would agree they’re a dependency

Romesh has done quite a bit of tv series double act with his mum, one i believe was a tour of the US, they are quite funny together, ran_gan_nathan is i think the correct pronunciation of his surname, he has a brilliant death stare that un nerves a lot of people

This is a cool video, he is a very good ambassador for modern Britain and I guess a lot of his jokes are somewhat esoteric having a lot of British references but glad it’s still fun to watch for you guys! Just discovered your channel and love the content! Interesting insight to you guys and life in the Midwest

It's good that you discovered Romesh - I love watching him on TV. He actually used to be a Maths teacher!

The irony of the Gogglebox joke, we're watching you watch the show.

Now try some Paul Chowdry. He's the more extreme version of Romesh

He was teaching maths when I first knew him- he was usually covering my lessons and taught my twin maths. He used to read the register in the cliche American movie trailer voice. He also DJ'd school discos as DJ Rangaz. His partner was my drama teacher.

@worstchoresmadesimple6259

2 жыл бұрын

meh, someone told he lived in Croydon with his family. He's a laugh :)

@edweign

2 жыл бұрын

@@worstchoresmadesimple6259 I believe he is still in Crawley

'Bounty' is the name of a UK candy bar; coconut covered in chocolate

@MetaFootballTV

2 жыл бұрын

UK chocolate bar, not candy. If it's British, it ain't candy.

Every one of the UK comedians you've liked has been on the excellent show QI, so it's worth checking that out.

In the UK, Asian means people from the Indian subcontinent.

@Salfordian

2 жыл бұрын

Nope it also covers China, Japan etc

@secretarchivesofthevatican

2 жыл бұрын

@@Salfordian Of course, geographically, but in THIS CONTEXT it refers to people from the subcontinent. Most British people, if using a generic term for those from China, Japan, the Far East, would use the term Oriental.

@Salfordian

2 жыл бұрын

@@secretarchivesofthevatican Must be an area thing then because here in the North we regard them as Indian origin and those from China etc more of 'Asian' because all in all most are of Indian lineage

@Catsandcamera

2 жыл бұрын

@@secretarchivesofthevatican I'm from the East Midlands and no one I've ever met would call anyone oriental, they'd say Asian. Also, calling people oriental can be see as racists (it's definitely frowned upon) you can call a flavour or fragrance oriental, but not people.

Gogglebox is an early uk slang term for a TV set

My grandad would have been over 100 years of age this year. He would NEVER have let a racist word out of his mouth. Generation is no excuse. None of my family would drop words like that. He brought us up better than that.

@chasfaulkner2548

2 жыл бұрын

I 100 percent agree, I'm 71 and do not use derogatory terms to describe black or Asian people.

@slytheringingerwitch

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with what you both say but wasn't Romesh's point is that sometimes a person might say something that might offend someone and isn't implied. Forgiveness and a polite, 'don't you mean etc' is much more educational.

@emdiar6588

2 жыл бұрын

My uncle lived in a street which went from being exclusively white to exclusively Indian by 1980. As a 40 year old white English man, what do you think he did?....... He learned to speak Urdu. (He was an Oxford don with a gift for languages, but still...)

@danielwhyatt3278

2 жыл бұрын

That’s kind of ironic really. My stepfather who is 70yo was a chartered surveyor and travelled all over the world including the Middle East and is very widely cultured and well off, yet he says words that would be considered massively politically incorrect all the time and doesn’t let anyone tell him otherwise. He’s willing to shout you down in an instant. It mostly just goes to show really that a lot of this isn’t the case of trying to be offensive, but simply words that have been deemed no longer ‘correct to our obsessive liking’ and it’s not fair to push that on previous generations.

Romesh’s parents came from Sri Lanka.

"Roe-mesh Ran-ga-naythan" "Bounty" - blank faces. "Kinder Surprise" - blank faces. A Bounty bar is a chocolate bar full of desicated coconut. So Brown on the outside white on the inside. Kinder Surprise eggs, Brown chocolate on the outside, white chocolate on the inside. Banned in the USA by the FDA because of the small toys inside them. Apparently a choke hazard for kids but guns and live ammo lying around the house are perfectly legal. :¬P

@geraldinechadwick130

2 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@baylessnow

2 жыл бұрын

@Rheumattica Kid? LOL, I haven't been called that for around 46 years! X¬D

He's Asian. In the UK, Asian usually means Indian subcontinent and "oriental" was usually used for what the US calls Asian.

@HighHoeKermit

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think we use oriental any more either, but the US must have at some point because Obama had that word and another removed from federal law text

His name is pronounced Ro-mesh Ranga- nathan .🇬🇧

Yesssssss!!! Romesh!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌💙 Have you guys watched Peter Kay at all? He’s a comedian from Bolton in the north west of England, he’s so relatable and so funny.

Love Romesh, he's a mood.

Rom-esh Ran-ga-nathan

"Forgiveness" is one thing; "acceptance", quite another. One can certainly forgive honest errors in people who, in good-faith, don't know better. The catch, however, is that a person in good-faith ignorance who makes an error desires to correct it. They don't look for an excuse to continue making the same mistake over and over, especially when that mistake harms others. For example, if you call someone by the wrong name once, that's forgivable and understandable. If you continue to do so despite having opportunities to learn better, and particularly if you know that your mis-naming makes the other person upset (as they would have every right to be), you're just choosing to be an asshole. I'd be more inclined to accept the "I'm old, I don't need to continue learning" argument if such people also accepted that the rest of their societal expectations and interactions should be subject to such a "time-freeze". If you want to perpetuate harmful ways of thinking just because they were common and acceptable in your youth, fine, but you also have to be consistent and forgo the other advantages of progress since that era, like, say, laproscopic surgery and improved antibiotics/painkillers. If, on the other hand, you do wish to enjoy the benefits of other people continuously learning and improving while simultaneously insisting that you don't have to do so yourself, maybe you're just entitled and lazy? But surely that would never be the case in a generation with a death-grip on the idea that their genetics make them inherently superior without the need for any work on their part. Another point would be that the racist terms of the past may have been acceptable at the time, but they were never not harmful. The reason we acknowledge those terms as problematic today is that we understand how they reflect and perpetuate false and dangerous mindsets. That is, in fact, the entire reason the terms exist. For a softer example, "coloured people" contains the implication that the default for being a "person" is being white. Clearly, that's ridiculous from any viewpoint (genetic, statistical, etc.), so why does the term promote it? Because it was always designed to support a system that saw white people as inherently more legitimate than others. These terms are not benign; they are, and always have been, weapons, whether the people using them were aware of that or not.

@SmallFaerie

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this comment! I’m so tired of people trying to excuse racist actions by trying to sound understanding. As if it actually makes them thoughtful people to be able to sympathise with lazy, privileged people when that actually means they chose to not sympathise with the marginalised people who actually suffer far worse things than having to stop using an offensive term or two. Whenever white people start trying to go down the ”political correctness gone mad” track I just lose all respect for them.

@juliebone4929

2 жыл бұрын

I see your point but you get more set in your ways as you get older. It's not always easy to go against the grain of what's been drummed into you. I've found myself having to stop myself saying things that were habit when I was young. Even though every time I've had to do that it's not meant to offend. Old habits die hard, is the saying.

The Middle East, Sri Lanka and China are all in Asia, the confusion lies in that the word "Asian" in the United States usually refers to people from the Far East/East Asia i.e. China, Japan, Vietnam etc, whereas in the UK it usually refers to people whose heritage is from South Asia i.e. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka.

I thought you'd get lost when he mentioned being Asian as most Americans think of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam etc as Asian but he's from Sri Lanka which is ASIA central along with the rest of the Indian subcontinent

I would love, if possible to see if you can do some reactions to the UK series task master

“Goggle box” is actually an old English term for the television! As in “you sit there all day long watching the goggle box!!!”

Love Romesh. 👌💕

Great video. You looked confused in places. A 'Bounty' is a coconut chocolate bar. A 'Kinder Surprise' is a chocolate egg currently banned in the US I believe. It has a brown outside with white chocolate inner. 😂

his mum lives in my town he grew up here and still come back n stays at his mum really down to earth guy xx

Asia includes India. In America I think you use it more for just the east

I am liking the way wifey is having her hair lately ☺

There is always forgiveness when there's a willingness to change. Mistakes happen, and that's okay.

"I guess he's from like the middle east" It's like when Americans see a brown person who isn't black they just see middle Eastern lmao

@niranwashere1087

2 жыл бұрын

Fr lol

Do a reaction of gogglebox that would be awesome 😁

@torresilk4277

2 жыл бұрын

I think that would cause a rupture in the space time continuum

You two are adorable. You've just gained a subscriber 😃

The facial hair suits you, man! I hope yall get back to feeling 100% soon.

@betterhalf6868

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I like it too, so of course he desided to shave it all off! Next vid should show that

He was born in England. His parents are Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu.

You should check out when he was on a show called taskmaster he was great and the show is amazing as a whole

Gogglebox in an old fashioned name for a TV.

Good pick! He can be quite funny and he's from my home town...

He has a great show on PBS called The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan ... I have not laughed so hard in so long.!! 😆😁🤭 It's funny and informative .

I like your mid-west view on things, but there's one thing I really need to know - what's on that shelf in the left-hand corner on the left of the world map?

Romesh has a very British satyrical and self derogatory humour that we are known for and he does it well,racial and gender stereotypes used for humour are totally acceptable imo as long as it doesnt overstep into derision, what Romesh teaches with his standup is something i learned a long time ago, if you cant laugh at yourself then dont laugh at others and id say thats a very central theme to the way British see humour

British people commonly usually use "asian" to mean people from India/Pakistan and environs (south asia) rather than Chinese/Japanese (east asia)- he's of Indian heritage (which is in no way "the middle east")

@zeeone4492

2 жыл бұрын

Ranganathan was born in Crawley, West Sussex, to Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu parents.

@simontomlinson6484

2 жыл бұрын

He isn't of Indian heritage- he's British with Sri Lankan heritage....calling someone with a Sri Lankan heritage, "Indian" is about as bad as you can get!

@michaelcolbourn6719

2 жыл бұрын

He literally said in the video he's from Sri Lanka.

Romesh is brilliant. He's British of Sri Lankan extraction

Hello Ethan and Angela. I was in a class at school where most kids had parents from the former British India. I was seen as one of the minority white kids, though I may have Indian ancestry myself from a couple of centuries back. My dad went to Ceylon in the Royal Navy before it was know in UK as Sri Lanka. It is more recently known for a viscous civil war between the northern Tamils, a people who also live in South India and the Sinhalese majority on the island. P.S. I have commented before how I used to watch serious educational videos. Now here I am watching this (ask Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the joke). I watch Gogglebox nowadays as I do not get to watch much TV. You should take a look.

There is a lot of Asia between Turkey and China... The middle east for example.

"Romesh Ranganathan" and you thought "middle-east"? Yikes. Well, good on you for opening yourselves up to new experiences... some never do and they miss out. Fun video.

brit here, let me just say that your intro/outro, and everything about you two, is magnificent

@natmanprime4295

2 жыл бұрын

Damn, 3 months later, no thumbs ups👍??? Better give myself one 😕

He's British, English of South Asian (Sri Lankan) heritage.

You guys are adorable people. Nice and intelligent.

In the US and Australia, "Asian" means east Asian - Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc. In the UK, "Asian" usually means "South Asian" - India, Pakistan. Legacy of Empire, see?

Romesh is my spirit animal

Romesh was in the local news recently. Some bigoted woman in his audience,at the same venue,was spouting racist abuse at him. She got thrown out and jeered by the audience.

@kookiescream9840

2 жыл бұрын

Good riddance to her, I'm sure no body missed her presence at the show lol

That was so good. I don’t believe I’ve seen his stand-up routine here before. I’ve seen a bunch of his others though. He’s a really great comedian. Definitely on point there about the political correctness and how there should be a certain level of exceptions.

Great vid ethan and Angela

There was an Amercan version of celebrity googlebox. I cant remember when tho but i did watch it. Theres also an Australian version too.

Definitely watch a video with him and his mum he did a few different series one where he took his wife and kids to the US to crack America also his mum took him to Sri Lanka to educate him on n his culture he’s so funny

Sofa program of celebrites watching tv programs is also in Norway. Years back and still.🤗

FYI - A Bounty car is a choclate bar (candy) with white coconut suggary strands on the inside.

10:31 Bounty is Almond Joy or Mounds (depending on the type of chocolate).

@awmperry

2 жыл бұрын

Except Bounty doesn't contain any almonds.

Its well worth going down a Romesh rabbit hole on KZread, very funny guy and starting to dominate the UK tv channels.

10:26 The chocolates, Bounty and Kinder Surprise, are both brown on the outside and white on the inside like a coconut. Incase you didn't know.

People are always curious about what other people think about what they like. Especially across borders this is interesting, and a good way to get familiar with how people are in other places. My impression so far is that people around the world are much more alike than stereotypes will have you believe. I don't think the acopolypse will come before people are watching other people watching other people watching other people watching other people watching a chess game.

Just because it was acceptable, doesn't mean it was ever good.

Romesh is probably considered a minority in Europe, but as an Asian he is part of a diaspora that comes from almost two thirds of the world's population.

awww, you guys are great, when you think about it, we are all watching you react to t v, so are nt we on goggle box , I love wifeys laugh, she makes me laugh, keep doing what ya doing... cheers

"Gogglebox" is a word used to describe a TV. "Sit in front of the Gogglebox."

From what I know it's only really America / North Americans that calls east asian people "asian" specifically, so for example japanese, chinese, korean, etc. Whereas in many other areas of the world, asian applies to more than just

He is a minority, yeah. Minorities are kinda weird in the UK. Cause I was technically considered a minority when I went to England for university despite coming from Northern Ireland which is also in the UK. So people would call me Irish or kept asking what it was like there despite having more of an English accent. NI is closer to Scotland in terms of culture than it is to the rest of Ireland, so I just made shit up. Plus there's also some cultural differences between the 4 countries that contribute to that, so a minority can be someone who isn't white but it can also be someone from elsewhere in the UK itself if the cultural differences are strong enough.

He's from Sri Lanka which is an island off the south coast of India.

" Onery" good expression that we don't have here!

@seanriley199

2 жыл бұрын

If here is UK then yes we do

His mum is from Sri Lanka

Gogglebox is brilliant😂👌🏼 They have a celebrity one as well, Ed Sheeran, Tom Jones, loads of Celebs on it😆

Bounty is a chocolate bar with coconut inside, like the Kinder egg, so brown outside and white inside.

His parents are from Sri Lanka, which is off the coast of India, which is part of Asia. India and the Middle East are in Asia.

Romesh Ranganathan is British, but his family are of Sri Lankan origins...

Romesh is my third fave comedian. Although that's like saying my third favourite ice cream is raspberry ripple.

Would be interesting to see American youtube reactors reacting to people reacting to other people watching TV (Gogglebox 😆 )

Ran-ga-nay-than Is approximately how you pronounce Romesh's surname I think:)

@nirmalsuki

2 жыл бұрын

In the native Tamil (which I don't actually speak), the pronunciation is Run-gə-naa-dhən

@chocobom110801

2 жыл бұрын

@@nirmalsuki Thanks :D

Bounty is a coconut chocolate bar in the UK if you don't know.

He is everywhere very popular his stand up is brilliant he does so many different sorts of show I live his Ranganation which is him hosting a show with regular people check it out anyway ❤

This went completely over their heads

In the UK when we say Asians, we firstly think of people from places like Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri-Lanka... basically the Indian subcontinent aka South Asia

Romesh is Sri lanken lol, located in Asia. In America, I've noticed when you guys discuss asia, it's more east..so China, Korea etc.

'Asian' in the UK is used to refer to people of Indian/Pakistani/Sri Lankan-type origin.

Gogglebox is an slang term for the Television - a box you goggle at. Used to hear it all the time when I was younger.

If you like his stand up check out a show called Judge Romesh where he plays a judge between real life people and there issues with hilarious verdicts.

I’m from the uk watching Americans react to uk tv shows reacting to uk watching reactions of uk tv shows. Wait!! Ummmm HELP!!! Great video. I don’t know what it is but there’s something about watching America’s react to uk shows. 👍