insular kind of world, every martial arts teacher and artist thinks that their system is the only valid one, and everybody else stinks, and bruce wasn t about that. he was born in san francisco and was actually an american citizen. people don t know too much about that. i think kareem probably saw in bruce lee some of the similar attributes that he saw in jackie robinson and bill russell. in a sense that bruce lee kind of reinvented a lot of and forced folks to reinterpret their views, you know, on karate, on chinese culture, on asian-americans. bruce lee was an outspoken advocate for his craft. away from the cameras, though, bruce wasn t at all what people might expect.