Why do White ppl care about Dalai Lama?

Why do white people care about the Dalai Lama so much?  Even more so than Asian ppl?  You see, San Francisco has about 50% Asians.. yet the vast majority of ppl protesting in favor of the Dalai Lama (at least in the photos) from that city are white.

I don't get it...

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you can't be imprisoned for being a douche. You can for providing evidence that goes against the holocaust.

For the record im not a Holocaust denier.