New york reaction to jeremy lin

In reality, though, many teams passed on Lin because of questions regarding his ability as an Asian-American basketball player. As a society, we need to forget the color of skin when we look at diversity, Black vs. Asian, White vs. Jeremy Lin has faced adversity based off of his race his entire life. Despite being 6'3" and having a 4.

Lin then decided it was in his best interests to attend Harvard and pursue a degree in economics while playing basketball. Many scouts and coaches said they were turned away by Lin's apparent lack of athletic ability, weak frame and unpolished jump shot. This ties into ideological stereotype that Asians are not as athletically gifted as other races. Lin does not play flashy or impress you with his athletic ability, but he has proven that those traits are not necessary to be a great basketball player.

In a "60 Minutes" interview, Lin was asked if he thought race had something to do with the fact that he did not receive a scholarship to play at a Division I school. Lin believes that the stereotypes surrounding Asian-American athletes did play a role in him not receiving a scholarship offer.

In a comment on the Facebook page, however, there were dissenters, those who said the reaction was, well, an overreaction. And before you go out and attack me know this that people can speak their minds even if it offends you. You are the one allowing it to bother you. The blog site China Smack reports that the most popular issue of the day on Youku, the popular Chinese video-sharing Web site, was the ridiculing of a story about Mr. The piece had more than 1.

The original story appeared on Xinhua, the state-controlled Chinese news agency. It floated the preposterous idea that Mr. Lin was similarly underestimated. He led his high school team to a state championship, but was ignored by every Division I college team except Harvard. He was cut by two NBA teams and could barely get on the floor in practice, until the injury-riddled Knicks handed him the ball almost in desperation. Now Lin owns an NBA record for most points in the first five games as a starter since So when someone labels Lin "deceptively athletic" even though he has a typical point-guard build, or when his teammate Tyson Chandler says, perhaps jokingly, that he didn't know the 6-foot-3 1.

That was a point made by Knicks superfan Spike Lee. Xia said Asians were first viewed in America as "coolies," laboring on railroads, laundry or in restaurants. Then they were a stealthy and diabolical wartime enemy, then rivals stealing American jobs with cheap labor.

Today the labor stereotype has transferred to another arena, with Asians viewed as math-and-science robots toiling over books and computer screens. Nobody deliberately excluded Lin because of his ethnicity, Xia said: "That's not the point.

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