• BakerBagel@midwest.social
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      10 months ago

      Could you afford to move to Tokyo for 4 years of university? It’s expensive and requires wealthy parents to go to school abroad like that.

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        10 months ago

        Not to mention that most colleges/universities charge international students more than domestic. Many Asian students attend university in the UK purely for prestige, and many of them fork out enough money for managed accommodation that it’s become a huge business in itself.

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        10 months ago

        I’ll go ahead and be that guy…

        Some asians in the US were born here, to working class asian parents.

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          9 months ago

          That’s what I was confused about. Like, how can you tell someones money by their race. It had the same energy as “they look mexican, they must be illegals” to me.