Why am i not surprised?
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Ethnicity is something you are born with, its always in your genes and we can't escape most of it anymore than you can change your gender just because you want to.
Religion is adopted, you have to choose to be part of it. It only gets treated as interchangeable because a lot of religions are either insular or exist in specific ethnic regions. You can call Arabs Muslims and be right 95% of the time and vice versa. Same with Hindus and Shintos respectively. Heck Jews even more so because they consider themselves "by birth" culturally.
Not every country adopts the free attitude to religion that the US does. You can be killed for converting from Islam in some places.
Sadly, much of SouthEast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, etc) have also been infected with the religion of peace.
Also, F to pay respects for the few Copts left. OG Christianity