Hi EN:  "... you have taken this dichotomy to extremes ..."   Well, for a fact I will protest that it is not a perception that I invented.  ;-)   It's interesting to see both you and Gary C. in essence address the meme and  'walk it back'.

Thomas Sowell, in his many collections of historical essays, has more than once drily noted that for the urban poor at least, the moral behavior of any particular group statistically manifests itself as pretty much the value system that group brought into the poor neighborhood to begin with.  He contrasts the crime rates recorded in neighborhoods populated by poor Sicilians in NYC, for instance, against similarly poor neighborhoods dominated by Hasidic Jews.  Gosh, there was a distinct difference!

Thank you for your words.