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  • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
    34·
    3 days ago

    There’s an entire industry in India that revolves around fraudulent academic records. Until that country can sort its shit out or we can put more resources into verification, this is good.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      An entire industry in Canada too. In addition to the legit postsecondary cash grab, there is an enourmous private “school” industry being operated out of every strip mall in the GTA. These “schools” are anything but educational institutions.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 days ago

      Indeed. This is not a racism thing, this is just the practical reality of the country right now. Something similar happened in Mexico (not sure if still a thing) and I’m saying this as a Mexican.

    • festus@lemmy.caEnglish
      294·
      3 days ago

      Some of those applicants want to come here to actually study and ideally shouldn’t be rejected solely because of their nationality.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
        91·
        3 days ago

        Currently it does need more scrutiny though. I have a few coworkers from India, they have tons of stories of how the corruption works there.

        Get a traffic ticket, buy the cop a roadside lunch.

        Want planning permission slide the civic clerk a bribe. (Apparently that position has a long waiting list, because you will make more in bribes that a doctors salary.)

        Injure or kill somebody in a motor accident, offer their family (and police) a lump sum to drop charges.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          42·
          3 days ago

          That’s pretty much anywhere in the third world, FYI. It’s just how things work until you have many decades of stability and democracy to unlearn it. Corruption used to be a way of life in the West, too. There were operas about it.

            • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
              21·
              2 days ago

              You clearly have no idea what it’s like outside the Western world.

              (That’s a statement about your privilege, not a criticism of them)

          • BCsven@lemmy.ca
            41·
            3 days ago

            India has 70 years of democracy, but according to my coworkers there are just too many people (density) to enforce laws. You shut something down, there’s another thing tomorrow

            • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
              23·
              3 days ago

              They have had democracy longer than typical, and are a challenge to explain in that sense, but not really stability or prosperity.

              Whichever theory you subscribe to, this is an empirical observation. Visit Africa or Latin America or SE Asia and you’ll see similar things. (And the first two can be pretty low density, FWIW)

      • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
        102·
        3 days ago

        you’re 100% correct and I feel bad for those people but you know the saying “a few bad apples spoil the lot”

        India has an ENTIRE industry whose sole purpose is to fake academic records and assist people in faking their student visa applications. That’s on the Indian government that STILL hasn’t cracked down on it similar to how they don’t crack down heavily on online and phone scamming of western nations. So individuals who are seeking a better life outside of India need to first fix what’s going on at home. And make no mistake it’s not just fake visas and scamming there’s also an entire outsourcing industry that they had propped up full of unqualified developers and engineers that western companies once outsourced to.

        India, in more ways than one, needs to get their shit together in several ways be it culturally, financially, and politically. When the majority of the west looks at India and instantly thinks “scammers” that’s not a good look. that does not build trust. And the hard working honest people of India suffer for it.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          4·
          3 days ago

          And shouldn’t it be on us to check if a given document is bullshit? I mean, you could write a fake acceptance letter here too.

          The article doesn’t even say that’s not what’s happening, although the headline makes it sound pre-emptive.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        32·
        3 days ago

        Till this fraud thing can be sorted out sorry but they are caught in the backlash.

      • CaptainThor@lemmy.world
        413·
        3 days ago

        Ideally, but we’ve seen what happens when we open the floodgates to one country. The balance is completely off

            • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
              51·
              2 days ago

              …you know M&M’s are all the same inside?

              You do know all M&M’s are functionally identical on the inside, and the food colouring used in the shell does not affect its taste nor texture?

              If different M&M colours taste different to you, that’s a placebo. It isn’t real. It’s just M&M racism.

              I’m sorry, this is just such a perfect example of trying to say “I’m not racist, but…” and instead full on stating “I’m racist and will sort people solely on the amount of melanin in their skin”. It’s almost poetic.