Bullying affects everyone and is timeless, this is neat story of how a teenage Micheal Chow, now 72 and a famous celebrity restaurateur, moved to England and suffered Bullying because of his race… he was able to turn things around.
Its taken from The Telegraph today…
By Adam Lusher
7:00AM BST 07 Aug 2011
The Shanghai-born 72-year-old has seen his Knightsbridge, Beverly Hills, New York and Miami restaurants patronised by everyone from the Beatles to Andy Warhol, via Ingrid Bergman and Federico Fellini.
Yet he tells The Sunday Telegraph's Seven magazine that he resorted to wearing his trademark tortoiseshell glasses to ward off racists.
"When I first came to England I realised that two things could let you off the hook race-wise: Eccentricity and fame. For that reason I call them my 'anti-racism' glasses, because people look at the glasses more than me, so the Chinese part begins to disappear."
He buys the glasses from Cutler and Gross, whose Knightsbridge store is behind his restaurant, and they are now sold by the opticians as "Mr Chow spectacles".
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