Except for SOuth Africa, the oceania countries of Australia and
NZ do understand Asia very well as they are more or less, part of
it.
I do agree that westerners do respect the elderly in most cases,
but to an Asian poor Elderly, i have my doubt. Maybe only their own
race, I am not being racist here, but the caucasian of the West do
have a different perspective view in us since the colonial era.