Posted on 07/18/2019 1:06:43 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
It was An English colony.....they were will educated...after independence the country went to hell
I saw the headline and immediately guessed it would be African born blacks. The qualification that must be made though is that, like most overseas immigrants, we tend to get their best and brightest while their lesser brothers are stuck in the homeland.
Immigrants from SE Asia, India and Africa that aren’t here as refugees (Somalis) get here because they have shown ambition, talent, and intelligence to get the education and skills we want. Naturally they will outperform most other demographic groups.
“the brain drain (in Nigeria) means all of the talented people are going to flee elsewhere.”
That is a big factor in the Nigerian success rate here - we are disproportionally getting immigrants from the cream of the crop of a large nation.
It used to be like that from all over, and would be again, if we adopt the kind of merit-based immigration system that the Trump Administration is proposing.
“He called American blacks ‘lazy’!..............................”
My friend from Jamaica said the same thing.
...or started internet scams.
I do that, too. And, I’m not from Liberia.
Make that 54% for Asians ...
I knew it was Nigerian as soon as I read the title. IMO, one reason they are successful is that they speak better English.
They’re just happy not to be running scams out of Lagos internet cafes any more
Great post. Thanks!
Israeli American is included.
American Jews are classified by religion, as are other native-born Americans. About half of Jewish families make $100k or more per year, compared to 19% of all Americans.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/10/11/how-income-varies-among-u-s-religious-groups/
Their country helps them come and get an education here so they can help there country. BUT they don't ever go back.
Inam glad to see that all of the money Americans have sent to the Nigerian Prince has been spent on the education of his subjects! /sarc
The Hindu number may be affected by household size - three generations under one roof is common among Hindus, and Indians in general. The Jewish number is depressed by Hasidim - Orthodox Jews whose devotion to religion resembles those of Jews who hadn't yet broken out of the shtetl back in the day, before they set the scientific and intellectual worlds on fire in the 19th and 20th centuries.
I met a fellow at a gas station a while back, spoke with a lovely sing-song accent. I asked if he was from the islands, and he said that no, he was from the continent.
I told him welcome, and wished him good luck as I paid for my cherry coke. I hope he does well.
(We could use more of them, the ones who want to live in freedom and to better themselves, that is.)
Are you differentiating Israeli Americans from Jewish Americans?
Those are the average ones
The scams are not even that good
Trust me, the smart ones, left. They got out of a corrupt and dead end system and came here to become proud Americans.
When we have a merit based system for immigration, we get the best, not the scumbags
Most American Jews aren't Israelis.
I’ve never met an African who spoke all of those languages.
But in my experience, most Africans who come from a country once colonized by Europeans will speak the Euro language, often French, as well as their own African and perhaps another African language. In addition, if they speak English, it is not only good, but often very elegant, since many of them learned English from Britons and were exposed to good literature.
I’ve met young Ethiopians coming to the US for the first time as University students, who speak as if they were born and grew up here. A lot of it is due to the world wide ubiquity of English-language mass media. Despite the ‘America-haters’ so prominent in the news these days, there are still many people in the world - especially young people - who WANT to be Americans.
You haven’t met enough of them.
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