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a typical texas school just like the rest of them. nope, not even close. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> all right. repeat after me, positive affirmations, today is a beautiful day. >> i will work hard. >> i am important. >> i am important. >> repeat, i will succeed. >> i will succeed. >> what percentage of your student body english is not the first language? >> i would say about 80% of them. >> at the end of the vietnam war, jonathan escaped to america on a raft and after getting a master degree becoming the principal of the school, the

most ethnically did i veersed school in the city? >> just reflective of the community. >> it is well integrated. it is not -- >> one of the main reasons is the strong economic base. it allows for immigrants and families to come over and to own the own home or go to a better neighborhood and make a life for themselves. >> more than 40 languages spoken among the 1,700 students and many from the conflict zones. leave quickly or die. often the first exposure to the american educational system, esl, english as a second language where the teacher does his best to get them up to speed and ready for the next steps. >> you see these people, what do they do? they came to houston from el

salvador, iraq and syria, they came with no money or home, what happened? >> they graduated. so don't say, i can't do it, you can. >> what part of the world are most coming from? >> central america. >> guatemala? >> el salvador, nicaragua. >> el salvador is major. >> if you send them back, it is a death sentence. >> yeah. >> other classes, math and history taught in their language. >> english. >> so this class is essential. >> yes. >> now, we are working on personal introductions. i know you feel scared but this is not for me, this is for you. when you get a job and go to a manager of some place, you're going to stand up and speak. it's very necessary.

who is brave enough to introduce themselves. >> hello -- >> i'm mr. reid. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you too. >> eye contact. >> good. >> what about his hands? you can do that. grab it firm. firm handshake t. is a first impression. stand up. okay. this is size a. you present to side b. ready, one, two, three, go. >> hi, my name is -- nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> good. you shake and look in the eye like that. that's expected. girls, in america, you can do it. it's okay to get a nice handshake. what happens if it doesn't work and they don't have this what is the future looking like if they don't acquire language skills. >> they become a third-class citizen. >> the market in any major city is always there.

landscaping, car washes but our students are gifted and talented, they just need opportunity to learn english and learn. when they grow up, they will be american and when they have kids they will -- i expect to do and my three boys not because someone force me, but i believe the opportunity it provides. no matter how uneducated you are, you have the world to educate yourself and work hard and you can achieve. >>. ♪ . >> chicken sandwich and french fries. fruit salad and carton of milk. welcome to america, kids. >> i'm from africa. >> honduras.

>> where? >> pakistan. >> and you've been here how long? >> one year. >> your english is very good. >> it took me two years to be brave enough to open up. -- >> do you eat african food? >> i have been in africa a lot. >> the love the food in ghana and senegal. very nice. your first day in school, was it frightening? >> i didn't know here. so i feel scared, i learn english and talk to people. >> after school, when you graduate high school what do you want to do next? >> i want to be a fashion designer and i want to go to college and i want to study more. >> what are you going to do? >> i want to go to college and study medicine.

i'm between medicine and engineering. >> i want to play soccer. >> soccer is not a plan, my friend. [ laughter ] ♪ >> the way we think about houston, texas today is stuck in the past. it was the boom town of popular tlevision and movie imagination. oil, shipping, nasa and football combined to create a big spending, big haired stereo type that to some extent lives with us today even if the reality is different. ♪ >> though the oil is not gone, a massive glut in the mid '80s sent prices into freefall

killing the city's oil industry. the resulting downturn and lower cost of living made houston, much more welcoming to people with less means. people getting away from bad situations. people from somewhere else. but that means is that now houston, is a place where minorities are now the majority. you can see it here, in the essential american suburb and more and more these days, this is the american family. jonathan, his salvador born wife and the mom and sill via's mom. >> so if you have on christmas or 4th or july or a big holiday, how many extended family? how many people are coming over? >> like, a lot.

[ laughter ] >> a lot. >> what's a lot? >> 40 or 50. >> 40 or 50 people. >> wow. >> i don't see us as interracial until somebody points it out. >> it is a typical texan family at this point. >> she cooks from scratch and fresh being made on a hot griddle and she makes a dish of jelly fish, and pork and dressed with the fish sauce. and a rice noodle dish from vietnam made with pork ribs and chili. >> mixed up meal here. >> did you speak english when i arrived? >> i learned within a year. because i had to. by 5th grade this one teacher made me feel like i was the smartest thing in the world. she built up my confidence that

i can do anything. >> we learn how to speak spanish first. >> we came in late '77. i was 10 years old. >> we left on a not a boat but a raft. there was a hole and sat in water the entire time. we live in a government housing projects. me and my sister and brother placed in the same category and we were probably the first wave of boat people to houston. >> what was the urgency to make a risk? >> our parents thought we needed to take a chance on freedom than to live under the communist rule. >> ain't nothing more american than this. steamed with siracha, orange juice and beer and corn, potatoes and sausage and beer,

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♪ ♪ >> slim thug: this is pretty much, like, one of the most classic signs of a slab. it's the cadillac. see i got the insides custom with the stitching and all that, so you know this is a complete slab, you know. >> anthony: full reclining is, uh -- >> slim thug: full reclining. it's a lay back thing. >> anthony: houston musical artist slim thug and his friends bone and david called some people to bring their cars over to macgregor park in the southern part of the city. if you're gonna do it, what do you have to have? what are the rules? >> slim thug: candy paint, gotta have these type of rims, these are the elbow swingers, a fifth wheel and grill is mainly, like, for slab. that's what make it a complete, you know, and the music, you know how they got the popped trunk with the custom music, you gotta have that -- [ loud bass ] ♪

>> bone: you hit the block, it's not a bunch of dudes just standing up. it's a bunch of everything. >> slim thug: you know, take the old and mix it with the new, you know what i'm saying. >> bone: these two pink cadillacs are awesome. that's a married couple. a man and woman, and they have their kids with them. these trunks, if they something, that's your autograph. you see it coming, and you see the car and the grill, and you see the two-two prongs, it's like, oh my god, here come, whoever the guard is of your neighborhood. >> anthony: right. >> slim thug: they're basically like legends in the streets. >> anthony: are all of these, like, are they works in progress or are people constantly -- >> slim thug: i think it's gonna forever be a work in progress. i think that slab, you know, they have to be doing something -- >> david: they're always changing them. >> slim thug: they get expensive, real talk, like, all these cars out here, they probably spent the bankroll on all of them. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: you're not eating pizza hut in the back of that car either, are you? >> bone: really, you're barely

see people in the backseats of somebody's car out here. >> anthony: he's shaking his head, he's like, "nobody's getting in the backseat." >> bone: 'cause you got the lean. so you got the lean thing. so that means, whoever back here can't be long. >> anthony: i'm thinking about my lincoln now. you know? maybe, i'm thinking, like, crocodile skin on the outside. would that be alright? >> bone: i'm thinking about pony. >> anthony: pony! >> bone: form a cross, or cows. >> anthony: like palomino kind of a thing going on? >> bone: yes, sir. yes, sir, that'd be fresh. that'd be evil. >> slim thug: pay him no mind. ♪ >> anthony: acres homes is a predominately black community where many of the original slab pioneers come from. it's also where you can find the legendary family-run burns barbecue, a place not unfamiliar to me. i first came here 15 years ago on some long lost travel program on a network far, far away. founder roy burns has passed on to the great open pit in the sky

since last i was here, but his son and his grandchildren carry on the tradition of making some of the best east texas style barbecue you can find around here. it's been a while, i believe last time i was here the grandfather was here back then. >> slim thug: well you're in the right place for some barbecue, man. burns barbecue. >> anthony: so, what do you do? ribs and brisket or uh -- >> slim thug: i do all of that. >> anthony: you do all of it, okay. >> slim thug: all of that. what is that? >> bone: moonshine. dukes of hazzard. bo's hos. [ laughter ] >> anthony: wow. i could drink a lot of that. okay, that's gonna work. a torpedo size baked potato filled with cheddar cheese and chopped barbecue beef and homemade link sausage. slow-cooked pork ribs. big ass beef ribs. and brisket. >> bone: whoa. okay, i got a baked potato. >> anthony: this baked potato is yours. >> bone: it's, it's marvelous. >> anthony: that thing is, like, gigantic. my mother always said, "never eat anything bigger than your head." that is about the size of a human head. >> slim thug: that look good

though, i ain't gonna lie. >> anthony: so, everybody, born here? >> slim thug: born and raised. >> anthony: the town changed at all? >> slim thug: a lot. >> anthony: yeah, in what way? >> slim thug: you know, it was like a big small town at first, and now it's becoming like a real city. you know. >> anthony: is that good or bad? >> bone: it depends on what you do. >> slim thug: good and bad, kinda. a lot of the stuff we was really into back in the day, these new kids or these people from out of town, they ain't into. even the music, like back in the day, houston was so independent, like i was selling so many records out of the trunk that i didn't want a major deal. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: is there a distinctive houston sound? >> slim thug: very. you know, the whole culture from the cars, to the sippin' syrup and the music itself. >> anthony: first of all, what's sippin' syrup? >> slim thug: syrup is, it's promethazine and codeine; it was a cough syrup, but then they mixed it with soda out here.

>> anthony: why is that the drug of choice here and not -- >> slim thug: maybe because, you see the idea is that everything is so chill and laid back. in atlanta, everything was turnt up. out here everything is slowed down because i guess we're a more laid back culture. >> anthony: so, at various points in your career, clearly somebody said, "well look, why don't you move out here? la is good. the money out here, the deals are out here." >> slim thug: right. >> anthony: but here you are. why stay? >> slim thug: i tried to go to la, and the people out there are so thirsty to try to be a star that they're fake and they're crooked. you're just like -- i don't wanna be around those types of people. i wanna be around good, genuine people. >> anthony: is houston a good place to live? >> bone: yeah. >> slim thug: great place. the cost of living is cheap. it stays hot and warm; it's never snowing to where you gotta shovel your driveway. and the food is the greatest out here, and the black women, i don't care where you go, there ain't no better black women, and that's what it is. ♪

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>> anthony: it's a 90 minute drive south from houston to the town of palacios on the matagorda bay. and, like a lot of the communities down here, the principal industry is fishing, shrimp in particular. it's also where, beginning in the 1970s as the vietnam war ground to its ignominious conclusion, that thousands of vietnamese found new lives and a new home. to have remained would have meant, in most cases, arrest, imprisonment, reeducation camps, or worse. so all you want is shrimp at this point. >> doan: yeah. >> anthony: okay. >> vinh: i got two large several, uh, get shrimp and fish. but i got enough feed for the fish. >> anthony: the shrimp you take. >> vinh: yup, big shrimp. >> doan: big shrimp, big shrimp. >> vinh: the small we don't get shrimp. >> anthony: you don't want it. >> vinh: we don't want those. >> anthony: the shrimping has >> anthony: the shrimping has declined considerably since the

1980s, but the bay still provides a solid livelihood for people like vinh who made it out of vietnam on a tiny handmade boat. his engine died, and he and his family were lost in the south china sea for nine days before being rescued by a cargo ship. he became a united states citizen in 1990 and raised his family here in palacios. so what year did you come here? how long have you been doing this? >> vinh: i have been -- 1985. >> anthony: and what year did you arrive in this country? >> vinh: i left my country in 1979. >> anthony: how old were you when you got here? >> vinh: 21 years old. >> anthony: you were 21. so why shrimp? how did you come to this business? >> vinh: my cousin. >> anthony: cousin, okay. >> vinh: my cousins are living here. >> anthony: right. >> vinh: and i work -- but they told me, they told me that, they've very good for shrimping. good for shrimp, make money more. ♪ ♪

>> anthony: back on dry land, vinh's first stop is the point, the town's general store. it's owned and operated by pillars of the community, yen and bryan tran, who separately came over from vietnam around the same time, met, married and raised three children here. >> bryan: this is my dream. i came here with nothing. 17 years old. first job i had working, washing dishes. so my boss told me and said, "hey, you're a hard worker. you know, maybe one day you're going to be the boss." so i had that thing in my mind. after i get married, i told my wife, i said, "open a restaurant." and she stopped me, and she said, "no, you're crazy!" so after all my kids went to college, they got a good job, i would mention it again, and she said, "okay." >> anthony: aw that's, that's nice. ♪ convenience store, bait shop, quick stop for a meal.

the point is, in many ways, typical in the way it is geared towards serving the immediate needs of its community. food for vietnamese and food for mexicans. yen, bryan, their kids jennifer and kimberly as well as cousin tv and his son, donny. all proud citizens of the united states of america, by the way. >> yen: you know, i really feel fortunate we live in this town and we have a lot of support. when we went to open this store, all my friends said, "i want to have vietnamese food." i know that here you have to have mexican food. so i went and talked to the best mexican cook in town maricela. >> bryan:yeah, this is the, the chef right here. >> maricela: hi. >> yen: yeaanthony: the pho her

good. brisket, eye round, meatball, tripe and tendon, just like back home. ceviche made from vinh's fresh shrimp. and, of course, tacos, migas style, with eggs, jalapeños, and tomatoes. the kids who grew up in this community -- >> yen: these are the kids -- >> bryan: yeah, these are the kids right here. >> anthony: what are they doing? >> dough:i was born here in '76, so i'm a natural born citizen. working with my dad, right hand man, you know? shrimping, building boats. just kind of seeing what they went through, i mean it's, i definitely appreciate life, you know? >> kimberly: jen here's a lawyer, my sister's an engineer, i'm in the medical field, so there's still that, you know, your parents want you to have practical jobs. >> anthony: right. so you came here, what year? >> tv: 1975. >> anthony: so you came over in the first -- >> tv: yeah. i got on american ship and got the hell out of there. i come over here no shoes, i tell you the truth, i don't have even penny in my pocket when i come over here. no. serious. and now i have a great business, and you know, really, anthony, i say this is a great country.

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>> gertrude: my name i if you are mexican or mexican american and you have a daughter turning 15, you better be throwing her a party. >> what is it? >> it is the becoming of a young lady whenever they turn 15 years old. >> if you are a mexican heritage in houston, i gather you have to have one. >> in houston, yes. >> it is an honor to have one

and for your parents to be able to give you one. >> this business is a multi-million dollar a year one. the competition is fierce. and the style and budget can vary enormously depending on means and ambition. friends relatives and neighbors gather to eat and dance. making sure everything goes according to plan. >> who gets invited though these things? >> friends and family. >> and from the school. >> so you have to invite all of the girls' from school? >> four girls and they all have

these. >> yes. and a couple of them had their sweet 16. >> a quinceera and sweet 16. >> and what do boys get? >> a soccer ball. ♪ >> that'sost effective. >> my name is david rodriguez, i was born and raised in mexico city and been in houston for roughly, 20 years. everybody assumes we have coy boy boots and ride horses, that's not accurate. we are not just an oil and gas

town. there's nowhere that you can walk through and find people that you probably have never met from over countries, malaysia, mexican, brazilian, south american, you have them all here. ♪ >> what do we eat here? >> that works for me. >> thank you very much. >> so you were enroll in culinary school out of high school? >> yes, my step grandfather was baker and i grew up in the kitchen%, in mexico city, it is common for kids to play in flour. in order for me to earn the flour, you had to clean up. i had an epiphany, i never realized i was growing up around

food all my life. i came here when i was super young but it hasn't changed. it's the same. >> we are at a cafe, a family-run spot that serves mexican dishes. >> wow, nice. >> and tortillas. >> migas, eggs mixed with fried and chopped tortillas and marinated beeves that was pounded, rubbed with spices and dried and shredded. >> what i'm hearing is houston in particular, has been not just welcoming but late on the social services in a big way that came in atrocious circumstances.

>> the city doesn't care about any you know, gender or color or skin -- >> literally the majority of people under 30 are already non-white. it is, i mean, what this means is sort of a shift in what america is going to look like and eat like and be like and vote like in the future. >> i think also what i would like is for people to understand that i have explained to other people, immigrants are not just mexicans and land people. you know. >> nobody is building a wall across canada. >> exactly. >> i'm in the same industry you work in and much of the time probably as much as 80% of the people i work with are mexicans

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>> gertrude: my name is gertrude. i'm from congo, brazzaville. i'm married to -- >> albert:, and we have four children. it's my dream, my dream, i need to be boss, i need to have my land. >> gertrude: for sure, we like the weather because we don't have snow here. in summer, i know it's very hot here, but it's good for planting. and people are nice in houston. >> anthony: many of the more recent arrivals in houston come from places where life is unbelievably hard and often dangerous. many come from agrarian backgrounds, arriving here without the skill set needed to compete for jobs in an urban situation. plant it forward, a non-profit urban farming program, provides refugees like gertrude and albert, lombo access to land where they can make a living from the ground. so here we are, middle of houston -- a lush, fertile plot where eggplant, squash, string beans, and other produce is grown to be sold at farmers markets and to restaurants

around town. fellow congolese/houston transplants guy mullet and constant, ngouala. chefs when not tending their crops, prepare an outdoor meal for the lombos and a group of friends and fellow farmers. congolese, but with a definite cajun touch. or is it the other way around? a slow cooked stew of sausage, shrimp, dried mackerel, and malabar spinach over fufu. then texas beef brochettes marinated in chilies and cilantro and maggi bouillon with a ratatouille made from produce grown right here. what did you all think when, when you heard that you were going to be resettled in texas? >> constant: in, in -- in my country when people are talking about texas, they know that is where many farmer is. >> anthony: really? and now do you feel welcome? do you feel the community is happier here? >> gertrude: wonderful. >> constant: the first challenge was, eh, the language. >> gertrude: it wasn't easy. even now, it's not easy.

>> anthony: but you already speak how many languages? >> gertrude: in congo, principal, we have three languages. >> anthony: of course. >> gertrude: we have french, lingala, and munukutuba. >> anthony: so don't feel too bad. most americans struggle with one. it's okay. >> i'm a refugee from drc. >> anthony: what did you do in kinshasa? >> i did electrician and construction too. >> anthony: and here? >> i was machine operator. after that, i decide to be farmer. it was my dream. >> my dream it was to get my own garden, and what i harvest, i need to cook. >> anthony: where are you cooking now? >> i work at the four seasons hotel. >> anthony: oh that's not a bad gig. >> yeah, yeah. >> anthony: how african will houston be in twenty years? a lot, right? >> gertrude: i want, all my

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>> anthony: the crack of the bat. the roar of the crowd.

two teams locked in struggle. take me out to the ballgame, man. though the smell wafting from behind the bleachers is not hot dogs or popcorn or roasting peanuts, it's a hell of a lot better actually. >> kuldeep patel: basically, it's practically like baseball. first international game believe it or not was u.s.a. versus canada. >> anthony: really? >> kuldeep patel: yes, in 1844. >> kuldeep patel: yeah, i don't know if you knew, but cricket is second most watched sport in the world. yes. >> anthony: i, i just read that. >> kuldeep patel: india is number one. u.s.a. is number two. >> anthony: i do like a sport where you can aim at somebody's crotch though. i think that's sort of awesome. >> anthony: i'm not even going to try and explain the sport of cricket to you. there's a ball and there's bats, and i think you run to, like, base. go out to sardar patel stadium in houston's richmond neighborhood and ask league president of the houston indian cricket club -- >> kuldeep patel: what it's all about.

he knows. he was once a big cricket star himself. >> kuldeep patel: let's go. let's go! >> anthony: who's winning? >> kuldeep patel: the first team scored 120 runs. they're chasing right now. >> anthony: i see, so you can't really say cause they haven't had an opportunity yet. >> kuldeep patel: exactly right. >> anthony: see, this is why it didn't happen in america. we need, we like winners in america. we like to know whose winning at all times. >> kuldeep patel: but this is a very high energetic game. baseball, when we watch baseball, it's kind of slow to us when we -- >> anthony: well, even to us it is. >> kuldeep patel: right? it's a slower game. >> anthony: it's really all about the snacks. >> kuldeep patel: yes, hot dogs. >> anthony: but, they're [ bleep ] hot dogs here. and the beer is even worse. now for a hot dog. oh no, right. now for some tandoori chicken cooked to perfection, some spicy, tender, and totally delicious curried goat, and made to order potato masala dosas. >> anthony: are there fewer rules here? the caste system, you lose that right away. >> it's not right away. you gotta understand because when i'm coming, somebody comes

from a rich middle class family, it's going to take a minute to get used to that culture shock over here. it's going to take them about two years. >> kuldeep patel: like, when i got married, back then in the 90s it was like i was supposed to marry a girl from my caste. it was an issue then but now it's not an issue. now, you know, twenty years later it's changed. >> anthony: what about white houstonians, welcoming? nice? >> like, my experience, i moved from singapore. first six months whenever we used to go anywhere and said we recently moved to u.s.a., everyone, "oh, welcome to texas. welcome to houston. welcome to u.s.a." and, like, that made us very comforted. >> anthony: i mean that's not the stereotype. the stereotype is that this is an intolerant state filled with, you know, right wing cowboys who don't like foreigners. not houston? >> definitely not. in the beginning you might feel like texans are, like, not that friendly to you but once you know them they are really friendly people. >> we see this is the best place to dream and achieve the dream. >> the same opportunities in india i get, i won't make as much of my life as i would over

here. >> kuldeep patel: you work hard in this country and if you put your mind to something, you know, it is achievable then, i think. so, america is land of opportunity and best place to stay in the world. >> anthony: some people say, "make america great again." i say, "america was great all along, some of us just forgot why." it's great because your grandfather and my grandfather and everybody's damn grandfather or great grandfather crammed themselves, snuck, bought their way, or was dragged onto a boat and one way or another, allowed themselves eventually to dream. you still can. there's still room and, in some places in america, apparently you are still welcome. welcome stranger, this land is your land. ♪

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