When Grandpa Chin said they would not throw rocks because the respect dragons they three rocks anyhow. They threw rocks because they were Italian. Their parents don't tell them to respect dragons because they don't have anything to do with the dragon culture. The Chinese kids marched down to the park. They stood up to Tony because they had enough of him throwing rocks at their beautiful kites. They found out that Tony and his friends were throwing rocks at the kites for a reason and that reason was the Chinese kids and grandfather were chasing Little Italy's birds away and they usaly never came back. So the story goes both ways the Chinese kids were something wrong and so were the kids from Little Italy but Tony knew that he was doing something wrong but the Chinese kids did not.