The island of Taiwan is part of the Republic of China (better known as Taiwan), which is not the same as the People's Republic of China. So yeah, either way he's technically Chinese.
This is so stupid. Hes American. He was born here. People who get into the whole taiwan china crap are so annoying.
That's like saying Conservatives and Liberals are the same people. Sure ethnically they share the same roots but political differences play out larger than you know.
Some people in Taiwan are really pathetic. They are so narrow-minded and insecure that they have to use an American to pump their self confidence. Poor souls.
Of course... but the Lin camp incl. his brothers plus his parents don't want to lose their Taiwanese, Chinese fan base so they act rather diplomatically because of basketball reasons... I mean economic reasons
Gotta love people ****ting on my country, but some people here do have a point. It was just like when we had Chien Ming Wang...
Taiwanese are technically the Democracy side of China (anti-communism) , Democratic party lost the civil war in China so they flee to Taiwan. So yes Taiwanese is technically Chinese but they hate Communism.
Actually he was born in a secret military camp near the Santa Cruz Mountains. Some claim that his birth was foretold by a swallow, and heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow across the sky over the mountain and a new star in the heavens.
You are right. He is American. If he is born and come from Taiwan, then they can claim him whatever. He is born and raised here. He is asian american.
I can't believe we're now debating about Taiwan. I feel kind of bad now for Lin about his relative success... if he doesn't live up to the hype (which is very high for him), that's a loooong fall to oblivion.
As a Japanese colony for so long, with hundreds of thousands of Japanese settlers moving to Taiwan and Japan only lost it because of a WWII treaty, he's probably more Japanese than Chinese. Probably the other 3 grandparents are Japanese. They are certainly NOT Chinese; otherwise, we'd have heard about it. This is so stupid. Just a stupid argument between Taiwan and China. The dude is American. It's like me claiming to be Texan, just because my parents were born here, but I was born in Illinois.
Yeah, and his ancestry is possibly more Japanese than Chinese. One grandparent was born in China. What about the other 3. They could easily be Japanese, since Taiwan was a Japanese colony when they were born.
Actually, the Japanese only had it for 50 years or so, and not many Japanese stayed in Taiwan after WW2. Few among the population have any Japanese ancestry. Also, I think the reason why we don't hear about the other 3 grandparents is because they are dead. Dying, Grandparents tend to do it sometimes.
It was a japanese colony when his grandparents were born....and 100s of thousands of Japanese settlers went there. It's odd we only hear about one grandparent. Why is that?
Jeremy Lin still has a slight Chinese accent. His parents probably spoke to him in Mandarin when he was growing up.
Jeremy's paternal grandmother still lives in Beidou, Changhua, Taiwan. She's Taiwanese born and raised. Jeremy's maternal grandmother is the one from Pinghu, Zhejiang, P.R. China. She currently resides in New York City. She's a pediatrician and graduated in the mid-40s from Zhejiang Medical College. Actually you can find some information if you search her name: Elaine Itzu Chen, M.D.
