Speaking as a Hong Konger who live in Canada for more than 10 years, I have notice that when Chinese community promoting Chinese Heritage to younger generations, it is always stressing on we are a part of identity-dom, not the Chinese identity as a part of individual whole. So even though I am not too sure if that have something to do with this topic, I always found it as a part of the problem that we have.

Now that Linsanity is over and D'Antoni got fired, NBA scouts are searching for the NEXT JEREMY LIN! Check it out haha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TueTzWxr9SM&

The conflation of Chinese and Japanese cultures on display is pretty shocking, and utterly bizarre to me, as someone having lived most of their life in Asia...

You know what amazes me about MSG's real-life commentators? In mid-February MSG aired a well-publicized first interview with Jeremy post-Linsanity's. He was asked something along the lines of what kind of comments he hears or stereotypes he faces as an Asian-American athlete. He said that he often hears things like "He's faster than he looks. He's tougher than he seems." He said, "What does that even mean? Do I look slow?" I'm paraphrasing, but it was obvious that it's frustrating for him to hear that his stamina and ability is surprising, even though he is a professional athlete. Anyway, despite this airing on their OWN channel, the commentators still make consistent comments like this about him. It doesn't even have to be a hard foul like the one Kidd committed a few games ago, they still say it almost every time he goes up to the free throw line.

video not availabre outside murrica, RAGE!!!!

I'm not sure when the "model minority" phrase became part of the stereotype for East Asians in the United States. However, I'm aware that the discrimination against, and racism, or prejudice, or disrespect  toward Asians is centuries old in the United States, Europe, Australia, and other majority European nations. And these negative attitudes toward and negative treatment of East Asian people regardless of their nationality is deeply ingrained in those societies. Furthermore, those negative attitudes toward East Asians is insidious because it is generally considered to be part of the folk culture of those nations. One reflection of this viewpoint are   playground rhymes that target Asians (such as some versions of "I Went To The Chinese Resturant") and what some people consider to be warmly remembered, nostalgic songs as "The Little Bald-Headed Chinese" (also known as "Crazy Old Man From China") and "Once In China There Lived A Great Man". As documentation that these racist songs are still being taught to children, visit this thread on this international folk & blues discussion forum http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=107270 Btw, that thread is one of several Mudcat threads on the "Once In China..." song and there are other threads on the "Crazy Old Man From China". As a long time collector of English language playground rhymes, it is my (non-scientifically researched) conclusion that East Asians are thepublicbrunt of racist rhymes (and actions such as stretching the eyes while reciting the rhyme) MUCH more than Black people.  Just because Black people are also subject to racism, does not mean that some of us don't also reflect mainstream society's negative attitudes of Asians and express those negative attitudes in society sanctioned ways. Of course, this absolutely does not make this right.That societies can change the sanctioned ways that their residents from childhood on express negtive attitudes toward people is exemplified by the change in lyrics of the well known "Eenie Meenie Minie Mo" rhyme. Nowadays, most children don't even know that the "n word" was a part of that rhyme. I believe a large part of the reason why that rhyme was changed, and other public expressions of racism against Black people aren't acceptable in "polite society", is because Black people advocated for those changes, and confronted people on their racism (including physical confrontation-though I don't approve of that action). Should Asians (and not just East Asians) be more vocal and pro-active about these kinds of racism. I think so. I believe that it's partly because Asians appear to "tolerate" those not at all innocent playground rhymes & family songs that put down Asians that some Americans (including some Black Americans) think it's ok to make Asian jokes such as those that involved basketball player Jeremy Linn.

"However, these numbers regarding Asian-American economic success are misleading.  For example, after controlling for factors such as education, number of workers in a household, and regional costs of living,, Asian-Americans’ economic advantages disappear (Kim & Mar, 2007).  Like other racial minorities, because of racial discrimination Asians must work harder to get the same economic returns as whites."

So after controlling for achievement, Asians don't really achieve more than other minorities.

Aside from the fact that it's making me dizzy, this argument seems to add support for the 'model minority' status. 

When the "Amasian" headline first came out, I argued that it wasn't racist, because I don't believe it is racist to make note of someone's race. Also papers like the New York Post are daily news sausage grinders - they will latch on to any gimmick to make a bold headline, no matter how crass. And Jeremy Lin's race is noteworthy: there are disproportionately few Asians in many professional sports, especially basketball. I figured that at the height of Linsanity, the daily papers had just run out of clever headlines and therefore turned to the relevant characteristic of his race.
I argued this point with my partner, and said that a good analogy would be a black hockey player. Because black hockey players are so rare, it would be perfectly understandable for newspaper editors to capitalize on the race aspect to sell papers. But the best equivalent for "Amasian" that we could come up with was "Blacktastic," which does strike me as offensive. I learned through this experience that I had been seeing things through the discriminatory 'model minority lens', and that I have to make an effort in the future to see these things for what they really are.