Re: 3 Brit Pakistanis from B’ham arrested for terror plot
it’s not really a mystery. the US and UK immigrant profiles are very different and visa standards have been much, much lower in the UK. on average, immigrants to the US are far more educated and socioeconomically well-off than their UK counterparts. of all groups, the difference is most pronounced with pakistanis. in the UK the pakistani population is dominated by the labor class with a huge proportion literally being villagers from mirpur. pakistanis in the US are usually educated…grad students, engineers, etc.
in the US they are somewhat near the top of the socioeconomic distribution. in the UK they are at the absolute bottom. obviously they won’t have equal inclination towards crime/terrorism.