PISA standardized testing (I think 15 year olds) differentiates between migrants and non migrants. In the Anglosphere aka US, UK, Can, Au, Nz - migrants do onl

PISA standardized testing (I think 15 year olds) differentiates between migrants and non migrants. In the Anglosphere aka US, UK, Can, Au, Nz - migrants do only a little bit worse on standardized test than local kids, but once accommodating for income, migrants to a little better than local kids. Everywhere else, migrants to far below the regular average. Everywhere in Europe especially, they are far below. People don't often make this distinction but the Anglo world tends to be far more 'open'. If you can speak English, that's fine. In places like Germany and Sweden, irrespective of how educated someone might be, there are larger barriers to integration and migrants are often social outsiders. This isn't driven mostly by 'hate' or anything deeply nefarious, rather it's by strong association of 'in-group' dynamics. The Paradox is that in the US and even in the UK (i.e. Brexit) people are lambasted as 'xenophobic' by certain parts of the political spectrum when this is demonstrably false. UK/US are actually much more likely to believe in the economic value of migrants than elsewhere. They are generally welcoming places, however, due to larger rates of migration - much more existential discussions arise. Of course Anglosphere countries are also much more likley to be aspirational targets for migration in general (though it's clearly not always true: kids Maghreb especially want to got to France, and Germany/Sweden were popular among Syrian refugees).