Aliens in Canada – Diary of an international student

By Faizan Khan. Including my home country of Pakistan, Canada is the fourth country in which I have been educated. After gaining some college credit at home, I started off my journey as an international student by pursuing an undergraduate degree in business in both the United States and Dubai. While there, I faced tremendous challenges on several levels. These challenges ranged from culture shock and adapting to a new environment to racial discrimination. At one point I found myself laughing out loud when I heard the Canadian comedian Russell Peters say that Middle Easterners were today’s blacks for what they have had to go through since 9/11. Read more...