My understanding for oriental culture

This week we discussed the oriental culture and the impression that Western society has for this social group. In traditional Western culture and understanding, people who came from oriental area suck as Japan, China or Korea are educated and polite. In oriental culture, the educational level is the most important character to measure people's social position. Even some people are so rich but who is uneducated, that could be a shame in their whole lifetime. In the other hand, virtue is the highest social standard in the oriental society. People has to be polite to each other, that could be the direct display for your intellectual and personal qualities. However, the Western culture not only focus on these positive characters that oriental people has but more negative. Western society think that oriental people are smart enough but who do not have the social cooperative spirit. They are so selfish and easily sell their soul for the advantages they are looking for such as money or power. The classical character that western world made for represent characters of oriental people is: Dr. Fu Manchu. The British author Sax Rohmer discribe this character in his novels that “"Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, ... one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present ... Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the Yellow peril incarnate in one man." As what we can see, that is the totally discrimination for the oriental culture and people. If American or other Western society can not stop to think about the concept of “Yellow Peril” they created hundreds years ago, then it is impossible for them to really understand the real oriental culture. Face on this globalization world, if people still want to unnecessary create some kind of discrimination or myth between different cultures. Then finally they will hurt themselves from this.