Stars such as Jeremy Lin and Chloe Kim have long endured racist taunts, but they have recently started to speak about their experiences
“Tell Yao Ming, ‘Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh’”.
Those were the words Shaquille O’Neal casually tossed out in a 2003 TV interview when referring to the Houston Rockets’ Chinese star. Whether, as O’Neal claimed, it was meant as a joke or not, it was the kind of language Asians in America have had to endure for years.
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