My Hispanic cab driver yesterday was talking about how Chinese people drive like sh*t “because they can’t see nothin’”.
We should be very very clear that this has nothing to do with the United States, it's the human condition.
Everywhere I've been overseas among different enthnicities, there is a blatant racial and ethnic bias against "the other". Nationalism would be down there at the fifth or tenth rung of this pervasive and universal phenomena.
There is a saying in SE Asia: "The Vietnamese grow the rice, the Khmer watch it grow, and the Thai eat it."
That's kind of an ethnic slur (and there's some truth to it), but there also are many racial ("racist") slurs among those groups as well.
I spent enough time there to see that there are clear racial distinctions among the various ethnicities, and the locals see those even more clearly than we do.