 At Harvard , Lin was uncomfortable with the attention on his ethnicity as opposed to his performance . He regularly heard bigoted jeers at games such as " Wonton soup " , " Sweet and sour pork " , " Open your eyes ! " , " Go back to China " , " Orchestra is on the other side of campus , " or pseudo @-@ Chinese gibberish . Lin said this occurred at most if not all Ivy League gyms , but he did not react to it . " I expect it , I 'm used to it , it is what it is , " said Lin . The heckling came mostly from opposing fans and not as much from players . According to Harvard teammate Oliver McNally , a fellow Ivy League player once called Lin the ethnic slur chink . In January 2010 , Harvard played against Santa Clara University at the Leavey Center , just 15 miles from his hometown of Palo Alto , California . Playing to a capacity crowd that included droves of Asian Americans wanting to see his homecoming , his teammates told him , " It was like Hong Kong . " 
