When Did Asian Men Become Attractive? 

Hi to everyone new on this video, I appreciate all the comments & opinions you are sharing below. I love engaging in conversations like this. I just wanted to put a note stating that I am NOT dissing Asian men by saying they were never attractive. That’s simply just the title + I am explaining how they were not always portrayed as attractive in western media. Thus, now they are getting the recognition and celebration they deserve after all these years of being limited to Hollywood’s boxes. If you watch and listen to the full commentary of the video, the point is to uplift and praise Asian men. Thank you. :)

When I first got into kpop 10 years ago, I remember getting made fun of for finding Asian men attractive. I was terrified to show my friends videos because I knew they would say something awful about their hair or clothes or makeup, some even misgendering them or assuming their sexuality. But slowly that's changed! Even in the last 2 or 3 years I've noticed how almost no one misgenders or emasculates them but instead I have friends sending me pics of idols they saw on Twitter and demanding information because they find them so attractive. That's something 2012 me could have never imagined!

I love this . 💕thank you for making this video

I'm Black,and Asian Boys Have Always Been Attractive to Me,My First Boyfriend was Asian

Major props to the Korean government pumping so much money in their entertainment sector. Even in tiktok there seems to be an influx of Asian guys that found success in the platform. Great video btw 🤝

As a Latina, they’ve always been very attractive me ✨

Thank you for this video. This is still a serious problem and we need more awareness like this.

I blame John Hughes. Long Duk Dong was basically the archetype of how the west and non Asian countries saw Asian men.

Thank you for making this vital video. Should definitely get more views. One thing I'll add is that it isn't so much that male Kpop bands are challenging what it means to be masculine with their more feminine fashion/make-up - that has already been done early on by other male artists, from 70s glam rock heroes David Bowie and Marc Bolan, to rnb legend Prince, and also many new wave bands like Duran Duran and Psychedelic Furs. However, Kpop boy bands are challenging Western acceptance of Asian males fitting into that market. It's as if to say, hey, other races (especially white) have been accepted (and even celebrated) as feminine fashion forward music artists - why can't Asian males?

A great analysis video. Well done 🙌🙌😍

the only problem with this at the moment is that this is mostly East Asian representation, as a South East Asian, "whiter" asians are definitely getting the spotlight more than anyone else

This video popped up in my recommended and I just want to say great analysis! The Asian Theory also released a video like this on their channel recently. I too am noticing the change of perception in how Asian men are portrayed in the media and I'm glad to see more of them getting leading roles in Hollywood. I hope your channel audience continues to grow! Keep up the great work!👏🏾

That's crazy how Alex Landi got so big. He was a couple grades below me in HS. He was just a little kid back then. Good for him.

The Hollywood spell has been broken. Thanks to Kpop and Kdramas, now beautiful women across the globe want to hook up with Asian men.

Honestly, some of the coolest dudes are Asian. Glad to see my Asian brothers finally getting recognition 💪.

i mean the first Hollywood sex symbol was Asian. Sessue Hayakawa was a massive silent film star during the silent film era, but due to anti-miscegenation laws, he can only play villains. He makes all women moist to the point that every time he appears on-screen, women scream his name. I'm so disappointed no one really knows the story of this legend.

Talking about nerdy, unattractive, feminine Asian men while showing John Cho (easily one of the sexiest men alive) seems contradictory. The ability for Asian men to embrace their femininity without loosing their masculinity is precisely what has ALWAYS made them insanely attractive. Also Asia is a big continent...seems that you are restricting "Asian" to a particular sub-set within a massive population that includes India, Russia, Sri Lanka, Nepal among many others. That is akin to defining all "Americans" as being from the US. A single viewing of a Bollywood movie features countless beautiful Asian men (Dev Patel anyone) who are clearly not who you are talking about here.

We’ve always been attractive. Y’all just slept on us for the longest time.

Just want to say that i'm head over heels for Japanese actor Arata Mackenyu,and NCT Jaehyun. Haha.

Great work 🙌

It's incredibly important to note Korean dramas and shows have always been this way. They don't cater to an American audience like Crazy Rich Asians tried to. The Korean cast and Korean show did nothing different to appear attractive. They just were themselves. It's nothing new that Korean actors and actresses get widely famous from acting but Netflix just gave them a bigger audience. To say that a Korean cast was "not stereotypical at all" is really silly and doesn't have anything to do with American shows who intentionally add Asian characters to get a laugh out of mostly a white audience. Also Crazy Rich Asians should have been named Crazy Rich Chinese bc it doesn't and didn't represent Asian people as a whole.

I always thought Asian men were the hottest people on earth

Thank you for making this video! We need more Asian men and women supporting each other. I think other topics to explore are “traditional masculinity” which is heavily influenced by white/American culture as well as mixed Asian actors/East Asian actors (as opposed to darker skin or SEA) who are marketed as ‘acceptable’ to American audiences. Maybe the most important of all is celebration of any Asian aspect being ‘accepted’ by Hollywood/Oscars/Grammys or mainstream white/American culture which inherently means we still give them power to deem what is acceptable instead of holding our own power and worth through our own means of celebration 💪🙌

Correction: K-Pop idols not asian men in general.

I ask myself all the time. I literally was insecure about my looks (I thought I was ugly) until this gorgeous woman was attracted to me. I started projecting self-confidence, and now I'm getting second-glances

Asian men were always hot. Had a huge crush on Jet Li💕

I think attractive asian men are like team chung body guard kyle, hao yun xiang, dae na korean model

You could have pacified the video as an “why East Asian” cuz Asia is a whole continent and most of the examples you mentioned are East Asian but I think cuz in America calling someone Asian is only pacified to East Asia and other part of Asia are called something different.

Well this video boosted up my self confidence :)

1994. Jason Scott Lee in the live-action Jungle Book. You're welcome.

Where I am from (I live in SE Asia), MOST of the people involved in my local AMWF scene are those born 1980 or later!

Also check out Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Leslie Cheung, Daniel Wu .

We on the rise stay proud Kings 👍🏼👏🏼😂🔥🔥

Toshiro Mifune. Hot hot hot.

OH, Boy.You have encountered us, Central Asians, we are the warriors.

I think maybe the first Asian American actor to be presented as "conventionally handsome" was Keye Luke in the Charlie Chan movies of the 1930s. Then in the 1970s-1980s you had Robert Ito as Sam, Quincy's handsome Japanese American lab assistant in the TV series "Quincy."

You cant put South Asians in this. This is primarily only about East and South East Asian men.

I don't need corporate western media or the entertainment industry to tell me who's attractive or not. Learn to think for yourself.

Honestly I thought Asian men ( all asian men) are attractive . It's widely known in other countries on other continents that Asian people are beautiful. But since the west "finally" recognised them as attractive. Please don't think we all fetish you, I always thought differently because I was exposed to different people since I was young. Glad the finally noticed Asian men but not excited for the fetish culture. Hope it keeps on with this kind of hype.

As an Asian woman: haven’t you realized that they have always been sexy?!

Some sexy Asian celebrities in the old days: Kintarō Hayakawa , John Lone, Burce Lee

i love this video and i just wanna say thank you for making this

Im an asian dude and ever since this media explosion its been weird. I always had a little bit of interest since im relatively fit and id say pretty funny (im not really a great judge of that since i laugh at my own jokes) but since the media changed and for the better deffinently theres been alot of these weird kpop girls who seem to only be interested because im asian and thats in a way worse than being relatively un noticed. Theres more people who are noticing me and like me for who i am which is fantastic but its super weird to be liked just for youre race. A complete 180 from when i was a kid😂

Hey I seen an Asian guy and Black woman couple. Its rare I know, but their kids was so beautiful. They have some beautiful kids

From the year you uploaded this video I guess

respect

For me I think bts' handsome looks is as good as ideal handsome looks of westerns too

Become? My guy, they were around since the days of Wei Jie. May he rest in peace.

As a Korean American guy We have always been attractive what are you talking about?

They never were and never will be

Not only asian men, asians in general were seen more beautiful and attractive lately and a lot of people are asian-fishing since it has become a "trend" and aren't thinking how disrespectful it is since we asians have experienced racism almost our whole life and they can just feel like fitting this weird "trend" and can just wipe off the makeup when they want when we asians have to deal woth it our whole life.

they were always attractive tbh, the media just started pushing that only a few years ago

Hope this energy hits black women soon ❤️

She is talking about East Asia not all Asians 💀

you mean Korean men. You show Kdrama and Kpop. Even attractive asian american actors you show here are korean. John Cho, Steve Yeon.

When my acne cleared up hahaha 😅

Donnie Yen, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li were also one of the first in the industry

well done video essay

We've been always attractive what do you mean?????? Maybe in the west your not attractive but in the east your very attractive trust me.

They always have been.

I think I moved to US from East Asia at right timing back in 2012, I witnessed how K pop was storming the the entire Asia with Girls' Generation and Super Junior. But at the time, I never know Asian men are considered unattractive in the West, especially US, I remember Gangnam Style was the first K pop song that successfully landed in US market back in 2012 because at the time, my PE teacher told us we're going to have a dance competition for our class, he told us to find 4 people and make our own dance moves for competition. My classmates were fighting to get me into their group because I was the only East Asian guy in the class and they all want to do Gangnam Style for dance competition in PE class, but as I said, I never knew Asians were considered unattractive in US, so I thought racism in US is overrated, Americans are actually nicer than I thought. Then I also got a couple Latina and white girls that shows affections or just straight off confessed to me the next year when I still barely speak any English. I never feel Americans think Asian guys are unattractive when I was in high school, nor I ran into any racism(I do get it from Asian Americans for self hate though, but that's another topic), perhaps I don't fit the typical short Asian guys with small eyes stereotype, so people usually don't mess with me. The only one time was a black guy from Guatemala framed me and got me into trouble which ended up with detention time for me, and I was so pissed the next day, the dude still try to make a joke about it, then I went to his face and was ready to punch, he then apologized. On the other hand, my sister gets more racism experience than me, but she always refuse to talk about it until we're all in our 20s, I guess it has something to do with her being an Asian female who doesn't speak English at the time. After I start working, I noticed Asians are indeed got discriminated a lot by other older Americans, for Gen Z Americans and Americans who are age 35 under now, most of them are just nice, I think it's because we all growing up with internet and Asian influence such as anime and K pop, so these Americans are "normal" most of time to treat POCs. With that being said, Covid-19 hits while K pop was rising, Americans seem to hate Asians again at a large scale,and currently dating market in US is not very good for American guys, 60% of the American male under age 30 are single, so Asians having K pop and getting some girls pisses off other guys, especially non-white American guys, I've noticed that multiple times at multiple occasions. America was good to live for me back in 2012-2018 I'd say, but now it's just getting worse and worse with hate crimes and robberies, many people are getting poor then blame on immigrants, whether they're legal or illegal, and they certainly dislike Asian face more. I do start thinking going back to East Asia, since many western girls nowadays go to East Asia to find love and escape from US dating market, I personally have a preference to date non-Asian girls due to my personal experience interacting with girls in US. I can still have a chance to date them in East Asia without feeling live in danger and worry about being suddenly attacked for my race, I get to be with my entire family and see my friends again. The only con for me to go back to East Asia is I'll make less and with longer working hours and stressful working environment, so I'm still thinking if I should do it.

Why do dogs like to take walks but cats don't?

Also show darker/golden skin Asian Men.

Always

As an Asian myself I love the recognition Asian men are getting, not sure how I feel about it being a factor to Asian men being 'attractive' in the West. I'd prefer us to be far away from Western women thank you very much.

Always were...my 2nd childhood crush was a Vietnamese boy. Later, the local Korean butcher's nephew and I crushed on each other as teens. His aunt told my mom and my mom told me. Had a couple of different Asian men who were interested in college, but with my circumstances, I didn't give it a shot.

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When I was in Japan 23 years ago I was in awe of their humbleness, respect and sensitivity. I was with teachers in western Honshu and they were so sweet!

Just recently a comedian asian men said let's start being fetishize. I get it and understand what he meant by that. Not asian by the way. But an asian women who is also a comedian doesn't want that and if you seen comedy stands out from asian women they bash the asian men. Here in the usa we saw them as weak and nerdy types of men and weird too. But if you start learning history of the past for an example japan. Japan was a power house during the early 20th century and the history behind. Bruce lee encouraged men from different races or inspired them to become mma fighters. If you look outside of Hollywood, you see from the asian men being tough and good looking(no homo). This could also help the Asiancels( incels from the asian community or black pill) that it's time to step out of that dark shadows and start learning to be a men in the usa now. For me I thought of them that way until I started realizing the history of ww2 between usa vs japan, the rise of kpop during my high school, one of my favorite soccer players from Korea( who is well respected by the country of Mexico and the Mexican community in the usa). An asian man name jonny kim who became a navy seal, doctor, an astronaut. Jonny kim backstory and his time during war back in 06 got me to cry in tears one day from walking back home after work. Which is also why I'm joining the military(the marines). Its their time to shine and hopefully it will be well done.

The perception has changed

I've always prefered feminine looking guys.they're cute.

your knowledge of "asian men" is almost exclusively from just one country (korea) lmao

Asian community?? Or korean community??

Park ki woong is handsome.

Bruce Lee was incredibly attractive. But the most beautiful men that I have ever laid eyes on are Zhan Xiao and Yibo Wang, followed by Dylan Wang and Soo-Hyun Kim. Zhan and Yibo look like gods incarnate with their sculpted high cheekbones, Dylan has a wicked, intense stare 🔥⚡ that sends shivers through me and Soo-Hyun has a bright 🌞 sunny smile that warms me. Of course, there are others, but I don't know their names. These four are my favourites above all others and I can't even think of any western men who could compete in looks.

This same thing will happen with Indians in the upcoming 15 years mark my word( yeah I know India is also a part of Asia /southern asia)

I don’t think it makes to include South Asians in this because they are nothing like East Asians/Southeast Asians. They should be categorized separately

Why is it taboo to marry outside your race?

Daniel Henney, Dennis Oh, Lee Min Ho, Jo Han Sun, Jo In Sung are the most attractive men I have ever seen!

Im Asian I have no problem with my self hahaha 😊

the order of sexual attractionis of east asia men is pretty messy. why?due to the instinct of gender,Women rarely express their inner thoughts! since east asian males have the same gene as females, only the difference at XX or XY, how could it be possible that east asian women is the most attrictive then completely oppositely the east asian men with the same gene become into the least attractive group? I supposed, In previous periods the right to speak out originally from white women's mouth ,in this point, has been taken by white men, who were filled with sexually competitive conscious . then in the white Western world,the attraction of East Asian men are acctually evaluated from the white male, rather than female! Formed the mainstream consciousness of the poor image of Asian men. Yes,in east asian you would see that some East Asian women choosed a Western white man, don't forget the social and living environment of East Asians.(Helplessness,Poverty,Dictatorship,) it is most because of her own’s ,or her country's poverty ,or she needs to face economic problem, life problem ,and other social problems, then she can not consider more in choosing a mate, she would choose the shortcut for wealth and status! Don't forget that : in east asian ,you also usually see that a beauty would marry a ugly rich man,rather than a handsome without money! besides that, black guys are also on the list that some east asian women got married with!Can it prove that East Asian women prefer ugly guys or black guys? however it seems this situation rarely happened in the western 1st world and no one is going to pay attention to that,own to that almost all white 1st world are developed countries,and white women needn't to fact these economic or life promblems in the reality,which makes them have more independent consciousness following herself instincts! You can assume that if the white guy has a same circumstances of birth,growth,and status as the native East Asian men,who could become the east asian women’s prefer? [another way]: we should also find that in the upper echelons society of East Asia, most beautiful women with wealth and status..., such as TV or Movie Stars,how many of them had prefered a white guy in their first marriage of life? How many female stars in China, Japan and Korea,get married to white guys? hardly any Unless they get old lossing their beautiful face or divorce . --------Taiwan's Lin Chi-ling married a Japanese entertainer, --------HongKong's Lin Qing-xia(Brigitte Lin) married a Hong Kong businessman. --------Chinese movie star Gong Li's first three husbands were all East Asian or Singaporean,till her 4th hunsband finnally was a white westerner's turn when she was in her 50s ...etc... I know it's hard for white guys to accept it , however it is a FACT! The above is overall and on average. at last ,Nothing is absolute, it all depends on the person.a balck woman also can be more beautiful than a east asia women, this situation of course is existing!

In my eyes always

Smith is so racist 2:42

I always loved Asians

i love video like this that talk about sexual racism. can you also do a video why so many black men and white women porn

"Crazy Rich Asians" helped a lot with this-in recent times any way. For the longest time people said I looked like the random Asian guy they saw on TV or a movie like Jackie Chan or something. Now they're like, "you remind me of that guy from Crazy Rich Asians" which is deeply flattering. Maybe soon they'll start remembering Asian male actor's names-besides that problematic misogynist chauvinist Jackie Chan.

So when you say Asian you mean East Asian with almost complete exclusivity on south Korea? Yellow face doesn’t mean American actors playing Asians it means American actors playing *East Asian* actors. And yellow face in classic Hollywood referred to Chinese characters played by Americans, and overtime some Japanese characters too but it’s only more recently there has been were Korean characters not played by Koreans. “Koreans have been represented in North American film and television for almost a century. However, in the early part of the 20th century most representations took place only through the actual bodies of Korean American actors who were portraying Chinese or Japanese characters in American films. The practice of crossethnic, and even crossracial, casting was common for Asian characters in these earlier productions. It was not until the mid-20th century that Korean American actors began to portray ethnically Korean characters. However, these roles often required them to speak, dress, and act as if they were not assimilated to American culture, contributing to the stereotype of Asians as perpetual foreigners to Western society. Since the turn of the 21st century there have been more opportunities for Korean Americans and Korean Canadians to draw from their own lived experiences in their portrayals of characters who speak unaccented English and whose cultural backgrounds are not necessarily their most distinguishing features. Consciously challenging discriminatory practices and countering stereotypes of Asians and Asian Americans led to shifts in media representations and more fully developed portrayals of Korean North American characters” Korean North Americans in Film and Television, Eun Joo Kim, Oxford research encyclopedia of literature, 2019 So this video is almost meta irony, the video tries to explain the implications and harm of orientalism but simultaneously also just orientalises all of east Asia and just forgets 40+ countries. What about west Asia? That has a completely different history of attractiveness and stereotypes in western culture. What about other east countries that aren’t Korea? Japan, China, Taiwan, Mongolia have different history and contexts than laid out in this video while actually some of their context has been lifted and put into Korean/“Asian” historic context If you’re talking about Korea say Korea if you’re talking about east Asia say east Asia. If you’re talking about Asia as a whole then say Asia.

Asian men have always been hot to me I used to think the Korean guy in lost was super attractive

It isn't misrepresented, but western media made to image with that intention

I think it just depends on the girls personality on who they wanna date

Good looking Asian men always had pretty privilege in the West, it’s just more represented. When women says they love Asians they usually mean some kdrama actor or bts member. Just look at how they ignore RM from BTS, because he’s the member who’s closer to what an average looking east-Asian would look like despite being handsome ( darker skin, small slanted eyed, monolids, chubby cheeks, small jaw, recessed chin). They mostly fawn over taehyung who’s unsurprisingly the ones who fits most of the westerner standards and who’s the most white passing member. Jackson Wang is also super popular with westerners because he have a masculine face and westerner features. It’s like saying that black women became the new beauty standard, and then showing a pic of Beyonce and Zendaya when they are extremely light skinned.

No. It's Koreans who have been winning and its Korean men specifically who are attractive and always have been. They just were never exposed before when we didn't have the internet. ❤

But don't understand the K-Pop effeminate look.

Here's the real reason: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vfht8pBtNOI.html

im an asian guy living in asia and if i want to see more asians in movies id just go watch asian movies I wont cry and complain about asian representation in western made movies just like how white dudes don't complain abt white presentation in asian movies

Rob Schneider is half Filipino. Some yellow face is ok if it done right a passable like the old white guy in the 1980s action movie Reno Williams.

As a Black woman, I have always been attracted to Asian men, even as a teenager. They are so handsome. I'm ecstatic that Asian men have finally broken through that barrier, and are starting to be seen more often and in a better light.

Word: I bought this book titled, "How to date a White Woman" and I really did not learn Anything. The book was written by this Young man who was Asian and he was from Canada. That book did not stand the test of time because it was not a best seller. The same can be true today in terms of an Asian man dating a White hot attractive Woman. It will take many years for the majority to accept the minority when it comes to dating, smashing, one night stands, and marriage. Anglo Women have 8 billion years of Preference for their own race of Men. One day in the late future, but you will see a Marina Anna Eich ( a hot German Anglo model) date someone who looks like Brandon Lee. But for anyone to say that this will be the standard right now or in 3 years is totally mistaken. It's easier for an Asian Anglo lady be married to a White man than it is for a pure Chinese man be married to a Kelly Christiansen or to a Marina Anna Eich Anglo Woman. Some things will take many years to come to fruition! October 29, 2023. USA.

For me Bruce Lee

I am happy things are changing but it just goes to show how much negative influence Hollywood had on Asian males for all of modernity. Thanks to Netflix, Kdramas showed real Asian men as a lead role in romantic relationships. Hollywood would never dare to do such a thing