[Jeremy Lin] "One of the best things I ever did was confront James Harden"

An American born in America isn't "native" to another country just because that's his ethnic heritage and shouldn't be expected to speak that language. By that logic all my white friends should speak German, French, Polish, whatever.

This is the type of "they aren't REALLY American" racist mentality that is plaguing the nation right now.

 

"Native" is not a biological concept. I'm not a "native" German because my last name has the word "burger" in it.

 

And the Lin thread derails like all Lin threads do into something not about basketball

Thank you Brooklyn Nets!

 

wrong grammer - should be confronting

 

I'm not saying he should speak Chinese just for kicks its because he is promoting there and has activities there and he IS Chinese. Chinese is part of his culture maybe you don't think its a big deal but for us Asians its important to still love your culture even if you are already a citizen of the united states. How did you turn "he should learn chinese because he is promoting in China" to "he isn't really american?" If someone learns Chinese he is not American anymore? Are US citizens only supposed to speak English otherwise its racist?

What the heck is racist about it? Are people racist for calling him Asian? He is 100% american I guess everybody that calls him Asian is racist now because he isn't Chinese natively. I guess all the people cheering for the Linsanity era are racist too, they were treating him like he is Chinese when he is just an american.

If your white friend is promoting in Germany then he should also learn some German because not every German is gonna understand English, its part of marketing himself to the German people and trying to build rapport with them as opposed to being just another "outsider".

 

The poster is some internet white knight defending Americans everywhere from racism. Btw don't ever call Jeremy Lin Asian ever again that is racist he is a proud citizen of the United States of America and he has the same genes as Donald Trump.

 

Omg this person. I am speechless with your logic. You need to Google the stuff you wrote and then never come back to this forum.

 

This now belongs to the D&D



Dumb and Dumber

 

I wished he confronted more instead of twittering out his passive aggressiveness. Good he learned that respectful confrontation is the way to go. Good message to the kids.

 

Dude, nationality, citizenship, heritage, and native language are all different things. Get your head around it!!!

Lin is a Chinese American who was born in US raised to speak English as his first language. His mother tongue is English.

He is promoting in Taiwan doesn't mean he needs to speak Mandarin. His Mandarin is pretty bad anyway.

What is your problem exactly???

 

You're never going to convince me that Clutchfans isn't racist towards Asians as long as tinman is still kicking around posting.

 

This video sums it up

 

Why ya kept on worshipping tinman? He was forced out of ysomingmania forum before joining here.

 

I am Korean-American. I was actually born outside of this country and am a naturalized citzen but am not "native" to here, so it's reasonable for me to be able to expected to speak Korean. Jeremy Lin was born in California and was raised there. I understand our culture emphasizes learning our roots and culture but it's unreasonable for someone to think American-born people with whatever heritage should speak their parents'/ancestors' language.

You need to learn the difference between nationality, citizenship, heritage, ethnicity, and "nativity".

 

He for some reason has a long leash with the mods/Clutch here. Well racism against Asians generally is tolerated and even celebrated here so it's not surprising.

 

As long as the leadership here allows tinman to post, I will consider Clutchfans racist.

 

A friend of mine once said the same thing thing and got banned. Be careful breh.