Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- About the authors
- Preface
- PART 1 Students in the global market
- PART 2 Security in the formal and public domain
- PART 3 Security in the informal and private domain
- 11 The universities
- 12 Language
- 13 Family and friends
- 14 Loneliness
- 15 Intercultural relations
- PART 4 Protection and empowerment
- References
- Index
15 - Intercultural relations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- About the authors
- Preface
- PART 1 Students in the global market
- PART 2 Security in the formal and public domain
- PART 3 Security in the informal and private domain
- 11 The universities
- 12 Language
- 13 Family and friends
- 14 Loneliness
- 15 Intercultural relations
- PART 4 Protection and empowerment
- References
- Index
Summary
There was one incident that I'll never forget. It happened to me when I was up in Melbourne, in my first six months here. I was at the South Yarra train station. I was standing next to this woman, and she turned round to me and started abusing me. ‘Why don't you just go back where you came from? We don't want you here!’ It really took me aback. It was the last thing I expected … I was blind. I was walking into town … I just carried on walking. It was so embarrassing. Ever since that, I've been more conscious about being different, about my colour, my nationality.
~ female, 22, business, ZimbabweINTRODUCTION: INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS AND STUDENT SECURITY
People want synchrony and harmony with their conditions of life. ‘Harmony’ means inclusion, membership and acceptance. ‘Synchrony’ refers to mimetic coordination with the world around, social and institutional relations that speak of timing and easy grace. People want to coincide with each other. Though this is often seen as a conforming impulse it also powers innovation and creativity. Much of the energy in globalisation lies in the drive to synchronise across geographical and cultural distance, to reach out for new friends and do things together. In this more global era there are millions of cases. Many involve international students.
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- International Student Security , pp. 392 - 444Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010