I think you may be missing the precision in the term 'auxiliaries,' meaning non-citizen troops drawn from the provinces (it doesn't cover citizen troops recruited in the provinces or non-citizen troops recruited in Italy). Her example is actually quite specific and spot on.
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Which are themselves the products of a multi-millennium arms race in social complexity, because the biggest-social-group typically wins. So we miss subtle group distinctions - Roman vs. Latin or Roman vs. Sabine - that actually mattered a lot to the people at the time.
Which makes these societies seem a lot more homogeneous than they really were. So we imagine a homogeneous Rome at some early point, but there never was - it's turtles (or diversity) all the way down.
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I would argue that the success of the Chinese empire in re-unifying itself over and over again despite defeats and collapses is not unconnected with its considerable ethnic unity
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