Honestly, this is probably true.
This one Japanese girl I had in college(she was an exchange student) still hits me up to this day. One day a few years ago, after not having talked to her since college when she went back to Japan, she finds me on facebook and wishes me happy birthday along with a friend request. I had told her my birthday like maybe once. But she remembered it along with everything else I told her.
If I ever wanted to go to Tokyo for a trip, I'd have a place to stay.
Good looking girl, she was half Japanese, half Korean.
I think alot of ppl in other parts of the world have not been brainwashed by the negative stereotypes of black ppl like here in the USA. So they view us w/ a cleaner slate, somewhat.