4 ms·
Selection bias: immigrating to the US from a far away country is easier if you’re educated and rich. Doesn’t mean you’re treated any better once you get here.
by chickenpotpie 5y ago
Selection bias: immigrating to the US from a far away country is easier if you’re educated and rich. Doesn’t mean you’re treated any better once you get here.
- scarmig 5y agoSo your prediction would be that African immigrants would underperform other immigrant groups originating from far away countries, owing to racism once they land here?
- chickenpotpie 5y agoNo, my prediction is that regardless of what country someone came from, many people in the US will only see them as Black and theyll treat them differently for it.
- scarmig 5y agoBut, immigrants from Thailand are no less well-off than immigrants from Nigeria. If Nigerian immigrants face discrimination because many people will only see them as black, does that mean Thai immigrants will outperform them? Or do Thai people face an equal amount of racism targeting them?
- Dracophoenix 5y agoHow do you explain the people that arrived in the United States through asylum? I wouldn't say that the Chinese immigrants who immigrated to the US during the Cultural Revolution in '70s or the swell in Indian and African diaspora in the '90s were rich. Most left everything they had behind including family members and had to start from the bottom rung. And yet, in one or two generations, they're sons and daughters are the ones populating Stanford and Silicon Valley.