That is a good analogy. I'll remember that. Following from your analogy I see similarities in people saying (in the US) that black people are prone to be more criminal because they commit %-wise more crimes. When if you look deeper you see that it is poverty, not skin color, that correlates with committing crime.

I see it all my life: Desperate people do desparate things. The Russians and the Ukrainians are both desparate in different ways.

The US stereotypes about Russians and Chinese today mirror those about Japanese and Germans 80 years ago.

I've met people from all over the world. Russians, Ukrainians, Chinese, Japanese, Germans... the vast majority of people all just want the same thing. Live in peace with a decent living and making a better life for their kids.

The skulls of our enemies look just like the skulls of our allies. Our differences are literally only skin deep.