Well Yang is being held to a different standard due to his _Taiwanese_ background, so unless you're saying Taiwanese is a race, I see this less as some general

Well Yang is being held to a different standard due to his _Taiwanese_ background, so unless you're saying Taiwanese is a race, I see this less as some general racism and more as people feeling (rightly or wrongly) that he is betraying his Taiwanese roots. This sounds much more like nationalism than anything else.