The Effect of Discrimination on International Students
According to Institute of International Education organization, “The United States hosts more of the world’s 4.5 million globally mobile college and university students than any other country in the world, almost double the number hosted by the United Kingdom, the second leading host country”. Hosting millions of international students who were in The United States in 2015. However, international students faced many challenges when they arrive in The U.S., such as language, culture, and unequal treatment due to as racism. Because international students faced discrimination, that has a negative effect on their psychological.
In the United States’ universities, Asian international students faced discrimination by the policy of universities. In some American university, international students treated differently than American students. According to Rhonda Sutton of North Carolina State University mentioned in his article that at NC State University international student worked more hours than an American student - for the same pay. Another problem was NC State university housing do not consider that international students cannot offer hotel room or go back to their countries or have someone off campus to stay with him when they close residence halls. This shows there is some university do not have rule include the international students as part of their society. Also, international students have complained about the
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Bradford helped organize the Mayflower voyage in 1620, which about 100 people joined to separate from The Church of England. “Of Plymouth Plantation” was written by Bradford in which he described the journey to the “New World” and some aspects of the Pilgrim’s life. William Bradford’s purpose of writing this historical account (“Of Plymouth Plantation”) was to inform readers of the future generations that would come to the New World about the hardships the Pilgrims had to endure, so generations to come would not have to go through the same sufferings; Bradford expresses fear/distrust and civility of his fellow Pilgrims through the use of tone.
In The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven, Annabel Lee, and The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe portrayed his characters with a mysterious mood with syntax, diction, irony, and imagery. Poe served at West Point before becoming a full-time editor and critic poet. One of Poe's biggest inspirations was his wife's death, that inspired him to write Annabel Lee and The Raven. The Raven was also inspired by Charles Dickens bird. Dickens bird was taught to say ¨Nobody,¨ in the poem the raven will repeat words such as ¨Lenore.¨
In the article, “Colleges Adapt to New Kinds of Students from Abroad,” Karin Fischer (2011) explains the increase of foreign students in U.S. universities leads to make more problems in campus and how universities are trying to overcome those problems and help foreign students to adapt to campus. Fischer explains the increase of the foreign undergraduate students due to the support from foreign governments. Fischer quotes Wesley Young, the director of services for international students and scholars at the University of California at Davis, to discuss that the increase of foreign undergraduate students especially requires more care and help than graduate students. While older students know what they need to do and what to do in U.S. university,
Racial preference has indisputably favored Caucasian males in society. Recently this dynamic has been debated in all aspects of life, including college admission. Racial bias has intruded on the students’ rights to being treated fairly. Admitting students on merit puts the best individuals into the professional environment. A university’s unprejudiced attitude towards race in applicants eliminates biases, empowers universities to harness the full potential of students’ intellect, and gives students an equal chance at admission.
Our past successful track record with training hard-to-serve populations is the primary reason for the low employment rate. Clerical Art School has provided job training services in the Gulf Coast area since ___. Our mission is to provide the highest quality in training services at a competive rate. Historically, we have proven our ability to successfully train people rejected by other training providers because of our willingness to allow students to complete other training programs at no additional cost to help develop the clerical and computing skills required to secure good jobs. We have effectively used this strategy to help students break down barriers to employment for over three
American culture, they often develop a sense of membership in the United States despite their legal status. For many, the United States is the only country they have ever known (p. 268). In a sense, these students feel they are a part of a system that is trying to exclude them despite their similarities and integration into aspects of that system.
There can be many factors that determine whether or not you can get into a college. Do you have the grades, are you involved in your community, have you been convicted. Many questions like those listed above have been commonly asked to applicants who apply for major colleges universities. However, you are never asked your ethnicity during an interview, usually they give you an application to fill out and they have a space that allows you to check which race you are. Some people feel as though they may have been discriminated against because of their race or ethnicity. It may be true for some, but not all cases are alike, in the sense that racial discrimination in college applicants
In article “ International Student Prepare for Additional College Fees” by Katy Hopkins,, the author explains the real reason for why most of the international students before finish the college or university they give up from education in United States, and they go to their country. The summary of the article is about going to college in the United states tends to be more expensive for international students than other students, whom are residents on a state. She also complains about why in some school even charge specific international students fees, often to pay for special programming or government-reguired international students tracking. For example In Ohio State University international students pay extra $500 fee per-semester. At the
Despite where the funds are generated to support these programs and immigrants, the citizens of the US may see them as a threat to their way of life. Furthermore, this will open up a whole new issue involving the employment from a discriminatory position, which can cause problems for employers. Of course, there will be an imbalance of pay and possibly workload for some immigrants, but there is really no legal guidance on how employers should treat them. On the other hand, there will have to be guidance on what is considered discrimination for immigrants. Since they are migrants from other countries, they are not considered to be Americans. Therefore, the general principals of the country may not apply to them.
However, the change from home to college can be difficult for international students (Mesidor & Sly, 2016). While some international students find it easy to adjust to the transition, others international students find it challenging to adjust to the transition (Mesidor & Sly, 2016). Studies show that international students experience many challenges as a result of language and cultural barriers, academic difficulties, financial difficulties, medical issues, housing concerns, food differences, alienation, homesickness, lack of social support system, racial discrimination, and cross-cultural loss) (Akanwa, 2015; Guzman et al., 2015; Mesidor & Sly, 2016; Sherry et al., 2010; Smith & Khawaja, 2011; Tung, 2011; Zhang & Goodson, 2010). According to Prieto-Welch (2016), international students as a group are regarded as a main minority population in campuses
College level requires students to be prepared at all cost to face various challenges and learn how to overcome them before it affects their future. College also instructs students to a higher level of responsibility and management at their work place, at their house, and everywhere they might be in contact with people. As an International Students, I have had ups and downs throughout my journey in High School, and college, and I have learned so much from my mistakes. My first
International students face many different challenges when studying abroad. This is due to many factors. First, they are living in a country very far away from their own. The country they are studying at has a very different way of life than theirs. Further more, the laws in that country are much different than the laws in their own country. Due to that they face a lot of problems trying to adapt to this new culture. Me personally as an international student in the US studying at ASU, have faced three particularly difficult challenges that I was able to overcome through time. In this essay I will explain how international students can overcome tough challenges and situations.
Most young people believe that studying in a different country is a privilege because they are able to experience other cultures, and learn from them. However, in the United States it is not as good as they thought because International students have much more pressure being in this country, and sometimes they cannot handle it very well. Therefore, in the United States the life of an international student is very unfavorable if people compare it to the life of an American student. International students have to learn a new language to study, they cannot work while studying, and their tuition is much more expensive.
“In 2006 to 2007, according to the data compiled by the Institute of International Education, 582,984 students from all over the world were enrolled in American colleges and universities in a wide range of fields” (Carter, Paragraph 2, 2008). The United States has the highest number of students who are coming to study abroad than any other countries. Each year, the number of international students coming to the United States to obtain degrees is increasing by thousands, and home countries of these students are primarily India, China and Korea, all located in the whole different continent. But what are the motives of students who are crossing the sea to study? Their goal of studying abroad is to experience diversity and to adapt attitudes