Within Waterloo Region it certainly exists there is no denying it, any one can go on the subreddits and see it but I have yet to see it translated into actual physical/verbal attacks in public, it is primarily online. Many of the international students within the region are of similar age to me and because of this many of my friends are international students, I know the vast majority of people my age don't have any problems with them but it stems from the fact that most people my age have grown up within a very multicultural society.
I attended Cameron Heights before pursuing post secondary education at Waterloo, going into Cameron it had a reputation of being the bad school because it was downtown, but because of where it was located its catchment area brought people of all walks of life and because of this it was a very multicultural school, the cafeteria has flags of every country that present and former students are from, when one walks into the cafeteria many of the friend groups that you will see are made up of people from all sorts of ethnicities, assemblies would have performances of Bollywood dance, Kpop dance and really all sorts of multicultural performances. Due to this many people my age who are directly associating with the international students don't have any problems with them because we've grown up in an environment where there was already that push for representing every culture. So the hate that is online really isn't from the people who are constantly associating with them it is more so from those who are of an older demographic.
Obviously I have no idea how to solve any of the problems associated with an influx of international students, I have solutions I think would alleviate some of the issues but certainly I don't have the answers. But overall the vast majority of the online hate isn't coming from those who are constantly associating with the students, a lot of them are actually really decent people much like those who are already living in the region.
I attended Cameron Heights before pursuing post secondary education at Waterloo, going into Cameron it had a reputation of being the bad school because it was downtown, but because of where it was located its catchment area brought people of all walks of life and because of this it was a very multicultural school, the cafeteria has flags of every country that present and former students are from, when one walks into the cafeteria many of the friend groups that you will see are made up of people from all sorts of ethnicities, assemblies would have performances of Bollywood dance, Kpop dance and really all sorts of multicultural performances. Due to this many people my age who are directly associating with the international students don't have any problems with them because we've grown up in an environment where there was already that push for representing every culture. So the hate that is online really isn't from the people who are constantly associating with them it is more so from those who are of an older demographic.
Obviously I have no idea how to solve any of the problems associated with an influx of international students, I have solutions I think would alleviate some of the issues but certainly I don't have the answers. But overall the vast majority of the online hate isn't coming from those who are constantly associating with the students, a lot of them are actually really decent people much like those who are already living in the region.