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The US is not uniquely diverse, Canada and Australia among other countries have a higher percentage of foreign born population.
by anonzzzz 8y ago
The US is not uniquely diverse, Canada and Australia among other countries have a higher percentage of foreign born population.
- refurb 8y agoForeign born doesn’t necessarily mean diverse.
- graycat 8y agoThe OP was in part discussing education in the US and claiming that the education is inferior to the education in several other countries. Some of the evidence is some test scores on some tests given internationally. Okay: We're considering education quality and using test scores as evidence. Well, it is Social Science 101 (my wife's Ph.D. was in mathematical sociology, and my brother's Ph.D. was in political science) to control on other likely explanatory variables. So, an obvious candidate alternate explanatory variable is culture of the country of the recent ancestors of the students. So, to compare education in the US with that in, e.g., Japan, we should see how (A) US students of recent Japanese descent compare with (B) Japanese students in Japan. So, now are holding culture reasonably constant and, thus, doing better comparing the schools and whatever else we have not controlled on. Not to control on culture would be grade F in Social Science 101 and give total garbage results. I.e., no fair blaming the education in the US when the real cause of the differences is culture and not the education.