‘Is it in my head?’ International students recall covert racism, gaslighting in Canada

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‘Is it in my head?’ International students recall covert racism, gaslighting in Canada
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Analysis: Young adults from around the world come to Canada to pursue their dreams. Once here, their self\u002Desteem is often shattered

Students are most commonly mocked and misunderstood because of their accents and ethnicity within educational institutions — places where they would hope to feel encouraged. Kiran Nazish, a professor at Brandon University in Manitoba, shed light on how some of her students have been treated differently because of their English proficiency and ethnicity.

“During a test, I asked a teaching assistant if spelling mistakes will result in deduction of marks, to which he said that I should take help from the accessibility services at UofT and ask if ‘you can bring a Spanish dictionary to class.’ Most people know that in Brazil, Latin America’s largest country, Portuguese is the official language, not Spanish,” she said.Article content continuedCarneiro is not alone in this experience.

“My mother is white-passing which is why people treat her a bit better, so once we were walking down the street when a lady in front of us suddenly turned around and started yelling at me in French. At the time, I didn’t know how to speak French, but I think she was saying some kind of a slur. I thought maybe she doesn’t want anyone to walk behind her, so I apologized and in French, she said, ‘speak French, this isn’t an English country.’ My mother said maybe she was impatient.

“Oftentimes, racist behaviours are embedded in what people learn while growing up. The assumption is based on the idea inherited from somewhere which equates freedom, modernity and everything nice to here [West] and everything bad to people residing somewhere else,” he said.

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