80年代初Maya Lin21岁时参加越战纪念碑设计竞赛，因是华裔受到种族主义分子和一些越战老兵的抵制

林纓（Maya Ying Lin，1959年10月10日－）生于俄亥俄州阿森斯，美籍华裔建筑师。
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Lin

In 1981, at age 21 and while still an undergraduate, Lin won a public design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, beating out 1,441 other competition submissions.^[9] The black cut-stone masonry wall, with the names of 58,272 fallen soldiers carved into its face,^[10] was completed in late October 1982 and dedicated on November 13, 1982.^[11] The wall is granite and V-shaped, with one side pointing to the Lincoln Memorial and the other to the Washington Monument.^[10]

Lin's conception was to create an opening or a wound in the earth to symbolize the gravity of the loss of the soldiers. The design was initially controversial for what was an unconventional and non-traditional design for a war memorial. Opponents of the design also voiced objection because of Lin's Asian heritage.^[8][12][13] However, the memorial has since become an important pilgrimage site for relatives and friends of the American military casualties in Vietnam, and personal tokens and mementos are left at the wall daily in their memory.^[14][15] In 2007, the American Institute of Architects ranked the memorial #10 on their list of America's Favorite Architecture.

Lin believes that if the competition had not been "blind", with designs submitted by number instead of name, she "never would have won". She received harassment after her ethnicity was revealed. Prominent businessman and later 3rd party presidential candidate Ross Perot called her an "egg roll" after it was revealed that she was Asian.^[16] Lin defended her design in front of the United States Congress, and eventually a compromise was reached. A bronze statue of a group of soldiers and an American flag was placed off to one side of the monument as a result.

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• 要是大学招生也这样。。当然不可能，这建筑是一次性的，不用看设计者的家庭背景，种族，性别。 -MMMMM06- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/02/2013 postreply 04:42:50