I know some people who have immigrated here legally from West Africa. They have certain traits in common.
They are all highly educated. Most have earned advanced business or STEM degrees.
They speak English with a pronounced accent, but they do speak it, and they make every effort to speak it in a grammatically correct manner. One guy from Nigeria has the most beautifully written English you’ve ever seen.
They are family oriented.
They are hard working.
They are gainfully employed or own small businesses.
They do not treat white people they meet with a sneering attitude as if we had just put down the bullwhip five minutes ago.
They are genuinely happy to be Americans and appreciate the opportunities they’ve been given that they never had back home.
Compare that with the attitudes of people who were not only born here, but have been the beneficiaries of many programs and benefits that were established to help them along.
McF,
I have also found this to be true. I had a Black friend from Africa who was going to Marquette. He would not date Afram girls. He said they were some of the nastiest people he had ever met.
The DC Metro Vicinity (DMV) has the largest Ethiopian Community outside of Africa.
They are culturally quite distinct from the black underclass in local ghettos like Anacostia - hard working, law abiding, church going, family folks.
Like Cubans, many of the older Ethiopians are scarred by life under a real Communist Government (the Derg and Mengistu, 1974 until 1991).