re: #78 wheat-dogg

I’ve got several students who dream of working in the USA. Right now, their best bet is to enter grad school there and snag a job after graduation. A couple of them have managed just that, and now have green cards.

Young people in China may have romantic ideas about freedom in the USA, but they also realize that freedom in China is a pipe dream. They and their families want an escape route.

I am not surprised. A lot of the Chinese students at GMU were economics students or involved in something different than my history program so I really didn’t see a lot of them in my classes outside the Gen Eds but I liked them. Hopefully they can come here. This is a good place to live despite what Trump does and I don’t see the PRC going democratic in our lifetimes. Anyhow, I have this memory of stopping by my dorm to pick something up, gosh it had to have been during Thanksgiving break because it was long enough that those who lived out of state could go home but it would be expensive for a foreign student to fly home. I remember them playing games in the common area in the dorm. I don’t know what these men and women have done since they got their degrees but I hope we made them feel welcome here.