It's only an anecdote, but my brother-in-law works in the oil and gas field, and a Malaysian he works with has a burning hatred of the Chinese. When pressed on this, he reluctantly told my brother that he had been working in China, and had eaten a soup from a menu, and didn't know what it was. When enjoying it and being told what it was, it fucked him up mentally and he needed to have therapy to get over what he had done, because he felt an overwhelming self-disgust and guilt.
