Fo sho! My friends back home certainly don’t have these issues at all. My friends here are a mixed bunch. Most of us, including me, certainly wouldn’t assume a guy was in love with me if he was nice to me.
It depends on the social situation as well. If a guy approached me in a club, bar, on the street, I would outright reject them because a) they are usually weirdos and b) they’re only after one thing.
And I don’t get the whole ‘protecting the reputation’ business either. The Pakistani community in London is not very close knit so we don’t get the whole aunties gossiping/stalking bs.