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Friend. ♪ >> pearland is the quintessential sprawl of suburban americana, and more and more of these days, this is the quintessential american family. jonathan, his salvadoran-born wife, sylvia, along with sister kim and husband ron, jonathan's mom nina and sylvia's mom, ayella. so, if you have a christmas, fourth of july, a big holiday, how many extended family, how many are coming over? [ laughter ] >> a lot. >> oh, okay. >> a lot. >> what's a lot, how many? >> 40, 50? >> wow. >> 40, 50 people. >> i don't even see us as interracial until people point it out. >> it's like a typical texan fa...

Situations, people from somewhere else. what that means is that now, houston, you know, houston is a place where minorities are now the majority. at the end of the war, jonathan trid escaped vietnam on a makeshift raft with his family. after serving in the united states marine corps and obtaining a master's degree in education, he became the principal of this school, lee senior high, the most ethnically diverse school in the city. what percentage of your student body english is not the first language? >> i would say about 80% of them. >> do those kids get sent here specifically, or is it just ...

Houston, however improbably it might seem to you, you yankee trash, much more welcoming to people with less means, people getting away from bad situations, people from somewhere else. what that means is that now, houston, you know, houston is a place where minorities are now the majority. at the end of the war, jonathan trid escaped vietnam on a makeshift raft with his family. after serving in the united states marine corps and obtaining a master's degree in education, he became the principal of this school, lee senior high, the most ethnically diverse school in the city. what percentage of yo...

>> what do you want to do? >> i want to go to college and i want to study medicine. i am between medicine and engineering. >> what do you want to do? >> i plan on playing soccer. >> soccer is not a plan, my friend. ♪ >> pearland is the quintessential sprawl of suburban americana, and more and more of these days, this is the qutessenti american family. jonathan, his salvadoran-born wife, sylvia, along with sister kim and husband ron, jonathan's mom nina and sylvia's mom, ayela. so, if you have a christmas, fourth of july, baig holiday, how many extended family, how many are coming over? [ lau...