how does “western” music sound to “eastern” audiences ?

hey, everyone. i just had a curious question: i am a music student in the United States where we learn the Western or European classical music tradition. When we touch on “Eastern” musical traditions (which is a BROAD term that people usually say to refer to music from many parts of Asia) people usually remark at, what we would describe in the west as, minor tonalities, quarter tones, and drones, among other things.

Because we don’t necessarily study those traditions in depth in our rudimentary music classes, ive heard westerners flippantly lump together these varied traditions from different countries as “sad”, “creeping”, or just vaguely “eastern” sounding.

I’m not here to trash on the ignorance of westerners who are usually not exposed to this music culturally or academically, and are probably speaking from their preconceived notions and connotations they’ve learned from western media. I am only here to ask:

What do students of music in the “east” think of music from the “west”. What surface level observations are leveled at music that derived from the European liturgical tradition ?