If you had to explain Canadian Culture to a stranger what would you say ?
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I have to disagree, the internet exists in the 21th century. Even children in Africa with an internet connection can log on to khan academy and learn just about anything.
It's very sad and disheartening that this is how tax dollars are being used. Even more so when you consider how discussion about sexuality takes precedence over basic numeracy, reading and writing.
This is the rat race frand!
Never enter it, or get out as quick as you can!
Yes please do. Someone quick!
We are the polite culture. We don't seek accolades or the limelight but we relish it when it does happen. We don't seek out confrontation but we won't back down if challenged. We are a nation of quiet resolve. I'd also say we are still a hockey culture but becoming less and less so as our demographics change.
Some of you don't get it about university rankings. The rankings represent the quality of the faculties in terms of their research where the profs went through school and how many publications they release and what journals they get released in. A place like u of t is a piece of shit it's a huge school and undergrads mean nothing to the profs and the school. A lot of the times the undergrad classes are taught by PhD students and not tenured profs so you can't get the "benefit" of having been taught by a powerhouse Prof for example.
A lot of the undergrads are dumb as blocks. The school knows this esp a faceless monster like U of T or York. The undergrads are just there for the school to make money. The graduate programs a lot of the time is full of foreign students. When I did grad school not in Toronto my class had 95 per cent foreign born students from places like India or Japan or China. We had like two Canadian born students and one was a girl who was dumb. She needed help with the work. Now she's apparently a big shot at KPMG. My guess she fucked the right dick to move up.
With the Canadian school system so weak and the rat race mentality less and less students will get into advanced degrees. It will be all foreign students because they're taught right.
That's why when I used to date online or tried to it made me laugh when many of the Canadian born girls esp the white ones who say I'm highly educated. You have a convo with them and they have an arts BA and don't know nothing of nothing. When I used to call them on it they would get super defensive.
I had one European chick friend. This chick used to read classics like ts Elliot for fun. When's the last time you've seen a typical Canad an girl or guy read anything other than trash like Paola Coehlo?
If I ever have kids I will try to instill a love for learning and culture not only for immediate monetary gain but for personal growth.
A lot of the undergrads are dumb as blocks. The school knows this esp a faceless monster like U of T or York. The undergrads are just there for the school to make money. The graduate programs a lot of the time is full of foreign students. When I did grad school not in Toronto my class had 95 per cent foreign born students from places like India or Japan or China. We had like two Canadian born students and one was a girl who was dumb. She needed help with the work. Now she's apparently a big shot at KPMG. My guess she fucked the right dick to move up.
With the Canadian school system so weak and the rat race mentality less and less students will get into advanced degrees. It will be all foreign students because they're taught right.
That's why when I used to date online or tried to it made me laugh when many of the Canadian born girls esp the white ones who say I'm highly educated. You have a convo with them and they have an arts BA and don't know nothing of nothing. When I used to call them on it they would get super defensive.
I had one European chick friend. This chick used to read classics like ts Elliot for fun. When's the last time you've seen a typical Canad an girl or guy read anything other than trash like Paola Coehlo?
If I ever have kids I will try to instill a love for learning and culture not only for immediate monetary gain but for personal growth.
bbbbbb-but the alchemist changed my life!
Only heard of this guy as a joke and thought it was just within my circle of friends. Didn't know it was this much of a meme.
Moronic, inappropriate post. It does not fit in with the conversation.
Serious question, if it is this bad, why don't you move?
So if the quality of the teachers and the work they do in terms of advancing their fields through research are meaningless, what parameters do you consider important to whether a university is good quality or not. What countries have a better university system than the "mediocre" U.S. with 16 of the top 20 rankings?
Also what qualifications do you have to accurately assess universities around the world, aside from when you date a Euro. Do you have anything other than anecdotal offerings or your personal perceptions from the outside.
Yes, 17th place is mediocre in my books. Same as a high school grade of 90% or a University grade of A-. And given huge class sizes and high student/professor ratio, the actual Undergraduate experience is even worse. These ratings are biased toward English speaking schools and developed counties (e.g. no great Indian or Chinese schools there although all of U.S. Ph.D programs have lots of Indian and Chinese students). I would agree that we have many true A-/B students (although even larger numbers of C students who get their grades just for coming to the exams), but very little As and no A+s: our high schools are not able to produce them (the schools actually slow best students down) and the ones who have actually being able to learn despite our school system try to go the U.S. Universities.
And just another measure of how bad our Undergraduate programs are: look at PhD students at top U.S. schools. Lots of Asians, Indians, some Europeans, some Americans, and almost mo Canadians. Why? We are the closest neighbour, speak English, and all Ph.D. programs provide full financial support.
@shack. In the USA the undergrad experience they only use it to have an experience. This 16 schools are good but the graduate programs esp in science, tech, engineering, and mathematics are full of foreign students. The typical Canadian or US student would not be able to hang with some of those kids. In the USA if you have money you send your kid to a top school just to get the degree any degree and then it opens doors. Look at Trump why did he go to Wharton? For the doors it opens and he represents most average Americans perfectly esp middle America.
Furthermore look at the admissions scandal. If those parents didn't know their kids were fucking retards would they have gone through all that trouble to secure spots at top schools.
Like I said most schools here and in the USA know that very few local students will go into grad school but they milk them for four years so they can fund the grad programs so the real students the foreign students can benefit. That goes even for your precious U of T.
You alumni from there and still cheer for their weak sports teams is that why it bothered you what I said ?
Furthermore look at the admissions scandal. If those parents didn't know their kids were fucking retards would they have gone through all that trouble to secure spots at top schools.
Like I said most schools here and in the USA know that very few local students will go into grad school but they milk them for four years so they can fund the grad programs so the real students the foreign students can benefit. That goes even for your precious U of T.
You alumni from there and still cheer for their weak sports teams is that why it bothered you what I said ?
And no nude runs. Even Harvard has nude runs.
I saw a video of an engineering class working on some project. I thought it was a university in China. Actually, it was at the U of T.
When I mentioned that E.I.'s and Chinese are almost all the top 20% of high school graduates, the usual response from the usual suspects is that they aren't very good at basketball and don't spend all their time on social media trying to be popular.
Absolutely wrong. In the top 10 U.S. school any Undergrad can get a meaningful science research experience in the lab working wit professors/postdocs if he wants to. The worse the school is or the bigger the school is, the more "experience" become a party experience. And given huge sized of Canadian Universities, student's education is basically limited to classes with lots of idiots in it (classes are huge), and, hence, a dumbed down material
Another huge misconception. Money plays absolutely no role for admission to top 10 U.S. schools: the admission is "financial aid blind" and all financial aid is need-based (i.e., based on the parents' income and assets): if the family makes less than $60K, students pay nothing and even get fellowships. If family makes $200K+, full price is paid. Partial aid for income in between. Yes, it is extremely expensive, but only families that can afford it pay, if you cannot afford it - you get in for free. When it goes down the University rating, aid is less generous and merit-based scholarship are offered. Also, there is a decent number of Americans in science Ph.D. programs: surely less than Chinese (although many of these Chinese students did their Undergrads at top US schools too). But almost no Canadians
.University of Toronto is the same way. The arts and social science classes are full of Canadians, with very few foreigners, while the STEM courses are spilling over with Asian students from China. It's been this way for at least 20 years. The typical Canadian kid can't compete with these foreign students.
Seeing as the validity of the rankings is being questioned, how does that change the quality of the education that the university provides?
There’s lots of pockets of different cultures in Canada. Acadian, Metis, Asian, East Indian, Quebecois, etc. Don’t think it can be that general but if it were I’d add that we’re less egocentric than either. And much more self aware of the world stage than out neighbours to the south.
I would not pick Strickland as someone representative of eminent
researchers whose contribution to science is uniquely Canadian.
Strickland's Nobel winning work was carried out as a post-graduate
student supervised by her thesis advisor in an U.S. university.
way back in the late 1980's.
At the time of the announcement of her award Strickland
already in her late 50's was still not a full professor. Her
promotion to full professorship was based on her winning of the
Nobel prize not her accomplishments at Waterloo. I am not in Strickland's
field but I could see no indication that Strickland on her own i
was any more prominent than her peers in Waterloo and other
Canadian universities.
Getting back on point. When I have travelled to smaller parts of Canada I'd say the more homogenous the population the more you can say they have a "Canadian" culture and identity. I often have thought that multiculturalism creates an uneasiness like no one truly trusts each other. I remember once Angela Markle saying the multicultural experiment failed in Germany. Would you really say the same here ?
Outside of Toronto Canada is very different place. Even Quebec as a province is more homogenous and they have more of an identity than us in the rest of Canada. Thoughts ?
Outside of Toronto Canada is very different place. Even Quebec as a province is more homogenous and they have more of an identity than us in the rest of Canada. Thoughts ?
A few years back I had to swing through Northern Ontario. Since we had to shoot some grades and take few samples I grabbed a couple of guys for an almost a 3 weeks trip. Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Elliott Lake, Sault, couple other places. Both guys happened to be black. One from the Caribbean and one Toronto born Jamaican. I'll never forget their absolute awe at the size of this province and, especially, its population- how white it was and how sparse. Their surprise at how well they were treated everywhere we went. It struck me that they had absolutely no concept of Canada beyond the GTA. And sadly, most of immigrant communities, that center on the GTA are exactly the same. How can we build a one country, even a multi cultural one, when one group doesn't even know that another exist? As a former immigrant, I'm dead set against multi cultural concept, btw.
