Black Britons of African origin beat whites in GCSE exams

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Your comments quite meaningless, as you didn't say which country you're from, and Africa is a continent, quite a lot of it is famine-stricken, unfortunately.

Are you white? Have you ever been to Africa?

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Reply 141

maggie43

Original post by StrawbAri

Whilst I agree that Africa isn't the absolute hell hole people portray it as, but poverty is still very real.
The gap between the rich and the poor is wider than a porn star's vagina

Are you African?

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Reply 142

MildredMalone

Original post by maggie43

Are you white? Have you ever been to Africa?

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Yes, and no.

Why?

Reply 143

StrawbAri

Original post by maggie43

Are you African?

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Yes. And as much as I love my continent I can't pretend that there aren't really bad problems and poverty due to bad governance and selfish leaders

Reply 144

loveleest

alot of african parents push their kids to reaching their full potential and often want them to be in the science or maths category.
This can be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it.

Reply 145

Failingstudent98

As a white kid in a grammar school full of ethic 'minority' groups I can honestly say it's the culture. Hands down. If you wait after school to see who says and works hard for an extra few hours it's all the kids of black (mainly Nigerian) and Asian decent. Not a white kid in Site.

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Reply 146

Gribby2

Surely it depends what they mean by 'good grades'. Also, the percentages are fairly close, so there's not a massive difference. It's a good thing these people have done well in their GCSEs, but their race seems irrelevant to me- it's good for anyone to well in their GCSEs.

Reply 147

Blackstarr

Original post by Wellzi

In what way?

It was still a prejudiced statement. It's like saying that, just because a few refugees are committing sex crimes in Germany, they must all be rapists.

It was a racist statement.

If you say so.

Reply 148

Blackstarr

Original post by Bulbasaur

Shockingly ignorant. Unemployment is 5% - sorry, most white Brits?

If you say so but what i said was according to my experience.

I guess it may have some bias.

Reply 149

Blackstarr

Original post by BioStudentx

I've already posted that graph.

It would not hurt to post it again.

Reply 150

fire_and_ice

Original post by teenhorrorstory

Lool same my mum had a go at me for wanting to do Law instead of Medicine. She was like "haa can you believe I have 4 children and not even one is interested in Medicine" :lol:

My life story tbh. I've already received my offers and every so often my mum attempts to convince me to go into computer science/engineering/maths/finance. :facepalm:

Reply 151

Dick Diamonds

Original post by asmuse123

African-born immigrants are known to be the most educated in the USA and have even higher average incomes than White, African-American, Asian-American and Hispanic-Americans in the USA. They are known as an "invisible model minority".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_minority#Invisible_Model_Minority:_Africans

Anyone remember the Ghanian-American who got accepted to the whole Ivy League?

http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/student-kwasi-enin-accepted-by-every-single-ivy-league-university-9229963.html

I heard about that guy, it was a huge thing when he got both Harvard and Princeton, but I had no idea he got the full scoop though

Reply 152

♥Samantha♥

Original post by baleh

I don't actually, luckily.

Ugh. I really dislike that. As a parent the happiness of my child will be my sole priority. How he/she seeks that happiness is up to them, I can only offer advice and try to guide them.

Same obviously. What I'm saying is not the my own opinion. I'm just saying my parents opinion. Though I'm ngl I doubt I'd be happy if my child planned on going to study travel and tourism or media studies at uni - i just don't think its worth £9000/year. a degree is an investment so if you are going to pay so much for it you better make sure it will pay you back. if not then it just seems to make more sense to go for an apprenticeship or something else.

Reply 153

Sgt_Haytham

This is a blatant double standard...

Blacks and ethnic minorities beat white majority in film awards and GCSEs: "This is ****ing amazing! This is true diversity and equality!"

When white majority beats ethnic minorities: "Oh my word how terrible! This is obviously racial discrimination! Increase the number of BMEs now!"

Basically, nothing is ever good until the minorities are beating the white majority.

Reply 154

teenhorrorstory

[QUOTE=fire_and_ice;62386885]My life story tbh. I've already received my offers and every so often my mum attempts to convince me to go into computer science/engineering/maths/finance. :facepalm:

Lmao. I tried explaining to my mum that even If I changed my mind I couldn't do Medicine because of my A Level choices. She was like "it doesn't matter we'll change your subjects" :facepalm:

Reply 155

maggie43

Original post by StrawbAri

Yes. And as much as I love my continent I can't pretend that there aren't really bad problems and poverty due to bad governance and selfish leaders

Not everywhere is full of poverty. Maybe where you're from

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Reply 156

maggie43

Original post by MildredMalone

Yes, and no.

Why?

Exactly so don't comment about a place you have never been to.

Thank you

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Reply 157

StrawbAri

Original post by Sgt_Haytham

This is a blatant double standard...

Blacks and ethnic minorities beat white majority in film awards and GCSEs: "This is ****ing amazing! This is true diversity and equality!"

"Oh my word how terrible! This is obviously racial discrimination! Increase the number of BMEs now!"

Basically, nothing is ever good until the minorities are beating the white majority.

Except no one actually said that. Show me a post where someone actually said something like that. All that was said here is that it's understandable because of the culture African students are coming from. No one in this thread has made this a race thing.

Besides why is it bad for people to be happy black Africans do well in school? Considering the state of the continent. Why can't we be happy that a new generation of intelligent youths are going to improve the continent?

And everyone acknowledged the fact that smartness isn't something inherent in any particular race.

That same news article in the OP stated that students from Africa did much better than the black carribeans/other black students. No one, not even the one carribean person that posted here, said that it was discrimination against other black people.

Reply 158

StrawbAri

Original post by maggie43

Not everywhere is full of poverty. Maybe where you're from

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No I'm not. Nigeria has the biggest economy on the continent.
Plus I didn't say everywhere. I said in an earlier post that I agree Africa isn't as bad as people make it out to be.
But that doesn't mean we get to pretend that there aren't places with poverty.

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Reply 159

Drummerz

Original post by StrawbAri

Whilst I agree that Africa isn't the absolute hell hole people portray it as, poverty is still very real.
The gap between the rich and the poor is wider than a porn star's vagina