In some areas of the California Bay Area/Silicon Valley, Asians are a majority in some good school districts. In those areas the social pyramid/hierarchy is different, with Asians at the top, particularly those that are complete and good in both academics and sports, while others are lower down. Those whites or non-whites non-Asians that do well are adopted as "honorary Asian" while Asians that do poorly academic are derided as "fake Asian". Now I'm not saying being reverse racist is necessarily a good thing, but these Asian kids probably do not have self-esteem issues at least while in these schools.
Interestingly enough these good school districts have white flight. I remember there was some interview or study about the issue back in like the 1990's. In a nutshell, white families said they valued academics and wanted good school districts, and liked having some Asians in the area (since they pushed up the school performance). When the Asians became more and more common, even the majority, then white opinion changed to being against them, and saying academics wasn't everything and that other things like sports were important. When Asians started outperforming in both academics and sports, the white families started moving away, saying this excellence in all areas was achieved by forcing the children to work too hard and making them have no fun. Basically, they moved the goalposts whenever they started losing.
Back to the earlier issue of more people in China being directly exposed to American views, I think it actually would be useful. Right now, many Chinese still think most Americans are fundamentally friendly or at least neutral and rational in competition. They don't truly understand how many are guided by racism, either consciously or subconsciously. Many may be ok, even friendly, with Chinese so long as they are quiet and subservient, in a background role, but the minute you start upstaging them by outperforming, then the mask falls away, just like those various families in those Bay Area school districts.
