Hong Kong Students in Toronto

Paper Summary:

This paper examines the challenges facing Hong Kong students studying in Toronto. The paper explains that these students face social and cultural problems because Chinese people have experienced a great deal of discrimination in Canada and this has resulted in a high degree of isolation from mainstream Canadian culture for many of these students.
The paper further points out that in order to examine the experiences of international students from Hong Kong in Toronto it is necessary to look at these experiences from a social and cultural perspective, as well as an educational perspective. The paper shows that differences between Hong Kong and Canada cause challenges for Hong Kong students studying in Toronto because they come from a very mixed system and then have to learn a totally new way of doing things that is very different from either of the systems with which they are familiar.

Outline:
Introduction
Hong Kong: A Special Case In China
Hong Kong Students In Toronto Universities
Social and Cultural Challenges
Educational Difficulties
Conclusions

From the Paper:

"The number of students from Hong Kong in Toronto Universities is extremely difficult to determine. This is mainly due to the fact that statistics are largely deal with the national level. There are very few statistics available for individual cities. However, universities obtain data on how many students they obtain for given countries. York University had approximately 115 students from Hong Kong in 2002. The University of Toronto had approximately 280 students from Hong Kong is 2007. There are also approximately 80 students from Hong Kong at Ryerson. These figures indicate that there are approximately 475 students from Hong Kong studying in Toronto.
"Chinese people in Canada seem to experience a wide range of social and cultural challenges. Probably one of the largest challenges faced by most Chinese students in Toronto is the difficulty that many English speaking Canadians have with certain aspects of Chinese culture. Many Chinese students use English names so that English speaking Canadians will not struggle with their Chinese names. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Anonymous, "International student participation in Canadian education" in The Daily, Statistics Canada 1995: http:// www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/980513/d980513.htm.
• Anonymous, "Ryerson International Student Information" on the Ryerson Website, 2007: http://www.ryerson.ca/ undergraduate/admission/international/.
• Anonymous, "Student Numbers Down in Canada" on the HothouseMedia Website, 2004: http://www.hothousemedia.com/etm/ etmbackissues/septetm05/septetm05news.htm.
• Anonymous, York International, York University, 2002: http:// international.yorku.ca/about/stats0203.pdf.
• Bone, Robert M., The Regional Geography of Canada, Third Edition, Oxford University Press, Canada, 2005.

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