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If you're going San Francisco, you're gonna leave summer. Mm hmm. You can see, sister. Some birds all

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across the nation. Such a strange vibration. A whole generation with the new explanation. Be sure to There you go. Well, well, I think one of the great fascinating points about San Francisco is

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its cosmopolitan attitude. I believe if you look at all of the United States, if you were to look at two cities that are more europeo than any others, I think you would say New Orleans or San Francisco. The rest of the cities are more American tradition.

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They have more of the tradition of America. But I believe that these two cities have acquired a flavor of the European flavor and of the Oriental flavor, especially in San Francisco. We have a great Oriental flavor here, much more than most other cities. And I think

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that's one of the attractive things about San Francisco. Is its cosmopolitan attitude. Mhm, Mhm. Mhm. Yeah, yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm, Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Uh huh. Mm hmm. Yeah,

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yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Mm. About mhm. Oh. Oh, yeah, yeah. Mhm. Mm. Yeah, yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Okay. Mhm. Yeah, yeah. Mm mm. Oh. Mm. Mhm. Mm. Oh, yeah. Mm, yeah.

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One. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, Mr Von, you are one of the leading members of the Chinese community. You are one of the founders of the Chinese Historical Association. You've been long a part of Chinatown here in San Francisco.

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What is it is that is so fascinating about Chinatown in San Francisco. For all the people from all over the world who come here, I happen to be born here and raised here. I'm educated here. I do all my business here, so obviously I have my

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roots here. So it's because of the people, uh, the sites and seen about people You walk down the street and Grand Avenue. That's a main street. It's just like you in a little country town. Hello, John. Hello, Joe. Hello, George. And that's part of the fun

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of living in the city. I'm very Chinese, but because I'm educated and I live and brought up in America, I feel a very happy combination, I think and do business like an American. I take the best of each culture. Yeah, they are proud to be a

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Chinese, but they also probably be American because America give them the opportunity to be here to make a living here, to be what they want to be given the freedom and so that they can week. They are hardworking people. I I must tell you, the Chinese

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for a frugal to work very hard. Yes. Mhm, Mhm. She Yeah, yeah! Oh, yeah, yeah! Mhm, yeah, yeah! Mhm. Mm. Mhm. What?

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Mm, Uh, yeah. Mhm. We love to live, but I'm not only a person only going down. Well, what fascinates me about San Francisco is San Francisco is so much

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cosmopolitan. It has everything to offer. There's every ethnic group here, you know. So you can You can just walk a few blocks and you can go down to Chinatown. You can go down into Japanese town, whatever whatever pleases you will find. And that's what makes it

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so unique. It's so small but so beautifully put together. It's wonderful. I like very much this city. Remind me to be in Trieste with a mouth like that, Like a set of culinary Roma So beautiful. Do you consider yourself Italian? Where I tell her true I

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born in Italy and I consider is a medicine meso fn f. Yeah. And you keep this cafe going to keep the culture to remind you of Italy? Yes, because I came from the music to sing, and my father was a pretty good tender and I never

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stopped the same alive. And I like very much to give you these beautiful people here. My our son, in the way we feel to sing with our own heart and to keep a little Italian to here, too. One time. Yeah, Yeah. Where's the moon? Is that

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when you walk down the street with that? You know you're not alone, lady and gentlemen, let's have a nice round of applause for my brother. Father. Let's hear him. Mhm. Mr Mr Block A on my burrito. Okay. No. Mm. It's not. I like that. Johnny. Johnny?

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Mm hmm. Yeah. Let me say you are sitting right now in what we Italians considered to be a landmark in San Francisco, which is the cop aroma. The Italian American community in the state of California and in San

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Francisco is without doubt, responsible for the promotion of the performing arts, the creation of the wine industry, the artichokes industry, the zucchini industry, not to mention the development of the olives industry. What exactly is fascinating to you about San Francisco? What's fascinating to me? San Francisco

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is definitely a little corner of Italy. The climatic and geophysical condition of California to begin with are perhaps the closest to Italy than any other state in the United States of America. As an Italian immigrant and as an American citizen naturalized citizen, I would like to

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point out to you then we are proud of being Americans and yet proud of our ethnic origin. And there is nothing wrong about that. I guarantee we'll because we have brought to America the best we have in Italy. And I don't have to tell you what

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the Italian best means because it's obvious all over the world. Hey, Columbus. Hey, Columbus. Mhm. Okay. No. Okay. How? Mm. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah. At this stage in our history, the Italian Americans born here would like to become more Italian. People are beginning to learn Italian

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and speak Italian. Were not as ashamed of being Italian as we might have been. 2030 40 years ago. Uh, being Italian has been accepted in America, where it hadn't been accepted maybe 20 or 30 years ago. We're proud of being a tag it and we might

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have been 20 or 30 years ago. There is in the national scene, a new organizations that are taking over and making people proud of their heritage. We're learning more about Italy, and I think that this comes with all the ethnicity, uh, activity in the United States.

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And I think it's a good thing we should be in America. A group of divers. Populations. We are Italian. We're proud of it. The Irish or Irish and proud of it. The blacks are black, and I'm proud of it. We have no particular reason why we

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shouldn't be proud of being Italian. Okay. Mm. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Mhm. Okay. Uh huh. Yeah. Okay. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Okay. Uh huh. Yeah. No.

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Okay. Uh huh. Uh huh. Yeah. Right. Okay. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Okay. I

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think I love San Francisco. I love San Francisco because it represents a lot of cultural activity. And I think, uh, if I were, if I were not from this country around the United States, I would

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pick San Francisco. Uh, San Francisco represents a place where they can come and and not be ashamed of their culture. Uh, there's many parts in this in the United States where, uh, if they saw me walking down the street, uh, they would they would start. There

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might be some war hoops or some derogatory, um, gestures and stuff like that, but not not in a place like this. You can be proud of who you are. You can be proud of being whatever cultural identity you have. I

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believe that the primary aim is to is to make the community aware that there are cultural activities not only that are run by the state, but the community themselves are actively involved in. Of course, a festival like this is, uh might be considered a bizarre, uh,

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where people come together and they trade information. They trade their goods. Uh, not at at the prices that you might find on Fifth Avenue, but at community level prices. And I think that's important. Yeah, Yeah, it's

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all about Well, I'm going to the kitchen to get an egg. Does anybody else want u C Berkeley? You'll see 30,000. Well, there's 4000 freshman. I don't know how many guys? Well, that's a lot better than 400 girls in one school. Yeah, it's quite a bit

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about 60 I think. Right. You have to break boards and things. Grandmaster expects us to attend this 14 o'clock charity for them, and he says, Bring a camera. That why? Wouldn't say primarily an American. But still, there's a definite, strong Japanese influence in my life. But

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since you're born and raised here, you feel like an American. During World War Two, there are some unfortunate incidences which drew us together, I think. But now that things have gotten better, the third generation, I think, is gradually feeling less as a minority. And more is

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just the straight American. Well, I see myself mostly as an American because I've been I've been raised here. I speak the language. And as far as Japan, I've only been there once for a visit. But I still feel very close ties which beyond as far as

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culture and everything, we play the Kyoto and we take karate. Yeah. So Hey, Yeah, Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Good. Uh huh. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah, yeah. Mm.

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How bad All would you say that the black community in San Francisco are content with the way things are. No, this is the age of our discontent. We have made tremendous progress in the 1st 25 years we were here. We came in large numbers in 19

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45 and through 1965 75. We were made progress. But since that time, we've been marking time and going backwards. The fact in San Francisco with the flare that it has international reputation, the racism is covert rather than overt its use. It is very hard to deal

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with. But blacks on a treadmill conversation leading nowhere. How would you describe San Francisco today? Okay, Sanchez, with typical city controlled by white males suffering from three scourges. Sexism, racism and classism and things change, but they never change. There's police brutality here. There's unwanted disregard of

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the law when it comes to white officers arresting and mishandling blacks or other racial minorities. We sit on a timber box, you have a situation. This town where more than 40% of the teenagers black teenager unemployed. Many of the Chicano teams are employed. They will never

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get a job, and in our community at least 32% of our young people Teenagers are now lost Your achievable in narcotics. So we are a people without a tomorrow. We are an endangered species. If we aren't careful like

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you're still lying. Bye. The wire. Then you can. He complained. Um uh, Danyang Union now. Oy. Well being they dug a movement thanks to Hong Kong in a Hi, Michel. Thanks. Uh um Now Hannah Donkey Uh huh. Pal George Mocanu for highbrow moody tend to come

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die hard. Um um I don't move. I do not carry these people. They carry themselves. It is our purpose to witness their marriage and to wish them well. Essence of life calls out to its life everywhere in the world. We have to

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stop You become certain I California to exchange their vows and her husband and wife get him. Okay. Oh, yeah. Down down, man. Oh, yeah. Actually, yeah. I think San Francisco, uh, has

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benefited by the heterogeneous nature of the community. We have a gay community. We have a large Latino community. We have a black community. We have the biggest Chinatown outside of China and Filipino community. And, uh, and whatever it might be now that makes up a very

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beautiful city where you can have so many people of different social perspectives, philosophies, nationalities and races in one city, and it contributes to the atmosphere of the city. I think it's wonderful within a city, as a matter of fact, where you can have a large Latino

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population Spanish, you can have a large gay community and they are side by side, as it were somewhat intermixed. They all have their social concerns. Business concerns, community concerns, which they're proud of. But they relate effectively with one another. This is sure to mhm.