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Indians breaking class barriers in UK

http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1294956.cms

LONDON: Second-generation Indian immigrants are breaking their adopted country’s class barriers with consistent ease and steaming ahead of much of white, black and brown Britain, new research has found.

The research, which tracked 140,000 children born in England and Wales over a 30-year period, found that a massive 56 per cent second-generation Indians sailed over class barriers and went into professional or managerial posts, compared with just 43 per cent of white children.

In a further breakdown of what it called the “Indian success story”, the study added that Being Hindu or Jewish enhanced the probability of a professional/managerial class outcome, other things being equal, while being Muslim, Sikh or from a religious group other than the main religions made such a destination less likely”.

However, the study admitted that today’s immigrant successes could not discount the reality and dreadful toll of the so-called “ethnic penalty” levied on newer, foreign-origin claimants for jobs and positions.

The research said two-thirds of British Pakistani and Bangladeshi children remained static and at the same working class levels of their parents, thus languishing at the bottom of the UK’s social and economic mobility ladder.

The study, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and conducted by Essex University sociologist Dr Lucinda Platt, is considered one of the most comprehensive attempts to track ethnic minority “life chances” in the world of Western opportunity. Platt concluded that the differing levels of South Asian success makes for caution “in what we claim for ‘ethnicity’ and what we attribute to it”.

Platt said it was indisputable that British Indians were taking full advantage of the fact that an expansion in professional and managerial occupations over the past 30 years had created more “room at the top”. But she cautioned that the “welcome progress” of Indians and Afro-Caribbeans was “no cause for complacency (because) Britain is still a long way from being a meritocracy where social class plays no part in determining children’s chances of well-paid careers”.

This is “bull$h!t with statistics”, plain and simple.

Yeah, “most” of the underachievers are white Brits, because MOST OF THE STUDENTS are white Brits.

Look at the similarity between “white British” and “All” in the bar graph. It’s not a coincidence — it’s due to the relative weight of that group in the mix!

And... could this report BE any more obfuscated than it already is???

Sheesh. Liberal “social engineering” academics.

There is a great book called Life at the Bottom by the social conservative Theodore Dalrymple. He chronicals the predominately white underclass in England and shows that they suffer from the same pathologies as the black underclass in the United States. The same inability to accept responsibility for the actions, the same ability to keep making the same destructive mistake over and over again.

He was a doctor at a poison ward and he documents women who tried to committ suicide to escape abusive boyfriends, who then form new relationships with new abusers who were in the ward because they tried to committ suicide to avoid going to court for their abusive acts.

He talks about interns from Calcutta, India who are used to seeing dead bodies rolling off trucks and not being noticed. They cannot believe the generosity of England's welfare state. It is a dream come true ... until they notice the spiritual poverty. Poor people who always eat out becaues they literally cannot cook a single meal, the abusers and drug users, the women who cling to the worst sort of man. And they change their mind. As physically poor as India may be, its poverty is far less terrifying than the spiritual poverty in the wealth of England.