Asians, Blacks, "Hispanics", Jews, Muslims, etc. tend to see themselves as a distinct group which has collective interests and an identity of their own. What makes Western civilizations any different? Hell, even individualism is a trait of western civilization. It is a cultural trait which westerners tend to take for granted. It is a fairly modern western philosophy. Not everyone shares it.
This is the reason why "colorblindness" and "civic nationalism" prove to be failures time after time. The only ones who are seeing "past race" are White, Western people, who refuse to see that they have a culture and an identity of their own.
Before your inevitable exit from here, I will point out to you that culture (such as mine: traditional individualist American) has nothing to do with race. Far from failing, the idea of a nation where any person can be a part (regardless of race) has proven to be the foundation of the greatest nation ever, responsible for more advancement in living conditions than any other in world history. It is the tribalists (be they based on race, geography, etc.) that consistently fail to product societies worth living in. The American ideal, while an offshoot of Western Protestant Liberalism, requires nothing except a commitment to its principles and the corresponding behaviors. It is open to everyone. That makes it absolutely superior to any "collective" based on race or tribe. You should free yourself of your misguided anger and embrace the reality: the only thing that matters is what you believe and how you live. Everything else is superficial.
I was told by another user to just leave it here and I agreed, but after this response I couldn't stay silent.
You have more diversity now than ever. How's that working out for America? Do you think all the people who migrate to America have the same western, individualist, protestant-ethics, by-your-bootstraps mindset? Far from being a cohesive society, you have plenty of sub-groups with different sub-cultures; an example is "Black people/White people things/music". Maybe in the South they'll honor the memory of people like Stonewall Jackson or General Lee, but African Americans, just as Americans as they are, may want to tear down their statues because to them they were their enslavers. Others, like Asians, may be more neutral and have no feeling either way. That is why you have lots of Black people interested in Black history (which is totally natural), while White Americans have to venerate MLK and Harriet Tubman because their heroes became unacceptable; Christopher Columbus, Lewis and Clarke, General Lee, the Founding Fathers.
Diversity has always been a cause for division, disunity, distrust, "flight" & gentrification, riots, discrimination; you name it. Give people a chance and they'll naturally flock to "their own"; that's how you end up with lots of hyphenated Americans, reservations, historically-black colleges, ethnic christian congregations, white flight, interracial crime, and, inevitably, identity politics once the demographic make-up of your society becomes diverse enough. Need I mention voting patterns? Politicians know exactly that groups like Blacks or Asians tend to vote democrat while Whites tend to vote Reopublican and use it to their advantage; which proves my point; demographic trends are real, but dogmatism is blinding people to that fact.
To this day, America is still spending millions in affirmative action, diversity quotas, diversifying suburbs (which is obviously gerrymandering) and other such programs to "fix" society and "fix the inequalities" that can only be attributed to racism. Meanwhile, the same "racist" white supremacist system is giving Asians a statistical advantage even over their "oppressors".
I don't know why pointing this out would be "anger" or "hatred". Don't put words in my mouth. Not once have I advocated for discrimination, ethnic cleansing or anything of that sort. I just stated a basic fact of life; people don't tend to see past race, and certainly America hasn't been the exception. Let me be crystal clear: I advocate for natural, voluntary, spontaneous association as opposed to enforced diversity in hopes of a utopia which will probably never come.
If my "inevitable exit" thrills you then that speaks volumes of you, not me. I wouldn't mind getting "exitted" from a place in which they ban people based on political correctness or assumptions about their opinions. If I wanted that I'd go to RPG net or reddit, they do that very often.