Consider race. It’s true that there’s white privilege. But it’s also true the most successful UK ethnic groups by income aren’t white, but Chinese and Indian. The Chinese earn fully 30 per cent more than their causation counterparts. 69 per cent of Chinese-background state school pupils in the UK win passage to university, as do 50 per cent of Asian and 44 per cent of black students. At the bottom? White kids, at 30 per cent. Similarly, in the USA, the most successful demographic by income aren’t whites, but Asian Americans. None of which is to argue racism isn’t real, serious and deserving of
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