Resurgence of AZN Pride

I went to highschool in 1998. In the late 90's, Asian pride was a huge thing. I went to a school that was mixed population. 40% white, 30% black, 15 % asian and 15% hispanic. So we had a good number of asian people in my school. We stood up to all of the other races. Matter of fact, alot of the asians were pretty gangsta. But of the Asians you had different races. You had the Korean, Philipino, Chinese, Cambodian and Vietnamese. Everyone was reppin their own thing ie KP (Korean Pride), Pinoy pride, Khymer pride, I forgot what the chinese were. We had Xanga and stupid screen names, but all of those things came from a pride and rebellion against the other races. I think we were tired of being looked at as a weak race because we weren't loud bosterous people. Overlooked by the public.

But it seems like in the late 2000's the Azn pride fell off. It felt like we are always trying to fit in with some of the other cultures whether it be black or white. Sure asians are more in the media and hollywood, but we weren't as expressive of our pride as before. Movies like the Hangover kind of set us back. KEN JEONG!!!!!! Then about a month ago Jeremy Lin pops on the scene (I don't like him by the way, but ill explain  in a  different post. Personal reason). Linsanity was everywhere.

Now its March and it kinda died down. But the thing about Linsanity was the resurgence of Asian Pride. If you looked on your Facebook, there were at least ten mentions of Lin. Asians were back on the forefront. Lin got the cover of Sports Illustrated twice (back to back). It seems like people were proud as hell to be asian again. We were angry about ESPN putting chink on their homepage link, mad at Floyd Maywhether link and other racists link.

The real story isn't Jeremy Lin, but its Asians actually being openly proud again. As an Asian man, I'm freaking excited. Were always portrayed as guys who are soft spoken, nerdy and weak. I'm tired of all the races thinking they can just take our girls all the time (they like them because they are "exotic"). People think they can just get over on us. But you know what we are also people with great pride. With Jeremy Lin, we are changing they way they look at us. We can have swag. We can dunk. I cant though and probably never will. I hope that he does well. I hope that we swell up with pride. I hope we can start changing how people think of us. I thought Id never see a black president, but it gives me hope that an Asian can rise up before I die as well.