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Why does only one country get its data subdivided by ethnicity? I imagine that most countries have some groups that score better than others. Most ethnic minori

• TMWNN 3y ago
  > Why does only one country get its data subdivided by ethnicity? I imagine that most countries have some groups that score better than others. Most ethnic minorities in Asia are "Asian", but in the 21st century there are plenty of non-white people in European countries. The US is an outlier among developed nations in terms of both numbers and composition for its minority population. Example: The UK is 86% white. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdom#Ethnic_demographic_breakdown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingd...> Of the remainder, 7% are "Asian" (which in the UK almost always means Indian subcontinent, not east Asian as in the US) and 3% are black. By contrast, 13% of the US is black, and another 14-15% are Hispanic (of which about half are white). In other words, the percentage of the British population that is not white is about equal to the percentage of Americans that is black. Plus, as I said, the huge gap in US PISA scores is between whites/Asians and blacks, not white and Asians. There are severe social dysfunctions among the Muslim portion of the British Asian population, but the non-Muslim portion performs very well on social and economic indicators. Example: The largest Canadian non-white ethnicity is south Asian, at 7%, followed by Chinese at 5% and black at 4%. (Which is why I said that the ethnic composition of Canada is essentially white and Asian.)