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today’s been a hard day and i’m frankly even questioning whether i should post this bc part of me knows that i’m so filled with privilege that things like this shouldnt hurt me but the truth is that even though i’m not here on an F-1 visa anymore (status change), even though+
+my English is pretty good, even though I lived in the US for a bit before going to college here and even though i’m pretty white passing (both in the way i talk and in the way i look), being an international student is fucking hard
i never talk about this cause i dont want to seem like i’m victimizing myself but intl students do have to work twice (or more) as hard for the same grades, recognition etc and this extra work is rarely ever acknowledged
and people who know me know that i never tell professors i’m an intl student bc the last thing i want is any sort of special treatment, which remains true, but today’s news have impacted me emotionally more than I could have ever anticipated
just a couple days ago i was talking to my grandma about my internship and she reminded me that as a foreigner my work needs to be light years better than an american’s because otherwise why would I be hired instead?
i honestly dont know if this thread is coherent and frankly i dont rly care if it is or not i guess my point is that i’m fucking fed up with people thinking that it’s just as easy for me to get an A or to foster connections with faculty just because i’m “americanized” enough
and i’m fucking fed up with international students being seen as “theyre here because they pay full tuition” or as a diversity “we’re such a global campus” quota and i’m fucking fed up with this administration that only takes and looks at us dead in the eye and says fuck you
the amount of times i have questioned my worth and merit as a student/academic/professional because of these ideas that are constantly perpetuated by domestic students and faculty are honestly uncountable and this decision by ICE only reinforces it all
