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Asian American Journalists Association Jeremy Lin Guidelines

This is hilarious and sad that it’ll actually help people. Surely there’s meetings set up at some newsrooms.

Here are the guidelines:

THE FACTS

1. Jeremy Lin is Asian American, not Asian (more specifically, Taiwanese American). It’s an important distinction and one that should be considered before any references to former NBA players such as Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi, who were Chinese. Lin’s experiences were fundamentally different than people who immigrated to play in the NBA. Lin progressed through the ranks of American basketball from high school to college to the NBA, and to characterize him as a foreigner is both inaccurate and insulting.

2. Lin’s path to Madison Square Garden: More than 300 division schools passed on him. Harvard University has had only three other graduates go on to the NBA, the most recent one being in the 1950s. No NBA team wanted Lin in the draft after he graduated from Harvard.

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Asian Americans Lead the Bullying Stats Again.

It’s now listed as half. Is that too low? If it weren’t for Hawaii who must count for such study, the number would be even higher. From ABC: “According to a UCLA study, 54 percent of Asian-American students report being the victims of bullies. That’s compared to 31.3 percent of whites, 38.4 percent of blacks and 34.3 percent of Hispanic students.” The disparity doesn’t seem large but why do Asian Americans lead and who is doing the bullying? Does it come from all angles? Does it include other Asian Americans? (ABC – Bullies)  
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Admissions Discrimination Against Asians at Harvard and Princeton?

Of course there is and always has been. At this point, everyone knows being Asian is how you can’t get into colleges. Ivy leagues? Same problem. It’s hard to get in period. Yet, Asian Americans seem to test the highest according to some stats and still face rejection. 16% of the Harvard undergrad students are Asian American, which is a far cry from the numbers at UCLA etc, which suggests there’s discrimination. If it were a true level playing field, would Harvard and the many other universities be just like UCI’s 60% Asian American student population? Is that the best way to have school populations? Read more. (Washington Post – Discrimination)
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Who’s the Best Asian American Athlete?

  They asked the question, Who’s the Best Asian American Athlete? Of course the in studio team at TMZ didn’t know and went straight to the Asian players. Yao Ming? Ichiro Suzuki? Manny Pacquiao? Kristi Yamaguchi? They didn’t acknowledge until later that Pacman wasn’t American. They didn’t mention it at all with Yao Ming or Ichiro Suzuki. Tiger Woods got the nay because he’s half. So who is it? The funniest thing is they asked Hapa Anton Apolo Ohno, and by their standards, he doesn’t qualify. By the TMZ standards the person needs to be active as well. So who is it?   video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player
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