https://www.businessinsider.com/decline-china-international-students-economy-universities-trump-biden-immigration-covid-2022-8
https://www.businessinsider.com/decline-china-international-students-economy-universities-trump-biden-immigration-covid-2022-8
I'm surprised anyone would want to study in the USA im the first place.
If you're from the global south America to a lot of people is the promised land, and having a degree from there puts you on a higher caste above the indigenous academia.
When my aunt got a degree in teaching from Ohio I thought "Wow, Ohio! Must've been a wonderful place!".
Come to Ohio! We’ve got corn and industrial wastelands!
Or Iowa! We've got corn and, uh... Yeah, just the corn. :corn-man-khrush:
It's like Iowa was built from already decaying material. It's so ugly.
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Always the case. USA hosts the worlds reactionaries.
Had a friend who went to a big STEM university that attracted a lot of international students, with many coming from China. She said it wasn't uncommon to see them buying brand new luxury cars upon arrival, so it would track that those who can afford to study here aren't what you would consider the average Chinese citizen
Kind of same, I recently did an internship that had a couple students from a more liberal/"westernized" region of China and they were pretty liberal. Not very radical as far as I could tell from just a few hours of chatting about various things.
Not chuddy or anything like that, but think about what kinds of opinions and attitudes US universities would attract and then think about how despite having millions of members, the CPC still makes up less than 10% of the PRC's total population.
I guess it would be more surprising to meet an international student from China who's communist or radical. I mean, I seem to recall that there are graduate studies in ML/SWCC in China. So...
American policy has always been to give special preference to people with chuddy/reactionary views, in particular if they're foreign and plan on not staying permanently. They become another vector for the spread of "liberal" ideas and anticommunism in their countries of origin. It's also how the CIA was able to get the army on board with the coups in Indonesia and in Chile.
Working conditions in the US are not good. But working in an office in India would be absolutely worse. Which is why so many people end up studying abroad if possible.
It would be pretty funny, imo, for some rich failchildren to come from Shenzhen or Beijing and somehow find themselves stuck in West Lafayette, IN or Lansing, MI.
Not exactly the same but it reminded me of this one thing, my family is from a pretty small rural town and I went to school there for a bit bc of some family issues and while we were there we had a couple exchange students from China and Norway and I always felt bad for them that they ended up in the middle of nowhere Texas with a population under 1500.
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