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Tiger was the first asian major winner

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jamo Incredible Member

jamo

I guess with your reasoning Tiger was also the first native American to win a major.

Ahh, thats how he got in to Stanford!!

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microcrayfish Dedicated Member

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You can have more than one source of identity. Identity isn't bound and static and you can have a sense of both a national and an ethnic identity. I'm the same as Tiger being of mixed ethnicity and living in a Western country and while I consider myself a New Zealander I also consider myself Chinese and Scottish. I'm a New Zealander AND Asian, just like Tiger is an American AND Asian - you don't have to be just one or the other.

None of you can tell Tiger how to form his own subjectivity about himself and seeing as Tiger obviously considers himself Asian (and black, and white, and native American) as well as American then yes he was the first Asian to win a major. Yang on the other hand was the first Asian-born man to win a major, a point which, as far as I can tell, the media has managed to get across (I haven't yet heard anybody say he was simply the first Asian).

Cussin hacker Great Member

Cussin hacker

Thanks to Gingus Khan most of the worlds population has Asian blood in their viens. That does not make us Asian though. I have Cherokee Indian in me, but that does not make me a native American.

Buy the way microcrayfish I'd love to visit your country. Beautiful from the pics I've seen.

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mfreeman73 Member

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Barack Obama is also the 44th white president. People focus on what they want to focus on.

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CG031 Great Member

CG031

Barack Obama is also the 44th white president. People focus on what they want to focus on.

What? Last time I checked Barack Obama's skin color was black.

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Acropo Dedicated Member

Acropo

Everyone is talking about Yang being the first Asian to win a major, but Tiger is actually more Asian than African American ... Of course he was born and raised in Socal so not exactly a native born Asian but still, I don't really think Yang can be called the first Asian to win a major.

Wow! Does that mean the British and Europeans haven't actually been having our butts kicked in Majors by Americans for most of the last 60 years?

So Hogan was actually Irish; Snead...er....dunno; Palmer English; Nicklaus German; Watson the most successful Scottish golfer of the 20th Century; Trevino Spanish; etc, etc... No, I don't think so...

shankapotamus Dedicated Member

shankapotamus

What? Last time I checked Barack Obama's skin color was black.

And Tiger's is too.

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...is that college bball really isn't "lower tier". The better teams have their rosters filled with guys who could play in the NBA. hell, guys used to come straight from high school to the NBA. I really don't think there's much of a difference skill-wise between the two.


Cussin hacker Great Member

Cussin hacker

Wow! Does that mean the British and Europeans haven't actually been having our butts kicked in Majors by Americans for most of the last 60 years?

Very well put Englishman!

But wait....are you really English? The Vikings did spred their Norweagan seeds around didn't they? LOL

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GaijinGolfer Super Member

GaijinGolfer

What? Last time I checked Barack Obama's skin color was black.

You totally missed the point. Barack Obama's mom is white, so to say that Tiger was the first Asian to win a major is like saying Obama is the 44th white president.

This whole discussion is pretty pointless because everything I read or saw on TV regarding Yang's win referred to him as the first Asian-born golfer to win a major. Even that you could argue as being incorrect because a few Asian women have won LPGA majors.

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Fat Slice Great Member

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Y.E. Yang was the first...

...person to reel in Tiger on Day 4 of a major.

(Isn't that getting lost in the shuffle?)

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Grndslmhttr3 Great Member

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Everyone is talking about Yang being the first Asian to win a major, but Tiger is actually more Asian than African American (1/4 Thai, 1/4 Chinese, 1/4 African American, 1/8 Dutch and 1/8 Native American, according to Wikipedia).

No, everyone is talking about Yang being the first Asian-BORN player.

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verse214 Well Established Member

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Oh please - so Obama is the first "American" President?

I love how race gets so twisted in America - one minute someone is African or Asian "hyphenated" American, and other times they are American without the hyphenation.
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is2linda Well Established Member

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I hope yang keeps playing as he did in the majors. that would be major upset if he starts getting up there in fame.
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mtsalmela80 Great Member

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Tiger is black. Yang is asian. If you cannot get that from looking at them then I don't know.
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