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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://www.rvcj.com/10-common-misconceptions-pakistan-world-needs-clear/ In subcontinent news, I just bought a bottle of Rooh Afza, the Summer Drink of the East. You can really taste the pine extract!
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://www.rvcj.com/10-common-misconceptions-pakistan-world-needs-clear/ quote:It is true that several Pakistanis are involved in terrorism So more than two, but less than 12. Good to know!
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://www.rvcj.com/10-common-misconceptions-pakistan-world-needs-clear/ wat
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Coolguye posted:wat quote:
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://www.rvcj.com/10-common-misconceptions-pakistan-world-needs-clear/ 
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quote:1. Pakistan is in Middle-East: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cec8va-bZiU&t=2s
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>lol literally 100% of politicians, academics, and businesspeople who have positive views of china have been bribed This is not true. I love China because of it's dedication to traditional. Why, the methods and beliefs of doctors from over 5000 years ago are still employed today, to great effect! Also, the level of understanding those same doctors had about elevators and elevator safety is also still employed by our wonderful elevator companies!!
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I thought these threads had already plumbed the depths of Chinar to the very bottom, but the existence of counterfeit escalators made me think again. The unnamed country can only salivate.
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barbecue at the folks posted:I thought these threads had already plumbed the depths of Chinar to the very bottom, but the existence of counterfeit escalators made me think again. The unnamed country can only salivate. go post this in d&d and I guarantee you’ll either get whataboutism about something bad America did or someone talking about china’s trains
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More stories from the world of International Master's Degree Studies! As part of our Master's Thesis writing process we have to take part in a year-long seminar, where essentially everyone has to meet certain milestones and make presentations about their work and explain it to others. I personally found it quite useful, but also frustrating. About 2/3 of the students in this seminar are Chinese exchange students. One of them is actually a good student who belongs in a Finnish university, the rest would probably be more at their level in elementary school. The formats for these presentations are very simple: in one you basically introduce your thesis topic and walk the others through existing research on the topic (very basic level stuff), which of course means student after student who "forgot" to include even one word of literature review (or citations) anyhwere. My favourite was one guy whose thesis had one (1) citation. I wonder if he thought that was enough, or if the sheer effort just made him give up immediately? The final presentation should basically briefly introduce your topic, then walk through the research you did in detail and present your conclusions and findings. I have today sat through three presentations which were each 40 minutes of some buzzcut wanker reading through 30 Powerpoint pages of Wikipedia definitions for various terms and words (literally. I found about halfway through the first one that I could just Google items from their Powerpoints and find the Wikipedia pages they lifted everything they were saying from). Absolutely nothing about their own research, their results or any application of learning. After listening to one of these presentations nobody will have ANY idea of what was actually done, and why it matters. When, after one presentation of page after page of Wikipedia definitions for clustering algorithms, I asked one of the students "but what did you actually DO for your thesis?" all I got was a total rabbit in the headline expression and stammered excuses about not really being able to explain it, so very sorry, you understand. And of course all of these assholes will graduate and get to devalue the degree I worked my rear end off to get.
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Der Shovel posted:More stories from the world of International Master's Degree Studies! Why aren’t they expelled for blatant plagiarism?
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Steakandchips posted:Why aren’t they expelled for blatant plagiarism? They paid cash to the university.
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Fun from my wife's school: "Teacher, I need to take this medicine. My mom says I'm too short and this will make me grow larger." When my wife explained to the mother that the student couldn't administer medicine to herself and that it had to go through the nurse with a doctor's note, the medicine magically disappeared. Fun from my History class: "So Turkey recently went through a failed coup." "Mr. Hugged, what's a failed coup?"
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International (Chinese) students paid like 5x the tuition when I was in grad school so they got a pass for doing things like: - showing up late for an exam and pulling out several hundred dollars from a wallet and asking the exam supervisor if they can pay a fine to be allowed the full amount of time to write the exam (in front of all the other students) - having a professor stop them 2 minutes into a presentation saying “stop, stop, that’s enough” because of horribly broken English and using a handle held translator for every other word - being told by the professor “if you’re going to work together, please just hand in one assignment with all your names on it. I don’t want to mark the same assignment 8 different times”
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Mr. Apollo posted:International (Chinese) students paid like 5x the tuition when I was in grad school so they got a pass for doing things like: China world research superpower by 2020
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I'm kinda torn, on one hand I really despise the blatant cheating, lying, and pay to graduate scheme. But on the other, it makes me a little happy that these assholes are the future managers, leaders, and researchers in China.
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Are all schools like that or just ones hard up for money? My undergrad had a strict honor code where any lying or cheating was met with automatic expulsion if you're found guilty. I'm wondering if a school like that didn't put up with cheating for Chinese students or swept it under the rug. The expulsion thing definitely wasn't just a threat, there was an entire class of students that got expelled when a professor caught most of them cheating off the homework of one guy who turned it in into the mailbox early.
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I'm still offended no student has tried to bribe me.
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People got expelled at my school for cheating and plagiarism but professors often complained that when it came to international students it was harder because the school loved that international tuition.
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Grand Fromage posted:I'm still offended no student has tried to bribe me. 'Offended' Have you tried dropping some subtle hints? "Well, you're probably going to fail, it's a pity you can't just pay a fine to bump your numbers" "I'm sure there's something you could give me if I gave you a pass" "What are you willing to do to pass this class?" *Funky baseline pours out of nowhere. The student's eyes open wider as Grand Fromage slowly unzips a bag with dollar signs drawn on with sharpie"
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bamhand posted:Are all schools like that or just ones hard up for money? My undergrad had a strict honor code where any lying or cheating was met with automatic expulsion if you're found guilty. I'm wondering if a school like that didn't put up with cheating for Chinese students or swept it under the rug. The expulsion thing definitely wasn't just a threat, there was an entire class of students that got expelled when a professor caught most of them cheating off the homework of one guy who turned it in into the mailbox early. All schools are run like for-profit businesses so yes, all schools are milking this gravy train as hard as they can. They're increasingly becoming 2-tiered institutions, one for international students, one for local. The local students pay less and get a real education and have to work and follow rules, the Chinese students pay 5x or more (or way way more when the university offers a full-package with housing, which they increasingly own and build since it's so profitable) but don't have to work or follow many rules. Where it can be lovely for people there for an education, not babysitting, is that many shared classes get dumbed-down and the double-standards can be infuriating. Also since international students will pay 5x as much in rent/housing the university will go into full developer mode and build block after block of international-only housing. They'll demolish greenspace and sports fields, they'll build on areas reserved for future academic buildings, all to chase after that sweet sweet international student cash. But it all makes total financial sense. If a local is only paying you 9,000 for the year plus only has a budget of $600 a month for rent why build anything for them when the international student is paying 40,000 a year just for tuition plus their parents are willing to pay another 5,000 a month for the "full helpless toddler" housing that includes food service and laundry and cleaning? Why would you invest a dime into that first customer group when you could keep chasing a seemingly endless demand for the later? And they'll sell this all as "well it's making the university tons of money, it's good for the education system!" except none of these profits go into making the school better or lowering tuitions for locals, it's all pocketed by the extremely rich folk who run the school through a series of extremely shifty trusts and bursaries that let them rake in millions but constantly beg for more government funding, donations, and golly we need to raise tuitions again and just can't afford to build any affordable student housing on campus.
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So, apparently, some embassy worker got a mild tramautic brain injury by some unknown sonic means.
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Glenn Quebec posted:So, apparently, some embassy worker got a mild tramautic brain injury by some unknown sonic means. don't believe those lies it was polonium
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You’d think demographics of the coming decrease in younger Chinese (negative baby boom?) would factor in all these universities if they’ve got 30+ year mortgages on these new buildings
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Glenn Quebec posted:So, apparently, some embassy worker got a mild tramautic brain injury by some unknown sonic means. Chinese Opera
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Glenn Quebec posted:So, apparently, some embassy worker got a mild tramautic brain injury by some unknown sonic means. Wasn't the American Embassy in Cuba or sommat complaining about this.
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WarpedNaba posted:Wasn't the American Embassy in Cuba or sommat complaining about this.
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hurt feelings inc https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ottawa-blocks-chinese-takeover-of-aecon-over-national-security/
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Fojar38 posted:hurt feelings inc Good news. LOL the third comment is already starting with The, "but what about America?!"
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Fojar38 posted:hurt feelings inc I wonder if the Chinese will whine and cry as much as they did when they were initially denied a contract to run a nuclear power plant in the UK.
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Thankfully America and China aren’t the only countries in the world
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Mr. Apollo posted:People got expelled at my school for cheating and plagiarism but professors often complained that when it came to international students it was harder because the school loved that international tuition. I'm actually worried that my uni was soft on me because I'm an international. The idea of not deserving my degree makes my impostor syndrome shoot up into the stratosphere.
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caberham posted:Thankfully America and China aren’t the only countries in the world Whataboutism in this context usually means treating Chinese presence in the Canadian economy and American presence in the Canadian economy as being equivalent which is just lol on its face
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Seems the obvious solution to the degree problem is to treat domestic degrees as is and to slap "International" on the pay-to-pass degrees. Should clue in potential employers immediately. "Well he has a degree in engineering, but this other candidate has an international degree in engineering. Seems we know which one to go with."
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Atlas Hugged posted:Seems the obvious solution to the degree problem is to treat domestic degrees as is and to slap "International" on the pay-to-pass degrees. Should clue in potential employers immediately.
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On the flip side of that, I’ve met some incredibly smart and hardworking Chinese students who’ve spent the better part of a decade in the US doing undergrad+grad, and they almost always end up going home feeling dejected because work visas are so hard to get and a lot of companies assume they didn’t really earn their degrees.
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I was in a one year post-grad program that did have strict requirements but one girl from China who was rejected from the program showed up anyway. They had a spare seat and she could pay in full so they decided to just let her in. She was by far the weakest student in the class but ended up going back to China and working for a more prestigious employer than any of us because her mother runs a committee responsible for state funding for that industry. I don't know what this former classmate actually does, maybe just sits at a work station and surfs the internet all day. There were two other Chinese students in the class. The guy was really passionate but insane, called himself "Chaos" and would go on "missions" to walk certain extreme distances at odd times because he felt it was commanded. The other was incredibly smart, aced all the assignments, got multiple job offers, and is now staying in Canada and working for a really good employer. Most of her co-workers are from France because they can't find qualified Canadians.
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English teachers, how many of your students have undiagnosed special needs?
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