Sociologist Peter Berger famously remarked that the United States is a society of (South Asian) Indians — a dominantly religious people — run by Swedes — dominantly secular liberals. That clever portrayal is even more accurate now, since the elite (the secular Swedes) are even less religious than they were when Berger first wrote his gem.
http://articles.philly.com/2012-06-18/news/32282992_1_religious-people-swedes-private-schools