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* Asian Americans outscored every Asian country, and lost out only to the city of Shanghai, China’s financial capital.

* White Americans students outperformed the national average in every one of the 37 historically white countries tested, except Finland (which is, perhaps not coincidentally, an immigration restrictionist nation where whites make up about 99 percent of the population).

* Hispanic Americans beat all eight Latin American countries.

* African Americans would likely have outscored any sub-Saharan country, if any had bothered to compete.

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scuze me, I couldn't figure out how to italicise something when it contained asterisky bullet points.