African Americans (and Asians) are excluded from comparison simply because Finland doesn't have them. Oh yes, Finland has a lot of Africans and Asians (just no

African Americans (and Asians) are excluded from comparison simply because Finland doesn't have them. Oh yes, Finland has a lot of Africans and Asians (just not proportionally as many as the US "melting pot"). So your editorialized title should have been: After correcting for demographics, US whites fare better than EU/Asian schools and that my friend was pretty racist editorialization (if it makes any sense at all to compare apples to oranges)!