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They're a credit to themselves, to their heritage, and to the new country they have adopted, and which has welcomed them. "It's the Asian culture", we are informed, as we read, agog, of the scholastic aptitude and learning drive of first- and second-generation Canadians of Chinese origin.
The Asian affinity for the acquisition of learning and engaging successfully in education at very high levels is not a new idea; it has long been noted. These high-attainers have their counterparts in others whose heritage resembles theirs, like East Indians. Who also excel disproportionately in achieving high marks in institutes of higher education.
Recent studies have concluded that immigrants to Canada appear, on the whole, to be more accommodating to adjusting and integrating into the kind of immigrant-led, pluralistic society that Canada has become. In some ways, it is suggested, that outcome owes much to Canada's immigration system of "points" relating to education levels, language skills, age, and family already relocated to Canada.
The idea being to build a society and a nation that is cohesive and well-adjusted. The country is not exactly looking for sources of cheap labour, as has been done throughout Europe.
It is simply that, even while many immigrants coming to Canada discover that their professional qualifications aren't recognized as being on par with Canadian levels, requiring additional, often onerous and awkward re-education in their professions, they realize that opportunities for their children attending Canadian institutes of learning will result in greater opportunities, even while they themselves see their earning potential downgraded in the process.
The survey that came to their conclusions about the astonishing level of university enrolment and graduation among individuals of Chinese ancestry - most of them second-generation Canadians - has been published as the Youth In Transition Survey. Which came to the understanding that those they termed "Generation 1.5" have a combined university/community college attendance level of 98.3% for post-secondary education by the age of 21.
As compared with non-immigrant Canadian young people who have a 38% attendance rate, and all first-generation immigrants combined with a still fairly elevated 57% higher education attendance rate. Students attending institutes of post-secondary education originally from India, the Middle East and African nations, representing greater numbers than non-immigrant youth have a 90% attendance rate, another jaw-dropping number.
The motivation to succeed at higher education levels, seeking future opportunities for a life of enriched and broader options appears culturally-motivated, where the value of education is never over-estimated, and held in high esteem. Some of the children of immigrants have been self-motivated to succeed, where in other situations parents themselves with high degrees of education have motivated their children to follow in their footsteps.
And Canadian-born, non-immigrant children (or those whose immigrant parents came to the country generations earlier), simply do not seem to respond as do their recently-immigrated counterparts to attain the education that would lead them to succeed as successful entrepreneurs and professionals. Little wonder Canada has become so dependent on the human capital inherent in inviting prospective new Canadians from abroad.
The Asian affinity for the acquisition of learning and engaging successfully in education at very high levels is not a new idea; it has long been noted. These high-attainers have their counterparts in others whose heritage resembles theirs, like East Indians. Who also excel disproportionately in achieving high marks in institutes of higher education.
Recent studies have concluded that immigrants to Canada appear, on the whole, to be more accommodating to adjusting and integrating into the kind of immigrant-led, pluralistic society that Canada has become. In some ways, it is suggested, that outcome owes much to Canada's immigration system of "points" relating to education levels, language skills, age, and family already relocated to Canada.
The idea being to build a society and a nation that is cohesive and well-adjusted. The country is not exactly looking for sources of cheap labour, as has been done throughout Europe.
It is simply that, even while many immigrants coming to Canada discover that their professional qualifications aren't recognized as being on par with Canadian levels, requiring additional, often onerous and awkward re-education in their professions, they realize that opportunities for their children attending Canadian institutes of learning will result in greater opportunities, even while they themselves see their earning potential downgraded in the process.
The survey that came to their conclusions about the astonishing level of university enrolment and graduation among individuals of Chinese ancestry - most of them second-generation Canadians - has been published as the Youth In Transition Survey. Which came to the understanding that those they termed "Generation 1.5" have a combined university/community college attendance level of 98.3% for post-secondary education by the age of 21.
As compared with non-immigrant Canadian young people who have a 38% attendance rate, and all first-generation immigrants combined with a still fairly elevated 57% higher education attendance rate. Students attending institutes of post-secondary education originally from India, the Middle East and African nations, representing greater numbers than non-immigrant youth have a 90% attendance rate, another jaw-dropping number.
The motivation to succeed at higher education levels, seeking future opportunities for a life of enriched and broader options appears culturally-motivated, where the value of education is never over-estimated, and held in high esteem. Some of the children of immigrants have been self-motivated to succeed, where in other situations parents themselves with high degrees of education have motivated their children to follow in their footsteps.
And Canadian-born, non-immigrant children (or those whose immigrant parents came to the country generations earlier), simply do not seem to respond as do their recently-immigrated counterparts to attain the education that would lead them to succeed as successful entrepreneurs and professionals. Little wonder Canada has become so dependent on the human capital inherent in inviting prospective new Canadians from abroad.
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