xxxx this episode is about china town and chinese speernz. i love china town. i was the classhask teenager whs totally into bruce lee. thought i needed to dress like bruce lee. that's a lot of sit ups you got to do but if i get the jack.

when i moved in '97 i hadn't wore it in a while. it was something about my head. and i was like i'm going wear that kung foo jacket. i walked about two blocks into richmond and i was like oh they don't think of me as one of them. i'm a [ bleep ] all right. i'm gone take this jacket off and put it right here in this trash. it will be a little chilly on the way home but that's a good le some for me. don't get [ bleep ]. >> my name is w. can ykau bell. as comedian i've made a living and going to countries i don't understand. this is the quieted shad"united

america." awe san francisco. america's greatest and city. for years it's been known as america's gay neighborhood. and it still figure out ways to sell that crazy in summer hat in 167. currently nope as the bedroom of silicon valley but way behalf that it was known as the bildt mace of true america phenomenon. i'm talking about china town. i lived in san francisco for 12 years, longer than i lived in any city in life. i move there had to do comedy but the fist thing that made me want to come to the city is bruce lee. he was born in china town in 1940, the year of the dragon. back in 1800s the chinese people -- many people don't realize that chinese people were

among the first immigrants to this country. and almost 200 years later many of us don't know anything about the chinese american experience. we know the easy stuff like kung foo or shall may. lunar new year. even that proves we don't even know what we know, you know. and while chinese american ls are only around 1% of population in san francisco they are the large largest minority group. the cheer size of china has made somebody some politicians are obsessed with. >> how do we manage china. >>oopetions shut down of amera. >> they built artificial islands and now thai taking them oaf. >> okay. what's it like for chinese americans here? in connection to china or is

being chinese american it's on identity. i know chinese, chinese american, there's chinese. how important was it for you to grow up in your chinese culture and owning your chinese identity? >> it was hugely important for me. i'm third generation chinese american, my grandmother came over after world war ii. i always knew, no you're not from chinaism so really being embedded in both histories and context has always really really important to me and something i've been proud of. >> san francisco chinese town is where the chinese settled. once they moved there, they were forced by the city to stay there. chinese business is sprang up to service the new neighborhood, creating a solid community that's sustained for over 150 years. >> where do you live?

>> right in here in chinatown and i have not moved out for the last 40 years. >> rent control if. >> sure. i would say the guru of china town. >> one of hearts of china town. >> being chinese is the coolest thing in the world or knew years celebration are lit. >> chinese celebrations are literally lit. >> besides fire crackers, when it comes to celebrating chinese new year the most recognize bl part is the lion and dragon dance. today item heading over to lion chance to meet mirror man allow who teaches the art to teens. >> how are you doing? >> good good. >> i figure if he can time these kids over the course of years he can probably teach me in a few minutes, right? the lion dance is a century old tradition where two dancers

together mickic the -- kind of like how my peopl the elect slitrickimtats of how many people can dance. >> how do you like it. >> i didn't know it can be that athletic. >> it can get pretty extreme. you want to try some music? >> sure. all right. so you're going to see magic happen o.j. f-- all right for yu ♪ >> that's it. >> that's it okay. >> on your mark. ♪ >> one two three, one two three, one two three. >> that's it. you just have to know when to stop. you ready? >> yeah okay. one, one, one two three. >> one oops.

>> we'll count slower okay. >> i got the clapping down, kind of. i i wasn't ready to graduate to the drumsticks but i was trusted with the symbols. ♪ >> oh!yeah. symbols. that's right. keeping the stereo type alive. is this something that kids send their kids to and they don't want to go but go and is this something the parents say you're going to long term to do the lion dance? >> i would say for lion daps in general it has a bad stigma. they think it's gang related. they're parents have a bad image of it. back in the day they'd think the people that start requested do marshal arts they get into gang and corruption. >> really i didn't know.

>> the other thing is triad related. >> the triad is organized crime that followed chinese immigrants to the u.s. from mainland china. in the 1950s and '60s they terrorized the town and used a lion as a disguise. >> for me it's community driven. i want them to grow up and take part in helping the community. >> is it important that chinese americans retain this culture and not let it go? >> it's very important. i'm trying to grow this into a new era. my goal is to make lion dance mainstream. >> it's not about holding on by building? >> correct. >> and now the moment we've all been waiting for. hope i don't embarass these woman and kids by being a way superior dancing. i have no idea what i'm doing. >> on your mark get set and punch. punch up one, down, punch up

two. swing to your left, right. right. we ready? down, action one. down, action two. down punch, slow down for him. right, down, left. drop the head chase your tail. >> i'm sorry. >> there we go. how was that? >> i think the whole time i'm chasing my tail.

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. remember wilma, the guru of china town? she invited me over for tea to teach me more about her neighborhood. >> hi. [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] . >> very good very goodism. >> thank you. >> welcome to my home. >> i'm not gone lie, i'm really curious what a rent control apartment in san francisco is like. maybe see if she needs a roommate. >> i'm making launch. this is the tea egg. it's after the hot boiled egg and then you put tea leaves in there. >> so san francisco's clientown, i identify with clientown seems like the identity of the city.

>> exactly. years ago it's like another country and chinese could not go across broadway street because the kids would start fights. >> china people in chinatown would have to stay in china town? >> yeah. >> it's described as a all welcoming place but that's not true. >> uh-huh. javier wards chinatown was suppose to move elsewhere. >> china town was deaf stated in an earthquake. before it was destroyed city officials were plotted on how to move the chinese out of a -- >> chinese banned together, we're not going to move and saved by the dynasty impress. >> so the impress of china helped save china town. chinese was allowed to rebuild

in the same spot or they'd move it to another town officially. city officials knew they needed the china dollars. and so began the rebuilding of chinatown as we know ittism. >> i've lived here in 40 years. when i first come people go to movies and it was bustling after midnight. nowadays they can't afford to rich. >> are you optimistic about china town here in san francisco. >> saving the china town is important and how to attra pele coming back to chinatown, that's my mission. >> i do feel you sake that seriously. thank you very much. >> okay. good to see you. >> good to see you. i will have some tea. i don't know about those eggs but i will have tea. >> okay. >> the eggs maybe too much. now, more than ever the relationship between china and america is complicated. i wonder why that is. >> they're taking our jobs.

then the president of china come over and we have a dinner honoring him and he's laughing back to china. >> hopefully the professor here can sort this out for me. >> with the current president there's a lot of talk about china. >> yeah. >> and the the united states relationship to china. >> yeah. >> i'd even say it the way he says it, chinaism. >> yeah. >> what do you think the united states gets wrong about china and what do you think about non-chinese american citizens get wrong about china? >> china is so complex. and you're talking about diplomatic hie between the u.s. and china, that's very complicated. >> the united states and china. the u.s. officially welcomed the chinese as trade partners and laborers but in 1882 we passed the chinese exclusion act. i guess back then congress don't bother with trying to make their

horrible law horrible. in fact they're stealing our -- which cover add lot of people who were trying to immigrate here. it was repealed in 1943. it's bumper a complicated 200 years of a love/hate relationship. friends. not friends. friends. nope not friends. friends again, friends. still friends. friends. not friends. >> it's a changing evolving society and i think we tend to fix it in our imagination as just one thing. and you know in terms of the politics, the economics even the people and culture, the way they are now versus the way they are ten years ago. >> so if you had the ear of the men in power of this country, how would you explain china to him in a way that he'd understand? i guess you got to speak in tweets. >> which i don't do.

>> what would you say to explain how he should be thinking about kine? >> i would say cooperation, collaboration and not antagonism. >> there's also this thing come out now this fear of them taking over it's huge. >> yeah. >> and global committee and when china becomes a super power and this kin of stuff. what do you think of things like that? >> alarming. i hear that all the time. there are people scared about it. they're -- discoveover and over with dragons. it inspires a lot of fear. it's really disturbing because that gets mapped on to chinese americans here. and people begin to have these fears of chinese americans and see them as one in the same without distinguishing. china is china. and you have uh-huh china americans who have really been

here a long time who have adopted the american culture and becoming part of this multi culture and multi racial society. >> so you optimistic about the future of china? >> client will be china. it survived many major events. gone through a lot. >> funny when you say it that way, it's one of things i realize all of the countries that look at the united states transforming -- we have been here for industry centuries. >> yeah we've seen so much. >> we have been through a lot. you think we're right about you? yeah. good luck.

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if you look up elle fever in the miriam webster dictionary ill show things like acute, disease and mosquitos. but if you google the phrase you'll see white l female, central preference and asian women. that's a big difference. i sat down with film maker debbie love and talked about this documentary. >> your documentary seeking quite female what does it feel like to be in that position? >> i'm chinese that's true, but sitting here in this chinese tea house that wasn't my suggestion.

>> i want to apologize on behalf of "united shades of america." >> thank you for saying that because i was like are they trying to invoke an action. >> no. no. don't worry i fired everybody. everybody in my contract was allowed to fire. so your documentary -- your face is already like yep. what do you think it is about asian women? what do they see -- i want. >> i wanted to know the same question when i started making my film. so i looked in the ads of men who posted looking for asian women so i asked them. >> it's the long black hair that's eye catching. >> okay. i think they give more consideration to how the man feels than sometimes themselves. not okay. >> yeah they are subtle and kind of quiet. >> really not okay.

>> it's the thing right underneath the eye it knocks me out. >> somebody needs to get knocked out all right. >> everyone asian women i know from my sisters and friends and aunties and grannies it's like it's something we have to deal with all our lives. you grow up in america, there's this guy that has this thing for asian women. there's a study that came out a few years ago by a dating site where they looked at 2.4 milon uss th men of all races love asian women except for asian men for some reason. >> social securiit's so complic. >> it is. a lot of people go, you're so happy that you're popular but it makes me feel ikky. >> i think the difference for me -- everybody has a type something to connect with with on a sexual level but it's about what that connection means and

whether or not you let the person's humanity shine through. >> the asian fetish thing going on it has to do with the way they look at you. it's really not subtle. >> that certainly seems -- my expert specific of asian female and the desex saugs of asian men, they're the least searched for group. which to me it's hike how do you fix that. somebody's getting left out and going home by themselves. >> i think that's changing. >> i hope so. >> it's a lot of hot asian guys out there. >> that's not for me, i can think of many hot asian men, true. the fast and furious franchise alone is helping out and asian men are part of that. one of those guys is this guy, a

uc berkeley law graduate who parks part-time in the san francisco law office in san francisco. the other part of the time he works at adult films as jeremy. >> not his real name. where'd he get his name from, i'll give you one guess. genius. so in the business how much is it about the money and how much of it is about the fact you have an interesting job to have. >> being able to do important, you got to not care about what people care about you. don't think about the social impact, t definitely not the money. >> what's the social impact? it's interesting you put it that way. >> dealing with male masculinity. >> the e masslation of asian men is deeply rooted in our society. a book called asian mystique it

started with -- can compared to original american gender role, seen feminine, that coupled with -- broegt up as quote/unquote women's work like laundry cooking and child care. the deman fieing of chinese men in america began. years later all asian american man regardless of theiret necessarity are still being treated as if no one finds them attractive. >> from my perspective as an asian male, and my feet, it's kind of like where i can see social war fair, it was something we used to fight and empower ourselves. it takes crazy [ bleep ]s like me. social warfare, like you going on film as an asian american man having sex better than the able

of us walking around dudes, proves that asian american men are not genetically inferier sex objects. >> exactly. >> so with you got in the important weporn were you thinking about i can help my people as a whole? >> growing up as an asian american feel i do care about how my people is perceived. i'll do my part wherefore i can do it. i feel like all the scholars do studies and whatnot, but society don't care about papers, they want to see [ bleep ]. >> what did you say? >> they want to see it whip [ bleep ]. >> that's what society wants to see. >> that's what makes the impact. >> for me i'd pull down my pants and they'll be like you should be a comedian, you can be funny. so if some sex asian american

men were thought to be tough and strong and fighter and bruce lee shows up and lays waste to everybody. you're doing that on the sexual level. you're the porn know bruceee. >> that's honorary. >> i'm throwing out there. thank for talking to me today i learned a lot. another thing you dropped the f bomb 25 times and only apologized for it once. we'll figure it out. yeah maybe a social impact with your piece necessary. social impact is one of movies i'm cowritering. my -- in the modern world, you can control just about anything with an app. your son is turning on all the lights again! and with the esurance mobile app, you can do the same thing with your car insurance.

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usually on any show the producers have my try something i've never heard or and/or don't want to do. i get to try something everybody's heard of and would do every day if i can. i get to eat chinese food. there are over 45,000 chinese restaurants in the united states. that's where the all mcdonald, k kfc's, pizza hut all combined.

two time champ champion and his daughter will teach me how to walk the walk. nice to meet you. >> our pleasure to have you here. so i got a hill something for you. just so you feel like you're one of the pros. >> oh excellent excellent yes, yes. >> oh many any size too. yeah. >> you probably had to order this. >> i grew up with chinese foot. why it's so popular? >> mostly because it's like comfort food. kind of like soul food. thick that are sweet and spicy. full of flavor. >> do you remember a time in america wherchinese wldn't as popular as it is now? >> just a few type of thing people didn't know about. many immigrants came from all over the china. it was different parts. now people accept issing the chinese food for more than that. >> so, we are going to actually show you how to make pan fried

noodles. >> all right. >> let's pick up the ground pork, it's chinese version of the chicken. add a little bit of salt. that's a lot. >> how much is this? >> a full spoon. stir that up. >> in my kitchen i get that and put it back in but i don't want you to lose your license. >> about two minutes maybe. >> no minutes really. i'm alwaysover cooking my noodles. >> now he's going to fry that up. >> there we go. >> how can we make this taste more delicious? >> oil and heat. >> woa. >> this is our version of the pan fried noodles. >> that's a lot of deliciousness and architectural glory. i can eat that every day.

>> i can tell you like the shrimp. >> i'm no dummy. >> it's hot. al i needed was the barbecue spare ribs, chicken roe maun and poo poo platter. >> what's a poo poo platter? >> you don't foe poo poo platter. i think it's a east coast thing maybe. i'm betting a lot of chinese americans don't know about poo poo platters. it's not authentic at all it was invented here in america. initially chinese chefs has limited access to original chinese ingredients. two, in order to get more of tourist dollar, these restaurant began catering to the basic american palette. >> chinese food is so broad. >> thank you for this wonderful

lesson about chinese food and now i'm take g this with me. i'll send the plate back. seriously, i ate that food for the next two days. according to someone -- one of these successful immigrants is realtor stanley low with sales of $4 billion since 1996. andy has built enterprises and serve domestic and international clients. today we go on the ground to his one of a kind estates. here's one of the only times i'll ever say this, stanley's hair is way more impressive than mine. i've never been in a house like this, i've only seen houses like

this on television. so when you move were you well off? >> no. when i come here i almost had no money, almost 100 bucks in the pocket. i come for school. when i landed i came in the wrong airport in seattle. i was suppose to go to kansas for school. suddenly somebody tell me to take a greyhound to san francisco more chinese here so i did it. >> did you practice electrical engineer after you finished? >> not even one day. when i was in school i started learning how to do real estate. i have a passion for it. >> your live would be different if you ended up in kansas. >> yep, people tell me it's windy there i'm kind of scared. >> and also not a hot of chinese people in. >> no. >> this is just a lot to take in. so what does it feel like to have come here from tie won and

$100 in your pocket and end up with a house like this? >> it's an american dream. when i come to this country i live in the san francisco, a very very tough area. and i made up my mind i have to work hard and then my career build up. i work 18 hours a day. >> 18 hours a day? >> yeah. at nighttime people started calling me right. >> and now i'm understanding that some chinese people who have money are creating now communities in places like this right? >> yeah. there's a lot of successful chinese overseas. they started moving to the bay area because the schools better. >> and it's not just the bay area, it's happening across the nation. after the 2007/2008 housing crash wealthy chinese brought properties in law enforcement numbers spending almost

$208 billion last year. primarily to buy their children houses while they go to school. and this is bought sight unseen. >> it's going really well. >> this is land of opportunity. i nef stopped my dream i kept going at mdream. >> and part of your dream is this man right here. >> you only live once. >> this house has got evening you want and more. it's got this, that's definitely more than i need. but there's only one thing in this house that i want to take with me. follow me. it's an automatic toyota. leave me. oh my god the seat is warm.

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with the term alternative medicine. buzz i'm in san francisco let me be clear, i'm not talking about that alternative medicine. while alternative medicine has increased in popularity here over the last decades, chinese people have been using the same method for thousands of years, they just call it medicine. i went to the wellness center to meet with the doctor to see if she can help me learn something new about my body. so what does dan ten mean. >> literally dan ten mean, feel the medicine. inside our body we have the capacity to cull speculate health. >> one of the main -- of chinese medicine is called xi. imbalances in the flow of chie cause illness. and act cue puncture and chie

restore the body. >> so you got a degree he first stateo legalize choounz medicine and act cue puncture as medicine. >> is your family here in. >> uh-huh i'm from hong kong. my family moved to the united states when i was 11. i always wanted to be a chinese healer. i see all the movies and get excited about it. one day my dad had a bad back and one day in this session he had bad back energy. in one session he healed his back. >> when you say energy and energy comes out of the hand is that a real thing that happens? >> uh-huh. i want to believe in that. >> it's not -- can you do that? >> some.

i can't call myself a master because there are some that are in their 80s and working on it their whole lives. chinese medicine has a hong history. the chinese medicine has evolve through. so what would you like us to work on? >> i have back pain and bad ankles i'm too big and not built for this world and my back and neck, i travel a lot of manes. other than that always tired because i have a 2-year-old and a 5 yearly and i don't get enough sleep. i know you can't remace that but if i got a lot of sleep, drink coffee and red bulls, i don't drink enough water. >> okay. we'll do some work and see if it is better. >> now that i'm done feeling sorry for myself, the real work can begin. >> when you ben down touch your

toes what happened? >> i use to be able to do this. that's right america, i cannot touch my toes. the shame spiral. >> this feels weird. i never felt this kind of minimum-wa massage before. >> so what i'm doing is push and grasp. >> yep, stay right there. yep. >> so i'd like to do some cupping. have you ever tried cupping before if. >> no. >> what do you know about it? >> i know it's responsible for michael phelps being such a great swimmer. >> yeah. would you like a little michael feps? >> i couome michael >> this allows us to create a better suction. >> oh, this feels weird. cupping is an ancient chinese massage therapy technique. it's thought to enhance

circulation, reduce muscle pain and inflammation while pulling out toxins. it makes it look like dr. edith is trying to milk my back fat. it feels like a bunch of animals are biting my back. >> chinese abuse. i'm going to take it off and inspect the bruising marks. if there are darker spots, that really tells where the tissue is more injured, and then we'll see how you feel. so standing right now, let's see what happens. bend down, touching your toes. wow, look at that. >> i haven't been able to do this since i was 14 years old. yes, the chi is flowing. thank you, thank you. this is really good. ♪ he post office. they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4 week trial, plus $100 in extras

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♪ when i was 13, i discovered the film "enter the dragon," and my life was never the same. bruce lee was my hero. still is. i bought all his movies on vhs, hung his posters on my wall. i would take the bus across the city of chicago to study kung fu, his original style. i even created a petition in high school to get bruce lee a star on the hollywood walk of fame. i think i got four names, but every bit helps. he's got one. some may say i was a total geek, and maybe i was, but bruce lee's philosophies helped guide me and shape me into the person i am today. it's that courage i'm trying to summon up now for when i come face-to-face with his daughter, shannon lee. it's like having an audience with the queen. i've been a big fan of your dad

for a long time, which you know, because i've been annoying about it. because i'm the biggest bruce lee fan. i know the other people say that, but i actually am. >> no, i actually am. >> checkmate. >> exactly. >> yes. touche. point shannon. so in america, you can't talk about the chinese american experience witut talking about your father. he was born in san francisco. >> that's right. >> america's first chinatown. then when he left hong kong -- i'm telling you like you don't know. let me explain how your dad works. >> tell me, please. what's this? what are you saying? >> kamau feels awkward. next on "united shades of america." even if you just want to talk about chinatown in san francisco, your dad comes up. if you want to talk about the chinese american experience, your dad comes up. if you want to talk about asians in the entertainment industry, your dad comes up. you want to talk martial arts. in a very short amount of time

he got into a lot of places. >> he did. >> there's a lot of people that made martial arts movies but no one has broken through as a cultural icon like your dad did. if you're asking me, aside from the fact that he's extremely skilled as a martial artist and knew how to entertain and that's all very cool, but there's an energy about him that it makes you sort of sit forward a little bit. >> yeah. absolutely. >> you know, my father, and this is something i always want to really have people understand, he worked really hard. i mean, this was a goal of his, which is why he chose the medium of film and television because it can reach more people, and he wanted to share his philosophy and have them see the real sort of picture of a real asian man, a strong asian man in the media. when you come into the archive and you see like all these writings and all this stuff, it's like the output of a person who lived to be 85 or something. >> yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> but he died at 32.

>> in the same way the beatles in music. we'll always be dealing with the beatles. do you think your dad had any sense of that talking to your mom? >> gosh, you can hear him say, i've already made up my mind. that's something of the true -- now he used the word oriental. but it was the '70s. >> nobody says that anymore. >> i know. >> in the past. >> exactly. but something of the true oriental is going to be shown in the world because it's still bad now, but back then, it was really bad, you know. and so he had that big goal. whether he ever thought, you know, what exactly that -- you know, he flowed like water. so he was probably just like, hey, man, however it turns out. this is what i'm working on and i'll just keep heading in that direction. >> because like a lot of ethnic cultures are based on tradition, and your dad comes through to sort of disrupt the traditions. >> yeah, yeah, definitely. i think he really helped change

the perception toward chinese men, toward asian men. for asian men in particular, i say, i think they were sort of like, yes. yes, yes, yes! >> you and me. you see somebody else do something, then you can reconceive what you can do. >> exactly. >> by the same token, i have to understand that this is your dad. >> yeah. you know, the relationship i had, the feeling that i have for him as my father is mine and mine alone. and it feeds me to this day. and then i'm proud to be able to care for his legacy and keep it alive in the world because it's worth doing. >> and it's certainly, like i said, as you know, it's an essential part of the chinese american experience. if you are going to go down, if the chinese american land, you got to go down bruce lee alley at some point. can we be friends now? >> yes, we're friends. >> yea! >> you can text me your cell phone number. >> that would be amazing.

i'm so excited. i'm not really kidding. i'm excited. >> i'm not kidding either. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, no. >> you made me feel like i'm 14 again. >> that's awesome. >> let's be honest, talking to shannon is all i really wanted when i start this episode. but i got that and more. because as much as you want to make chinatown foreign, it's very much american because it's one of the things that defines this country. the people who live there aren't living a chinese experience in america, they're living an american experience because america isn't just one thing. it's lots of people with their own ingredients who show up here and mix those ingredients up into something new. chinese americans know that better than anybody. my favorite bruce lee quote is absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own. got it? okay. now i'm going to go text shannon. ♪

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