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February 13, 2012 at 8:25 PM #19507February 13, 2012 at 8:26 PM #737925
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ParticipantGo Jeremy Go!!!
February 13, 2012 at 8:34 PM #737926blake
ParticipantLinsanity propels MSG shares to record high
Dude earned his paycheck alright.
February 13, 2012 at 8:44 PM #737927Participant[quote=blake]Linsanity propels MSG shares to record high
Dude earned his paycheck alright.[/quote]
First time I read that headline, I was like MSG – Monosodium glutamate? A Chinese dude and MSG, haha.February 13, 2012 at 9:27 PM #737932ocrenter
Participant[quote=AN][quote=blake]Linsanity propels MSG shares to record high
Dude earned his paycheck alright.[/quote]
First time I read that headline, I was like MSG – Monosodium glutamate? A Chinese dude and MSG, haha.[/quote]Correction, Taiwanese American.
February 13, 2012 at 10:20 PM #7379364slive
ParticipantCorrection. Taiwanese is part of Chinese. There is no nation called Taiwan, we only know Repulbic of China is on Taiwan island.
February 13, 2012 at 10:44 PM #737937Participant[quote=ocrenter][quote=AN][quote=blake]Linsanity propels MSG shares to record high
Dude earned his paycheck alright.[/quote]
First time I read that headline, I was like MSG – Monosodium glutamate? A Chinese dude and MSG, haha.[/quote]Correction, Taiwanese American.[/quote]
Dude, do you want me to just say Asian American?February 13, 2012 at 11:15 PM #737941Allan from Fallbrook
Participant[quote=4slive]Correction. Taiwanese is part of Chinese. There is no nation called Taiwan, we only know Repulbic of China is on Taiwan island.[/quote]
Interesting. Now we have People’s Republic of China “watchers” on Piggington’s. Hmmmmm.
February 14, 2012 at 7:55 AM #737960Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=4slive]Correction. Taiwanese is part of Chinese. There is no nation called Taiwan, we only know Repulbic of China is on Taiwan island.[/quote]
Interesting. Now we have People’s Republic of China “watchers” on Piggington’s. Hmmmmm.[/quote]
no kidding.
Taiwanese is not part of Chinese. Taiwanese historically came from China. Taiwanese also speak Chinese, but that does not mean they are Chinese.
Just like most Americans and Canadians historically came from England and they also speak English, but that does not mean they are English.
the Republic of China is the formal name of the nation known as Taiwan. This nation’s constitution defines its effective borders as Taiwan and Matsu and Kinmen islands, aka Taiwan for short.
The entire world knows China = the People’s Republic of China. And Chinese are people from the People’s Republic of China.
The PRC have never ruled Taiwan in their 60 years of existence, that’s a fact.
Jeremy Lin’s parents were Taiwanese immigrants, when he goes back to his homeland, he goes to Taiwan. All of this makes him Taiwanese American, not Chinese.
His rise is something to be celebrated as this is a major step for all Asian Americans. But don’t try to make him out into something he is not, aka Chinese. Yao Ming is Chinese. I was very happy Yao Ming broke the color barrier as the first Asian player in the NBA. But I celebrated his success as an Asian American.
Just celebrate his success as an Asian American and quit pulling the delusional “Taiwan is an integral part of China since ancient time” crap on us.
February 14, 2012 at 9:23 AM #737967poorgradstudent
ParticipantLeaving race out of it, it’s pretty exciting to see some Harvard grad totally school Kobe. I hate Kobe. So hard.
February 14, 2012 at 9:41 AM #737969Dougie944
ParticipantAlthough there is a story with his Asian descent and being a Harvard player, I think the real story is that a player that went undrafted, is an unknown, was cut by 2 teams last year pulls a losing team from the bottom of the NBA after both of its so called “stars” are out.
In a week, he has given a high profile franchise the hope it has been looking for during at least the past decade. Shortly, the two “stars” are going to have to come back to Lin’s team and try to assimilate to what he is doing. He also can stop sleeping on his brother’s couch. Oh yeah, and as another poster mentioned, he torched Kobe which is awesome.
Also seems to be a good guy and taking everything very humbly. Hard not to be excited about and root for him.
February 14, 2012 at 9:51 AM #737971nla
ParticipantLin-sanity’s parents are ethnic Chinese that immigrated from Taiwan. But ocrenter is right, that not all Taiwanese are Chinese. But most Taiwanese are ethnic Chinese, mostly from South China. The indigenous people in Taiwan are Austranesians which are closely related to the indigenous population in the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. Although in the Philippines (specially in the big cities), the modern Filipino is a mutt of Chinese/Spanish/Japanese/Indian/Malay among others.
February 14, 2012 at 10:10 AM #737973Participant[quote=nla]Lin-sanity’s parents are ethnic Chinese that immigrated from Taiwan. But ocrenter is right, that not all Taiwanese are Chinese. But most Taiwanese are ethnic Chinese, mostly from South China. The indigenous people in Taiwan are Austranesians which are closely related to the indigenous population in the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. Although in the Philippines (specially in the big cities), the modern Filipino is a mutt of Chinese/Spanish/Japanese/Indian/Malay among others.[/quote]
along the same vein, most Americans and Canadians are ethic Anglos. When an Anglo-American does well, how many Brits go around proclaiming that person is English?
No one dispute the fact that 98% of Taiwanese are ethnic Chinese. But their nationality is Taiwanese.
February 14, 2012 at 10:11 AM #737972
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Come on. Who cares if the dude is taiwanese/chinese or what you folks poitical views are on taiwan/china.
Geeze.
February 14, 2012 at 10:14 AM #737974CoronitaParticipantYou know I posted something nastier earlier that I deleted.
but I will say this.
Chinese people get routinely screwed because they end up screwing themselves through their divisive screwed up thought process of trying to screw a fellow chinese person over just because they are from a different country and because of their culturally inherent nature to think that they are better than the other chinese dude next to them…
You don’t see the same thing among koreans or among japanese… Think about that one.
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