It's really indicative of the cultural ignorance that still exists between "Westerners" and "Asians".
An example would be the guy who married me and my wife. He was a Paramedic that worked for me. He was also a licensed Architect and an ordained Minister. Craig could never decide what he wanted to be when he grew up.
Where he DID grow up was in like Idaho or Utah. His parents were (you guessed it) Mormons (which he was not). I should say his adoptive parents. You see, Craig was a South Korean orphan. So, yeah, an "Asian Dude" married me and my wife. But Craig is about as Asian as a Big Mac.
Yet, I'm sure at some points along the line, Craig was stereotyped by some folks because of his Asian descent. And you know, I grew up seeing parodies of Asians in the cartoons I watched and the butts of jokes I heard, and, well, whatever else. Asians were largely equated with those dirty, untrustable Japanese that sneak attacked us at Pearl Harbor.
I don't know that we can lay blame in any one place, but I think that Western culture is much more open than Asian culture and that secrecy, actual or perceived leads to stereotypes that may or may not be accurate. Myself, I'm a Xenophile. I love diversity and see a learning opportunity every time I meet someone different than me.
I guess if I could send one message to the Chinese folks going on about White Hypocrisy it would be that if they opened themselves and their culture up to the common Westerner on the grass roots level, we could probably understand one another much better.
I don't care if someone eats dogs or cats for dinner. Unfortunately, I don't think enough "Westerners" are open-minded enough to be able to accept that level of cultural difference, and it's hard for me to understand why not.
A prime example of the unintentional hypocrisy is 4H. I dunno if you know what that is because honestly, you've got me so confused to your residency, nationality and culture that I gave up trying to figure it out.
For those who may not know, 4H is a agriculturally oriented social organization that American School kids can join. Mostly, its kids who either live on a farm or live in rural areas. 4H teaches things like animal husbandry and such.
I used to live in the country. Amongst the farmers and their 4H kids. They would raise a pig or a cow or a sheep or whatever as a project in the 4H organization. Then, every year, they would take their animal to the County Fair to be judged. At the end, a butcher or grocer or businessman, slaughterhouse or private citizen might bid on and buy these animals.
While these kids may have become emotionally attached to their animals (they raised them from babies), they knew that the endgame was a Blue Ribbon and some sweet financial compensation. And they knew that whoever bought these animals was going to kill and eat them.
I know I'm getting long winded here. It's the shortcomings of text vs. the spoken word. To make a long story short, most Americans find it perfectly normal to see a kid raise a goat and then sell it to be slaughtered and eaten. Yet they find it weird or unacceptable that someone might eat dogs and cats.
Go figure.