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Originally Posted by iheartthed

To add to this, African immigrants perform similarly to Asian immigrants, but African immigrants are grouped with native African Americans on census data so this often gets obscured.

To follow up on this:

It Isn't Just Asian Immigrants Who Thrive in the U.S.
Skilled foreign workers do well no matter where they're from.

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Perhaps most surprising is that, by many measures, the most-educated immigrant group in the U.S. isn't East Asians. It’s Africans.

According to Census data, more than 43 percent of African immigrants hold a bachelor’s degree or higher -- slightly more than immigrants from East Asia. Nigerian immigrants are especially educated, with almost two-thirds holding college degrees -- a significantly higher percentage even than Chinese or South Korean immigrants. African immigrants are also very likely to hold advanced degrees, many of which are earned at U.S. universities. By many measures, African immigrants are as far ahead of American whites in the educational achievement as whites are ahead of African-Americans.

That education translates into higher household income. Nigerian-Americans, for instance, have a median household income well above the American average, and above the average of many white and Asian groups, such as those of Dutch or Korean descent.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/ar...el-in-the-u-s-