Data show Nigerians the most educated in the U.S.

[TexasTowelie]

The article is ten years old, but in light of Trump's comments about shithole countries this article stands in sharp contrast.


HOUSTON -- For Woodlands resident David Olowokere, one of Nigeria's sons, having a master's degree in engineering just wasn't enough for his people back home. So he got a doctorate.

His wife, Shalewa Olowokere, a civil engineer, didn't stop at a bachelor's, either. She went for her master's.

The same obsession with education runs in the Udeh household in Sugar Land. Foluke Udeh and her husband, Nduka, both have master's degrees. Anything less, she reckons, would have amounted to failure.

"If you see an average Nigerian family, everybody has a college degree these days," said Udeh, 32, a physical therapist at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. "But a post-graduate degree, that's like pride for the family."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/article/Data-show-Nigerians-the-most-educated-in-the-U-S-1600808.php

[Cha]

1. And, trump is an ignorant fool.

Thanks for this report, TT

[babylonsister]

2. Rec'd. nt

[Ilsa]

4. Better educated than DOTUS.

He knows nothing about their countries, showing his ignorance and bigotry.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. What people don't realize is

that many immigrants here from countries like Nigeria, India, and China (although China usually demands they return) are the "1%" of those countries. They are the cream of their crop.

And like every country, they have their "99%" too, who are poor and destitute.