Survey: Nigerians Most Educated In The U.S.--Lesson For African Americans (bias, education)

[ReineDeCoeur]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

Right. If we're gonna put Nigerians on a pedestal, let's go all the way.

Why do they do better than the overwhelming majority of whites that have faced little in the way of historic racism and Jim Crow.

What's their excuse?

I'm really quite curious.

Nigerians and other African immigrants still face racial discrimination here but still so many do better than whites. Let's not talk about many different Asian groups.

But whatever, I'm grateful for the sacrifices AAs made...which minority group hasn't benefited from what they did in this place? It's just going to take more time for some to get ahead. It really hasn't been that long when we compare how long the oppression lasted.

[Kreutz]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

Why are they more educated than most whites (including you)?

White Americans have gotten complacent and frankly lazy. This was OK when much of the world was technologically 100 years behind us, but now it's killing us.

[odanny]

Originally Posted by gretsky99

Shut your mouth...

Great advice. Take it.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

Didn't think about that. Thanks for pointing that out.

They come to CD ostensibly to ridicule African-Americans

So I turn the tables back on them.

Why are Nigerian and many Asian groups doing better in education than whites when whites have had no institutional disadvantages?

Is it because whites are lazy and complacent? Is it because they sit around making excuses and playing the victim?

See? It's just that easy. But I don't go around making threads about it.

[VTHokieFan]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

For the same reason that your ancestral nation was awful.

That's why you're here...because your ancestors saw that it was a dump.

My ancestral nation is the 4th largest economy in the world.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by Kreutz

White Americans have gotten complacent and frankly lazy. This was OK when much of the world was technologically 100 years behind us, but now it's killing us.

Meh...you said it, I didn't.

Frankly, I don't care one way or another. I was just making a point.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by VTHokieFan

My ancestral nation is the 4th largest economy in the world.

Yeah, well it was a dump when your family left it.

Otherwise, they would've stayed.

So I wouldn't get carried away if I were you.

[VTHokieFan]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

Yeah, well it was a dump when your family left it.

Otherwise, they would've stayed.

So I wouldn't get carried away if I were you.

People don't leave places simply because they're a dump.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by VTHokieFan

People don't leave places simply because they're a dump.

Yeah..go ahead and change the narrative for Europeans.

They all came here because life was so wonderful back home.

Right. Uh huh.

[VTHokieFan]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

Yeah..go ahead and change the narrative for Europeans.

They all came here because life was so wonderful back home.

Right. Uh huh.

I'm sure your ancestors were poor, but mine weren't.