Haha, I wasn’t ‘trying’ anything. That’s what I know about Bruce Lee. I don’t think he ever really thought of himself as an American citizen. And I don’t think most people born in HK during British rule thought of themselves as British subjects. You know the ‘Chineseness’ is a very strong thing. And he got fed up with Hollywood when his idea was stolen and David Carradine became the star of ‘Kung Fu’.
LOL I concede, FRiend.
In my dreams I would have given my left nut to have a few lessons with Bruce Lee, if for no other reasons than to tell grandchildren about it. I’d settle for lessons from one of his immediate students and still feel privileged beyond measure.
> And he got fed up with Hollywood when his idea was stolen and David Carradine became the star of ‘Kung Fu’.
I think we can certainly agree that this was a travesty, and a nonsense. No disrespect to David Carradine, but he looked about as Chinese as I do!
You’re right about Bruce Lee’s sense of Chinese-ness — after he abandoned Hollywood he went back to make movies in Asia, where he felt he belonged, and where he did his most amazing stuff. I never tire of watching Bruce Lee movies.
> Haha, I wasn’t ‘trying’ anything. That’s what I know about Bruce Lee.
And you would be right, too — I was being a smart@rse and determining his Chinese-ness by his place of birth and/or his place of immediate ancestry (US and UK Protectorate, respectively), rather than his physical appearance or his personal preference or antient heritage and culture.
Rather like what should happen to the Natural-Born-American-ness of somebody else famous that we both know and love. Applying the same standard to both seems abundantly fair.
How the latter of these ought to be determined should inform the determination of the former, all things being equal...
(Grin!) (Ummmmm... waitaminit! Checkmate? — perhaps, but only if you are a Birther, like me...)