10-03-2023, 05:49 PM
(10-03-2023, 02:31 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I would also argue that a question like "Should we be accepting so many foreign students from just one area of the world, namely India?"
Is rather problematic.
Leaving aside the question of what the level of immigration should be (I mean, I'm of the opinion that more open borders are a good thing--but I also live in the EU)...
Why do you believe that thinking that we should limit immigration from one specific part of the world in preference to another part? Is that not racist?
I think it's beneficial to take in a diverse student pool to try to enhance multiculturalism. And this is true regardless of the country of origin, it's just that India happens to be the largest source of students right now by far. In a less nebulous sense, it's also just opening us up to a lot of risk. Many of our public, taxpayer-funded colleges in Ontario (and especially Conestoga) have massively expanded solely to cater to a student pool from India. If that student pool dries up tomorrow - which is not impossible to imagine given India/Canada relations as of late - it's going to cause some serious pain. Again, though, this is country agnostic; overreliance on having students from any one country just seems like a bad plan.