Safety of international students

  

  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.