I think some on here should give this a try.

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Do a little research as to what life is like in the country where your friend lives. Understand there are those in this world with no chance of a halfway decent life, food is garbage (literally) shelter is a leaking shack. Their only hope is to get out using any means, and that also means many women are the whole family's hope because once she snags a man, she will send money home forever.
Just be careful, do not send money or give out personal information that could be used for credit etc.
I hope it works out for you but be wise.

Someone mentioned Japan. I've read a few times that Japan is a bit of a magnet for AS people relocating around the world as their culture makes them so forgiving and polite to our mistakes, they just write them off as being because we're foreigners and accept us so much easier. There's also the anime & video game and computer/tech culture stuff that draws AS types there, too. I wouldn't mind visiting some year, but I'm not into Japanese pop culture stuff.

My best friend when I was 12 was from South Korea. Him and his family were pretty cool, as are most SK's I've met.

We've had Japanese, South Korean, & Taiwanese (and I think Chinese) foreign exchange students stay at our family home while I was growing up. They'd come for 2-6 weeks to take English classes and see the city. All of them were polite decent people, but the Japanese definitely fit their stereotype of being overly polite.

Philipino.. sure, there are some scammers out there, but by and large the Philipino community here is pretty good. A LOT of Philipino women come here as Nannies to look after kids & clean houses because it's one of the easier ways to immigrate here. The vast majority are fine and genuinely looking for a better life here for themselves and their families, but every once in a while there's a bad apple that ends up getting fired & deported for theft/fraud etc - but it's quite rare compared to how many positive examples there are here. Also, there are a LOT of them that come as Nurses to work in our hospitals and care homes as that's one area of our economy where we weren't turning out enough graduates of our own who choose to stay and work here vs. go to the USA for more money. They seem quite well suited to the job for the most part, and the worst I've heard is some groups of them forming social cliques at work and causing problems because of it - not such a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

The Asian culture I'd be most wary of is Vietnamese, as they're pretty well brought up to lie/cheat/steal/defraud and so forth. That's a part of why they've gained a reputation here for those things & violent crime.

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Maybe in whichever small area of Canada he visited.. this is a HUGE country, after all, bigger than the USA.

If I had to pick an ethnic culture that compares closest to the stereotypical black gangster culture around here I'd say a subset of immigrants from India fit the bill closer than any Oriental Asians.

Gangsters here come in all colours & cultural backgrounds, just like the people here. Even with immigrants from every corner of the globe, I'd say the majority of gangsters & organized criminals here are still white - especially since a lot of organized crime is run by biker gangs that are almost exclusively made up of white males. But we still have high ranking criminals from all over the place, Iran, China, India, various Asian countries, various European countries, Central American countries.. everywhere. There is no specific race or ethnicity that = criminal around here. That's what happens when you have a metro area as diverse as we do, it's a melting pot in every way, including crime.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.