All the more reason to fight if someone's punking you around. Look, no one loses endorsement deals being in the defensive end of a fight. And like someone just said, he might be even more popular if he stood up for himself from time to time. If the next such incident happens and I have to watch someone like John Lucas defend Yao, I'm gonna be sick to my stomach.
That's the Yao Ming you like. I hear his folks in Asia like the Yao Ming who shows restraint, discipline and self-control. He got bigger commercial deals in Asia anyway. So he thinks less of you, sorry.
Well personally I think the whole subtopic of endorsement deals are stupid to begin with but for some reason you keep bringing them up. I doubt Yao puts endorsements as a high priroity, way below having a successful legacy in the league as one of the best centers of all time. I would have rather you said something like " Yao shouldn't fight because it might hurt his team " or something like that than the whole endorsement tangent. Who do you think he is? Lebron? Yao doesn't and shouldn't give much **** what me or people in Asia see him as. He should focus on kicking a5s.
Oh yeah, definately if Sura was in the lineup last night he would've kicked the living hell out of Collison. And none of you guys would've had a problem with that if it happened and cost him 10 games.
Bw-haha! Try again. Met thousands of Chinese too personally in my lifetime to develop a natural standard deviation that our/the culture is passive by far overall. You can give me all the little examples of McDonald customers in Beijing and what not, but for every one of those, there are 20 more like Yao. Engineers, kitchen chefs, guys cleaning the garbage, entrepernaurs, airplane pilots, homeless people, biology teachers, chemistry teachers, whoever else...passive. Standing up for yourself just isn't encouraged in Chinese culture. It's always working around the problem. Nothing wrong with that, but that's just the way it is.
Not really. His mom and dad were national players after all. He pretty much grew up in a farm system since he was a little kid. Not saying he was rich or anything, but he certainly wasn't a beggar. Although lots of Chinese people are beggars...it's kinda sad. Too many people in that country...
It's stupid to think endorsement deals has no effects on how he behaves under the circumstance. And what you believes or what you prefers has no bearings on how he bahaves. He cares more about the numbers after the dollar sign. Deal with it.
There's no vibe I get from Yao that makes me, or mostly anyone else, believe he cares way more about the money than he does about basketball. Yao works his ass off and does his best to win games. Sure he gets endorsements, but I'm willing to bet if he didn't have them it wouldn't be the end of the world for him. The guy grew up humbled in China, away from the pollution of sleazy agents as a kid and realize how lucky he is to be the first impacting star from his home country. Yao is far different than the typical spoiled American star student-athlete. Please don't confuse him with Lebron or O.J. Mayo.
I agree with you. Yao obviously doesn't let the money get into his head or else we would be seeing him with some ridiculous ballin' stuff. He's not that kind of guy.
Try again? That's the typical retort of an f*****. This is not an anecdote. I'm glad you live in your white male fantasy of heroic rescuer of Asians (your gay Asiaphile nickname gives it away). But here's the reality... you have NEVER met the typical Chinese hoodlum I hung out with living four years in China. It's not just ONE McDonald's anecdote. That's just what an anecdote is: It's indicative of a greater trend I see all the time. And then just ask any Chinese person. Especially in the north, the people are loud, in-your-face, and prone to fight. Just because Chinese people are too nice to fight a foreigner -- and they are hospitable -- doesn't mean it doesn't occur. Face it, white homo... without being Chinese yourself, you DON'T see how they act, because you hang out with all the queens.
I apologize for outing a gay guy, and I shouldn't have called him names... It's just that in this day when we all pretend to be color-blind, I get sick and tired of white people always telling me that as a strong Asian American person, I was "supposed" to be like this, my culture "supposed" to be like that... It took years of actually meeting Asians, going to live in Asia, to realize that all that was crap. And then I knew it wasn't JUST me alone who was a strong, independent-minded Asian. What ZZZ and RiceDaddy repeat, and imagine if they said the same things about blacks or jews (because it's okay to deride Asians, NOT blacks or jews) is that Chinese are not courageous... What bull... all my life I've been told by white people what I and my culture were SUPPOSED to be. Sorry, you guys can spew your self-inflating racist attacks all you want (because certain --not all -- white people always belittle Asians to boost their own egos). You know what? I'm glad I outed the gay racist. I just regret that I called his a '***', because I'm sure there are some cool gay guys that shouldn't be lumped in with that idiot RiceDaddy.
Well if you're going to reduce this to first-grade callouts, I'd say it's obvious you're a Jewish/ Cuban/ Japanese/ Transvestite/ Muslim/ Christian/ Chevorlet diving, Honda helmet wearing, Irish guy with a black man's afro who've watched one too many kung fu movies and believe people in China walk around in wife-beaters fighting for the honor of the Shaolin temple. This is so obvious because you write with the bad grammar of a fob, but with the ignorance of a guy living in Montana. Which makes you a Montana fob. Or a Luche Libre.
Well to be fair, Asians are quite courageous when they're fighting for that last $9.99 T-shirt on sale at Wal-Mart. Come on, man. Chill out. Not all stereotypes are true. I have a big penis.
It's because he's gay and he's attracted to me, but I'm not and he can't have me. Alright, I'll stop the name calling.
Yeah... I know. Thus, the apology. One final thing: although I'm not a 'FOB', there's nothing wrong with being a new immigrant. As long as we all recognize that the USA is the best country.
