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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 72213452" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-10-13/it-isn-t-just-asian-immigrants-who-excel-in-the-u-s-" target="_blank"><em>Perhaps most surprising is that, by many measures, the most-educated immigrant group in the U.S. isn't East Asians. It’s Africans.</em></a></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>According to <a href="http://www.africaresource.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=235:african-immigrants-are-the-most-educated&catid=135:immigration&Itemid=348" target="_blank">Census data</a>, more than 43 percent of African immigrants hold a bachelor’s degree or higher -- slightly more than immigrants from East Asia. Nigerian immigrants are <a href="http://www.tadias.com/10/15/2014/census-foreign-born-africans-most-educated-immigrants-in-u-s/" target="_blank">especially educated</a>, with almost two-thirds holding college degrees -- a significantly higher percentage even than Chinese or South Korean immigrants. African immigrants are also very likely to hold advanced degrees, many of which are earned at U.S. universities. By many measures, African immigrants are as far ahead of American whites in the educational achievement as whites are ahead of African-Americans.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>That education translates into higher household income. Nigerian-Americans, for instance, have a median household income <a href="http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_10_SF4_B19013&prodType=table" target="_blank">well above</a> the American average...</em></p><p></p><p>Hmmm... maybe that's the problem. The nonwhite immigrants we let in are working harder than 'us white folk' at taking advantage of educational and employment opportunities in America.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="essentialsaltes, post: 72213452, member: 294566"] [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-10-13/it-isn-t-just-asian-immigrants-who-excel-in-the-u-s-'][I]Perhaps most surprising is that, by many measures, the most-educated immigrant group in the U.S. isn't East Asians. It’s Africans.[/I][/URL] [I] According to [URL='http://www.africaresource.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=235:african-immigrants-are-the-most-educated&catid=135:immigration&Itemid=348']Census data[/URL], more than 43 percent of African immigrants hold a bachelor’s degree or higher -- slightly more than immigrants from East Asia. Nigerian immigrants are [URL='http://www.tadias.com/10/15/2014/census-foreign-born-africans-most-educated-immigrants-in-u-s/']especially educated[/URL], with almost two-thirds holding college degrees -- a significantly higher percentage even than Chinese or South Korean immigrants. African immigrants are also very likely to hold advanced degrees, many of which are earned at U.S. universities. By many measures, African immigrants are as far ahead of American whites in the educational achievement as whites are ahead of African-Americans. That education translates into higher household income. Nigerian-Americans, for instance, have a median household income [URL='http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_10_SF4_B19013&prodType=table']well above[/URL] the American average...[/I] Hmmm... maybe that's the problem. The nonwhite immigrants we let in are working harder than 'us white folk' at taking advantage of educational and employment opportunities in America. [/QUOTE]
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