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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> anthony: close-minded, prejudicial, quick to make assumptions about places different than where we grew up. i'm not talking about texas. i'm talking about, well, me. and people like me, who are way too comfortable thinking of texas as a big space filled with intolerant, invariably right wing white people waddling
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between the fast food outlet and the gun store. that, of course, is wrong. ♪ but then, i'm used to being wrong. texas, houston in particular, is a very different place than you might imagine from the stereotypes and the sound bites of its national political figures. immigrants, refugees, and non-white americans have, in fact, been transforming the city, the food and culture of houston for years. welcome to america, people. ♪ ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪
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♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la la ♪ ♪ >> today is a beautiful day. >> today is a beautiful day. >> i will work hard. >> i will work hard. >> i am important. >> repeat, i will succeed.
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>> at the end of the war, he escaped to the united states. after attending the marine corps, he became the principal of this school, lee senior high, the most ethnically diverse school in the city. >> reflective of the community? 80%. >> it's very well integrated. >> how did that happen? >> i think one of the reasons is the strong economic base. >> moth >> more than 40 languages are spoken here. leave quickly or die. often their first exposure to the american educational system
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is here, esl. english as a second language class, where the teacher gets them up to speed and ready fort next steps. >> do you see these people? what do they do? all these people came to houston from salvador, vietnam, iraq, syria, just like you. no money, no home. what happened? they graduated. don't say i can't do it. you can do diit. >> what part of the world are most kids coming from? >> central america. >> guatemala. >> guatemala, el salvador. >> in a few cases, if you send these kids back, it's a death sentence. >> many almost. >> other classes, taught in their loown language?
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>> no, they're taught in english. >> so this is essential. >> i know you feel spared. but their is is not for me, thi for you. when you go to get a job, a manager or someplace, you got to stand up. you got to speak. it's very necessary. who's brave enough to introduce themselves? >> hi, my name is mario. >> my name is steve. >> good to meet you. >> what about his hands? you can do that. grab it firm, firm hammnd shake. it's a first impression. stand up. this is side a. you present to side b, ready? one, two, three, go. >> glad to meet you. >> good, good. so you shake, look in the eye like that. okay. >> that's what's expected. girls, anna, in america you can
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do it. it's okay to do a nice hand shake. >> if they don't acquire language skills, what happens? >> you become a third class citizen here. in major cities, it's always there. reality call, but our students are very gifted. they're talented kids. they just need an opportunity to learn english. these kids, when they grow up, when they have kids, they will pick up in this country, pi believe in it. you have the ability to educate yourself and work hard at it. you can achieve.
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>> chicken salad, french fries, carton of milk. welcome to america, kids. so what country is everybody from? >> ghana. portugal. >> hungary. >> you've been here snohow long? >> one year. >> english is pretty good. very good. >> it takes two years to be brave enough to open up. they listen very, very well. >> have you had african food? >> i love the food in ghana. food food in senegal is very, very nice. >> you've been to senegal? >> oh, yes. your first day in school, was it frightening? >> step by step, i start to
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lar learn english. >> 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 do you want to do? >> i want to go to college and study medicine. i am between medicine and engineering. >> what do you want to do? >> soccer. >> soccer is not a plan, my friend. >> anthony: the way we think about houston, texas, today is very much stuck in the past. in the late '70s, early '80s, houston was the boom town of popular television and movie imagination. oil, shipping, nasa, and football combined to create a big spending, big-haired, quasi-cowboy stereotype that, to
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some extent, still 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, more or less killing the city's oil industry. the resulting economic downturn and lower cost of living made houston, however, and probably it might seem to you yankee trash, much more welcoming to people with less means. people getting away from bad situations. people from somewhere else. what that means is that now houston, you know, houston is a place where minorities are now the majority. ♪ quintessential american suburb. and more and more these days, this is the quintessential
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american family. jonathan, his wife, his mom and sylvia's mom. if you have on christmas or fourth of july, a big holiday, how many extended family, how many people are coming home? [ laughter ] >> 40, 50. >> 40, 50 people. >> a typical texan family, at this point. >> yeah. >> she cooks tamales from scratch. jonathan's mom nina, makes a dish of jellyfish, shrimp and pork, topped with peanuts and dressed with the pungent vietnamese fish sauce. and a rice noodle dish from central vietnam made with pork ribs, shrimp and chilies.
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very mixed up meal here. >> yeah. >> did you speak english when you moved here? >> no. i couldn't even say hi. i learned it within a year because i had to. but by fifth grade, this one teacher made pea peel li teacher made me feel like i was the smartest girl in the world. >> you came over in '78 did you say? >> late '77. i was 10 years old. we literally left on, i wouldn't call it a boat. it was a raft. there was a hole in the boat. we sat in soaking water. think let us come in as refugees, and we lived in government projects. me, my sister and i were placed in the same, we were one of the first wave of boat people. >> how was it to take a tremendous risk? >> our parenting felt we ed
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intoed to ta -- needed to take a chance on opportunity than to live under communist rule. >> ain't nothing more american than crawdad, steamed with orange juice and beer. got to have corn and potatoes and sausage and beer. did i mention beer? >> we get that rep that we are not compassionate. and i think that's a wrong -- >> right. >> texans as a whole, we are the most compassion people. doesn't matter if you're red or blue, left or right, middle. (vo) this is not a video game.
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>> anthony: it's hot in houston. so things move a little slower around here. maybe that explains this. ♪ ♪ la may have low-riders, but houston has slab, its own car culture, with its own accompanying sound. its own chopped and screwed hip-hop style. ♪
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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>> 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.
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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. ♪ ♪ plug quickly faded.
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♪ >> anthony: it's a 90 minute drive south from houston to the town of palacios on the
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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. >> how much do you need a day? 800 a day. >> 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
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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. ♪ ♪
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>> 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
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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: yeah. >> bryan: good chef. this is maricela. ♪ >> anthony: the pho here is good. brisket, eye round, meatball, tripe and tendon, just like back home. ceviche made from vinh's fresh
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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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>> yen: this community of vietnamese people are very fortunate. we always see the generosity of people over here because we lived in what, thirty years of civil war? >> anthony: yeah. >> yen: so, no one trusts anyone, but when you come over here, people take you in, and they trust you, and i, i always say that the united states opened a house for the immigrant and for the refugee. i feel this is my home. ♪ ...for that, and just a second, we also have the mendez mediation. brian is going to take the lead just follow his- hello. uh, no i need it right now. yeah... success is a numbers game. and you're not going to win if you keep telling yourself to wait. the more often that you choose courage, the more likely you'll succeed. the most inspiring minds. the most compelling stories. download audible. and listen for a change.
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it's saturday night in houston. and at the acapulco ballroom, tonight is all about this 15-year-old. if you're mexican or mexican-american or anywhere in between and you have a daughter turning 15, you better be throwing her a keynes neera. what is it? >> it's the coming of age of a young lady when she turns 15-year-old. >> in houston, you kind of have to have one if you have a daughter, right? >> it is. it's an honor for you to have a quinceanera and for your parents to be able to give you one. >> quinceanera business is a
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multi-million dollar industry here. the style and budget can vary enormously, depending on means and ambition. friends, relatives and neighbors gather to eat, drink, dance, and they are keeping a close eye on the action, making sure everyone goes according to plan. who gets invited to these things? this is a lot of people. i don't have this many friends. >> friends and family. you invite all the girl's friends from school? >> yes. >> any girls? >> four girls. >> all of them have had these? >> a couple of them have had their quinceanera and sweet 16. >> you have a quinceanera and a sweet 16? >> yes. >> i was excited about having a girl, but that's expensive.
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>> my name is david rodriguez. i'm working at a local cafe. i have been in houston for roughly20 years. everybody assumes that we all have cowboy boots or ride horses. that is not accurate at all. we are not just an oil and gas town. there is nowhere i've been in the states that basically you can walk through any neighborhood and find someone that you have never met from other countries from malaysia to malawen, we have them all here.
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>> what do we eat here. >> migas. >> you were here right out of high school? >> yes, my step grandfather was a baker. in mexico city, it was very popular for kids to play for flour. i had an epiphany i guess you'd call it. i realized i'd been growing up around food my whole life. i just never realized. this place has been here for 20 years. i started coming here when i was super young. but it hasn't changed. >> we are at a cafe, a family-run spot that serves traditional mexican and tex-mex
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dishes. wow, nice. nice. >> and tortillas. >> migas, eggs mixed with fried topped corn tortillas. and mayrinated beef, bounded wih spices. so far what i'm hearing, houston in particular has been not just welcoming but big on social services to people who came here from atrocious circumstances. >> the city doesn't care about any, about any, you know, gender or color skin. >> it's basic. literally, the majority of people under 30 in houston are already non-white. as go with houston goes the rest of the country. i mean, what this means is, you
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know, sort of a tectonic shift in what america's going to look like, eat like, be like and vote like in the future. >> i think also i would like for people to understand, immigrants are not just mexicans. you know, >> strangely, nobody's building a wall across canada. but, you know how government is, you've been here for just under 30 year. probably much of the time. 80% of the people i work with were mexicans, chinese, all of these guys, they are performing a, in many cases, vital functions that few americans seem willing to do. i don't know. it just seems to me that at the very least, the very least. any society with a conscience is going to find a way to cut them a break. >> the thing is that you cannot
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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
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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
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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.
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>> 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 family still over there. my mom, my sister -- >> anthony: and you'd like them to come. >> gertrude: i want them to come. >> anthony: a lot of first generation and second generation african babies are going to be happening here. >> albert: yeah. >> anthony: houston is going to look real different. you'll hear lingala at the 7-eleven? no problem? >> gertrude: no problem. >> anthony: in 10 years?
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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. >> 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,
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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.
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>> anthony: are there fewer rules here? the caste system, you lose that 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.
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>> 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.
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welcome stranger, this land is your land. ♪ ♪
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♪ >> anthony: this is where i bought my first bag of heroin. it was 1980, i was 24 years old. but in a lot of ways, my whole life up to that point was leading to this address. western massachusetts, the unlikely new frontier of america's war on drugs. where heroin has become an exploding problem that's begun to touch nearly every family. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪

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