This post has content warnings for: people being weird and shitty about race.
Adult - Plants-liking queer menace - Front-desk worker of a plural system - Unapologetic low-effort poster
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(fallen london stamps by @vagorsol)
I do not know the degree to which this is apocryphal or at least not actually widespread, but I recall reading that for a time there was a fad among the Chinese well-to-do of hiring a white person to appear at large events just ... kinda to show you were rich enough to have a white person there.
As a former immigrant, I can at least attest to the idea of being on the other side of exoticisation to any degree is a very weird feeling, and I hope I learned something out of it.