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NBA player Jeremy Lin addresses Asian stereotypes at Oscars

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 5:02 p.m. ET

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Charlotte Hornets guard Jeremy Lin is disappointed about the way Asians were stereotyped during an onstage skit at the Oscars on Sunday night, and says more racial awareness is needed.

Lin says, ''I just feel like sometimes the way people perceive Asians or Asian-Americans today can be disappointing in the way they view them. ... Just a lot of the ways that Asians are perceived I don't always agree with.''

At the awards show, host Chris Rock introduced three Asian children dressed in tuxedos as PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants and joked: ''They sent us their most dedicated, accurate and hard-working representatives. I want you to please welcome Ming Zhu, Bao Ling and David Moskowitz.''

Lin was born in California, but his parents migrated here from Taiwan in the mid-1970s.