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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I used to work at a research station and many of the scientists I knew used to avoid hiring Asian immigrants because of the downside of the attitude many of them have where they try to please their employer to no end. The reason being, many of them had a reputation for "fudging" scientific data in ways that would make their employer happy. If they knew that their employers was hoping to prove or disprove something, they would create a bias to make it happen.
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I can attest to this. I find that in the tech industry, there are a LOT of frauds. Especially young engineers from India, it seems more socially acceptable to fudge their work and say or do whatever they can to get away with as much as they can that it makes the process quite intensive to figure out who's a fraud and who's not.
To the topic at hand ... I think the role of universities (in Canada) is to develop talent for Canada. These universities are highly public funded and as a result, society should be benefiting from whatever talent and skills Canada universities produce. In that sense, I think Canadian univerities should keep higher %'s to Canadian citizens and lower %'s to non-Canadian citizens. (I realize the irony since I'm a Canadian citizen, educated in a Canadian university, then immediately left Canada once I graduated to work in another country.)
As for the segregation ... I think it is important to have a comprehensive "university" experience. The culture of "work work work" might seem admirable, but that loses sight of what university is all about. University is about learning but a big part of it is also personal development. Most students use 5% of what they learned in their undergrad (especially in Canada, less so for specialized fields) and the difference between a "successful" university grad and a non-successful is their ability to adapt, to learn on the spot and transferable skills you don't get from being a study monkey jumping through hoops. Students that study 24/7 lose sight of creativity and intuition and only know how to work in a confined box of systematic formula. It doesn't have to necessarily be drinking and partying, but there are lots of other aspects of academic life that develop well rounded individuals to contribute to society post-grad... something you don't get from being a calculator monkey.