According to Yang, “even after 150 years of Asians being in the United States, I don’t think that Americans really know what to do with us. I don’t think there’s enough cultural awareness or cultural sensitivity that has been cultivated around how to talk about Asian Americans.”
But in a recent TV interview, Lin also made it clear that breaking through racial barriers is part of his NBA game plan: “The more I can break stereotypes of Asians and Asian Americans, the more I want to continue to do that, because I feel like Asians in general don’t get the respect that we may deserve whether it comes to sports, basketball or whatever it might be.”
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