I define immigrants here as those with a parent born outside the country, so it includes second generation immigrants.
then
In the case of America, 99% of the population originates from other countries, be they England, Italy, Sweden, India, Africa, Hong-Kong or Mexico.
So if you're saying that 99% of the US population is first- or second-generation, that means that amount of population have come here in the last two generations. The baby boomers are retiring now, so lets use them as an easy 'oldest' generation.
The US currently has 300 million people. So according to this guy, just before the boomers, there were only 3 million people.
Truly, it is a testament to the industriousness of the American public how with only 3 million people, they managed to send 16 million to serve in the military in WWII, and still have enough people left over to manufacture military hardware to supply the Allies.
The guy has a point about home environment being important, and that endemic poverty for blacks in the US is a problem, but you can't just carve those out of the results. For a start, those blacks are still American, born and bred for generations. Secondly, every country has sections of entrenched poor. In the US it's much easier to divide along race lines. In the UK, you have a ton of whites that come from equally crime-riddled, poor neighbourhoods, but they don't get excised from the tampered data.
The author starts out with a reasonable concept, but horribly mangles the philosophy and method to isolate the numbers.
So if you're saying that 99% of the US population is first- or second-generation...
No one besides you is saying this.
Incidentally, race is highly predictive even holding income reasonably close to constant. For example, Asian Americans tend to have income comparable to Europeans Americans, yet their test scores tend to be considerably higher (in the same range as other Asian nations).
In the context of the article, these two quotes are right next to each other. The author is saying this. He's trying to paint cultural homogeneity with the parent country, which is reasonable with first and second generation immigrants, but it's a sloppy way to exclude blacks from the American scores.
Let's be very clear here with another quote:
So similar to my comparison of GDP levels, let us compare Americans with European ancestry (about 65% of the U.S population, and not some sort of elite) ... We remove Asians, Mexicans, African-Americans and other countries that are best compared to their home nations.
The author is removing all blacks as they are 'best compared to their home nation' as he has defined them as 'immigrants'. (he's also exluding hispanics, apparently, despite a lot of them already living on land that was acquired by the US in the 19th century - how these are 'immigrants' is beyond me)
The thing is, blacks in the US don't live like their West African forebears, nor raise their kids like West Africans. They live like Americans and raise their kids like Americans. They are Americans and have been for multiple generations. To exclude them on 'American' scores is pretty racist.
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Also, how can you really make a representative argument when you cut out one third of your subject pool? If the system only 'works' if you exclude them, then that means that the system is not working so well for that particular country.
I define immigrants here as those with a parent born outside the country, so it includes second generation immigrants.
then
In the case of America, 99% of the population originates from other countries, be they England, Italy, Sweden, India, Africa, Hong-Kong or Mexico.
So if you're saying that 99% of the US population is first- or second-generation, that means that amount of population have come here in the last two generations. The baby boomers are retiring now, so lets use them as an easy 'oldest' generation.
The US currently has 300 million people. So according to this guy, just before the boomers, there were only 3 million people.
Truly, it is a testament to the industriousness of the American public how with only 3 million people, they managed to send 16 million to serve in the military in WWII, and still have enough people left over to manufacture military hardware to supply the Allies.
The guy has a point about home environment being important, and that endemic poverty for blacks in the US is a problem, but you can't just carve those out of the results. For a start, those blacks are still American, born and bred for generations. Secondly, every country has sections of entrenched poor. In the US it's much easier to divide along race lines. In the UK, you have a ton of whites that come from equally crime-riddled, poor neighbourhoods, but they don't get excised from the tampered data.
The author starts out with a reasonable concept, but horribly mangles the philosophy and method to isolate the numbers.