That's not even going into their de facto slavery with foreign construction workers, environmental damage, and sexism.
I'm 6 ft 6 and I have a blonde wife who's just a bit smaller. Even though we behaved very polite and dressed like locals it was like we had a big target on our backs and were looked upon with resentment everywhere we went.
I will not mention the countries we visited but it was pretty much the same everywhere.
This is much more common than you think in cities.
Source: 7'