Talk:Maya Lin

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Nationality
In regards to this edit - - please note that "United States" is the standard way of presenting American nationality despite a person being Chinese American or any other XXX-American. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 15:51, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Cite 20 link
The citation for now directs to the front page of mayalin.org, was it something else earlier? Someone who knows how please revert it. 97.134.216.78 (talk) 23:40, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) ^ Maya Lin's Bicentennial Park at Ohio University in Athens Ohio - IBM Punch Card Art is no Vietnam Veterans Memorial

create two new links?
how about creating new links to her official web sites -- mayalin.com and whatismissing.net ?

maybe also create a section on her environmental advocacy with her "What Is Missing? project, as this is now a major area of her efforts. (see "Three Rivers are inspiration for Maya Lin's 'Pin River'" by Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Feb. 5th, 2012

jj Feb 13, 2012  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.72.121.136 (talk) 15:36, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

racism in design criticism?
This statement "Opponents of the design also voiced objection because of Lin's Asian heritage." Support for this statement is given as three references. The link for the first one doesn't work. The second two references are something called greenmuseum.org and jackmagazine.com, neither of which look terribly reliable. And the statements they make supporting the sentence aren't terribly strong anyway. We have " In addition to personal attacks regarding Lin's Asian heritage, her design sparked anger among many veterans." from greenmuseum.org (were there a lot of attacks or just a few nuts?) From jacksmagazine we have "however, once the wall was chosen, she was discriminated against because of her Asian descent" and "Many people felt that the winning design was chosen because she was Asian" so apparantly there may have some controversy as to whether she actually benefitted from her race. We have a couple sources that don't look all that reliable making some vague statements. I'm old enough to remember the debate and what I remember is that there was a lot of objection to the memorial being a whole in the ground rather than something inspirational or something that celebrated the heroism of the soldiers, so if the sentence claiming racism is to be kept I would would like to see a reliable source showing that racism was a big enough part of the debate to be notable. Readin (talk) 05:48, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Early Racism Awareness
Lin said that she has no awareness of racism and prejudice until she went studying abroad in Denmark. However Lin mentioned that she did not fit into the high school environment at all. At the time Lin thought that was because of her look, which is much younger than her classmates. Lin said her classmates treated her as a little girl; "there was a little bit of a China doll". Besides, Lin thought she has no extracurricular activities at all, "My activities were absolutely isolated. I would make anything artistic at home." However, Lin did not treat that isolated environment as a negative impact to her childhood, instead, Lin thought that her creativity and her artistic drive emanated from that childhood. Being a female Asian in high school in Ohio, Lin went through the challenges of double jeopardy as well as being a role model of the minority. Despite that, Lin had achieve great success in school, and she also emanated her childhood from that environment. Lin described herself as being "very naive" back then, and all she wanted were "studying and getting A's". Although Lin did feel the uneasiness in high school, she considered that almost as an instinct  Bqnguyen (talk) 08:51, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

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Maya discussing her design concept for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
In the Vietnam Veterans Memorial section, Maya's own thoughts about her design of the memorial are presented with a reference to a blog written October 23, 2019.

This blog, although it contains very good information and presentation, it is not the best reference for depicting the presentation of Maya's actual thoughts on the subject. The material from the "The Woman Who Healed America" blog entry is used, with changes/revisions so it is not a direct copy. In doing so has created a somewhat "fictional" presentation that is not actually faithful to Maya's actual thoughts on the subject.

I have run across a wonderful essay entitled "Making The Memorial" written by Maya in the fall of 1982 which was "put it away" by Maya until she allowed it to be published in the November 2, 2000 issue of "The New York Review of Books". It seems very likely that this essay was the source used for the blog entry

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial section needs to be revised using the seminal material from the essay Maya wrote.

A reference to the blog, "The Woman Who Healed America", should be retained in some manner as it adds knowledge and insight to the subject.

If there is no objection, at some point I will return to this Wikipedia article and edit it to reflect my proposal.

Osomite (talk) 21:23, 26 May 2020 (UTC)