I met a Thai girl recently. She was insistent to know where I come from.
I asked why it was so important.
Because they read news articles, and in their minds, there are some nationalities that are bad.
I think, for whatever reason, German was one of them. Probably due to some story she had read about a German doing sth in Thailand, she didn't trust Germans.
Kind of silly, since people from all nationalities will be in the news for sth.