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You're quite correct. Anyone who thinks this anti-learning attitude is peculiar to black culture (non-culture?) has their head in the sand. While US graduate education has a lot to offer, too frequently (especially in the math and science related disciplines) the majority of advanced degrees are earned by foreign students. And American undergraduates routinely gravitate to "fluff" majors with minimal intellectual challenge and maximum opportunity to slip through to their BA with pure BS.

Getting "the credential" and getting out is the goal for too many, and they are acquiring this 'get my ticket stamped and get out' mentality from their primary and secondary education experience. Student's intrinsic love of learning is flushed out of them by the time they get through the third grade and, absent strong countermeasures at home, it never returns for most of them, even when their formal schooling is over.