It certainly wasn't true for me. I'm a westerner who spent my childhood in undeveloped parts of southeast asia. If I didn't learn to apply the all-asian-cast s

It certainly wasn't true for me. I'm a westerner who spent my childhood in undeveloped parts of southeast asia. If I didn't learn to apply the all-asian-cast stories I heard and read to my own life, I'm sure I would have felt very put out. But, that never happened (and never even crossed my mind as a problem to have) because both my parents always emphasized the universality of the human experience.