kEiThZ
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I’m looking at sending my kids overseas for postgrad.
Good decision. And it's especially useful, to do it in a country they want to settle in.
My kids‘ friends didn’t bother to apply to UofT downtown campus as the rumour is that it’s most reserved for international students who want to feel that they’re at Hogwarts, and that Canadians go mostly to UofT Scarborough or Erindale.
I don't buy these rumours. Also, most U of T professional programs (like engineering) are downtown. That's why you see more foreign students there. They tend to want into those programs more.
An anecdote from my kid. Their friend is a Canadian-born of Chinese ethnicity. They speak some Chinese at home. At UofT Scarborough there are tons of PRC Chinese international students, and they bully our kids’ friend for not speaking proper Chinese, and in group work they exclude her.
That's less "PRC Chinese" than just classic racism and snobbery. Mainlanders are very different from the Cantonese people we got with the Hong Kong wave. But yes, among many issues with foreign students is them bringing their racism here.