life, you know, i'm actually i'm ambivalent. i mean, i'm still not so sure. >> you know, i'm still curious. you seem like a curious person. >> it's my only virtue there. >> you go. all right. curious is a good thing to be. you know, that seems to pay some, uh unexpected dividends. i am the passenger and i ride, and i ride i ride through the city backsides. >> i see the stars come out in the sky. so let's ride and ride and ride and ride and i guess that's what it comes down to all of it led here. >> i write a book i get a tv show, i live my dreams. i meet my hero, two old men on a beach. i sing la la la la la la la la la la la la

la la la la la la la la la la 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 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 soundbites of its national political figures immigrants, refugees, and nonwhite americans have, in

fact been transforming the city. the food and culture of houston for years. yeah, yeah yeah. welcome to america, people hate me. >> i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder bounce up in the air beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder shout la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la

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's a beautiful day today. >> today i will work hard. >> 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 trinh escaped to america on a raft with his family after serving in the united states marine corps and attaining a master's degree in education. he became the principal of this school, lee senior high, the most ethnically diverse school in the city. do those kids get sent here specifically, or is it just that's just reflective of the community it's just really the community.

>> 80% by chance, you know, it's very well integrated it's like, it's not it's not. >> how did that happen? >> i think one of the main reasons is the strong economic base here. it allows for immigrants, families to come over and build a nest egg to own their own home or go to a better neighborhood to make a life for themselves. >> more than 40 languages are spoken among the 1700 students here, many of them from conflict zones where the alternatives were stark leave quickly or die. often their first exposure to the american educational system is here esl english as a second language class, where teacher gary read, a 30 year veteran, does his very best to get them up to speed and ready for the next steps you see these people? >> what did they do? all of these people right here, they came to houston from salvador, vietnam iraq, syria, just like you. >> they came no money, no home. and what happened yeah they

graduated. so don't say oh, i can't do it, i can't you can do it. >> what part of the world are most kids coming from now currently in central america guatemala guatemala, el salvador nicaragua, el salvador is the major one in many cases. if you were to send these kids back, it's a death sentence. i mean, let's call it what it is yes, other classes math, history taught in their own language. >> no, no they're taught english. >> so this class is absolutely essential now, we were working on personal introductions. >> i know you feel scared, but this is not for me. it's for you. when you go get a job and you go to a manager of some place, you got to stand up and you got to speak okay? it's very necessary who's brave enough to introduce themselves? >> hello, my name is rosemary. >> hi, my name is mr. reed nice to meet you. nice to meet you too. now, what are the things you do? what do you do with

your eyes? repeat. eye contact. eye contact. good good. what about his hands? you can do that. grab it. firm, firm handshake. it's a first impression. stand up stand up. okay this is side a you present to side b, ready 123. go. hi ladies. >> and miss. nice to meet you. nice good, good. >> so you shake look in the eye like that okay. 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? if they don't have this, what's the future looking like if they don't acquire language skills, they become a third class citizen. what kind of work are you getting and what are your opportunities? oh, yes. >> the service market in any major city is always there landscaping valet car washes but our students are very gifted. they are talented kids. they just need opportunity to learn english and opportunity

open them to learn these kids. when they grow up, they will be american and they have kids. they will pick up on and they came to this country just like i expected to do, and i expect my three boys to do this not because i'm enforcing it, because i believe in it i believe in the opportunity that it provides. i believe that no matter how poor you are how uneducated you are, you first come to the united states. if you have the will to educate yourself, work hard at it you can achieve chicken sandwich and french fries fruit salad. >> carton of milk. welcome to america kids i haven't had one of these in a long time, so what country is everybody from? >> i'm from africa, like ghana, cote d'ivoire honduras, iraq we're in iraq pakistan and you've been here? >> how long? one year. one year. what? his english is pretty. pretty good. very good.

>> it took me at least two years just to be brave enough to to open up, you know no, they're progressing very, very well. >> mr. into african food. >> yeah. i've been to africa a lot. i have not been to burkina faso, but i've. i love the food in ghana. food in senegal is very, very nice. >> well, you already been in senegal oh yes. >> fantastic. your first day in school, was it frightening? >> i didn't know nobody here and nobody here from my country. so i feel scared. but step by step i start to learn english and then start to talk with the people. >> so after school, when 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. >> i want to study more what are you going to do? >> i wanted to go to college and i want to study medicine. i am between medicine and engineering. >> what do you want to do? i'm playing soccer is not a plan. my friend

the way we think about houston texas today is very much stuck in the past in the late 70s, early 80s houston was the boomtown of popular television and movie imagination oil shipping, nasa and football combined to create a big spending, big haired, quasi cowboy stereotype that, to 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 improbably it might seem to you, 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 you can see it here in pearland, a quintessential american suburb and more and more these days this is the quintessential american family jonathan, his salvadoran born wife sylvia, along with his sister kim and her husband ron jonathan's mom nina and sylvia's mom, ayala. so if you have like a christmas or 4th of july or a big holiday, how many extended family, how many people are coming over? >> oh like a lot. >> wow okay a lot. >> yeah. what's a lot? how about you? >> 4050? >> wow 4050 people. >> i mean, i don't even see us as interracial until people point it out.

>> well, it's like a typical texan family at this point. >> yeah ayala cooks tamales de gallina from scratch outside fresh pupusas are being made on a hot griddle. >> jonathan's mom nina, makes a dish of jellyfish shrimp and pork tossed with mint carrots, red onion and peanuts, dressed with nuoc. mam, the pungent vietnamese fish sauce and meat kang, a rice noodle dish from central vietnam made with pork ribs shrimp and chilies very mixed up meal here yeah, awesome did you speak english when you arrived here? >> oh, not a word i couldn't even say hi. so i learned it literally within a year. yeah because i had to by fifth grade. this one teacher, miss spikes, just made me feel like i was the smartest little thing in the whole world. she built up my confidence that i could do anything. >> you know, we learned how to speak spanish first before we learned how to speak. of course so you came over in 78. >> did you say late 77? >> i was ten years old. we literally left on. i wouldn't

call it a boat. it's more like a raft there was a hole in the boat. we sat in water the entire time. just sit in soaking water. they let us come in as a refugees united states now we live in a government housing projects. be my sister, my brother. all were placed in the same category for esl. we were probably one of the first wave of boat people resettlement to houston. >> what was the urgency to to take such a tremendous risk? >> our parents felt we need to take a chance on freedom and opportunity than to live under communist rule ain't nothing more american than viet bayou style crawdad steamed with sriracha orange juice and beer and gotta have corn, of course. >> and potatoes and sausage and beer. did i mention beer tasters we get the bad rep of that. >> we we are not compassionate and i think that's a wrong

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here. >> maybe that explains this i wake up in the morning still hot from last night. >> ain't got no time to chill i gots to get my cash right new la may have lowriders, but houston has slab its own car culture with its own accompanying sound. >> its own chopped and screwed hip hop style but my pockets got fatter by the rays in houston, texas. >> born and raised in houston, texas. born and raised in houston, texas serve. serve louder, louder this 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, it's a complete slab. you know full reclining is full reclining it's a laid back thing 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 going to do it, what do you

have to have? >> what are the rules? >> candy paint got to have these type of rims. okay elbow, swingers, fifth wheel and grill is mainly like for slabs. that's what make it a complete. you know. and the music you know how they got the pop trunk with the custom music. you got to have that outside i can't wait to taste so good every time i stop drinking drake keeps calling me back i need to stop it, but it tastes so good when you hit the block. it's not a bunch of dudes just standing up. it's a bunch of everything, you know? take the old and mix it with the new. you know what i'm saying? these two pink cadillacs are awesome that's a married couple man and woman. and they have their kids with them each truck that say 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 god is of your neighbor. they basically like legends in the streets are all of these like are they works in progress or are people constantly? i think it's going to forever be a work in progress. i think a slab you're

going to have to do you're always changing them. they get expensive, real talk, like all these cars out here, they probably spent the bankroll on all of them. >> i wonder last year how many suites i rode, i wonder last year how many cups i pulled of that muddy, muddy purple i purchased you don't eat pizza hut in the back of that car either, are you? >> well, really? you barely see people in the backseat of somebody's car out here. are you shaking his head and saying, no, nobody's getting in my back seat. no, because you got to lean, so you got to lean back so that mean whoever back here can't be long? i'm coming down. all i see is way up there. and i'm banging. i'm. and i'm zoned out. >> i'm thinking about my lincoln now you know, maybe i'm thinking, like crocodile skin on the outside would that be all right? >> pony, pony from a horse or cows like palomino, kind of a thing or palomino. that'd be fresh. that'd be evil pay him no mind to the acres homes is a

predominantly 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 mean, last time i was here, the grandfather was here. back then you in the right place for some barbecue man. >> what do you do? >> you do ribs or brisket or i do. >> i'll let you do all of it. all that. >> what is that moonshine. dukes of hazzard boss. how wow. >> i can drink a lot of that okay that's gonna work. >> the thinner and the spray the torpedo size baked potato

filled with cheddar cheese and chopped barbecue beef and homemade link sausage slow cooked pork ribs big beef ribs and brisket. >> whoa. okay. i gotta say, this baked potato is yours. >> it's marvelous what? >> that thing is, like, gigantic it's. >> oh, man. >> my mother always said never eat anything bigger than your head. and that's about the size of a human head. >> that looked good, though, i ain't gonna lie so everybody born here, born and raised the town changed at all a lot. >> yeah, well, you know, it was like a big small town at first. >> now it's becoming like a real city, you know is that a good or bad? it depends on what you do good and bad. kind of. a lot of the stuff we was really into back in the day these new kids or these people from out of town really 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 so you know what i'm sipping? i mickey stines so you know what i'm sipping hit the bullet,

boy. >> got the candy, paint drippin and i'm from h-town. >> so you know what i'm sipping. hey, is there a distinctive houston sound? very. you know the whole culture from the cars to the sippin sirup and the music itself. first of all, what chip and surf serve is, it's a promethazine and codeine. it was a cough sirup. but then they mixed it with soda. out here why is that the drug of choice here? and not maybe because you see how it is everything is so chill and laid back atlanta. everything was turnt up out here everything is slowed down because i guess we're more laid back culture. >> so at various points in your career, clearly somebody said, well according to move out here, la is good. the money out here, the deals are out here right. but here you are why stay? >> i try to go to la and the people out there are so thirsty to try to be a star that they fake and they crooked it's like i don't want to be around those type of people. i want to be around good, genuine people. they're nicer here and it's more real. it's more like real

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shrimp. shrimp? that's small. >> we don't get the shrimp. you don't want it? >> no, i don't want it. all right, so how many how many pounds of shrimp do you need to to catch a day to cover your costs right now? >> well now that the limits that the 800 pound per day, 800 a day. >> and as you like it, get license. let me get 200 pound only right the shrimping has declined considerably since the 1980s, but the bay still provides a solid livelihood for people like vinh nguyen, 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 i've been, uh, i started on shrimp on 1985. and what year did you arrive in this country? >> i left my country uh, 1979. >> how old were you when you got here? 21. you were 21. yeah. so why shrimp? how did

you come to this business? >> my my my cousin, my cousin. okay. living here right. and i work on the job first, and. but they told me. they told me that you're very good for shrimp. good for shrimp. make money more back on dry land. >> vin's first stop is the point. the town's general store. it's owned and operated by pillars of the community jen and brian tran, who separately came over from vietnam around the same time, met, married and raised three children here this is my dream i came here with nothing 17 years old. >> first job i ever work in, 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 have that thing in my mind. after i get married, i told my wife, i said, open the restaurant and she stopped me. she said, no, you're crazy. so after all my kids went to college, they got a good job. i want to mention again. and she said, okay wow, 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's geared toward serving the immediate needs of its community food for vietnamese and food for mexicans jen, brian, their kids jennifer and kimberly, as well as cousin steve and his son donnie, are all proud citizens of the united states of america. by the way you know, i really feel fortunate we live in this town and we have a lot of support when we want to open this store. >> all my friends say, 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. >> yeah, this is the the shrimp right here. yeah. good shape yes. here's the maricela the fa here is good brisket i round meatball tripe and tendon just like back home ceviche made from vinny's fresh shrimp and of course, tacos with eggs jalapenos and tomatoes the kids who grew up in this community. >> these are the kids. >> yeah, he's a kid right here. yeah. >> what are they doing 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, i definitely appreciate life. >> you know, jen, here's a lawyer. assistant engineer. i'm a medical field. so there's still that you know,

your parents want you to have practical job, right so you came here what year? >> 1975. >> so you came over in the first. 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 a penny in my pocket when i come over here no serious and i have a great business. and you know really, anthony, this great country this community of vietnamese people are very fortunate. >> we always see the generosity of people over here because we live in what 30 years of civil war? >> yeah so no one trusts anyone. >> but when you come over here, people take you in and they trust you and i always say the united states opened the house for the immigrant and for the refugee. >> i feel this is my home cnn this morning with kasie

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>> it is an honor to have a quinceanera. and for your parents to be able to give you one. >> the quinceanera business is a multi-million dollar a year industry around here. the competition is fierce. it is a big deal, is what i'm saying and the style and budget can vary enormously depending on means and ambition. friends, relatives and neighbors gather to eat, drink dance, and acapulco owners elizabeth and ezequiel ortuno are keeping a close eye on the action, making sure everything goes according to plan. who gets invited to these things? i mean, there's a lot of people i don't have this many friends, friends and family. >> friends have families. and from the school too, right? >> oh, so you got to get invited all the girls, friends from school. do you have kids? yes. you have a girl? any girls? four girls. four girls.

so they all have these? all of them have had their quinceaneras and a couple of them have had their sweet 16. you have kids in here and a sweet 16? yes. oh my god i was really happy about having a girl but it's expensive. what do boys get? >> a soccer ball man, that's cost effective si senor so you have three. >> my name is david rodriguez. >> i'm the executive chef at toot sweet. >> it's a local cafe. >> i was born and raised in mexico city, and i've been in houston for roughly 20 years. everybody assumes that we all have cowboy boots and ride horses. that's not accurate at all. like, we're not just an

oil and gas town there's nowhere that i've been in the states that basically you can just walk through any neighborhood and you'll find people that you probably have never met from other countries, from malaysian to malaysian to mexican to salvadorian, south american brazilian. you have them all here what do we eat here? >> it's all about the migas migas and the machaca. yeah, that works for me. >> thank you very much. thank you gentlemen. >> so you enrolled in culinary school and right out of high school? >> yes. my step grandfather was a baker, so i grew up in the kitchen in mexico city. it's very common for kids to play with flour in, like, parades and stuff like that. so in order for me to earn the flour, i had to, like, clean up or, you know, arrange the eggs or whatever. he had me do. i had, like, an epiphany, i guess you could call it, because i realized that i've been growing

around food my whole life. i just never realized this place right here it's been around here for 20 years. i remember coming here when i was super young but it never it hasn't changed. it's the same. >> david and i are at la guadalupana cafe a family run spot that serves traditional mexican and tex-mex dishes the gentleman who's here. wow. nice nortena. >> migas nice and tortillas migas. >> eggs mixed with fried and chopped corn tortillas. sort of like a mexican frittata and machaca. marinated beef that's been pounded, rubbed with spices, then dried and shredded so? so far. anyway, what i'm hearing is houston in particular, has been not just welcoming but but laid on the social services in a big way to a lot of people who came over here. and really atrocious

circumstances. >> yeah, i mean, houston is such a welcoming city and like, the city just doesn't care about about any, you know, gender or color of skin. >> i mean, let's face it, literally, the majority of the people under 30 in houston are already nonwhite. and as goeth houston goes the rest of the country. it's i mean, the what this means is, you know, sort of a tectonic shift in what america is going to look like. eat like, be like and vote like in the future. >> i think, i think also what i would like for people to understand that, you know, i've explained to a lot other people is immigrants are not just mexicans and latin people. you know, uh, strangely enough, nobody's building a wall across canada. >> exactly. >> but, uh you know, i come from an industry, the same industry you work in for just under 30 years. and for much of the time, probably as much as 80% of the people i work with were mexicans

ecuadorians, chinese all of these guys they are performing a in many, many cases, you know vital functions that few americans seemed willing to do. i don't know, it just seems to me that at the very least, at 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 stop people from pursuing a better life, right? it's like when you hit rock bottom in another country like no matter what wall you put up, no matter how many offices you have down there, dogs monkeys, whatever you put down there, it's not going to work because people are just trying to make their family better, right? whether you have to go through three wire fences and you go through them, it doesn't matter. and i feel like people just don't understand that there's nothing that you can do that's going to stop people from pursuing a better life we're here to get your side of

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the crack of the bat. >> the roar of the crowd. two teams locked in struggle. take me out to the ball game, 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. >> basically, it's practically like baseball. >> first international game. >> believe it or not, was usa versus canada. >> really? >> yes. in 1844. yeah yeah. >> i don't know if you knew, but cricket is second most watched sport. >> i just read that. >> yes. india is number one. >> usa is number two. >> i do like a sport where you can aim at somebody's crotch, though. i think that's sort of awesome. 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. let's go. >> let's go. >> who's winning? the first team scored 120 runs, right? >> they're chasing right now. >> i see, so you can't really say because they haven't had an opportunity. >> exactly right. see this is why it didn't happen. >> we need we like winners in america. we like to know who's winning at all times. >> but this is very high energetic game. >> baseball. when we watch baseball it's kind of slow to us, right? >> when we're playing, even us. right. >> it's a slow game. >> it's really all about the snacks. yes hot dogs. they're hot dogs, too. and the beer is even worse go down, two down. >> that's it 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 are there fewer rules here? the caste system

you lose that right away. >> when somebody comes from a rich, middle class family, it's going to take you a minute to get used to that culture shock. over here. >> it's going to take him up to two years. >> 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, 20 years later, it's changed. >> what about white houstonians welcoming nice like my experience, i moved from singapore right? >> for six months. whenever we used to go anywhere and say we recently moved to usa and everybody, welcome to texas. welcome to houston. welcome to usa. and like that made us very comfortable. >> 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. that's not used. >> it definitely not in the beginning. you might feel that texans are, like, not that friendly to you but once you know them, they're 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 want over here. >> you work hard in this country, and if you put your mind to something, you know it is achievable. and i think so. america is the land of opportunity and the best place to stay in the world well, 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 in just about everybody's 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 jose

can you see how diversity in texas is don't mess with it the best with it it's intricate, complex with it headlights is beaming twilight's last gleaming broad stripes, bright stars racing stripes, bright cars yo, you could end up dead there. >> the houston rockets red glare. harden on the hardwood. the finals. >> they might get there. >> thugger brought the whips out. he posted that mcgregor houston. all go getters. they hustle very clever eatin migos with my migos i'm a guadalupana my tia make birria with tortillas. she chicana they can't deport us all chingo bling make the tamales good shopping at masala radio bumpin that bollywood shizzle from my mama out in sugar land. >> yeah that's good. my cousins >> that's my hood, sugar from my mama out in sugar land.