One of my father's Navy friends was married to a Japanese woman. Their sons were about my age and we hung around a lot.

That American men preferred Asian wives for their personalities was one of those presumptions that nobody questioned; I never heard "subservient" but American women were regarded as too demanding, too (what we would call today) "high maintenance." It was not that Asian women were easier to boss around.

Over here (Vietnam) I get along fine with women of middle years but I don't like the girls, they are painfully superficial and fake (they *beam* at air because they're instructed to smile all the time), though there have been a few I regarded as friends.

That family my father knew ended up moving to Hawaii when the father retired, because they experienced too much bigotry in the USA.