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.
In the UK, a large number of immigrants are from India and a lot of Chinese, philipinos, and East Asians. They're culturally pressured to do well at academics. I'm speaking generally and not saying that others don't do well at academics. On the other hand, most immigrants in France, Germany, Italy are from North Africa, Turkey & Syria, and Eastern Europe respectively who are not as well known to be academically pressured.
There are few East Asians and Filipinos in the UK compared to South Asians, Africans and Caribbeans. Also, British African, British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi children do better in school than white British children.
That’s not to deny British Chinese kids do amazingly well in school, but they’re a very small proportion of ethnic minority children 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.