“I think that cultural influence is greater than income, education, or “class”.”
The culture by race is strongly influenced by out of wedlock births.
“The culture by race is strongly influenced by out of wedlock births.”
I think it is the later - out of wedlock births that is not “by race” (as if the culture all blacks grow up in us universal - which it is not) but is experienced by a larger subset of blacks, than it is among a subset of Asians or Whites. I know and have known too many blacks which did not grow up in families and cultures submissive to out-of-wedlock births.
“Higher” statistical rates are too often turned into stereotypes and generalities. Mostly they only represent some higher categorical averages for a group but should not be taken as stereotypes and generalities that are applicable to the whole group.
Another occasion is “black crime”. While crimes committed by black persons represent a larger disproportionate % of crimes relative to the population size of all blacks, it is still not a condition of those crimes being committed by “most” blacks. While the “criminal community” is a higher % of all blacks, than are the criminal communities of whites and Asians as %s of all Whites and Asians, they are not “most” blacks. What they are is a sizeable criminal community that gives all blacks a bad name.
Family cultures that are permissive of out of wedlock births occur in all ethnic groups. Some just more often than others.