Recently, more and more students chose to
study abroad, and it raised a serious question about safety of returned
students. It seemed easy for everyone to face these personal safety problems
such as being robbed or anything else about being targets of rascals, however, international
students had more chances because their foreign background. Some students would
be considered rich due to their crossing sea to come to another country, and
some would be deceived because of language gap.
So I wanted to write about this
article, and I interviewed three international students’ attitude toward this
kind of question about safety. They all expressed their tension about coming to
the entirely new environment, but one of them, Monica, had parents to come with
her fortunately. When I asked how they think about those cases such as the
Japanese female student was rape and killed in Taiwan or Taiwanese female
student was killed by her friend in Japan, they considered it normal and said
that they would be more careful than they usually did in their home country.
So
I was a little relieved that these kinds of things wouldn’t retreat
international students from coming to Taiwan, not like some Chinese parents
would be afraid of their children’s safety and started to exclude some
countries. However, we still had to make effort to maintain social order to let
more students or visitors to come and be at ease.
