Why gap is widening between Indian and Pakistani/Bangladeshi ?
Story is almost same in USA,though there has not been any comprehenseive study as this one.
Any explanation??
UK Indians prosper, but one-third remain poor: Study
LONDON: In an apparent karmic conundrum few have been able to solve so far, Britain’s 1.3 million Indians are newly revealed to be doing better than all other community groups, but still remaining poorer than the white mainstream population.
In other words, the Hindujas, Mittals and Swraj Pauls cannot hide the community’s undeserved real poverty at the bottom end.
“An astonishing 75 per cent of the Indians are in full-time education by the time they are 18 years old,” sociologist Lucinda Platt, author of a landmark new study told Times News Network. “That compares very favourably with the general British population, just 42 per cent of which is in full-time education by age 18”.
And yet, said Platt, “one-third of all British Indians are in poverty, compared to less than a quarter of the general population”.
Wednesday’s revelations are contained in Parallel Lives, an eponymous book published on Wednesday by the campaigning Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG).
The book, which looks at poverty levels and its causes across the British population, is described as the first comprehensive survey of the problem.
South Asian immigrant groups feature heavily in the study, with Indians shown to be doing three times as well as Pakistanis and Bangladeshis in terms of education, employment and general well-being.
But Platt insisted, “Indians are just not doing as well as they should do given their incredibly high levels of education and skills. There is a glass ceiling effect even in this community which has so many success stories at the top”.
Platt’s book, which is expected to be studied carefully by the British government, reveals the stark differences among South Asian groups.
Three times as many Pakistani and Bangladeshi children are dirt poor, compared to the population as a whole.
Platt said that her year-long appraisal of the situation indicated that Britain’s under-achieving Pakistani and Bangladeshis were now lagging far behind almost every other community.
It is not a pretty picture and adds to the piteous, existing image of poverty and financial exclusion within the two communities.
Unlike the Indians, these two groups have already been found to be twice as likely not to have a bank account than the rest of the population.
But Platt is careful to explain that discrimination, racism and demographic issues such as the number of children in a family had disadvantaged ethnic groups, such as the Pakistanis.
Analysts said that the book, which has a foreword by Indian academic Bhikhu Parekh, underlined a grim truth, namely that the commonly-used term ‘Asian’ for people from the Indian sub-continent covered many key differences.
The argument is likely to find some favour within sections of the Indian community, which has recently begun to campaign for separate categorisation rather than being lumped as ‘Asian’ with Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.
But sociologists, such as Platt, caution that Indians are very ‘Asian’, at least in terms of being poorer than the white population.
“In Britain today the chances of being poor vary enormously according to your ethnic group,” CPAG’s Ashley Riley told Times News Network. “Black and Asian people are generally poorer than white, but within those groups as well, Indians are better off than say, Bangladeshis”.
At present, said Platt, the remarkably well-qualified Indian community had poverty levels similar to the much less literate Black Caribbean.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=35181522
