I thought you semi-retired Pryuen! hahaha welcome back. By the way, I didn't like Stanley Ho's casinos in Macau. Hotel Lisboa was crap plus all of those places rip you off on the exchange rate. Only the Wynn gave me a decent exchange rate that I could find only in Hong Kong. I also heard that Stanley Ho was part of the Triad and back in the day if you won anything you have to give the casino back a portion of the profits. Didn't Patsy Ho team up with MGM Mirage to make the MGM Macao? let me know how it is. I thought the Sands Macau was really nice.
You have Bruce Lee's family tree all messed up. LOL. His mother, not his father, has some German blood, like what Pryuen has explain. His father is a quite famous Chinese traditional opera performer in Hong Kong back in the 1940's and 1950's.
You know you were wrong but still replied with such an attitude. Now I know why someone has called you an a-hole before.
there must be some reason to it since both you and macfu found it confusing but what part of "maternal grandfather" is problematic? maternal = mother's side. grandather = a dude who is not your father. actually though it is confusing. Bruce's ethnic background is a bit muddled and something that he evidently purposefully left obfuscated during his own lifetime he never talked about it in his interviews. as pryuen says Ho Kom Tong was half chinese. but Ho Kom Tong and Robert Ho Tung both had both multiple wives and mistresses. and like many HK men of their generation preferred eurasian women. bruce's mother Grace was evidently the product of one of these eurasian mistresses late in Ho Kom Tong's life. she was chinese + german or russian depending on source Ho Kom Tong was 1/2 chinese, his mistress was also 1/2. so bruce's mother was also 1/2. and bruce himself is 3/4 chinese and 1/4 white. it's all mixed in there really good, and he is mostly chinese but 1/4 is not "very little foreign blood contents". I know a 1/4 korean girl who looks very much mixed and considers herself "asian" and there's plenty of 1/4 black dudes who look black and think of themselves as black. on the other end of the scale I'm not disputing that bruce lee considered himself chinese and epitomized aspects of chinese culture but he was in fact mixed race and his genetic makeup was not the same as some random chinese dude walking down the street I was remembering something I read from some kung fu magazine years ago about bruce lee's mother being half german. rereading this thread I googled it and pryuen is right she is in fact 1/2 chinese and 1/2 european but not just german, she's a mix of at least 2 different european nationalities and 3 distinct european gene pools in addition to whatever chinese region. i guess instead of talking about the grandfather I should just have left it at she was half chinese like other sources. anything else just sounds more confusing
5 as in months.. correct? usually when you mention the number alone when pointing out someone's age.. it's understood to mean years.. at least.. it's the custom here in the states..
since when did bruce lee become an 'icon' of chinese masculinity? maybe in the states or something. people in china look up to ancient chinese warriors riding on horse back and chop people's head off. besides, being 1/4? non chinese, makes him non chinese? isn't that a bit racist? i thought back in the days, if you are 1/16th black, then you are black. so now it's bruce, so being 1/4 makes him non chinese. and, bruce lee speaks chinese, practice chinese martial art form, and is a chinese american in anyway. so what makes him german? has he demonstrated anything germanic? oh wait, you are saying, he is masculine because he is 1/4 german? what a pile of crap.
Um dude, me being Asian, Southeast Asian I might add, is that the more attention we can get in this country U.S, is an okay thing. What matters is that the material being used as an Asian reference can get tiresome.. Being Yao as an example is a material within himself... There is alot going on in the Asian Community that doesn't revolve around Yao... I'm Cambodian, proud of it and would like to see more of Cambodian Kickboxing aka Bokator, bloodsports to be shown to the world. I'm just tired of seeing pop diva's using an Asian athlete as to say it represent the entire population.. Like I said it's all about that East Asian dominance when clearly there are other Asian countries out there that would like some air play too..
