White people are still adored in Korea, but they're seen as foreigners regardless of if they speak the language. I know because I had a blond hair, blue-eyed, pale white female friend get mobbed by a gang of people in the train station in Busan.A Mexican dude on Twitter schooled me on how Mexicans also discriminate against darker skinned Mexicans.
The fairer skinned Mexicans are basically a class of their own; placed above Mexicans with alot of visible native mixture.
Mexican culture lowkey worships whiteness the way we all THINK Asians do.... Because in reality, Asian people worship themselves... when you actually think about it, aint no white people the stars of K-pop and K-dramas. Meanwhile Mexicans would happily put the whitest looking Mexicans to play those roles.
All East Asian pop stars go for that half-White, half Asian look.