Stone and Chisel • Jeremy Lin: His Impact On Changing The Perception Of The Asian American Male

Jeremy Lin: His Impact On Changing The Perception Of The Asian American Male

Writer Victor Chi quotes USC professor Ruth Chung:

“The greatest beauty in what Jeremy Lin is doing is that he fulfills an Asian American stereotype — he is smart, he went to Harvard, he works hard — and by doing so, he subverts another stereotype,” Chung says. “If Asian men are going to be seen as intelligent, they have to be dismissed in other ways: Socially and sexually inept, not being masculine, and sports is often so wrapped up in a hyper-masculine identity.”