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The US has far more ethnic diversity than any country that’s at a remotely similar level economically. If you compare the average scores for Americans by race t

The US has far more ethnic diversity than any country that’s at a remotely similar level economically. If you compare the average scores for Americans by race to countries where that race is the majority the US looks pretty great considering it’s 1/20 of humanity, less than ten countries do better at educating White or Asian populations, one does better with Hispanics and US Blacks outscore the only majority Black country that takes part in PISA by a small amount. You see the same dynamic in the US by state. http://www.unz.com/isteve/2015-pisa-mean-scores-in-perspective/ http://www.unz.com/isteve/2015-pisa-mean-scores-in-perspecti...

BeetleB 7y ago
>The US has far more ethnic diversity than any country that’s at a remotely similar level economically. That sounds like a cherry picked criterion to make a point. In any case, looking at GDP per capita, Singapore is similar to the US, and also similar in terms of racial/ethnic diversity. Yet Singapore (as a whole) tops your rankings, and the US as a whole is way down in the list.
- swebs 7y ago
  >The same census also reports that about 74.1% of residents were of Chinese descent, 13.4% of Malay descent, 9.2% of Indian descent, and 3.3% of other (including Eurasian) descent That's extremely different than the US.
  - BeetleB 7y ago
    Different in terms of the ethnicities involved, but not in terms of the distribution: 72.4% White, 16.3% Hispanic, 12.6% African American, 4.8% Asian
    - esyir 7y ago
      Honestly, I'd say that a good chunk of that is culture. Singapore has an insane focus of education, with enormous amounts of spending on supplementary education and such. In the US, the Asian "tiger mom" is seen as an odd peculiarity. That alone speaks volumes.
    - swebs 7y ago
      >Different in terms of the ethnicities involved That's the entire point though Africans and Hispanics score lower than Asians and Whites, as shown in his link.

BeetleB 7y ago

>The US has far more ethnic diversity than any country that’s at a remotely similar level economically. That sounds like a cherry picked criterion to make a point. In any case, looking at GDP per capita, Singapore is similar to the US, and also similar in terms of racial/ethnic diversity. Yet Singapore (as a whole) tops your rankings, and the US as a whole is way down in the list.

swebs 7y ago
>The same census also reports that about 74.1% of residents were of Chinese descent, 13.4% of Malay descent, 9.2% of Indian descent, and 3.3% of other (including Eurasian) descent That's extremely different than the US.
- BeetleB 7y ago
  Different in terms of the ethnicities involved, but not in terms of the distribution: 72.4% White, 16.3% Hispanic, 12.6% African American, 4.8% Asian
  - esyir 7y ago
    Honestly, I'd say that a good chunk of that is culture. Singapore has an insane focus of education, with enormous amounts of spending on supplementary education and such. In the US, the Asian "tiger mom" is seen as an odd peculiarity. That alone speaks volumes.
  - swebs 7y ago
    >Different in terms of the ethnicities involved That's the entire point though Africans and Hispanics score lower than Asians and Whites, as shown in his link.