Asians again

This NYT article on interracial roommate relationships predictably focuses primarily on black-white tensions. It doesn't say anything especially interesting about interracial rooming until about halfway down the page:

Several studies have shown that living with a roommate of a different race changes students’ attitudes. One, from the University of California at Los Angeles, generally found decreased prejudice among students with different-race roommates — but those who roomed with Asian-Americans, the group that scored the highest on measures of prejudice, became more prejudiced themselves.

Um, lede buried! Asians are the most racially prejudiced ethnic group, and in turn make others more prejudiced? Such a statement demands at least a tiny bit more exposition, no?

I wonder if the UCLA study is skewed somehow by the fact that Asians are the biggest group on campus (we Bay Area snarks called it the University of Caucasians Lost among Asians). Under certain accounts, large concentrations of Asians tend to make educational environments extremely tense... and perhaps such concentration reinforces clubbiness within the group as well? Anecdotally, I've had Asian, white, Hispanic, black and Arab roommates, and I can safely say that everyone is pretty much the same when they're holding your hair back at 3 am.