The Most Successful Ethnic Group in the U.S. May Surprise You

Ozy Magazine ^ | Jun 2018 | Molly Fosco

[MinorityRepublican]

Africans tend to look at American Blacks with contempt. American Blacks have everything and yet they throw it away.

[struggle]

I taught at an all black high school and the Nigerians were both picked on relentlessly and the valedictorians every year.

[L,TOWM]

If the pattern is the same in Nigeria as elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, it’s because their government sucks.

The people I have known in eSwatini (fka Swaziland) are some of the hardest working, humorous, and joyful people in the world. Most Swazis might share complexion and some physical features in common with US citizens of African ancestry and that’s about all the similarity there is.

The country itself has some beautiful places in it, but overall, it is a heartbreaking ——hole. But for the King (Mswati III), his 14 wives, his family, and his buddies, life is peachy...

[proxy_user]

I only worked with one guy from Nigeria, and he was the prince of scammers. He’d rather con you than do work, even if the work was easier to do than the con.

[Ancesthntr]

Well, they’re all princes and princesses, or they’ve inherited mega-bucks from other princes...so of course they’re successful.

Good on the smart ones if they got out and did well here. Those are the kinds of immigrants we need, not ones who come here to pop out a kid and get on welfare and free medical.

[Red Badger]

My Liberian neighbor came here basically with nothing and was a store owner. He was amazed at Americans not all being like he was, eager to start a business and make as much money as possible!...................

[Red Badger]

Real ‘Africans’ don’t have a huge chip on their shoulder and a built-in ‘excuse’ for failure, or generations of hate and animosity to white people...................

[Former Proud Canadian]

I got involved with a Nigerian Christian church for a while after I sold them their church building. There were no slackers in this congregation. They were all well educated and had good jobs or were in university.

I got to know the pastor very well. His children were all high achievers. They had been in North America a long time and spoke correct English without an accent that I could detect.

[litehaus]

All those ‘offers’ from Royalty over there via e mail and phone calls to invest in a sure thing must have gotten them enuf to get over here HUH ??

[Unassuaged]

I wonder, after all, the rest of the world was so nice to them.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Africans tend to look at American Blacks with contempt.

Listen to a New York City cabdriver sometime.

[karnage]

America rewards performance.

That’s how it should be.

Quotas, protected classes, speech codes are all un-American.

Meritocracy!

[Red Badger]

Also, my Liberian neighbor spoke perfect English, with an accent of course, and was well educated.............in Liberia, not here.......................

[Signalman]

Experts in credit card fraud.

[Riflema]

Sorry, but I can’t resist a hearty LOL at that!

[txnativegop]

and their Spanish, Italian and German and a few even spoke fluent Cantonese.

[Shadow44]

Because Nigeria like most African countries is made up of a dozen ethnic groups and has a large Muslim population in the North to boot. Most Nigerian immigrants are Igbo who are Christian and have the highest IQ out of any other ethnic group in Africa. This is actually going to make Nigeria worse because the brain drain means all of the talented people are going to flee elsewhere.

[Zhang Fei]

Racial quotas in academic admissions are a big factor in the abundance of degrees, as well as household income numbers. Household size may also be a factor. The Nigerian household income number in the article was $62,351, vs the US average of $57,617. The complete numbers are as follows:

1. Indian American (2016) : $122,026 ^[2]
2. Taiwanese American (2016) : $90,221 ^[3]
3. Filipino American (2016) : $88,745 ^[2]
4. British American (2016) : $79,872^[3]
5. Austrian American (2016) : $78,127^[3]
6. Russian American (2016): $77,841^[3]
7. Latvian American (2016): $77,636^[3]
8. Bulgarian American (2016): $76,861^[3]
9. Lithuanian American (2016) : $76,694^[3]
10. Israeli American (2016) : $76,584 ^[3]
11. Slovene American (2016) : $75,940^[3]
12. Lebanese American (2016): $75,337^[3]
13. Croatian American (2016): $73,991^[3]
14. Sri Lankan American: $73,856^[3]
15. Scandinavian American (2016): $73,797^[3]
16. Chinese American (2016): $73,788^[2]
    (including Taiwanese American)
17. Belgian American (2016) : $73,443^[3]
18. Chinese American (2016): $72,827^[2]
    (excluding Taiwanese American)
19. Swiss American (2016) : $72,823^[3]
20. Iranian American (2016) : $72,733^[3]
21. Italian American (2016) : $72,586^[3]
22. Ukrainian American (2016): $72,449 ^[3]
23. Romanian American (2016): $72,381^[3]
24. Greek American (2016): $72,291^[3]
25. Scottish American (2016): $71,925^[3]
26. Danish American (2016) : $71,550^[3]
27. Swedish American (2016): $71,217 ^[3]
28. Polish American (2016): $71,172^[3]
29. Slavic American (2016) : $71,163^[3]
30. Norwegian American (2016): $71,142^[3]
31. Canadian American (2016) : $70,809^[3]
32. Welsh American (2016): $70,351^[3]
33. Japanese American : $70,261^[4]
34. Czech American (2016) : $70,454^[3]
35. Czechoslovakian American (2016) : $70,084^[3]
36. Finnish American (2016) : $70,045^[3]
37. Serbian American (2016) : $70,028^[3]
38. Hungarian American (2016): $69,515^[3]
39. French Canadian American (2016) : $68,075^[3]
40. Portuguese American (2016): $67,807^[3]
41. Vietnamese American : $67,800^[5]
    (excluding Foreign Born)
42. English American (2016) : $67,663^[3]
43. Slovak American (2016) : $67,471^[3]
44. Armenian American (2016): $67,450^[3]
45. German American (2016): $67,306^[3]
46. Korean American : $66,737^[2]
47. Irish American (2016) : $66,688^[3]
48. Ghanaian American (2016): $66,571^[3]
49. Turkish American (2016) : $66,566^[3]
50. Palestinian American (2016): $65,170^[3]
51. Egyptian American (2016) : $64,728^[3]
52. Vietnamese American : $64,191^[6]
53. Scotch-Irish American (2016) : $64,187^[3]
54. Yugoslavian American (2016) : $63,765^[3]
55. Dutch American (2016) : $63,597^[3]
56. French American (2016) : $63,471^[3]
57. Syrian American (2016): $63,096^[3]
58. Pakistani American : $62,848^[4][7]
59. Albanian American (2016) : $62,624^[3]
60. Indonesian American : $61,943^[4]
61. Guyanese American (2016) : $60,968^[3]
62. Nigerian American (2016): $60,732^[3]
63. British West Indian American (2016): $60,407^[3]
64. Vietnamese American : $58,700^[8]
    (Foreign Born)
65. Cuban American : $57,000^[9]
66. West Indian American : $56,998^[3]
67. Arab American (2016): $56,597^[3]
68. Brazilian American (2016): $56,151^[3]
69. Barbadian American : $56,078^[3]
70. Argentine American: $55,000^[10]
71. Laotian American : $53,655^[4]
72. Thai American : $53,468^[4]
73. Cambodian American : $53,359^[4]
74. Cajun American : $52,886^[3]
75. Jamaican American (2016): $52,669^[3]
76. Trinidadian and Tobagonian American : $55,303^[3]
77. Moroccan American (2016) : $52,436^[3]
78. Peruvian Americans : $52,000^[3]
79. American (2016): $51,601^[3]
80. Jordanian American (2016): $51,552^[3]
81. Pennsylvania German American (2016): $48,955^[3]
82. Ecuadorian American : $49,000^[3]
83. Hmong American : $48,149^[4]
84. Colombian American : $48,000^[10]
85. Haitian American (2016): $47,990^[3]
86. Cape Verdean American (2016) : $47,281^[3]
87. Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac American (2016): $44,733^[3]
88. Nepali American : $44,677^[4]
89. Bangladeshi American : $44,512^[4]
90. Afghan American : $43,838^[3]
91. Bahamian American : $42,000^[3]
92. Ethiopian American (2016) : $41,357^[3]
93. Puerto Rican American : $40,000^[10]
94. Mexican American : $38,000^[10]
95. Burmese American : $35,016^[4]
96. Iraqi American (2016) : $32,818^[3]
97. Dominican American : $32,300^[10]
98. Somali American (2016): $24,185^[3]

One category that's missing, due to PC, is Jewish American. My guess that this is far and away the highest income category, perhaps by a multiple of 2. What the author of this article accomplished, bare-faced lies of omission, is fairly standard for the journalistic profession since before Upton Sinclair set the standard by writing fiction that everyone assumed to be non-fiction. Here, the writer isn't even pretending that this is fiction.

[txnativegop]

exactly!

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Do Nigerian-Americans fall down the list if we leave out all the Nigerian Princes who keep sending emails trolling for gullible people?