Quote from olias:
I think this relates to an important concept I have. For some reason we care more about 'our kind' than someone who looks different, thinks different, other nationality than our own.
If you told the typical Japanese person this, he would laugh in your face. I think most Chinese people would too. I strongly suspect most Hispanics and blacks would as well. So far as I can tell, only white people are capable of being this naive.
It is simple:
People form coalitions both for defensive (protect your family by joining others) and offensive (join with others to take from others) reasons. People are tribal because individuals working as a team tend to dominate those who do not.
Race in a homogeneous society such as Japan much like an extended family. They might fight among themselves, but to a large degree it is, "them vs. us" when it comes to the rest of the world. They are polite and happy to trade with us as business partners or customers, yet they do not particularly care to see us mucking up their favorite restaurants in their home country.
When "minority" groups come to the USA, they often form ethnicity-based coalitions and networks in order to "work as a team" to find their place and gain prosperity. However, they have also been very successful at going on the offensive: For example, their activist groups have lobbied such that corporations, government, and universities actively discriminate against white, European males who are not able not able to claim "victim group" status. Whites are subject to laws and special punishments that the government itself says cannot be applied to non-whites.
In other words, by having no "group identity" whites did not lead others into a brave new world, they merely have been duped into supporting their active displacement and increasing marginalization. This process will continue to so long as it is not met by an equal and opposite force, simple as it is.
The bottom line is you cannot separate yourself from this dynamic. If you think you are "not apart of it" or "above it" then you (or your children) will become a victim of it. That is the imperfect situation man finds himself in, always has and always will.