An entire imgur album and its barely scratching the surface of millions and millions of hilarious stories https://imgur.com/a/msAbb2m
They act all embarassed and awkward when they go and its people wanna take pics of them and hand their babies to them and hahaha im just a blonde blue eyed tall white im just a silly foreigner i dont get the big deal hahaha. But whether they are aware of it or not the Hitler Particles lodged within their bodies vibrate with joy when the wacky Asians hand their children to them and want pictures and say how envious they are of their white skin and do everything but suck them off. They act like the ppl are crazy but they secretly love that shit. Every r*ddit thread about visiting Asia or even even the Middle east, occasionally even Africa is full of people with anecdotes about being treated like royals for being blonde and blue-eyed in Asia. All of them have an anecdote even in completely unrelated topics (like the comment on a post about a kid wanting to pet someones dog) whether its real or fake. If its fake thats even worse because they are fantasizing about it. Japanese call this bihaku, the indians call it fair and lovely just like the name of the skin-whitening cream unilever flooded the country with, theres a million names for it all over asia. Euro/White/CANZUK etc tourists in Asia love the internalized colorism no matter how hard they go chris pratt voice well this is awkward, not only does it make them feel like theyre the ones being treated like circus animals as some kind of equilibrium between them and for example the Phillipines human zoos, they also love how it strokes their egos in that demented way
Whites are pretty common in Asia these days. The movie star days are long gone.
When I first arrived in South Korea the positive and negative attention I got as a white-passing dude distressed me. I coped in some ways, by not trying to get a seat on the subway (since no one would sit near me even when it was crowded and everyone was desperate for a seat), and I would also turn away from everyone and read rather than notice all the old folks glaring at me. When I was in a really good mood I would sometimes greet these people in Korean or wave to them and they would usually warm up immediately. When I moved to a friendlier city that was actually more touristy, things got easier, but after my spouse and I had kids we would still have people sneaking up to take photos with them. (Racism directed toward our Black friends was also much more overt but it didn’t have the same threat of violence it does in the USA.) Kids at the playground would also treat us strangely if my spouse wasn’t around. Being able to speak the local language could make a real difference though. I think in most places it helps to humanize people and also shows a respect for local culture.