Brain Drain: Africa’s serious desease
Some key notes:
« African immigrants are recent immigrants to the United States from Africa. This group is to be distinguished from Afro-Americans, Afro-Caribbeans and Afro-Latinos, who are descended from Black Africans who survived the Atlantic slave trade within the boundaries of the present-day United States, the Caribbean and Latin America. The term African in the scope of this article thus refers to national origins rather than racial affiliation.
African immigrants to the U.S. are more highly educated than any other native-born ethnic group including white Americans. Some 48.9 percent of all African immigrants hold a college diploma. This is more than double the rate of native-born white Americans, and nearly four times the rate of native-born African Americans.
In 1997, 19.4 percent of all adult African immigrants in the United States held a graduate degree, compared to 8.1 percent of adult white Americans and 3.8 percent of adult black Americans in the United States, respectively. This information suggests that America has an equally large achievement gap between whites and African/Asian immigrants as it does between white and black Americans.
Of the African-born population in the United States age 25 and older, 87.9% reported having a high school degree or higher, compared with 78.8% of Asian-born immigrants and 76.8% of European-born immigrants, respectively. Immigrants groups in general tend to have higher high school graduation rates than the native-born general American population.
In Canada, similar trends can be seen where both foreign-born and Canadian-born blacks have graduation rates that exceed those of other Canadians. Similar patterns of educational over-achievement are reached with years of schooling and with data from the 1994 Statistics Canada survey. Black immigrants have a higher standard of educational achievement, on average, than the overall Canadian population ».
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, May 5th, 2011
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