A few years ago, Shandong University took the lead in implementing the student partner system for foreign students, which made many Chinese people very dissatisfied. The trend of this incident is not only the dissatisfaction of many Chinese students with some domestic universities and the super-national treatment of foreign students, but also the instinctive antipathy of Chinese people who have been infected by Confucianism for thousands of years.
The discussion and controversy over Shandong University that incident set off on the Internet back then were obvious to many netizens. rushed to the hot search on the Internet several times, and returned to dullness several times. However, in the past few days, there has been another discussion on the Chinese Internet about the student buddy system, but this time the target is German universities.
Judging from some screenshots collected on the Internet, German universities are trying to change the existing student buddy system. The original voluntary social activities aimed at helping foreign students integrate into local life and study more quickly have been transformed into a model of migrant children and local girls studying together.
And judging from the screenshot, the ** of local girls and immigrant students together looks uncomfortable. byThere is a lack of foreign news, so we can't confirm whether the news on the Internet is correct. But that doesn't stop us from following the buddy system that Germany used to admir.
When international or immigrant students arrive in Germany, they are accompanied by a local teenager who helps them adapt to their new environment and solve their linguistic and cultural difficulties. This model has helped foreign students better integrate into the new social environment, and at the same time, it has also given local teenagers the opportunity to learn about different cultures, enhancing their global vision and multicultural understanding. In the eyes of the locals, this is a win-win situation for the locals.
In German universities, 12% of students are foreign students. Therefore, in order to avoid some inconvenience to foreign students due to differences in language and cultural environment. German universities run a number of projects that help their own volunteers, such as:Buddy-programmwithTandem-programm.
The Close Friends program is more focused on helping foreign students integrate into local life and familiarize themselves with the local environment more quickly. For example, the bus sits in **The best local food to buy in **How do you get to your dorm room or something?It's a bit like the kind of senior students in the student union in our university, with the feeling of entering the school with a new arrival.
The language buddy program is literal, allowing foreign students to adapt to the local language environment more quickly, which is conducive to information exchange and communication. For example, Chinese students and German students in the Chinese Department will carry out Sino-German exchange and meeting activities. This program is more focused on group communication and is more academic!
Either way, the focus is on more equal communication and assistance. However, the uncomfortable arrangement of a male foreign student with three female students obviously did not exist in serious programs at German universities in the past.
With the adjustment of Germany's immigration policy, more and more immigrant families choose to send their children to local schools for education. This also brings with it a new set of problems, such as language barriers, cultural differences, and even religious issues. If this is the case, it is not impossible for Germany to decide to reform the buddy system and change the original one-to-one buddy model to a model in which immigrant children study in pairs with local girls.
On the one hand, due to gender differences, there are differences between male and female students in terms of learning interests and learning methods, which may affect the effect of learning, which is not as pure as the previous close friend program. On the other hand, if not handled properly, this model may trigger some socially sensitive issues such as sexism, racial discrimination, etc.
But whether this is true or not, our universities are safe, and there is no need to learn such a system that adapts to a foreign environment. First of all, our country does not have such a large number of immigrants, so naturally it will not face the many problems caused by the large number of immigrants in Germany, and the social tear that it is currently experiencing.
Secondly, the instinctive resistance of Chinese people to the student buddy system is not due to their unwillingness to help foreign students. It is because some universities in China give foreign students super-national treatment, which has undermined the principle of fairness and justice in the university learning environment and atmosphere. This is the main factor that this kind of thing has gone through all these years, but it can still set off an uproar several times!
We can boldly guess that when domestic universities implement the student buddy system to domestic college students on a voluntary basis, there may not be so much controversy, right?
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