【时代周刊0213】林书豪：是唯一一位重新定位自己国家的亚裔NBA球员
《时代周刊》评林书豪：http://ideas.time.com/2012/02/13/jeremy-lin-makes-us-all-american/?iid=op-main-lede
http://bbs.m4.cn/xwb/images/bgimg/icon_logo.png 该贴已经同步到 lilyma06的微博 方言看不懂 全文来了哈
After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.
As a 9-year-old son of immigrants, I was claiming Reggie and, through him, this country. Every time I imitated his explosive swing, every time I adjusted my glasses like he did, with a thrust of the chin, a touch of swagger, I imagined that my family had been American as long as the Yankees had. Such an act of imagining, in its own little way, is what any of us means when we call ourselves “American.”
I thought about that on Friday night when, for the first time, I saw Jeremy Lin play basketball. Lin, as anyone not in a cave now knows, is a point guard for the New York Knicks, a backup who has become a Twitter-age supernova. Friday he faced off against Kobe Bryant’s Lakers and prevailed, reeling off 38 points in the victory. Saturday he led them to their fifth consecutive win. Who knows how long this sensation can keep scoring. But another sensation — the feeling of awakening Lin has inspired across the country — is real and seems likely to last.
(MORE: It’s Official: Jeremy Lin is For Real)
In the stands Friday some fans wore Lin’s visage on cardboard masks. You couldn’t tell what age or race they were. You could see only how they wished to be seen: as a 23-year-old second-generation Taiwanese-American Harvard grad from Palo Alto, Calif., of late with a golden touch. These fans, first-, second-, or 10th-generation, cheered the underdog newcomer and strummed anew those chords of narrative in which anyone with grit, talent and a little luck can make it in America.
Their embrace of Lin has made millions of Asian Americans feel vicariously, thrillingly embraced. Not invisible. Not presumed foreign. Just part of the team, belonging in the game. It’s felt like a breakout moment: for Lin, for Asian America and, thus, for America.
Context is everything. Earlier this week a Senate candidate in Michigan unveiled a campaign ad using Chinese-accented broken English to suggest his opponent was doing China’s bidding. (“Your economy get very weak. Ours get very good. We take your jobs,” says an actress bicycling through rice paddies.) Friday night in Madison Square Garden a fan waved a crude red and yellow poster with the clichéd Chinese restaurant font made of jagged brushstrokes. A sign like that could have been used to mock, to make the Asian an outsider. Instead, it was used to worship. EMPEROR LIN, it proclaimed.
(PHOTOS: China’s Hoop Dreams)
There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who’ve defied the condescendingly complimentary “model minority” stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired. But Lin is something new: an Asian American whom millions of other Americans want to be.
Identity in America is complicated but it’s also simple: it’s about whom you identify with and who identifies with you. Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career. Just as surely, though, it’s leading many non-Asian non-athletes to expand their identities; to redefine, just by their rooting interest, “American.”
Jeremy Lin the point guard might transform his team and his sport. We shall see. Jeremy Lin the citizen has already changed his country.
(MORE: Tim Tebow’s Testimony)
Liu is author of several books, including The Gardens of Democracy and The Accidental Asian. He was a speechwriter and policy adviser to President Clinton.
晕，四级都没过，看不懂，重新定位？详细神马意思？ 一切都是为了赚钱
只是炒作噱头吧，想赚更多中国人的钱 豪哥最近生猛 导弹与捣蛋 发表于 2012-2-14 16:57 static/image/common/back.gif
方言看不懂
什么鸟语 这个应该要顶
当我们只是因为其亚裔血统而欢呼的时候，我们也得想想别人愿不愿意接受。
比如：张德培，Gary Locke... 就一个华裔美国人而已，和我们没半毛关系！要说有关系也是和台湾有点关系！ 这个林书豪可以说是一夜成名啊，希望他不要成为流星啊 nafen zouren 本帖最后由 fw223 于 2012-2-15 12:03 编辑
他会说中国话吗，有没打算到国家队打奥运、世锦，否则对香蕉人不感冒 fw223 发表于 2012-2-15 11:44 static/image/common/back.gif
他会说中国话吗，有没打算到国家队打奥运、世锦，否则对香蕉人不感冒
那是不可能滴。。
看这句
a 23-year-old second-generation Taiwanese-American呵呵~~
偶也不感冒，让美国佬自己慢慢做文章，好好YY去吧！ 潜水很久 发表于 2012-2-15 13:29 static/image/common/back.gif
那是不可能滴。。
看这句
NBA看中中国的市场，才这样YY，香蕉人也见多了！ 本帖最后由 silkrain 于 2012-2-18 08:24 编辑
这种人的出现有如下效果
（1）让NBA在中国赚更多的钱
（2）强化亚裔，特别是华裔对美国的忠诚与认同感
（3）神话所谓美国梦的理想
希望四月网少些有关这个球员的新闻与消息。他对中国在经济上，政治上，思想上，和精神上没有任何帮助。相反，对美国则是极大的利好。
唉，又一个准备到中国捞金的货
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