Rice Squad

Rice Squad, formerly The Asian Theory, is a YouTube channel dedicated to documenting, discussing and bringing attention to Asian culture, history and entertainment. It is run by Paul Bacera.
== Content ==
Paul's first videos were about Asian representation in media, specifcally Oscars and Hollywoodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJOhkO14dn4&ab_channel=TheAsianTheoryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6DL5O-IO1Y&ab_channel=TheAsianTheory. He moved on to making videos about Japan's role in WW2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53VwDvfskbI&ab_channel=TheAsianTheoryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUOnP8zUB6Q&ab_channel=TheAsianTheory, but later decided to center his content on Japanese and Korean media, specifically anime and kpophttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDdr1ogP0v0&ab_channel=TheAsianTheory. As of 2020, most of his content is about ranking kpop and kpop groupshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z-SFScynRg&ab_channel=TheAsianTheoryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ7XtG_tDpU&ab_channel=TheAsianTheoryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDFvh_Dy0Kw&ab_channel=TheAsianTheory, especially BTShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82AXPlMFL6w&ab_channel=TheAsianTheory. He also talks about racial identity in Americahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_p-I9fdyV4&ab_channel=TheAsianTheory as well as societal standards of beautyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQLbL9w6t8c&ab_channel=TheAsianTheory.
In 2021 he decided to expand his content from talking about East Asian countries such as Japan, Korea and the Philippines to Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and Burundihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_MfGq-FOao&ab_channel=TheAsianTheory. He has spoken about intersectional identity in South Koreahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsR4b-Btdbg&ab_channel=TheAsianTheory and the stigma of being mixed race too.
== Personal Life ==
Paul Bacera was born in the Territory of Guam, to a Filipino family. His mother, Beverly Basa Magbanua is a registered Civil Engineer in the Philippines who decided to be a full time home maker after getting married. His father, Jess Gales Bacera is a Mechanical Engineer, who got involved in plant design and later managed Civil Construction projects and Facilities Management. Anticipating that their children will probably marry and stay in the Mainland US, his parents decided to move to California when Paul was 16.
==Trivia==
*His favorite anime is Attack on Titanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFOio0Oq2Xk&ab_channel=TheAsianTheory
== References ==
Category:Guamanian YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Review YouTubers
Category:Reaction YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2018