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Originally Posted by badrunner
It's ridiculous to compare the performance of Asian immigrants with that of African Americans, for obvious reasons.
Instead of the highly motivated and self-selected subset of Indians that make up the immigrant population, imagine that you took a general cross section of Indian society, untouchables and all, then confined them to inner city ghettos with exclusionary housing policies, with little or no investment in education or basic services and infrastructure. For generations. Would that population outperform their white counterparts?
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To add to this, African immigrants perform similarly to Asian immigrants, but African immigrants are grouped with native African Americans on census data so this often gets obscured.
It is extremely disingenuous to compare the performance of African Americans, a group that was legally oppressed for 90% of the time they have been on this continent, to a group that came here voluntarily and has had full rights for 100% of the time they have been here.