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Err, they've also been more ethnically homogeneous than most until recently. The US is about as heterogeneous as you can get. That it even ranks as high as it does pokes holes in the most hardcore racist narratives.
A thing I could have told ya by the way. Again, Religion>Ethnicity. For instance, I'm surrounded by Burmese as an Irish-German in my neighborhood. Sadly most of them are Protestant instead of Catholic but at least they're Christian. Thus there isn't too much tension. A bit of discomfort and occasional rage on the road but no real threat of violence anytime soon. We all get along when it matters most.
Wish they'd stop chopping up the tree branches down to the friggin' stump around their property though. Venomous Snakes who can fall on your head and bite ya neck if ya don't do that regularly may be a thing in Burma but up here they kinda ain't. This backs up a thing I've frequently pointed out though. Say you took the entire population of Japan and dropped them onto a recently vacated Texas. Would they all become Texans? No, Texas would simply become Neo-Japan. Call me a bigot for pointing out that fact, but it doesn't change the fact I'm right.