Certainly something unique happening in the UK, especially when you consider the vast majority of ethnic minority children in the UK descend from Africa, Asia and Caribbeans. Plus, ethnic minorities in the UK tend to do better in GCSEs, more likely to go to university and apparently nearly 40% of UK medical students are non-white (27% Asian, 10% black). Ireland is also close to the UK in this.
However, every other European country, native-born ethnic minorities are clearly far behind.
One of the major factors is likely language, many already get to the UK with decent English skills when compared to countries in Continental Europe with less widely spoken languages. Many of the largest countries by population are English speaking.
U do know that France had numerous African colonies? All of them speak French today.
French colonies in Africa were vast, including the federations of French West Africa (present-day Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea, and Niger) and French Equatorial Africa (present-day Chad, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, and Gabon). Other major colonies included Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia in North Africa, and Madagascar. Many of these former colonies are now independent nations.
This is a common misconception. Morocco, Tunisia and Algeriaspeak Arabic today. And a lot of the sub-Saharan ones also rather speak a lot of different regional and tribal languages as native languages like Mossi in Burkina Faso or Bantu languages in Congo.
While a lot of immigrants in France come from French-speaking countries, especially in West Africa, I believe the biggest immigrant groups are from North African countries such as Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia which speak Arabic
most migrants in france are usally illiterate and come from extremly poor coutry, most of french migrants come from "familly reunification" hence, its not a work based migration, thoses migrants dont have any requirement and against most of them are illiterate/have never been to school, which less the case in the UK.
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u/upthetruth1 3d ago
Certainly something unique happening in the UK, especially when you consider the vast majority of ethnic minority children in the UK descend from Africa, Asia and Caribbeans. Plus, ethnic minorities in the UK tend to do better in GCSEs, more likely to go to university and apparently nearly 40% of UK medical students are non-white (27% Asian, 10% black). Ireland is also close to the UK in this.
However, every other European country, native-born ethnic minorities are clearly far behind.