You can’t say somone is being over cautious without k owing their location. It’s easier to supplement vitamin D than cure skin cancer. If the local population looks different to you there is reason to pause.
Secondly Asian people, East and South, are sun adapted. East Asians may not be dark but they, like Northern Europeans, selects for their current appearance based on environment. Just because they are not brown does not mean they aren’t sun adapted for their locale in ways visitors are not.
You can’t say somone is being over cautious without k owing their location. It’s easier to supplement vitamin D than cure skin cancer. If the local population looks different to you there is reason to pause.
Secondly Asian people, East and South, are sun adapted. East Asians may not be dark but they, like Northern Europeans, selects for their current appearance based on environment. Just because they are not brown does not mean they aren’t sun adapted for their locale in ways visitors are not.