That’s actually pretty unusual in the big picture. I’m guessing you’re North American, maybe European? In East Asia, no such thing ever happened, and historically even in the West immigration and free markets were championed my the liberal parties. Ditto from what I know of other regions.
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albert180@piefed.social 15 hours agoThe Nationalism usually ends when they want cheap labor. Then it's okay for foreigners to come in, unless they advance their status through hard work economically and socially
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 15 hours ago
SaucySnake@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
In that case they wouldn’t be complaining, most of the international students are in grad school aka some of the cheapest labor available lol.
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Yes, but you assume they know literally anything about the academic system at all. They think anybody who works at a university is an “elite”, and is therefore somehow being treated better than them.
albert180@piefed.social 6 hours ago
Until they graduate