Westerners don't tend to be on a mission to discredit their opponents

They do in China. I know of one retired american ex policeman who was also a boxer, who wanted to fistfight me outside, if he had not added fight to the end of the first word I would have been very worried indeed. he flitted though in the end, and I got more respect for staying and toughing the job out, and the chinese FAO thought americans to be shifty and unreliable, hahahahhaahahaha