It happens to me too, but I find that response comes only from Europeans. Most Europeans who haven’t been to Asia don’t believe what I say, especially about Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Seoul. They have the idea that these countries are the same as poor areas in Vietnam etc. they think it is mostly under poverty people even though a lot of technology come from these places, they will still say it is only an export kind of thing and they have no interest in coming to visit this backward side of Earth…