Experience from Census Bureau

I have a friend who recently works for the US Census Bureau. He is assigned to interview residents in an area with a large Spanish-speaking population.

Mexicans and Central Americans were surprisingly easy to work with, though hesitant at first to talk to. They also retain some semblance of courtesy like the men offering their seats to mothers with children and elderly on the bus. The Mexicans could relate to someone who looks vaguely similar to them (my friend is Filipinos), plus they're a bit fearful of "gringos" and wouldn't talk with those Census employees for fear of being ratted out to authorities.

At least Mexicans, Guatemalans, and the like in NYC are humble industrious workers who are trying to support families back home (unlike cholo gangsters in L.A.). The Puerto Ricans & Dominicans- particularly the blacks & mulattoes- are a different story (complete with rough ghettoized Spanish lingo, and hip-hop flavored music).

Korean and Japanese people probably, clean, polite, intelligent, traditional, hard working although they seem to be a bit wierd. He doesn't like other asian people like the Chinese, they have no respect for animals or the environment.

Relatively traditional, as compared to the rabidly anti-traditional and rebelious modern western cultures. The asian countries seem to have at least some vestige of concepts like politeness, honor and controlled personal conduct. The west seems to be missing these almost entirely.

Indians are his favourite, they brought the wonders of curry and are great computer scientists. Iranians are actually pretty cool and the women are beautiful.

Beholden to Oriental Asia media

If you're from some part of East or Southeast Asia other than Japan, like China, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, or the Philippines- you are beholden more to Japanese media (another country from your continent) or American and European media (from totally different continents).

Why do I ask? I was just reading a couple hours earlier about Kindred of the East: Killing Streets, so this could be yet another case of Hivemind.

In Singapore there's a mix of Taiwanese and Korean/ Japanese influences - mostly gameshows from the former, and TV drama series from the latter. But there are also influences from everywhere.

Mainland China frowns deeply on Japanese content, making the local otaku culture underground and an even more shameful thing to be, but they have no qualms about Korean media or Hong Kong media, each one respectively sucking japanese and american media. The Taiwanese can't get enough of Japanese Korean and American shit, but Filipino is not even mentionned

Hong Kong is.. special. One could say they have their own culture now and can sustain their own media needs, but they fill the gaps with American/ UK international media/ culture and sometimes chinese media. They're not big on Japan or Korea. The Philippines again, are considered like everything non-chinese, non korean and non japanese as shit-tier asia. Then again, Hong Kong is small as fuck.

From what I've seen in the Indonesia, the people like Chinese/ Japanese/ Korean stuff. South American sitcoms or Telenovela and US media is becoming rarer on local broadcast. They speak little English there, and look nothing like gooks.