Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!ALBNYVM1!DFP10 From: DFP10@ALBNYVM1.BITNET (Don Parsons) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.disarm-l Subject: Re: PRC students Message-ID: Date: 11 Feb 90 17:45:20 GMT Sender: Disarmament Discussion List Reply-To: Disarmament Discussion List Lines: 22 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM Gateway In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 11 Feb 90 00:16:00 EDT from On Sun, 11 Feb 90 00:16:00 EDT Dimitri Vulis said: >Hey, I have nothing against students from the Republic of China (Taiwan) or >Hong Kong. They are no different from any other foreign students we've had >(from Europe or Latin America); in fact, they work harder than most. > >What I object to are Communist Chinese students, aka continental Chinese, aka >PRC students. We've had something like 6 in the Math PhD program (not sure how Here in SUNYA I think less than 10% are here due to Party connections. Most one scholarships where there was a high emphasis on the English test. The two times (3 and 4 y. ago ) I stayed with in China I spent each time, 3 weeks liking in a Beijing appartment with a family where there were two children and the eldest, a boy, was super bright in math and computers. He was close to the top in the Beijing English test and now has a scholarship at Yale on cybernetics. Both parents were brutally trated in the cultural revolution and the mother never hid her bitterness. As a result both parents were refused faculty appointments. I just bring this up to acknowledge that the scholarship system does filter out bright students (but NOT, as I found out, bright students from peasant families). At the same time I found that influence of veteran Party members was very strong and the major complaint of students was their refusal to acknowledge young talent. Don