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Your post is an eye-opener. Never would have thought that would be the case.

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It's not race-based. Ethnic groups vary. Chinese, Koreans and Vietnamese civilians generally behave badly in crises, but Japanese usually behave very well. Malays and Javanese are different. It even varies within a nationality. Europeans and Indians (Hindi, etc). in Kyoto obeyed earthquake drill instructions following the Kyoto Earthquake, and trooped off to designated evacuation sites. Many Japanese civilians, by contrast, refused to evacuate even wrecked and still dangerous apartment buildings until ordered to do so by police.

Emergency service personnel of any nationality are heroic. I've seen videos of Indian (Hindi) street police with old revolvers and bolt-action rifles taking on Pakistani terrorists armed with modern automatic weapons, and somehow keeping the latter tied up and even pinned down for 10-15 minute periods.

Do not assume that foreigners behave like Americans during emergencies. For that matter, media depictions of American disaster behavior are generally doomie leftist fantasies. The group emergency behavior of each foreign ethnicity and nationality should be viewed separately.