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Here is an even more extensive study on the academic achievements of African immigrants and their descendants in the U.S. and U.K. [0] If anything, the researc
by a_w 10y ago
Here is an even more extensive study on the academic achievements of African immigrants and their descendants in the U.S. and U.K. [0]
If anything, the research demonstrates that the Igbo from Nigeria are exceptionally successful - more high achieving than Chinese and Indians:
"Africans speaking Luganda and Krio did better than the Chinese students in 2011. The igbo were even more impressive given their much bigger numbers (and their consistently high performance over the years, gaining a 100 percent pass rate in 2009!). The superior Igbo achievement on GCSEs is not new and has been noted in studies that came before the recent media discovery of African performance. A 2007 report on “case study” model schools in Lambeth also included a rare disclosure of specified Igbo performance (recorded as Ibo in the table below) and it confirms that Igbos have been performing exceptionally well for a long time (5 + A*-C GCSEs); in fact, it is difficult to find a time when they ever performed below British whites."
[0] http://www.unz.com/article/the-iq-gap-is-no-longer-a-black-and-white-issue/ http://www.unz.com/article/the-iq-gap-is-no-longer-a-black-a...
- edblarney 10y agoWhat you are doing is proving that there is a strong difference in behaviour among ethnic groups and that racism doesn't really account for (assuming 'Black people' face the same degree of racism wherever they are from). Your articles say nothing about the possibility of variance in intelligence among different groups.
- a_w 10y agoI don't know. I have personally been told by good meaning friends that 'but you are different from African Americans' by other ethnic groups when I was in Engineering grad school. Also on your point regarding variance in intelligence among ethnic groups, African Americans mainly came from west Africa, and according to the article I linked above, west African immigrants in the US and UK are the highest achievers, so genes don't seem to be the issue. So, what is left, culture? If so, the culture of the African American people is molded by racism, both personal and institutional racism. All I am asking of you really is to not lightly dismiss racism as a contributing, if not the main factor in the achievement gap. It would be easy for me to say that if I can go to school and do well, why can't they do it too? But even though I grew up in a poor, war torn African country, fortunately I was never told on a daily basis that I was inferior because I happened to be black. And I am enormously thankful for that.