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Old 02-09-2016, 10:12 AM  
Paul Markham
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Gipsies prove it's hard to beat culture. The excuse is, they're discriminated against.

Tell that to the second generation Jews, whose parents worked hard to give them an education so they could become high skilled professionals.

This applies to other cultures who migrated to the UK.

UK exam results by ethnicity

Now read this about how being poor affects different races achievements.

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Some 34.6% of pupils who are on free school meals – meaning their families earn less than £16,000 a year – obtained the grades. For white, British-born pupils, the figure was lower – just 28.8%. For boys alone, it was 26%.

In contrast, almost three-quarters – 73.5% – of Chinese pupils on free school meals were awarded five A* to C grades, including English and maths. Every group, apart from those from traveller, Gypsy or Roma families, performed better than white, British-born children.
It has nothing to do with race. It's all about culture. Even in areas of poverty migrant children do better than Native. Because the native families at the bottom want to stay there and be subsidised.
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