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assumed it was a known fact that Chinese nationals often buy their way through college That kind of thing is very hard to acknowledge in the USA, even if true.
by sliverstorm 11y ago
assumed it was a known fact that Chinese nationals often buy their way through college
That kind of thing is very hard to acknowledge in the USA, even if true. It strikes close to past civil rights struggles.
- rqebmm 11y agoIs it? There's plenty of tropes about dumb students who make it through Ivy league schools because their parents "bought a new wing" or somesuch. Same for rich children avoiding military service.
- sliverstorm 11y agoRight, but that's classist rather than nationalist or xenophobic, and thus for some inscrutable reason infinitely more palatable