I apologize if this turns out to be a total "derail" ...
I'm one of those old "Baby Boomers" that descended on The Planet after WWII. My teens were also partially consumed by the Civil Rights movement here in The States. The differentiation of RACES was very prevalent, in Society in General, as I was growing up. (Not to mention, I still wish I'd grown up Taller!) And, there was that whole Vietnam "debacle".
Going back in History, there has always been "Tension" between Whites and Asians. (Admittedly, both of those terms are a very broad brush.) Kublai Khan, and his "Mongol Hoard", invaded Europe. The Japanese were "our" mortal enemy in WWII. Communist China was a HUGE threat during the "Cold War", and still kind of is, economically, etc.
Our very different cultures, again a very broad brush, have been "at odds" for thousands of years. All of that still affects our views of each other in many, many, ways, including our ideas of "Beauty", "Sexuality", and "Attraction".
However ... I've personally learned that Racial Diversity is Really the SPICE of Life! Once we all take the time to get to KNOW each other, none of us are Actually all that Different!
Through "My" Kev, who is 4 of 8, of an Irish Catholic family, I have two "Japanese" nephews. (I'm using those quote marks lightly.) His younger sister, 7 of 8, married a first generation Japanese-American. There was some concern about how Kev's Dad, who was a fighter pilot in the Pacific Theater, would get along with Kenta's parents, who's Dad was "on the other side". Thing was, at the wedding, the two of them were acting like long lost Buddies!
There are many unfortunate prejudices "out there". However, as we continue to get to KNOW each other better, and get past our Superficial differences, we can move on to find our Common, Human, similarities.
Personally? Through all I've been through, I find GUYS, of ALL Races, which is something I had to LEARN, quite HOT! It all boils down to interactive experience, and "unlearning" some perspectives that were taught, yet were wrong.