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ctk495 on 17 October 2015
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Cobretti2 said:
ctk495 said:
After, thinking through for a while, I have realized that the international students are the worst. They are using their influence to try and disseminate lies against me, simply because I didn't want to be their friends. The belong to a hierarchical clique full of corruption and abuse of power. It seems they can't live in a world where one is an individual but rather they MUST, form relationships with all the other international students.

Having worked after college in a job where I did most of the work alone. I got used to not seeing people and not grouping together or asking support from others. But I guess not everyone can be that free.

I don't know what kind of fucked up school you go to. But every one I have attended international students tended to leave you alone and ONLY associate themselves with people from their country / region. Main reason being because alot of them were far away from home and didn't know good english and wanted to feel like they never left home so found a common group off people to work with (i.e. replaced their family and friends network).  At no stage did any local student feel like there was a conspiracy to take you down, hell most international didn't even come to lectures because they didn't understand and had others tutor them lol. 

It went a little like this

Asian students (sometime broken down further by chinese and other)

Indian Students

African Students

Other smaller groups sorta gelled together. 

 

From these groups some who had better english and more confidence in themselves ventured out into other circles.


In anycase what is wrong with people wanting to be your friend? I wish more international students ehre tried to integrate and get along, but it was understandable as Aussies for some cultures are far too open minded. 

Also ironically they are the ones who studied the hardest and socialised less (because their fees were about 4x more than local students), so one could argue if you are all about the books these are the perfect kind of friends for you if they approached you.

I am an international student, this invalidates most of what you've said. I was actually bothered by how intrusive some of them are, as how they want to force me to be their friend and since I didn't want to they are saying I am not friendly.