"Pls stop associating any problem with races, religions and faiths. They all boil down to us as human beings. Are we functioning like one?"
Tell this to the gomen ; that's where the schism began.
If one wants to think properly, he/she must be to a great degree individualistic. Nothing kiasu about that.
Meditation, e.g. is an individual effort absolutely. It is individualism that makes one realize self-responsiblty, not conformism of the mindless mob driven by a dogmatic creed.
It's the crowd and partisan followers hooked to peer approval that enables evil and make people blind.