Opinions on the opposing race between Asian and Western civilizations were generally divided into three categories: resource-dependent, imperialistic and hostile, and blatantly racist. Most interactions began with one of these three categories, but ultimately ended with some form of combination of all three. These interactions ultimately transformed Asian views of the West from superficial to anti-Western and sought to push negative influences out of the East. Western empires initially became interested in Asian countries – India, China and Malaysia, for example – for the various resources they could provide and the larger markets that were maintained within the countries. This created a cycle of dependency: Asian countries depended on European manufactured goods and the services they provided, on schools and roads, and Europeans on the precious resources they obtained from interaction with the Eastern world. The views and interactions between these two separate groups with each other were primarily about a commercial relationship, based solely on what one could get from the other for ...