something that saddens me is that the huge number of students here from the Chinese mainland means that they exist in something...
something that saddens me is that the huge number of students here from the Chinese mainland means that they exist in something of a bubble, with separate accommodation and study groups and restaurants and cafes and social media that is entirely disconnected from all the other students including Australian born Chinese; there’s a huge division between segregated communities that don’t interact much at all and it’s natural but unfortunate.
even just from a cold-blooded economic viewpoint you would expect one large market to produce better outcomes than an unnecessarily segregated market, but it’s tough to overcome the language barrier and disjoint social media.
back when I was in American college in the early 2000s the “Asian out-of-place bubble” was kind of a thing, but the Sinophone culture was more 0.5th generation arrived-as-kids than 0th generation international students, and as a result was more Christian than nationalist