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(06-19-2013 09:37 AM)bacon Wrote:  

(06-19-2013 09:11 AM)lurker Wrote:  

Why shouldn't black students have the same problem, given the several generations since their parents came from varied African countries?

I can only speculate cause I am not black but I think maybe those black student groups could provide a place for black students to have a cultural identity. I personally believe part of the reason black people in America value the role of church in their lives is because it provides a cultural idenity to black Americans which maybe they dont find easily in other places.

There is a much more parsimonious, empirically verifiable explanation. Religosity has been seen to be negatively correlated with IQ across a variety of stratifications (e.g. both across and within nations); American blacks have lower average IQ compared to other population groups.