In Class Writting: 03/12/12

1. The main argument of the essay is that baseball had been considered for a long time to be the American sport and when Ichiro Suzuki entered the game Americans thought a Japanese player could not play a predominately American sport. Also, he goes on to suggest that American generalize any Asian person as the same race and ethnicity, even if they are really Chinese some tend to ignore their Chinese background and just call them Asian.

2.  The author's perspective on Baseball being the American sport suggest that Americans think they should be the best at the sport of Baseball simply because they are American. To have a Japanese player come in and succeed in the "purely" American sport skews the norm for most Americans and their viewpoints on baseball. Kang argument is clear on his topic of  Baseball being viewed as the sole American sport. However, there lies a problem with using the term "American" sport because their is  a lot more to being an American than what Kang suggests.

3.When I researched key words "Asian American" and "sport"  a lot of the articles were about the uprising of Asian American basketball player Jeremy Lin. Other articles were focused on Asian Americans in baseball, and lastly their was a sole article on women Asian American sports players.