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Jeremy Lin: Asian American, Harvard Grad... NBA great?

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Sho_Nuff82 said:
That's going to matter for about a month after he moves into his own crib.
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He's been a homeless couch surfer despite taking in a good income until he got this recent contract because he was worried about losing his job. He doesn't strike me as the type to take risks, he certainly doesn't when it comes to spending money.
 
basic_element said:
Yeah I don't see the big deal. I think white girls are easier to get than asian girls. Hispanics even easier.
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It's only a big deal because Hollywood insists on emasculating Asian men, implying that they're the least desirable to white women, or any women. Many people have actually bought into the propaganda despite statistical evidence that Asian men are extremely successful at courting white women, the most difficult women to court of all according to numerous studies.

Ironically, it might've worked towards the favor of Asian men when it comes to marrying white women. Since they don't have the "they're stealing our women" stereotype that black men do, there is less resistance to a white woman marrying an Asian man.
 
Sho_Nuff82 said:
Ha.

Her plan when she moved to NY was originally to date a Knick (Danilo Galinari), when he said he wasn't down for anything serious, that's when she set her sites on Humphries. Poor Jeremy, she would chew him up and spit him out in 3 months and get it all on camera.
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Lin would turn change her from a hot bitch into a hot christian housewife. The power that flows through Lin can fix all things.
 
Zzoram said:
It's only a big deal because Hollywood insists on emasculating Asian men, implying that they're the least desirable to white women, or any women. Many people have actually bought into the propaganda despite statistical evidence that Asian men are extremely successful at courting white women, the most difficult women to court of all according to numerous studies.

Ironically, it might've worked towards the favor of Asian men when it comes to marrying white women. Since they don't have the "they're stealing our women" stereotype that black men do, there is less resistance to a white woman marrying an Asian man.
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I lol'd.
 
Zzoram said:
It's only a big deal because Hollywood insists on emasculating Asian men, implying that they're the least desirable to white women, or any women. Many people have actually bought into the propaganda despite statistical evidence that Asian men are extremely successful at courting white women, the most difficult women to court of all according to numerous studies.

Ironically, it might've worked towards the favor of Asian men when it comes to marrying white women. Since they don't have the "they're stealing our women" stereotype that black men do, there is less resistance to a white woman marrying an Asian man.
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fuck me i lol'd.
you're good.
 
Lol at this crap like white woman is some holy Grail for asain men.

Maybe it's a west coast thing but here in the east there's tons of Asian men with white woman. Heck 75% of the none fob asians I know dated white women before. Including me.

White women are way easier to get than Asian women much less mantainance.

A lot of Asian men though don't end up marrying white women though because of the cultural pressure from the family and the inability for a lot of white woman to communicate with the family.
 
Zzoram said:
Um, 14% of all married Asian men in the US are married to white women, that's a lot. Who cares if Asian women marry white men even more? The point was to shatter the myth that Asian men don't get white women, they do, much more successfully than any other minority.

Also, 14% includes Asian men who are immigrants. That rises to 36% if the Asian man was born in America.

No other minority men marry white women at such a high percentage.
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Wrong. I don't really want to argue this, but a pew study just came out on this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/interracial-marriage-in-us_n_1281229.html

_Broken down by gender, black men were more than twice as likely as black women to marry someone outside their race – 24 percent to 9 percent. The reverse held true for Asian men – 17 percent intermarried, compared to 36 percent among Asian women.
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Also, a lot of asian women marrying outside of their race = lack of choice for asian guys. There are a lot less asian guys married than asian women. They are the only male minority group that this happens to.
 
Zzoram said:
It's only a big deal because Hollywood insists on emasculating Asian men, implying that they're the least desirable to white women, or any women. Many people have actually bought into the propaganda despite statistical evidence that Asian men are extremely successful at courting white women, the most difficult women to court of all according to numerous studies.

Ironically, it might've worked towards the favor of Asian men when it comes to marrying white women. Since they don't have the "they're stealing our women" stereotype that black men do, there is less resistance to a white woman marrying an Asian man.
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Personal observation, I have never seen an Asian guy with a African-American woman
 
neutralgamer02 said:
Wrong. I don't really want to argue this, but a pew study just came out on this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/interracial-marriage-in-us_n_1281229.html



Also, a lot of asian women marrying outside of their race = lack of choice for asian guys. There are a lot less asian guys married than asian women. They are the only male minority group that this happens to.
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What does that have anything to do with this conversation? We are talk in about white woman not all woman of difference races.

You do know that interracial marriage does not necessarily equal marry a white person right.
 
ccbfan said:
What does that have anything to do with this conversation? We are talk in about white woman not all woman of difference races.

You do know that interracial marriage does not necessarily equal marry a white person right.
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Umm yeah. There are more details.

Asian - 14% white , other - 3%
Black - 17% white, other - 7%

Anyway, this is stupid. You can try to ignore the truth, but it won't change the fact that asian males are similar to black women in that they don't marry very often.
 
Only reason why Asian guys marry less is because we so damn picky. If I didn't live in Japan for 2 yrs I wouldn't be married to an Asian girl. I wasn't attracted to Asian girls until I went to Japan. Ended up with with a hot 3rd gen Japanese born Korean.
 
neutralgamer02 said:
Umm yeah. There are more details.

Asian - 14% white , other - 3%
Black - 17% white, other - 7%

Anyway, this is stupid. You can try to ignore the truth, but it won't change the fact that asian males are similar to black women in that they don't marry very often.
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I can't find those stats anywhere in the article you posted. Doesn't seem to break it down to that level in the article you posted.

Is it somewhere else? Cause I'd like to read the article sounds interesting.
 
A thread about an uprising basketball player devolves into a discussion about interracial marriage.

GAF, never change.
 
apana said:
What does that mean, will he still be making 20+ points a game?
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He only had 10 points on good shooting, had 13 assists, had zero turnovers in the first half but still ended with 6, and in general became a pass first point guard and not someone looking for his shots. I said when all this first started that if he wanted to sustain his current hype or not bust he'd have to shoot less and pass more, especially with Amare back and Melo back soon. Looks like he's beginning to make that transition.
 
artwalknoon said:
He only had 10 points on good shooting, had 13 assists, had zero turnovers in the first half but still ended with 6, and in general became a pass first point guard and not someone looking for his shots. I said when all this first started that if he wanted to sustain his current hype or not bust he'd have to shoot less and pass more, especially with Amare back and Melo back soon. Looks like he's beginning to make that transition.
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Without Amare or Melo, I can't blame him for taking that many FGA, esp since his percentage was so high. Plus, it didn't really look to me like he ignored an open man very often on his FG attempts; a lot of times the passing lanes weren't that open. At least, early on. Against the T-Wolves I'd say he went for his drive a bit too much -- a lot of those turnovers were dribble turnovers -- but who can really say if he was looking for his shot or the pass on those moves?
 
beat said:
Without Amare or Melo, I can't blame him for taking that many FGA, esp since his percentage was so high. Plus, it didn't really look to me like he ignored an open man very often on his FG attempts; a lot of times the passing lanes weren't that open. At least, early on. Against the T-Wolves I'd say he went for his drive a bit too much -- a lot of those turnovers were dribble turnovers -- but who can really say if he was looking for his shot or the pass on those moves?
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I agree his shooting won them games during this win streak but what i said from the start was that he'd have to transition to a more traditional pg role to best serve the team once Amare and Melo come back. Also I don't think he could sustain his scoring or his hype through scoring. But if he continues to rack up assists, especially any fancy passing, Linsanity will continue and the bubble won't burst.
 
artwalknoon said:
Lin finally transitioned into a pure point guard against the Kings. Glad to see he took my advice.
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He's been playing like a pure pg for the entire run. He's just been shooting a lot because the team lacked a guy that could put up big points and draw defensive attention with stat back and Melo returning soon Lin can settle into a 10-16ppg scoring role.
 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...7225562995441868.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

In May 2010, an unsung numbers hobbyist named Ed Weiland wrote a long-term forecast of Jeremy Lin for the basketball website Hoops Analyst. At the time, Lin was a lightly regarded, semi-known point guard who had completed his final season at Harvard. But Weiland saw NBA material. He emphasized how well Lin played in three nonconference games against big schools: Connecticut, Boston College and Georgetown. He noted how Lin's performance in two unsexy statistical categories—two-point field-goal percentage (a barometer of inside scoring ability) and RSB40 (rebounds, steals and blocks per 40 minutes) compared favorably with college numbers put up by marquee NBA guards like Allen Iverson and Gary Payton. Weiland concluded that Lin had to improve on his passing and leadership at the point, but argued that if he did, "Jeremy Lin is a good enough player to start in the NBA and possibly star."

In the wake of Lin's historic New York explosion, Weiland's eerily prescient post has quickly recirculated around the Internet, as a rare example of someone who saw potential in a player who wasn't drafted and was abandoned by two teams before getting a chance with the Knicks.
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Intelligent foresight, or Nostradamus syndrome?
 
Two small points I need to make:

1) He DOES NOT REPRESENT EVERY ASIAN MALE. You cannot take any NBA player who is getting the most media attention at the moment and cheer him on for nabbing some non-Asian girl. That's such a monumentally easy task for anybody in his shoes that it is not something to brag about. Hell, statistically he should be expected to have sex with a non-Asian girl assuming he is equally attracted to all races.

2) Nobody who is a real fan of Jeremy Lin is going to give a half a shit who he sticks it in anyways. Partly because people who actually watch basketball or most professional sports regularly will expect the players to have no idea how monogamy works.
 
Any other Asian react to criticism about JLin's haircut and go, "What? I had/have that haircut."
 
entrement said:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/does-sarah-palin-linsanity-betcha-123054492.html

"I am, I am," the 2008 vice presidential candidate-cum-Fox News contributor said on Thursday. "Talk about an All-American story: the underdog works who so hard, erased all the stuff out on the periphery in his life that didn't matter. Humble. And look at where he is, man--putting his talent to good use."
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Is this a subtle dig against poor black people? It seems like it, coming from the GOP notion that black people are welfare queens that complain too much about racism.
 
Zzoram said:
Is this a subtle dig against poor black people? It seems like it, coming from the GOP notion that black people are lazy welfare leeches that pull the race card to get free stuff.
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With anyone else I'd say that's ridiculous, but this is Sarah Palin so it's likely true.
 
Republicans love dat Model Minority.

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Feat. Masi Oka!
 
artwalknoon said:
Lin finally transitioned into a pure point guard against the Kings. Glad to see he took my advice.
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yea he's been real good at passing the ball around - even novak and jeffries have been looking good with lin drawing out defenses and looking for who's open.

kind of actually excited for the rising stars game with him and landry fields on the same team.
 
equap said:
god damn it! why does he have to be so religious?!

I hope he doesn't flaunt it like Tebow, so annoying.
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He faith gives him strength, what's so bad about it?

Tebow and Lin don't evangelize, they edify.
 
ChiTownBuffalo said:
He faith gives him strength, what's so bad about it?

Tebow and Lin don't evangelize, they edify.
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You're right. They don't seem like the kind to judge people. I mean, shit, Tebow takes 2 hours of his gameday to spend with the family of someone with a terminal illness every week. Regardless how I feel about the absurdity of religion, I can't hate on someone who does something like that.
 
Puddles said:
I used to finish Dark Knight references until I took an arrow to the knee.
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So we'll put the pressure on him because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent point guard, a watchful defender, a New York Knight.

I'm sorry, I have a problem.

fake edit: I hope he can be a good point guard and still make a lot of shots. Regardless if this team actually gets to the championship like I'm hearing people talk about, he will be the most famous basketball player in the world just cause the media has really latched on to this story and they will keep fueling it. Of course they need to beat the hornets first.
 
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