CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hornets guard Jeremy Lin is disappointed about the way Asians were stereotyped during an onstage skit at Sunday night’s Oscars, and said more racial awareness is needed.
“I just feel like sometimes the way people perceive Asians or Asian Americans today can be disappointing in the way they view them,” Lin said after the Hornets’ practice Tuesday. “Even Asian American masculinity or whatever you want to talk about, just a lot of the ways that Asians are perceived, I don’t always agree with.”
Lin was born in Palo Alto. His parents migrated to the United States from Taiwan in the mid-1970s.