Koreans React to Memes That Only Asians Understand!

[@cloudsn]

When she said her mom confiscated her crayons it made me want to cry. The world would be a sad place without artists. I can't imagine ever doing that to a child.

[@angelietayliam3149]

I'm from the Caribbean, 8:51 was always a sewing kit for me, never expected biscuits, and was surprised when I saw them selling biscuits in the spring kit during Christmas later on.

[@sanagurin2225]

I always thought the cookie book sewing kit was a trauma only African kids knew 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@alx_gr1]

European here. We all had sewing kits in those cookie boxes. It's a universal thing it seems 😂

[@itsarie1911]

Puerto Rican here, Latinos also deal with that😂

[@SheCrucial]

Jamaican here, same thing for us Caribbean’s 😂

[@saranaila5905]

It's a world wide phenomenon at this point 😂😂. It needs to be researched.

[@mimimoomoo2902]

My grandparents always had these and I'm American XD

[@spartanbeast3575]

Asian parents: Force their kids to learn piano, violin, flute Their kids: I wanna be a musician! Asian parents: Hold up, wait a minute, that was never part of the plan.

[@tookiespooky5315]

OH MY GOD! The cookie box.. same in Germany... i think this is a world thing hahahaha

[@micktrinus]

As an American, I can confirm that this seems to be a universal occurrence.

[@glaucogd1800]

8:34 - Thats also a brazilian thing. I was fooled by several of these boxes when i was a child.

[@beatricevespasien6588]

And a french thing 😂

[@EdenMiller-yf5nc]

And the ice cream pot with beans 😔😕

[@glaucogd1800]

@@EdenMiller-yf5nc I never fell for those again. My mom never buys icecream! 🕵‍♂️

[@AndreaDoesYoga]

😂 These memes are so relatable, love the reactions! 🇰🇷🇯🇵

[@jovani78z]

It's a little sad to hear about the strict parent-child relationships in Korea. I was never beaten by my parents or forced to do anything I didn't want to do. I've always had the freedom to choose my path in life. They support me at all times. Sometimes I wish they had been a little stricter, but this way I was able to do what I had ambitions for. Thanks mum and dad. ❤

[@YvonneEche]

I'm Nigerian, and I was beaten a lot as I was very stubborn. But I had the most fun as a child. My parents support me too. We just do things differently. Doesn't mean they love their kids less.

[@1412Bunny]

@@YvonneEche I don't think they were saying Korean (or Nigerian) parents don't love their kids. It's just from a cultural perspective, if a White-American middle-class parent is physically abusive to their kids that parent is going to be a very bad person. Normal White-American middle-class parents don't beat up their kids. In your culture that's not the case, so even normal and loving parents can beat up their kids.

[@poigikibobo]

If you don't mind me asking, why do you wish your parents were a little stricter sometimes 🤔🤔 I'm curious but it's also okay if you're not comfortable answering this! 💙💙

[@jovani78z]

@@poigikibobo First of all, parents should never abuse their children, no matter where in the world. Second, strictness (without violence) hat might have saved me from having to take a detour or two in life. Working hard in school, finishing something, trying harder, etc. But on the other hand, the detours were interesting, I wouldn't be in this place now. Who knows? Ah and Cookie boxes with sewing kits have also fooled children in Germany too 😅

[@poigikibobo]

@@jovani78z ahh I see, thats pretty interesting to hear! tysm for answering I really appreciate it :D I'll definitely keep this in mind for future plans

[@Samantha-kv1uc]

I just want to say, everything shown happens a lot in African and Caribbean culture, and some Latin American ones. If people only realized how similar we all are culturally the world would be a better place.

[@mollydelacy9007]

The meme with the missing teens dad is actor John Cho from the movie Searching, it's a good movie btw.

[@Kbinger06]

Imagine being proud your kid becomes a lawyer....Yeesh...Especially with their justice system... Yeesh 😂

[@saranaila5905]

They're usually not thinking of the morality of it at all, they only think of the recognition, prestige and wealth it brings. I often see this in movies and dramas the parents thanking their child for being a doctor/lawyer ect because now no one looks down on them anymore, now that they have successfull kids they can walk with their head up and brag about them when in reality they should be thinking of their happiness and fulfilment in life (granted, financial security should always be encouraged)

[@Kbinger06]

@saranaila5905 Yeah, that part in dramas, unlike other things portrayed, at least heard from Koreans in videos/ media, appears to be Actually True the way portrayed in dramas. Even if not always the case in every drama, where the parent(s) do care about how they feel.

[@Umla80]

The shoes thing is same in Sweden too we take off the shoes when we enter someones or our own home :)

[@kpopgirllover]

Im from Finland and i have same thing but in school

[@chuggywap]

I'm pretty sure that's a universal experience for anyone outside of America lol

[@Jaeler9]

I relate to all of these and I’m from the states. At this point, I’m pretty sure people are people all over the world and whatever we think are “differences” are just lines we draw in our own minds.

[@Shaomiaome]

2:46 RELATABLEE 3:29 lol I was on a field trip and one of the moms jumped off he train to take a pic of a tree 4:00 MY GRANDMA DOES THAT EVEN IF IM ON MY 4TH PLATE, also yeah they tell us we've lost weight 4:20 my new year money goes to my gramma, who said she would keep it but then bought an acre of farmland with it for no reason 5:51 TRUE!! It's the same but for people on my dad's side (They are scary 😢) 7:08 friends were wondering why i took my shoes off at a non-asian party XD 8:40 opened a chocolate wafers container, turned out to be a raw rice container. opened a cookies container and was also a sewing kit XDD 9:18 they would always say that a loving asian parent would do that :(

[@Cassxowary]

5:12 reminds me of this one chinese(?) mom at bondi beach who couldn’t find her 17yo son and she absolutely LOST it like she just saw him get chopped up into bits or something! and the dad was riding in the buggy with the lifeguard calling for him on the intercom and he was just nearby having some fun!

[@BrooklynBabeT]

As a Turk, I saw many common things 😅

[@mariad7060]

There are many things here that are suitable for Slavic too. The money that is given for birthdays is taken by parents, sent to music school or other classes and so on. We have that too ahahaha

[@Aurinkohelmi]

And example no shoes inside goes to Finland as well. So there is influences for us in eastern Europe. And I am talking geography now before anyone corrects me with political terms 😊😅

[@mariad7060]

@Aurinkohelmi Yes, it's the same with shoes))) If you walk around the house with shoes on, your mom will just kill you 😂😂😂😂😂

[@transcended_mind]

Yeah, as a person from a slavic country I think everything was pretty relatable :c

[@FuryOfCalderon]

9:52 is that the man, the myth, the legend?

[@scarlett_0001]

8:35 Yes, there were usually sewing supplies in that exact kind of cookie container in Kurdish households too! 😂 From reading the comments, I realize now how common it is in so many other cultures too. Also 7:02 is so relatable in Kurdish culture too lol

[@StephanieVeeMusic]

Yoooooo I thought the sewing kit was only a Latino thing LOL!!!!!! We Dominican kids are traumatized 😂😂😂😂😂

[@anthalasdaelith]

Dane here. My mother loves to save the tins and every Christmas she bakes several sheet pans of various traditional cookies and biscuits. Usually, she makes enough to fill around 10 of these and they last a few months.

[@xylondacollins]

Accounts, we write it down in case if my parents don't remember theirs. Sports, my parents let me and siblings explore. Ask us what we're interested in too. Academics, tutoring classes and 1 on 1. Foods, young age they give us plenty before eating. Adult age they will ask us. Pack food to take home if we ate already. Age, yes that happens if you have a baby face. I experience this often. Dreams, my parents doesn't make me and siblings to live their dreams. They help and support ours. Eating, they will ask us and make sure we eat. Sleepovers, permission is a must.

[@Cassxowary]

*abuse is abuse in every country. what it never is, is love.*

[@mcbaum5604]

Fav duo🔥🔥🔥

[@tiredbylife.5589]

I also related to the artist meme. For Black Caribbean (and I think Africans too) especially if you're first generation born and raised diaspora kid, you'd tell your immigrant parents that you want to be an artist. They will tell you that you should either be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer. They didn’t immigrate for you to have beeter opportunities and choose to become an artist. My mom was okay with professor, nurse and researcher as well and she said she was being kind.

[@mary5305j]

American here and my gramma always had the cookie box 😂

[@mariamaj.bangtan6351]

My African parents are like that too🤣

[@mina-nanana]

0:20 everybody does that, americans are the exception not the standard 😭

[@calicoathena]

most people in the US don't wear their shoes in the house either. I don't know what dirty people you guys spend time with to have gotten this idea of an entire country

[@micktrinus]

The tin of cookies having anything other than cookies in it I think is a universal thing. As an American growing up my grandmother had one of those full of spare buttons in case we lost one on a shirt or coat.

[@Nyxtesy]

So many memes are relatable to russians as well.. the shoes and the cookies container aaaaaaaa xD

[@sinewave1k735]

Lol I guess growing up in the southern US gives similar experiences. We weren't big on private education but they cared a lot about sports. I played almost any they could put me in and my mom was my coach most of my childhood and she was coach at home as well. We did plenty of physical punishment, my dad crafted a leather belt just for whipping but his church belt was fancy with little metal designs as a good country belt has...so we avoided trouble when he had that on. Fetching our own switch to be whipped with wasn't too uncommon, and we worked all the time on the farm. My whole summer was working on the farm growing up, and I think around 16 I had one friend I was allowed to stay the night at but they wouldn't let me stay anywhere they hadn't met the parents and they would not meet parents 😂. I didn't have a curfew because that would imply I could leave home and go anywhere. Town was a 25min drive away. My closest friend was a 6mile walk to and from. My other friend was 6 miles the other direction but his parents didn't allow guest. They didn't like my house much because my parents would put them to work helping me. They were great parents but just did the best they could to give freedom while avoiding trouble my older siblings caused. So no curfew because I wasn't going anywhere. I think I managed to get permission to see a movie with a friend 3 times in my life and I had to do 4 hours of cleaning or farm work to earn the privilege. There were many other times but after I did the work they decided it was a family outing and I had to just watch what my mom's and little brother wanted. There were many ups and downs. This is the lighter stuff, but in the end I think they are good people since my brothers and I were all adopted and my older brother was so traumatized by our past that he acted like he was the spawn of Satan. Well Chucky is another good comparison. I had many unique experiences working and showing the horses though.

[@araceli2827]

8:42 that is universal 😂😂😂 In Spain we do that too

[@mimimoomoo2902]

8:43 is this just a universal thing?

[@tommyc139]

Fav duo 😍😍😍

[@victoriaadcock3929]

The sewing supply in tins is also a western thing. I still have one of my mom’s stash. In a butter cookie tin. I live in the united states southern area.

[@phoenixxena8194]

There are artists in Indonesia who started their singing career after they graduated from uni. One is from Architecture and one is from Dentist. Both are quite famous. I think parents could negotiate with their kids like that. You can be an artist, but finish your degree first. So they will have some kind of backup plan if their main plan to become artist stuck.

[@TusharChoudhary4959]

4:29 me relating to this and everything else ig as an indian cuz i remember whenever i got the birthday money, it used to go to my parents and next thing you know vanished!

[@spartanbeast3575]

Yeah, in the West, people are usually good with computers. My mom was the one who made my email accounts (Facebook too, although she deleted that one when I was 17 cuz all I'd do is spend time on FB memes all day long). When I was 9 years old, my mom made me a hotmail and a gmail (which I still have to this day). When gmail was just released, she made some accounts for herself, my sister, and myself, before our names could be taken by other people, although she was just a tad bit late on the hotmail one, so she had to add my surname initial to the email (to this day, I have some random dude with the same first name (same spelling and everything) in my email list on my hotmail, and I've sent that guy quite a few emails over the past years by mistake, what I was trying to do was send myself emails).

[@planejanedaniels]

👏Loving the cross-cultural vibes here! 😂

[@Cerion3]

The tourist thing hit home for me 😂 I live right by Yellowstone National Park and one time my brother and I were on this wooden bridge going over the hot pots and this entire bus full of Chinese tourists pulled up. The excitement was palpable and very endearing, but I don’t think the bridge was supposed to hold that many people and my bro and I were freaking a bit cause the bridge started swaying and creaking while everyone was taking a million photos 😅

[@ereinaldy20]

we should thank the makers of the cookie box. thanks to them, everyone in the world has no loss. because we buy cookies and get a very durable and sturdy tool box HAHAHAHA that's why few people care about buying a tool box. why buy it ? just buy cookies and we get tool box as extras hahaha

[@kubi1155]

I'm from Bulgaria which has always been viewed as a crossroad between Asia and Europe. The cultural similarities are like 95%

[@isi25.04]

Okay so I don't know if it is a thing in my country in general but for me and people around me in school, we had to choose an instrument to learn in second or third grade of elementary school and that's for every kid. So there was no chance of getting out of learning how to play at least the basics of an Instrument. Although one really annoying thing was that you could pick your top three instruments you wanted to learn and based on that you were randomly assigned, which caused a lot of kids to stop playing pretty soon. On the other hand we also had music classes in school so we learn basics like different keys and sounds on a piano, reading sheet music, etc. and that's from first grade till at least tenth grade.

[@GG_89_GG]

Maybe not all families are like this, but me and many of my friends had classes for ballet, swimming, piano and french or english. (I had both) ahahahah My grandmother thought it was important to have a good start in life. (Portugal)

[@emihleb2698]

Her parents were really strict.

[@behnazsadatmotavali3238]

This is 100% my life🤣🤣🤣 the shoes, the cookie box, the 12PM, the sleep over, also my parents would say go to university get a degree then you can do what you want or study you can do art next to it.🥲 I once asked my mom why do we always talk about food😂

[@Cassxowary]

no, the making kids keep eating culture is not a thing in the west, or at least in anglo america but it is in italian and italian-american families

[@feather5385]

I'm Dutch and every child here does things like ballet or playing the piano and other sports when they're little and just until they're 18? It's not like parents here expect them to be super great at it but they absolutely do at least one sport or activity like this, my little sister started ballet when she was 2 (she still does it:)).

[@tommyc139]

PLEASE react to spider girl challenge plz that's my special request from Kentucky USA ❤❤❤

[@isi25.04]

What I think is also really interesting is the case of money as a gift. While it seems common in Korea, in my country it is really uncommon until you have reached a certain age and even then people don't usually gift only money but add the money to e.g. candy because it is seen as somewhat rude to only give money to a person. For most people here we only give money to people we don't know the interests or wishes of. (I am not trying to bring anyone down here, it is just an interesting cultural difference in my opinion)

[@patriciamurashige6879]

I born and raised in Hawaii Japanese American, but we also never wore shoes in the house. Everyone that grew up in Hawaii including the other cultures never wore outerwear footwear in the house. It was considered bringing in dirty!! The westerners wore shoes and I did ask one of my Friends why… he said it was cold in the winter and it was too difficult take off. 🤔

[@tiredbylife.5589]

Expecting cookies, but it's actually a sewing kit, an AA/AAA battery storage box and a old toolbox. You might also find loose change in there. I'm from the Caribbean and I don't recall my mom giving us the cookies. I still want to know what these cookies taste like.

[@chiaramflores]

Actually, I'm from Uruguay and the first meme looks perfect in these parts too. My mother always asks me for the password of the Wifi, and if I am the one who creates a new email, she forgets the password and wants me to know it when the responsibility is hers since it is not even my email.

[@PlsKpopMe]

Even us westerners know the cookie tin is really the seeing kit!

[@chiaramflores]

The auntie meme (I know it doesn't refer to a biological aunt) is also very common in Latin America. They speak badly of a person and two seconds later if they see them, they talk to them and even joke with them.

[@sherievaughn6475]

Some of these are universal not just Asian. Here in the US, I can relate to several of them.

[@airinikaido8653]

my mom even took my money/gift cards i got for my bday and money i earned from a violin competition to "keep it safe".... they were never seen again

[@butterarmy5158]

Please react to mgi(miss grand international 2024) winner, please ❤❤❤❤

[@Birilerdenbirisi]

Same from Türkiye 💫

[@Japooooo]

As an Indian i totally agree with this😅

[@OsamaBangash-f8b]

Same same 😂😂👍👍👍💜💜💜💜🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰💜💜💜💜💜

[@laviniasnow4494]

Her parents sure were strict! 😮 However, some of those memes also apply to Eastern Europe even nowadays. 🤭

[@NishaMaurya-h9g]

As an indian I confirm all asian are same

[@bigfrankfraser1391]

i would say this is all true, but people refuse to believe im asian, despite me being born and rasied in china for the first 25 years of my life (my mother is a kam, my father is scottish, i look fully scottish, my twin sister looks fully chinese, this is apparently a normal genetic thing but i my friends and family all consider me asian) so whenever i use my birthname (xian fraser) or speak chinese to my family people call me racist, just because i "dont look chinese" im 6'6" and a very ginger guy with a massive ginger beard

[@gbjb6606]

08:42 she so cute!

[@bellabana]

The rigid conformity in Korean society must be stifling, there’s no room for individualism at all. It’s frowned upon to step outside of the box, it’s sad. No wonder they have such a high suicide rate. So many rules and restrictions from the time you’re born into old age. What I find really archaic is the rules about being subservient to anyone older than yourself, even having to call them by a special name regardless that they may only be a week older, it’s bizarre. That even during college you still have to do what they just because they’re more senior, it’s so wrong. In western society people are equal, respect is earned regardless of age and based on ability rather than seniority.

[@ereinaldy20]

indonesia is the same too.

[@hoddy1368]

What are they considering as western?? I’m so confused

[@esmagrace8951]

Send this guy the cookies!!! I cant stand this. A child want sweets and doesnt get it. Come to germany and i give you your childhood back. 🤗

[@excelbliss6193]

They didn't get to have them cookies don't mean they lost their childhood 🙄

[@XSeries.lakShay]

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[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

In Poland we also don't wear shoes in the house. And I also attended a music school (apart from regular primary school, so in the afternoons), learning to play the piano, as well as foreign languages courses.

[@spartanbeast3575]

The difference between Asian and European parents is that Asians would get mad at their kids for wanting to be musicians.

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

@spartanbeast3575 I think that it depends. After all, there are for instance contestants coming from Asian countries who take part each time in the International Chopin Piano Competition, that is held in Warsaw (Poland) every five years since 1955 (it was initiated in 1927). And now, when kpop industry is so developed in South Korea, children are probably not so rare take part even since their childhood to train singing and music, in order they could have such career in future.

[@LìXià-o2q]

I need auto translation 😢 It's not interesting to translate each strange word