Asians are so full of themselves

Asians(or people in general) are so full of themselves.
Put a Chinese playing in a basketball league in America and the whole chinese population goes bananas over him.
Put a Harvard grad and Asian into the basketball game and all of a sudden every single asian (mostly chinese) goes crazy over this 'phenomenon'. China and Taiwan are then found debating on claiming him for their own.

Facebook's updates about Jeremy Lin has sky rocketed in the past 2 weeks. Friends I have who has NEVER talked about basketball are suddenly interested in it. All because there was this Asian who appeared out of no where.

Now don't just look at sports or just icons. In general, maybe food, traditions, politics, way of life, etc.
Look at the Chinese, Malays, Indians, Indonesians, Filipinos, Vietnamese's, Singaporeans etc.  Notice how these people tend to fight against one another trying to claim what's good from another person's success.  But once something derogatory is on the platter, they'll deny its relation with it.

Malaysian Malays vs Indonesians over the Nasi Lemak and Rendang
Malaysian Chinese vs Singaporean Chinese over the 'Yum seng', 'Yee Sang' and Hainanese Chicken Rice
Malaysian Indians vs Singaporean Indians Roti Canai vs Roti Pratha (Meh.... I couldn't think of a good example...)

Glory chasers I say. Just like most Man United supporters who only support ManU because of it's recent success in the past 20 years. It makes them feel good. It makes them feel proud. It makes them arrogant and smug. Something a few of my non-Man United supporting friends noticed and what most of my Man United supporting friends denies.