>>83566262If you legitimately don't know we've only had global contact for about 20 years. People older than 20 were raised on videos of Vietnamese eating food out of GI skulls and constant World War 2 (and I mean constant) media. In the 90s Japan dominated the top 10 spots on the stock market and we were taught that if their emporer gave the word they'd go to war with us again.
The only thing we knew about China is the song "Me Chinese! Me play joke! Me put pee pee in your coke!"
So you have Asians talking smack and white people growing up either seeing Asians as a real threat or as a cute fluffy uwu kawaii fluffy ball of fun and happy that will improve your life with feng shui and with so many different languages and cultures when you dig into it (compared to pan Americanism) a lot of whites don't know what to do with you on a macro scale.