3M tbh
He alternatives are to become a free agent and see who wants to go for the Chinese marketing angle. Houston might take it.
I'm Taiwanese, I know Lin is Taiwanese descent.
He isn't Chinese.
He said that for making those mainland Chinese happy or he meant his ancestors were Chinese.
So most of us are African from that standpoint?
Because human ancestors were from Africa.
Or you can say we were monkeys.
it is not an issue just think about it actually Taiwan is a part of China.I'm Taiwanese, I know Lin is Taiwanese descent.
He isn't Chinese.
He said that for making those mainland Chinese happy or he meant his ancestors were Chinese.
So most of us are African from that standpoint?
Because human ancestors were from Africa.
Or you can say we were monkeys.
No, Taiwan is not a part of China.
I know that China have claimed that before but Taiwan government didn't give a .
China Communism = No freedom
Taiwan Democracy = Freedom
Notice how the nba hypes up Lin right after yao retired. Gotta milk that Chinese market one way or the other.
Tbh, i didn't see the NBA itself hype him up. Moreso the Media landscape. The Hype just outgrew him because he had a winning streak going. It's toned down now (a little) as the Knicks are losing. But the NBA wasn't ready for it, they run out of Lin jersey the 2nd game as a starter for him or so
Still, Business is business.
I correct you guys again. Lin is Taiwanese decent, he ain't Chinese.
Lin is American.
Yao is Chinese.
The reason that Lin said he's Chinese was his ancestors were Chinese.
Lin won't hit Chinese market.
during his run, china's gov media hunted down his grandma in some village
That was Lin's mother's grandmother.
In Chinese/Taiwanese blood relationship laws, the mother side doesn't count.
For an example, you belong to a Chinese family but your grandmother was a Filipino....so you aren't Filipino, right?
http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/201...na-and-taiwan/
America can’t get enough of Jeremy Lin — nor can anyone else. Less than a week after leading the Knicks to a five-game winning streak, Taiwanese-American point guard is the most searched item on Baidu, a leading Chinese search engine, and he already has a quarter million followers on Weibo, a Twitter-like microblog. Everybody, it seems, is talking about the Harvard-educated wunderkind.
In Asia at least, most comments seem pleased to see a high-profile Chinese-American in sports. Wang Lee-hom, a Taiwanese-American celebrity with over 13 million followers on Weibo, tweeted in Chinese Tuesday: “Perhaps you all guessed what today’s Weibo is going to be? It’s about the NBA’s first ABC [American-born Chinese] Jeremy Lin! Representing Chinese right now in the U.S., breaking many long-held stereotypes, opening Americans’ eyes!”
Sometimes, Chinese could be a general call as you mention about Sigaporean, Taiwannese.....Because their ancestors were from China.
But what I mentioned was nationality + descent. Not ancestry.
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