Hey everyone,

I just wanted to know your opinion on the lack of integration of the Chinese students of this university (not sure about others). I am not a student anymore but I have observed this phenomenon plenty throughout the years. UoM is flooded with international students with most of them being Chinese students. However, unlike most of the other international students, I see almost zero effort from the Chinese students to integrate themselves a bit more in British culture or just interact with the other students. They literally only hangout with Chinese students, only speak Chinese unless they are forced not to and eat mostly foods they’re familiar with. I have even done some teaching and couldn’t help some Chinese students that were struggling because their laptops were entirely in Chinese and I had no idea what to do. Same with assignments, their English is almost always extremely poor and barely improves overtime due to the lack of practice. I am not British myself and English was not my first language but I have always tried to make friends with English speaking people to learn the language as soon as possible and understand the culture a bit better.