Well, people has been focusing on the minor thing: religion.
The major factor is their culture, you can still import their Christian counterpart, and your bias may tolerate their shenanigans a bit, but eventually they will behave in similar pattern.
Asians tend to be a model minority because, we keep to ourselves more. E.g. when we fail, we blame ourselves, therefore many people tried to be self-sufficient like opening laundromats, restaurants, hell any small businesses you can think of, as long as we don't have to interact too much with too many people.