In most of the Asian countries, only the military, the police, and the bad guys have guns. In some of those countries, China is an example, people are, for the most part, almost hoplophobic. Just the sight of a holstered sidearm is enough to trigger near-hysterics.
How do I know this? My wife is Chinese and we regularly attend church services for the Chinese community here. The younger folks are very educable; the older ones not so much, but I am working on them. The first time I pulled out my pistols to clean and service them, my wife and step-daughter almost wet themselves. Daughter is back in China now, but she got pretty used to them. Wife is much more relaxed and is accepting of the fact that I carry.
I've taken one of the young men at church out to the range and he had a blast ever conquering his nervousness. I'm working on a couple more, both men and women.
What seems to work best in educating them is to point out the crimes that have occurred close by and to point out both the police response times and the court cases that have held that the police have no duty to protect the individual. You have to remember that many of these people come from societies where the police are the do-all, end-all when it comes protection and any kind of self-defense is severely frowned upon.