ROOTING FOR THE RACE Who would you cheer for? by Hasun Won
Neither 27%
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US 8%
Both 31%
Asian 35%
t’s hard to decide which team you will root for if you are an Asian American. Sure,
nowadays they have awesome cheering groups like multinational root club and such, but the problem still remains as many Asian Americans
STUDENT POLL
feel rooting for their respective nations conflict
In international sports like soccer, do you root for
with their actual nationality: America.
the American team, for an Asian team associated
So here is the question: is Asian heritage within the minds of Asian Americans nearly deep enough so that second or third generation Asians who are virtually Americans, with Asian looking faces, would still cheer against the US? According to Don “Moose” Lewis, a famous Georgia-based former
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Rooting for the Race: Who Would You Cheer for?
with your ethnic background, Both, or Neither?