If Asians were as skilled in walking as they are in math I wouldn't keep knocking em over in the halls, my only complaint with my highschool and subsequent post-secondary experiences on the matter :p
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That's what I meant, there's no such thing as a smarter race, so why are they complaining, everyone has the ability to compete
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In all seriousness, c'mon. It's an article written by Maclean's magazine. Let's not forget about their editorial style and political stance. Most importantly, let's not forget which social class they cater to.

As long as the hot white chicks do not decrease, I'm good.

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So basically, the article says white kids don't want to go to University of Toronto because the majority of the population is no fun Asian kids that spend most of their time studying, while most white kids want to spend most of the time partying :rofl:

The article is about how a high percentage of asian students effects university culture. The quote about not wanting to compete with asian students was about the impact that always doing homework has on your social life. If anyone actually read the article they would have read that instead of going to the "Asian" schools the white kids went elsewhere not giving up on university altogether like some of you have said.

The article has some major flaws but also some truth to it. I'm studying at UBC right now and 2/3 of my class are 'Asian' (english is second language). The Asians hardly interact with the other 1/3rd of the class and vice versa. Hell, they even sit seperately not to mention that I havn't heard a word of english come out of that side of class for over a month. So I can kind of understand why canadian highschool student who want to study but also have some fun at University don't want to be surrounded by Asians.

"students have dubbed the Mathematics & Computer Building and the Computer Research Centre, respectively—“mainland China” and “downtown China,” and where some students told Maclean’s they can go for days without speaking English" :rofl:

And this is why if you walk down hastings all you see are caucasian homeless people and very rarely do you ever see an homeless asian person.

And this is why you're racist.

Honestly, the article does have some merit. If you would all get off your high pedestals and look at it from an objective view you would see that.

I left SFU cuz it's a shit fucking university where all the profs care about is research and do not strive to educate students. Plus, the newly named university, UFV had the program I wanted.

For what it's worth there's still a shit ton of "asians" at UFV. And man are there way better looking girls at UFV.

what, what, and who?

i've thought about this too, why there is a disproportionately low number of Asians as homeless people and I think the simple answer would be Canada's tough immigration laws. The Asians who do qualify to immigrate to Canada are either educated, skilled, or wealthy, so the chances of them falling into poverty are pretty much nil



an issue the article didn't address was really what universities as institutions are meant for... they are places of research, higher academic achievement, and are supposed to be the pinnacle of society. The fact that in recent decades it has come to be a 4 year drinking-fest extension of highschool doesn't mean it should be this way

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but thats is what university is meant for, research. if you want to be educated in the post-secondary level, you do it at your own will. On Maclean's magazine and other websites, you don't see SFU/UBC being rated for their ability to prepare you for a full-time job, rather than rate on the quality of research opportunities/standards. Profs in university are just there to talk about their own field of research and hopefully shed some light at those who wish to pursue it.

Ubc/sfu does not prepare you for real-life work experiences. If you want an education that will help you prepare for a job, then go to BCIT or a community college.

in the end, getting a job in Canada/North America is based largely on who you know, and personal skills you have

people who have English as a second language are generally behind in both areas in your typical work force, so in some ways immigrants and first born generations of Canadians have to work even harder to obtain the same benefits and opportunities that a long time Canadian family may already have

generally speaking of course

Being an alumni myself, the only thing I dont like about UBC is that there are too many damn students that can't speak any English. They take the LPI 15 X so they can stay in the school. (I think they changed this rule or something from what I heard as I graduated awhile ago)

But HOLY FUCK !!!>>> A LOT of students there have the worst writing ever, and can't even hold a normal English conversation. Like HOW THE FUCK DID THESE PEOPLE GET INTO UBC!!?!?!?!?!!! And I find some of these students are in the harder programs to get into like Commerce and stuff too, and not any students on any exchange program where you would expect them to suck at English. This is the only thing that if I were White, I would be fucking pissed at, so I can understand some of the hate from white peeps.

UBC needs to address this issue, cause it brings down the reputation of the school.

They get $$$

UFV: Where the girls are half as smart and therefore twice as likely to feliesh me

Being stuck in a group for projects with somone that cannot speak english is beyond frustrating

when i first attended BCIT i remember we had a pretty large project with a week to do it, and one guy in our group could not speak english even to convey an idea on what should be done or how to do it

His contribution? he came to class the next day and handed out pirated copies of microsoft Excel to our group lol

WERD.....I took t-log and holy mother of god I thought I had class in China, most of the Chinese girls you see in class are straight up China, and while their English is ok, they never interact outside their circle.

BTW, anyone here read Outliers? It talked a little bit about why Asians tend to get higher grades (strictly a cultural thing). And if you watch the "Ascent of Money" series (I THINK its from that show - 5-6 eps), it also talks about schools like UCLA and Berkeley having the same issue. Once they bump up the entry grades - all u see are Asians.

LOL Speaking of group projects with people that don't speak Eng. I've had several times where there I had Korean partners that spoke literallly no English. I've had a China student (girl), who thought she was Japanese. Called her once only to get her voicemail.......in full-on Japanese.

Not as bad as what my friend had to go through though. She had a bunch of Mexican girls that were her partners. They were seen once or twice, the rest of the time they're either at Whistler or some other resort, they would ask her for materials to photocopy. And when they returned the stuff the papers were all mangled, in the wrong order and all the holes were ripped. MAN I miss UBC LOL.

Some cultures have a high discipline for education, where the parents would sacrifice their income and housing space to nurture their children so that they can get the best grades possible.

I feel Caucasian immigrants that have been in Canada for a long time, have had there priorities tainted by American culture. Even the system is broken with its fractional reserve banking, which leads to the rich getting richer and the systems plan to break the middle class.

If none Asian kids were to attend private schools (since high schools are dumbed down by the system), given proper food, and the kids not made to work, this would set the base for a successful student.

Now television, studying habits, and the kids friends are other influences, but overall, the more you study for your standardized test, the better grades you'll get.

At the end of the day, I want my doctor to have graduated from the best school and to be the top of his/her class.

Arash.

I have lived here my entire life. I went to a "dumb" public school. I guess I was given proper food (joys of having a french mom who likes to cook), and boy did I work and still do work alot. And i'm still successful

I watch alot of tv, game, forumemise (ya, I made Forum into a verb), and for the most part my friends don't go to school and just party (and I party hard with them), I don't study for whatever the fuck a standardized test is. And I still got good grades.

Basically, I've done the opposite of everything you've stated that you need to do in order to not suck at life and I don't suck at life.

Suck it, i'll make sure to scare the shit out of you when you're on my plane.

I personally dont care that a race dominates a majority of the percent of certain colleges/universities. I live in richmond I'm used to it. What does piss me off is the english teachers that mark white people harder than all the other races.

how am i racist? go take a look. go take a walk and see for yourself. I'm purely stating the obvious. Not to mention i've spoken to many of them and ask why they don't find jobs and their response is "cuz i don't want to. Why work when i can get welfare"

I've had this conversation before with caucasian co-workers and they themselves are ashamed of the fact that it's mostly their race who are to lazy to find jobs and like to take advantage of tax payers money.

Just cause a comment is about a specific race does not make it racist.
Stereotype maybe.

But in all reality, really do go walk down hastings, there is the occasional asian (east indian, chinese, japanese) but predominantly they are caucasian or native.

There is no hate or discrimination directed from this remark, it is purely an observation.

you guys need to relax and read through before screaming racist.