dagblog - Comments for "Lin’s Appeal: Faith, Pride and Points [article not just for basketball fans]"

It's an interesting essay, I

artappraiser — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:53:15 +0000

In reply to I worked with one of these

It's an interesting essay, I sense a kinda thing like "we're out of the closet now, wonder how's that going to work out?"

Also I was secretly wondering: what, if any, relation to the "Chinese Tiger Mom" thing?

Lin's performance has been a big big deal in NYC, BTW, so much so that a non-sports fan like me noticed it--until a week or so ago, there were all kinds of borderline slurs going on sports talk radio, tweets, etc, along the lines of Asian guys can't... Now the whole tri-state area has gone bat shit crazy over him, he's the greatest thing since sliced bread.....

I worked with one of these

Verified Atheist — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:51:24 +0000

In reply to Lin’s Appeal: Faith, Pride and Points [article not just for basketball fans]

I worked with one of these Asian-American Christians, and he fit the description here to a T. We worked in a lab where the PI was a hard-core atheist, and so were most of the other members. I had assumed my colleague from mainland China was as well. It wasn't until his funeral (he died at 50 from cancer) that I found out that not only was he a Christian, he had helped found one of the Chinese-American churches here in Charlottesville (and was active in it until his death).