Students at a junior high school in Taichung were recently given a written test that included a question on the nationality of NBA star Jeremy Lin. A controversy, however, erupted when the school determined that "American" was the only correct answer. This prompted the city's Education Bureau to step in and instruct the school to accept both "American" and "Taiwanese" as correct.
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