<p>Yes, I am being sarcastic. (Obviously, a poor attempt!)</p>
<p>Sarcasm does not convey well on the computer.</p>
<p>You are kidding me. He (Lin) is their best player… was last year too. Sore losers maybe?</p>
<p>I agree with sakky…it appears different races are given different protection status, on the spectrum of political correctness.</p>
<p>The best player for the Crimson and not a single D1 offer coming out of HS? Either he tremendously improved over the past 2-3 years or there was indeed a racial bias in his recruiting process.</p>
<p>Actually this is not racism,this is a joke.</p>
<p>This is countryism.</p>
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<p>He was All-State, the Player of the Year in Northern California, and led his HS to the state championship, upsetting a nationally-ranked powerhouse. He’s 6-3 and can play either guard position. But no D1 scholarship.</p>
<p>Remember when African-Americans didn’t possess whatever it was you were supposed to need to be a quarterback? Now Toby Gerhart, a 235-pound Stanford running back with good speed, can come in the closest second ever in the Heisman Trophy balloting and not be considered a likely first-round draft pick because white guys apparently don’t look like an NFL running back. And clearly, Asians don’t look like basketball players to recruiters, even when the talent is being displayed right in front of their disbelieving eyes. Hence the heckling - sad. Black quarterbacks now star in the NFL, Gerhart will leave cleat marks all over the players of the teams that bypass him in the draft, and Jeremy’s going to lead Harvard to its best season ever instead of taking a big-conference power to the Final Four, but stereotypes will continue to die hard.</p>
<p>^ I don’t think the black QB stereotype persists anymore. Lots of black QBs have emerged in recent years in the NFL and in top D1 programs. You’re probably right though that it did exist, even in recent memory; in fact, wasn’t that part of the whole Rush Limbaugh/Donovan McNabb controversy a few years back? Is it possible that that altercation might have caused a great shift in the conscious of coaches?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I don’t see a breakthrough happening anytime soon for guys like either Lin or Gerhart (definitely not Gerhart, maaaaybe Lin).</p>
<p>lol. i play high school basketball/baseball in redneck georgia where all people do is go to high school games… and im asian… ive been called chink thousand of times, after a bad game, have been struck with stuff like “leave the chink open, he cant see the hoop through his slits” …yeah… “go fry some rice for me”, “he looks like he has geindas he’s so yellow” and the movie hangover made it about 10 times worse this season…im the only asian basketball or baseball player that ive encountered in my career…it’s especially bad during baseball games when i’m out in left field… a truckload of rednecks pull up besides the fence and start yelling insults at me all game…</p>
<p>^That’s awful! Yet many proponents of Affirmative Action incorrectly contend that Asians do not suffer anywhere near the same level of prejudice as other minority groups.</p>
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<p>I’m asian, so this is a biased opinion…but I completely agree. I feel like the racism/ stereotypes towards asians has become “almost” accepted as humorous and light- hearted. I see it in the media and TV all the time where the asian is the nerdy, straight A student with no social life and strict parents. And people laugh about it without feeling like its racist at all. Almost like its racism towards asians is trivial but racism towards any other minority is considered much more unfair and cruel. </p>
<p>I might be alone on this opinion but those are my two cents.</p>
<p>I know, it seems black people can say anything racist and get away with it. </p>
<p>Asians are really smart they have the highest average wages I think people are just jealous of them.</p>
<p>@CollegeStress16: Your post is met with wholehearted agreement (and I speak as a non-Asian individual myself so my beliefs are not necessarily colored in favor of the argument). Your indignance is completely warranted. The stereotypes surrounding Asian individuals is extremely narrow-minded and unjustified. Asians, contrary to popular belief, are no less diverse than any other ethnic body. As a group, Asian applicants have the highest scores on objective standards of any ethnic category. They too have encountered racism in our nation yet they do not receive any vestige of AA benefits. Part of my lectures on the “Quadruplets” thread on the Yale board was dedicated to this exact subject.</p>
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<p>This is because discrimination in our nation is typically seen as a one-way process. Thus, our perceptual set is fundamentally biased on a uni-directional basis. When discrimination occurs from the other direction, it is seldomly noticed.</p>
<p>mifune don’t even both responding to anything anacrusis says. A quick look through her post history will show you how much of an idiot ■■■■■ she is.</p>
<p>^Yes, thanks. I have just realized this while reading through the interview thread.</p>