I'm in Australia, and pretty much all the non-white people at my high school were East Asian or Middle Eastern, and the same followed through into university and my working life; it wasn't until I went to America and it wasn't the same there that I became particularly aware of what media counts or discounts those groups. Which is my white privilege showing, that I wasn't aware of the presence/absence every day of my life just by living.

The thing that's rather horrid about how lots of Australians think of East Asian people is that they're the exotic other, the colourful natives who populate the pretty holiday destinations. I imagine that Pacific Islanders and Caribbean people are treated in a similar way in America; I'm not sure what the European equivalent would be. It's completely completely gross. To read coverage here of the trials in Bali for the night club bombers, you'd think that only Australians died and that nobody actually lives in Bali.