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American basketball star Jeremy Lin has officially signed a deal with Swedish car manufacturer Volvo, with the company hoping he will boost interest in their products among Chinese car buyers.
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excuse me, he's Taiwanese, not Chinese!!
If Lau is part of your real name, then you must be Cantonese speaking or from Taiwan... Anyway, the NBA news reports mostly address Lin as "NBA player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent". Also. face it. Nobody gives a damn about how proud the Taiwanese population is about Lin, it's the mainland audience with their sheer number that matters. Besides, the Taiwanese ppl are ethnically Chinese, unless you talk about the aboriginal Taiwanese who reduced in their numbers after Chiang's army crossed over the strait.
Hardly any. Most workers at Volvo factories in EU are European citizens (there is one big one in Gent, Belgium). Lin is big in countries where NBA is shown on TV, unfortunately not in Sweden.
as for lin's nationality (american), i think english lacks of the requisite word like in french....if you say someone is francophone, it doesn't not necessarily mean he's french; when he's referred as an ethnic chinese, people are not saying his parents are necessarily born in PRC . taiwanese people's self-identity can't be gained through fear and denial, it only results to the fact that many taiwanese living abroad pretend to be japanese, so sadly shameful.