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...Aside from protecting the British palate, these restaurateurs seem to want to have their curry and eat it too. Although they spiced up British cuisine, many British Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have had a difficult history, plagued with racial discrimination and economic disadvantage. The thriving British curry industry is not a side effect of British Pakistani and Bangladeshi upward mobility. A paper from the Department for Education and Skills found that just one percent of Bangladeshis and seven percent of Pakistanis held “high managerial or professional” jobs. Professor Tariq Modood, a sociologist at the University...
...Meanwhile, curry restaurateurs are up in arms over “unfair discrimination” against Pakistani and Bangladeshi curry chefs, who often come to Britain with little formal education or English language proficiency. They complain that the new points system favors highly educated, English-speaking professionals and will reduce the number of curry chefs entering Britain, thus harming the curry industry...
...Similarly, results from the Department for Education and Skills published in 2006 also show that Pakistani and Bangladeshi children in Britain have low levels of education, denoting a lack of progress since immigration. National exams taken at age 16—the General Certificate of Secondary Education—show that Pakistani and Bangladeshi children are well below the 40 percent mean of British children gaining 5 or more passing grades (C or higher in any subjects including English and Math), considered by the government to be a standard for passing high school. According to Professor Modood?...
...Pakistanis and Bangladeshis cannot claim lack of education prior to immigration as an excuse for their lack of progress either. Immigrants from the Caribbean arrived three generations ago, around the same time as the main influx of Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigrants, with over 70 percent lacking education. The number of Caribbean Britons lacking education is now less than 25 percent...
...Current initiatives to help Pakistani and Bangladeshis in Britain have had limited success. Before these initiatives can be expanded to include new waves of immigrants, they need to be overhauled and consolidated. In combination with existing anti-discrimination laws, community programs focused on bolstering British Pakistani and Bangladeshi children’s chances for educational success and opportunities for professional networking in combination could be the solution to the challenges they currently face...