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Last decades, chinese have been using the same methods for thousands of years. they just call it medicine. i went to the wellness center to meet with dr. chan and see if she could help me learn something new about my body. what does that mean? >> it means field of medicine. so, it refers to the fact that inside our body we have this capacity to cultivate health. >> one of the main concepts of chinese medicine is chi, or energy. it flows through body pathways called meridians that correspond to e...

>> anthony: a half century after trinidad became independent of the british empire, there are surprisingly few architectural remnants, but the fate of the country and its population, were forever changed when slavery ended in 1834 and great britain found itself in need of cheap, if not free, labor to work the plantations. they found it in east india. >> chan: at the abolition of slavery the plantation owners desperately needed to find labor to fill the void created by the slaves who turned their...

Cooked on a massive tawah and slathered in gee. but here, just as its reaching peak flakiness, it gets a beatin. >> keshav: here they call it buss up shut which means burst out of shirt. >> anthony: burst up shirt. >> man in white shirt: yeah because they take two huge parotta and then they whack it with two sticks. >> anthony: oh, okay. i thought you were talking about whats going to happen to my shirt. what about skin color? you look at jamaica, you look at haiti. i dont get what they say, but...

Because that is --. >> keshav: when we have it like this when were drinking before the actual meal, its like an appetizer but we call it cutters because it cuts the alcohol. >> anthony: right, im sobering up as we speak. >> anthony: so look youre all trinidadian, trinidad first, indian second. >> man wearing blue shirt: i mean when the indians came 160 something years ago there was a disconnect with the motherland. >> chan: most of these indians were promised that they were going for a short ten...

>> anthony: between the end of outright slavery and the beginning of world war i, 150,000 indentured servants were brought here from india. indentured servitude is slavery by another name. the people brought here from india were bought, sold and treated like property, but were told if they completed five years of often backbreaking labor, they would be set free. noon on a monday, ordinarily a workday, but today, the singh family is having a boys river lime. chan, the patriarch is a retired diplo...

Life was not good for the family in india. >> chan: there was poverty, there were wars and all sorts of things, and yes they came into really hard times here because the indians emigrated from india, replaced the liberated slaves and the conditions were not very different. >> keshav: difficult times but it was a means to social mobility away from the situation in india. >> chan: and we are products of decedents of that generation. >> anthony: start with one whole duck, hack into pieces, rub with...

If someone uses seepage in a sentence, nothing good is going to happen. what do i, suck the paper. i dont think theres meat in here and i still like it. i mean its really, really good. >> anthony: a half century after trinidad became independent of the british empire, there are surprisingly few architectural remnants, but the fate of the country and its population, were forever changed when slavery ended in 1834 and great britain found itself in need of cheap, if not free, labor to work the plan...

Mobility away from the situation in india. >> chan: and we are products of decedents of that generation. >> anthony: start with one whole duck, hack into pieces, rub with lime juice, season with hot peppers, garlic and the tropical herb chadon beni. add generous helpings of masala and curry powder. marinate for a bit then sear in oil, and then simmer in coconut milk until tender. >> anthony: man thats good, they better kill some more ducks because that is --. >> keshav: when we have it like this...

Desperately needed to find labor to fill the void created by the slaves who turned their back on the plantations for obvious reasons. and they looked around they tried portuguese, they tried chinese, they tried many communities, until they found out that indians were the best suited because theyve already planted sugar cane in india successfully. >> anthony: between the end of outright slavery and the beginning of world war i, 150,000 indentured servants were brought here from india. indentured ...

With two sticks. >> anthony: oh, okay. i thought you were talking about whats going to happen to my shirt. what about skin color? you look at jamaica, you look at haiti. i dont get what they say, but what they do is still a powerful determinant of where your status is in the power structure. does that exist here? >> man in blue shirt: its not something that has consumed our imagination. being trinidadian is not necessarily color tune oriented, but its more and i think people really revel and enj...