Posted on 07/18/2019 1:06:43 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
At an Onyejekwe family get-together, you can’t throw a stone without hitting someone with a master’s degree. Doctors, lawyers, engineers, professors — every family member is highly educated and professionally successful, and many have a lucrative side gig to boot. Parents and grandparents share stories of whose kid just won an academic honor, achieved an athletic title or performed in the school play. Aunts, uncles and cousins celebrate one another’s job promotions or the new nonprofit one of them just started. To the Ohio-based Onyejekwes, this level of achievement is normal. They’re Nigerian-American — it’s just what they do.
Today, 29 percent of Nigerian-Americans over the age of 25 hold a graduate degree, compared to 11 percent of the overall U.S. population, according to the Migrations Policy Institute. Among Nigerian-American professionals, 45 percent work in education services, the 2016 American Community Survey found, and many are professors at top universities. Nigerians are entering the medical field in the U.S. at an increased rate, leaving their home country to work in American hospitals, where they can earn more and work in better facilities. A growing number of Nigerian-Americans are becoming entrepreneurs and CEOs, building tech companies in the U.S. to help people back home.
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Teach a man to fish, he can fish.
Teach a man to cry out for fish, he will wait for you or he will rob you of some of your few fish instead of getting more on his own.
Our society mostly teaches “crying out” but some people don’t get the message. Praise God.
If the average black was like that there would be no discrimation (against them).
Those Nigerians in this article came from the right side of the bell curve
A good friend, a Nigerian, said to me in the late 80s, “I’m black, but I am not a n*****!” I was taken aback, but didn’t have to ask for an explanation of his opinions.
The least linguistically talented African I’ve worked with was a Kenyan who spoke his own tribal tongue, English, Italian, and French, all fluently.
I think the majority were Catholics and got out to avoid persecution....
and I have with People from Niger, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
That’s the way I see it, too: Welcome to all the goodhearted, honest immigrants looking to work and live peacefully alongside everyone else. Many of us are the descendants of hardworking immigrants. We’re glad to see good people who love this country come here, as long as they do so via a legal process (that’s all).
“”they were all well spoken””
I saw a few of them come through a flight school where I worked in Southern CA years ago and they spoke beautiful English. One would call me at the office and give me his name and I told him it wasn’t necessary as I didn’t know anyone who spoke English as beautifully as he did and I always knew him from his voice. He was a super neat guy. He got his family out of Nigeria and moved to Canada.
There were others from Nigeria who you wouldn’t trust as far as you could throw them - LOL. Had a lot of students from other foreign countries as well but can’t say much for their manners - especially anyone from France. They were the rudest of all. I had a Saudi student apologize for the way a French student talked to me in the office one day. Sorry - for digressing!
That’s pretty amazing. I guess some people are especially gifted when it comes to language.
(One of my planned retirement projects is to learn Italian. I don’t know why I want to learn it; I studied French and Spanish in school - forgot most of the French, and beyond enough Spanish to survive here in the barrio, I kind of lost interest.
But with Italian, I’m just prompted from inside; it seems like a beautiful language.)
if you know spanish then Italian won’t be a problem at all, they are very similar.
kind of makes you wonder why we saved their butts twice last century.
You probably met French people who grew up in more metropolitan areas. My aunt used to travel to Paris frequently and always said, ‘They hate Americans’.
The French definitely have some ‘attitude’; but the people out in the country are very different from the more so-called ‘sophisticated’ ones. We’ve seen posts here on FR about French people still honoring, today, the American servicemen who aided them in WWII.
Africans on the west coast were influenced by western European exploration and expansion.
Africans on the east cost were influenced by Asian influences.
Compare Nigerians to Ethiopians and Somalians.
Compare Moroccans to Egyptians and Saudis.
-PJ
AKA the smart ones
I know of only one Nigerian so I don’t have many data points. But that one young Nigerian was smart and likable FWIW.
My problem is keeping them all from ‘miscegenation’ in my mind. I’ll sometimes pronounce French words as if they were Spanish; and vice versa.
(Sometimes unusual American first, or last names, get the same treatment ;-)
There is a reason black Americans don’t like Africans.
Because half of Nigeria is under muzscum rule, Boko Haram, etc.
Most don’t understand that distinction between immigrant and refugee. The ungrateful, undeserving “Go Back” Omar is an example.
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