{"id":120,"date":"2011-05-30T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T09:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2011-05-30T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T10:25:24","slug":"brain-drain-a-serious-africas-desease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Brain Drain: Africa&rsquo;s serious desease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Some key notes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00ab\u00a0African 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">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.<\/span> This is more than double the rate of native-born white Americans, and nearly four times the rate of native-born African Americans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">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<\/span>. 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">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<\/span>. Immigrants groups in general tend to have higher high school graduation rates than the native-born general American population.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, May 5th, 2011<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some key notes: \u00ab\u00a0African 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaspora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}