White but have had many Asian female housemates and roommates both at UCLA and afterwards.

Asians are very distrustful of Blacks. They come from a culture where lighter skin (even if it's pale yellow) meant that you weren't from a peasant family laboring outside in the rice paddies.

There's always been a lot of creams claiming to soften & lighten one's skin. Note that few Asians sunbathe or believe in tanning their skin.

Mao tried to reverse that by glorifying images of hard working, more masculine looking women with muscles and soil in their hands.

Today Asian-American culture focuses on education, respect for the elderly and community needs, discipline. Parents sacrifice to pay for tutors in STEM and classical music performance, valued by elite universities.

Since America is much less stratified than other countries in that children of restaurant workers can become doctors and small business owners they don't fully comprehend Black's complaints of employment discrimination.

For example new Viet Namese refugees pooled their welfare money, slept in shifts with men in one room and women and babies in the other, often 24 in a 2-bedroom home. Facing restrictions due to lack of English skills they created numerous small businesses, many quickly becoming extremely wealthy.

Examples include growing & selling unusual, exotic flowers and plants, making Asian food products & delivering them to local businesses, tailoring and nail salons.