At this point discovering that the average SAoVQ user is a racist suffering from a severe case of cultural cringe is not shocking in the least.
Congrats 'your girlfriend' is either lazy or a racist for relying on 2ch emotes rather than actually getting out to learn more about any of these groups in a sane and knowledgable way
Also why would you rely upon a system of emoticons which in of themselves are deeply racist and are generally used by the population who invented them to portray racist stories and stereotypes as the sound basis upon which you would found your knowledge of the 'asian races'