Member Phantom Dreamer Posted June 12, 2018 Author Member Share Posted June 12, 2018 Now author Matthew Polly is saying Bruce Lee was 5/8 Han Chinese, 1/4 British and 1/8 Jewish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted June 12, 2018 Member Share Posted June 12, 2018 8 minutes ago, Phantom Dreamer said: Now author Matthew Polly is saying Bruce Lee was 5/8 Han Chinese, 1/4 British and 1/8 Jewish. The further you go back into his family history history, the more varied you would find his genetc heritage to be. Never traced my own family history, but I very much doubt I'd turn out to be purely from one race or area of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted July 5, 2018 Author Member Share Posted July 5, 2018 One of his great-grandfathers was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, so he had Dutch-Jewish ancestry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted July 9, 2018 Author Member Share Posted July 9, 2018 The South China Morning Post is grappling with the revelation that Bruce Lee was part Dutch-Jewish and part English. Who gets to claim an icon with such a fluid identity? How Chinese was he really? https://m.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2149436/bruce-lee-everyman-hero-globalised-age?amp=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Omni Dragon Posted July 9, 2018 Member Share Posted July 9, 2018 6 hours ago, Phantom Dreamer said: The South China Morning Post is grappling with the revelation that Bruce Lee was part Dutch-Jewish and part English. Who gets to claim an icon with such a fluid identity? How Chinese was he really? A human being first and foremost. Icon for the human race if you like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fohtCAnEdDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fohtCAnEdDs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted August 6, 2018 Author Member Share Posted August 6, 2018 Uncovering Bruce Lee's Jewish roots Buried roots In the book’s footnotes, Polly refers to “incorrect statements” that led to assumptions that Lee’s maternal great-grandfather was German Catholic. Polly found evidence that this great-grandfather, Mozes Hartog Bosman, came from a Dutch Jewish family of German descent. Bosman was born in Rotterdam in 1839 to teenage parents Hartog Mozes Bosman and Anna de Vries. His father was a kosher Jewish butcher. “[Mozes] did not want to take up his father’s business,” Polly said. When he was a teenager, Bosman joined the Dutch East Asia Company and “jumped on a boat halfway across the world, ending up in Hong Kong.” “He was one of those boys who wanted adventure,” Polly said. “He could very easily have died at any moment on the journey.” Bruce Lee’s Dutch-Jewish great-grandfather, Mozes Hartog Bosman, circa 1880. (Courtesy Matthew Polly) Instead, in 1866, he became the Dutch consul to Hong Kong, where he left a complicated legacy. He bought a Chinese concubine named Sze Tai and had six children with her; all grew up to become “extremely wealthy, the richest in Hong Kong,” Polly said. One of their sons, Ho Kom-tong, had a wife, 13 concubines and a British mistress. With his mistress, he had his 30th child — a daughter, Grace Ho, who became Bruce Lee’s mother. https://www.timesofisrael.com/mixed-martial-artist-uncovering-bruce-lees-hidden-jewish-ancestry/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted August 13, 2018 Author Member Share Posted August 13, 2018 Bruce Lee was a "mixed martial artist". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted August 15, 2018 Author Member Share Posted August 15, 2018 I don't know his family history, but I am just assuming the latest "Bruce Lee" Mike Moh, is probably more than the 5/8 Asian that Bruce Lee was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted August 17, 2018 Author Member Share Posted August 17, 2018 Safe to say Danny Chan, whom I've read from people that among the Leealikes most resembled Bruce, wasn't a quarter British or an eighth Dutch Jewish lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted September 5, 2018 Author Member Share Posted September 5, 2018 Bruce Lee's family prior to enjoying a meal of fish and chips! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted September 24, 2018 Author Member Share Posted September 24, 2018 Bruce Lee admiring a British made Rolls-Royce. It was around this time Lee found out about his British heritage and thus decided to trade his German made Mercedes for the British luxury car. Truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted October 7, 2018 Author Member Share Posted October 7, 2018 audrey hepburn as Bruce Lee's Hai Tien. More of that "British Connection" if you will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted October 24, 2018 Author Member Share Posted October 24, 2018 Bruce Lee, discovering his British roots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted November 9, 2018 Author Member Share Posted November 9, 2018 The individual who started it all, Charles Russo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted November 18, 2018 Author Member Share Posted November 18, 2018 Bruce Lee, 1/4 British. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted December 27, 2018 Author Member Share Posted December 27, 2018 This pic has been tweeted so many times with the caption: 'A young Bruce Lee playing with his brother Robert Lee in Hong Kong.' The people are fed up with errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted December 27, 2018 Author Member Share Posted December 27, 2018 A method to the madness. Any actor aspiring or being considered to portray Bruce Lee in an upcoming project should be able to grow a beard. If not, outta here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted January 2, 2019 Author Member Share Posted January 2, 2019 Bruce Lee has roots in Liverpool? Adam Chow may be on to something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted January 3, 2019 Author Member Share Posted January 3, 2019 POPSUGAR #twinning. Kevin Kline. Kline's father was Jewish, from a family that had emigrated from Germany, and had become an agnostic. Kline's mother was a Roman Catholic of Irish descent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted February 10, 2019 Author Member Share Posted February 10, 2019 Thinking about the history, the lineage, on this very day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted May 23, 2019 Author Member Share Posted May 23, 2019 Going above and beyond to ensure the forum is more than just reposting instagram posts of fledgling actors and actresses. We can make it happen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Phantom Dreamer Posted June 2, 2019 Author Member Share Posted June 2, 2019 Just looking to see who is willing to right the ship. For too long, it has veered off course and it needs to be corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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