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30 - Wednesday, August 7, 1985 - North Shore News

YMCA college celebrates 15 years

From Page 29
which promotes cultural and
business ties. Clark sees the
college organized in the
future as a place where the
community can go for Asian
Studies, to fearn the
languages of the Far East,
etiquette, food, sports and
to make business contacts.

After Expo, Clark points
out, Vancouver will have to
fook for expanding new
business avenues, and the
Far East is one.

The college does have its
critics who say that such
foreign students are a cost
and burden to the taxpayer,
and that their presence
makes it more difficult for
Canadian studeis to go to
UBC, But past principal
Tina Allas says her college
graduates haven't gone on to
UBC because that university
requires students to be land-
ed immigrants. ‘Visa’ stu-
dents are only allowed into
graduate school. A handful
of graduates did get into
SFU.

According to Clark, many
students return to Hong
Kong after getting a North
American degree, which they
feel will help them in family
businesses.

It's not easy for the newly
arrived student to adjust.
Allas points out that East
and West both have dif-
ferent forms of etiquette,
and this difference makes
life here difficult for the
student for a while.

She teaches a culturalizat-
ion course to college stu-
dents which eases them into
our way of life. For exam-
ple, she tells her students
that unlike the East, burping
is not acceptable here as a
sign of a good meal. Chinese
students are also cautioned
not to speak loudly in public
places, such as bus stops
(‘‘In Cantonese you have tc
speak loudly’’) nor to push
to get on a bus as you do in
Hong Kong where there are
so many people.

Students also find our
streets ‘‘very scary’’ because
they are empty in com-
parison with those of Hong
Kong. They don’t like to say
‘thank you’, explains Allas,
because you naturally
assume that a friend will do
a favor for you. But Allas
tells them “if someone does

something for you in
Canada, you say thank
you.”’

What else has she found
out about the students?
They don’t like the food, the
quiet and sandwiches, They
like our clean air, the trees
an! people. In Hong Kong,
no one speaks to each other
but here they do. And they
all want to drive a car,
because in Hong Kong cars
are very expensive.”*

Their teachers like them,
says Blanche McOrmond
who has just retired after
teaching for 32 years on the
North Shore. She says of her
visa students, ‘‘It'san expe-
tience | wouldn't have miss-
ed. Their culture makes us
humble, Their poetry, for
example, has been around
for 5,000 years.’’ French
teacher Moraig Meyer calls it
‘ta rewarding experience for
the teacher. It’s a teacher's
paradise. The students are
really so dedicated to the
subject."’

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