加媒抱怨“亚洲学生太多” 亚裔表示强烈不满

An article seen on Wednesday's Canadian newspaper the Toronto Star has aroused Chinese Canadians' strong dissatisfaction for what it calls "too Asian" in Canadian universities and those "Asian" students lack of the "independence or social skills" necessary for university life。

In the controversial story, Toronto Star cited a report in the latest Maclean's university guide titled "Too Asian?" that quotes some non-Asian students' concerns that some universities have a largely Asian student body. The story also promoted gross stereotypes about Asians, who are posed as learning machines that won't interact with anything but a book。

"I can find you white parents who are pressuring their kids to go to university too - Canadians all tell their kids, 'Don't smoke, don't do drugs, stay in school' and they encourage them to go to university; what's wrong with that?" asked Victor Wong, the executive director Victor Wong of the Chinese Canadian National Council, which was formed in 1980 in response to a television documentary that warned students of Chinese background "taking over" some university campuses。

Recent York University sociology graduate Chase Lo warned this kind of story "creates a moral panic but oversimplifies the issue. The push to university is reflective of society in general; it's unfair to say only Asian immigrants are focusing on university."

Now Maclean's reporters have renamed the report as "The enrollment controversy", claiming they "do not defend imposition of parental values and expectations on children", and arguing that they should "draw connections between the drive towards university education and the fact that racialized populations still remain at the bottom of the professional ladder."

本周三，加拿大《多伦多星报》刊登文章，抱怨加拿大许多大学被“亚洲化”，而“亚洲”学生缺乏大学生活必要的“自理能力和社交技巧”，引起加国亚裔的强烈不满。

在这篇倍受争议的文章中，《多伦多星报》援引加拿大时事杂志《麦克琳》大学教育专栏文章《太过亚洲化？》称，非亚裔学生担心大学里亚裔学生太多(导致身为“本土学生”的自己被排斥到了大学之外)。而该报还在报道中强化了对亚洲人的固有偏见，把亚洲学生描述成了学习机器，只知道如何跟书本交流。

“我经常见到那些白人家长也给自己的孩子施压——加拿大人常告诉自己的孩子：‘不要抽烟，不要吸毒，好好在学校呆着。’他们也会鼓励自己的孩子上大学。(这和中国家长的做法一样，中国家长鼓励孩子上大学就不对了，)这有什么不对？”“全加拿大华人协会”执行经理维克多•王说道。“全加拿大华人协会”创建于1980年，当时就有电视纪录片警告加拿大本土人士：中国学生正在“侵占”大学校园。

而毕业于约克大学社会学专业的蔡斯•罗称这种性质的报道“引发了道德之痛苦，却过于简化了问题之实质。争相进大学是一个社会普遍存在的现象，只说亚洲移民热衷读大学是不公平的。”

如今《麦克琳》杂志已经将文章标题改为“入学争议”，并称他们“无意冒犯父母价值观以及对孩子的期望强加于(孩子身上的行为)”，还称他们应该“将这种对大学教育趋之若鹜的现象同被歧视的种族群体仍在职业教育水平底层这一事实联系起来。” （实习编辑：顾萍）