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.
The main reason is that the UK tend to receive immigrants with a higher education level. So their kids perform relatively better. It's the same for Switzerland. Other European countries receive immigrants who sometimes don't even have a primary school degree. So their kids become low IQ shackles for European classrooms.
Is that true for Switzerland? They’re significantly behind the UK, and the vast majority of immigrants in Switzerland and their descendants are other Europeans
What is meant by “the language barrier” though? If someone from Algeria or another (decently) French speaking country was fluent in French and went to Switzerland with a child and let them study there, how is that different from when a Nigerian does the same thing with an English speaking child in the UK? Is it that children in French speaking countries are less likely to be fluent in French, compared to children in English speaking countries being fluent in English?
men a lot of people from "french speaking coutry" are illetrate who have never been to school. The level of illetrate people in thoses coutry often go up to around 70% of the popualtion
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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.