Hindus and Muslims Well-educated in US But Least Educated Worldwide

[RiazHaq]

http://www.riazhaq.com/2016/12/hindus-and-muslims-well-educated-in-us.html

Are immigrants in the United States or United Kingdom or any other host country truly representative samples of the populations in their places of origin? Are American Hindu or Muslim demographics comparable to those of the countries they left? A recent report done by Pew Research answers these questions with substantial amount of data on educational attainment.

Global Hindus and Muslims:

Hindus are the best educated religious group in the United States. They are followed by Jews in the second place and Muslims at number 3, according to Pew Research. However, both Hindus and Muslims are at the bottom in terms of educational attainment measured across the globe. 41% of Hindus and 36% of Muslims have had no formal schooling. Hindus have the widest gender gap in education among all religions in the world with Hindu women trailing Hindu men by 2.7 years.

US Educational Attainment By Religion:

American Hindus are the most highly educated with 96% of them having college degrees, according to Pew Research. 75% of Jews and 54% of American Muslims have college degrees versus the US national average of 39% for all Americans. American Christians trail all other groups with just 36% of them having college degrees. 96% of Hindus and 80% of Muslims in the U.S. are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.




US Educational Attainment By Religion Source: Pew Research

Jews are the second-best educated in America with 59% of them having college degrees. Then come Buddhists (47%), Muslims (39%) and Christians (25%).


Worldwide Educational Achievement By Religion Source: Pew Research Center
Worldwide Educational Attainment By Religion:

Jews with average of 13.4 years of schooling are the most highly educated of all major religious groups in the world, while Muslims and Hindus, with average of just 5.6 years of schooling, are the least educated, according to a Pew Research Center global demographic study. The global average schooling for the world is 7.7 years.




The number of Hindus with no formal schooling is 41%, the highest of all religions. It's followed by 36% of Muslims with no schooling.

Gender Gap By Religion:

Hindu women trail Hindu men in schooling by 2.7 years, the widest gender gap among all religions. The gender gap between Muslim men and women is 1.5 years while Jews have no gender gap.

Summary:

Pew research data clearly shows that Hindu and Muslim immigrants in the United States represent crème de la crème of the nations they have come from. They are much better educated and far more accomplished. They are in no way representative samples of the demographics of their home countries.

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[satvikAcer]

I dont know about Riaz Haq but the whole western indicator of education is a big nonsense,i go to school learn to read and write in english,watch western news and websites,eat unhealthy burger fries and coke and look down upon my native culture,religion,values etc.

Nobody in the subcontinent is uneducated,all the people of the subcontinent have seen all kinds of thoughts,values,culture and have made their choice on what to retain and what to give up.

I ll rather remain an uenducated desi than to be a brown sahib.

 

[RiazHaq]

Pew: #Ireland #Muslims more educated but Muslims in rest of #Europe less educated than non-Muslims. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/soci...ral-population-1.2904661#.WFa9aDrLTmo.twitter … via @IrishTimes

the Pew study says “for example, Ireland’s economic boom of the late 1990s drew highly skilled Pakistani and African migrants and refugees. Partly as a result of this, Muslims in Ireland have an average of 11.8 years of schooling – one more year, on average, than non-Muslims in that country.”

Muslims in Ireland are better educated on average than non-Muslims, according to new research.
Ireland was one of few exceptions in Europe with Muslims completing an average of 11.8 years of schooling, or a year more than non-Muslims, the Religion and Education Around the World report by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre found.
It attributes the relatively high education levels among Muslims in Ireland, the UK, Lithuania, Slovakia, Estonia, the Czech Republic and Hungary to the countries having “immigration policies favourable to highly educated migrants”.

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It is estimated that Ireland’s Muslim population currently stands at approximatly 70,000, of whom 2,000 are said to be doctors.
Schooling
In other European countries Muslims tended “to have less education, ranging from an average of 10.8 years of schooling in Georgia to a continent-wide low of 5.8 years in Spain, ” the study found.
The biggest gap, the report says, is in Germany, where Muslims, on average, have 4.2 fewer years of schooling than non-Muslims (9.5 years v 13.7 years, respectively).
In France, Muslims had 2.9 fewer years schooling less than non-Muslims while in Spain it was 3.2 years less. Many such European countries, the study found, had “experienced large inflows of Muslim refugees or guest workers in recent decades”.
Overall, it found that “Jews are more highly educated than any other major religious group around the world, while Muslims and Hindus tend to have the fewest years of formal schooling”.
Meanwhile “those who describe their religion as atheist, agnostic or ‘nothing in particular’, have spent an average of nine years in school, a little less than Christian adults worldwide.”

Christians “ who make up the world’s largest religious group at 2.2 billion people” had 9.3 years of schooling, on average, worldwide making them “one of the world’s most highly educated religious groups”.

 

[Desertfalcon]

A thread on PDF that has something positive to say about America and the 'West'!?!

 

[Shankranthi]

A thread on PDF that has something positive to say about America and the 'West'!?!

How is it positive about America ?

Hindus in the US is more educated because that is the ONLY way they can break the glass ceiling or get a Green Card and US citizenship.

White Christians don't have to study just as hard to achieve the same amount of success of have a comfortable life.

The good news is that the US system does allow the educated religious minority to earn more than their white christian counterpart.

So the bottom line is that the USD/ Gold is the only true god in the US. The one thing that transcends religion or skin colour.

The bad news is that this makes it easier to sell your soul for a few bucks or a lot of bucks.