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Originally posted by Mia,
Why can Asians and Arabs come to this country and in one to two generations outpace "whites" in education and income but blacks, after several generations, still want help?
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Asians and Arabs can't get here by walking. There are some who come here by boat, but most need a significant amount of capital uprooting themselves from their home, buying a plane ticket and having enough for several months rent or even spending money for a business. In other words, the Arabs and Asians that do come here already have money and most likely an education in the first place to get here. The likelyhood of them being poor and "disadvantaged" is very low because there would have be an extreme case of luck for them to get here.
But there are poor Asian and Arab families and the concept of the group as a whole outpacing whites ignores the fact that you're comparing a small population sample with that of the whole. Get rid of areas of little diversity (Southern and the Mountain states) and the picture skews back to whites. Statistics is a handy thing eh? Another statistical gem is that African families with two parents have a higher per capita than white families with 2 parents. Something is amiss here eh?
Though slightly off topic, I'd rather have an affirmative action standard in education for classes instead of races. But that's my Socialist Communist ideals at work there.... :rolleyes: