This thread is incredibly disturbing. I feel really bad for Yao. You wonder why professional athletes often act like jerks to fans? It's because they have to act like jerks or else their kindness gets taken advantage of by wandering idiots like these guys. How would you feel if someone tailed you for 20 miles and then forced himself in your home and upon your family? I'd get way more vocal and violent than Yao is here. I really hope that selfish idiots like these don't sour Yao's good relationships with his fans. I also wish that people would take the lead from New Yorkers on how to deal with athletes and celebrities: just respect their privacy and treat them like human beings.
"P.S - The pictures are being posted on here with the full consent of all the people in the pictures." Another thing, are they being posted with the consent of Yao, Yao's mother, and Novak? Their consent to what's going on here is what really matters.
don't think so. if she's ok with you calling her oriental that's cool (i mean, usually i think of oriental rug, but then i think of carpet and then it just goes haywire from there..) so anyways, if you want to associate your little bitty girl with carpet that's cool.. hmmm... but usually, 'offensive' words like this are offensive because the population that it's associated want to 're-brand'. oriental was used to describe Asians from a Euro-centric point of view, and because Asians have been discriminated (or at least misunderstood), they want to disassociate themselves from their 'given' name and go with a more updated identity. Sort of like a upgrade. I personally don't really care about the usage, I think the intent of the person saying 'Oriental' is much more important. I mean, if you are using Oriental to describe your girl as an object, well.. kudos to you but that's a damn shame. Anyhoos -- sidetrack. Stalking Yao at his house.. what a bunch of maroons.
I wonder what Yao and Rockets Management is thinking. You know they have to know about this thread by now.
In this case, a major sidetrack isn't necessarily a bad thing. re: usages of oriental I have always associated the word with two things in my mind, The Orient Express adn carpets. Just like until I took my first history class, I always thoguth of the word Persian in relation to carpets I know it may be a shocking thought to those who think all white people are racist, but Asians were rarely discussed since we had none living in Psadena when I was a child, and I (and none of the ancestors I knew) didnt live in the old west. I refrain from using Oriental since I have been informed on here that alot of asians find it at least mildly offensive, and I dont really go out of my way to offend when a alternate word is available. but regardless of my mild PCness, sometimes a word is just a word.
A Yao Ming/Rockets fan posted this on YMM to reveal what really happened in that shocking, shameless, disrespectful, disgraceful incident......
I want to hear what the rockets think of this situation. It looks like everyone knows about this incident know, so would like to see a statement from them.
It would be nice if we could start some sort of thread or something stating an official apology from the fans of this BBS for this ridiculous behavior.
Sorry to detract from this thread for a second but was compelled to reply. I don't know if you follow baseball but there's a pitcher name Chan Ho Park. So is he name actually (Park Chan Ho) or (Park Ho Chan) ? I don't want to make light of the subject but I can understand why the Americans are confused.
Park Chan Ho...or Bahk Chan Ho..(correct phonetic pronounciation) and as an asian, i do not find "oriental" offensive, just dated. i'd rather be called an oriental than a chink, gook, slope, zipperhead, jap, dink, slanty, charlie, (unless your name is charlie)
A credit to Yao for being calm about this but if he's living in a gated community what were the security at the front gate doing?
That's an interesting question Since "Park" and "Chan" are family names in Korea. If I recall his jersey says "Chan" so I think that is his family name. To further confuse things I think some Asian players like Hideo Nomo followed Western practice and put their family name last while playing in the US.
LMAO at the hookem horns sign. Way to represent UT-Austin!! The proud look on that Pakistani guy's face is priceless. He thinks he is the total schit. What a complete and utter moron. It's amazing how these people can be so poorly advanced socially as to think that what they are doing was in any way not a rude, disrespectful assault on Yao's privacy.
no, it says Park. Okay, i think people get confused with the whole Ichiro thing. The reason why Ichiro has his first name on his jersey is because Ichiro is just that damn good. Not because they have their family name first. That's more of a Chinese thing. Park/Pak is a Korean name, hence Se Ri Pak, Jenny Park, Chan Ho Park. I know a few koreans with the last name Park and Pak. and Choi. what it has to do with these idiots? I don't know.
Well, the Law of Average rules here. First of all, Chan is not a common Korean family name. It is a common Chinese family name. Second, Park is a very very popular Korean surname....3rd to other Korean family names as Kim and Lee. http://en.allexperts.com/e/k/ko/korean_name.htm Third, Park Chan Ho's jersey clearly shows it.... it is CH Park.
I think suitable punishment would be for them to be banned from home games. This sort of reckless behavior should be strongly discouraged by the Rockets orgnanization.
