Rich students from Indonesia/PRC will always drive fast/expensive cars. Go down to Kingsford/Randwick here, near UNSW, and you will see students in T-shirt,short,sandals driving SLKs. There was an accident here of a PRC student that got killed in his Ferrari just last year.
Indonesian Chinese are in Sinkieland as well if you look carefully. I remember when I was in secondary school in Sinkieland about 25% of the class is Indonesian Chinese, another 25% Malaysian Chinese, even the 50% that are classified as sinkies, most of them have parents with PRs/Citizen that "migrated" to Singapore. This is easily 15-20 years ago. I don't see what is the problem with all this FThrash talk nowadays. I think its the "quality" of the people that has been admitted recently that is the problem.
Don't get me wrong, not all the PRC students that are here are rich. Their ultimate goal is to get PR here just like the Indian students. But I do see more sense in them then going for the cheapest. Some of them will tell you of the "horror" stories of when they arrive, 10 students squeezed into a 3 bedroom apartment. Most of them know this is not the right way to live and would seek better accommodation within the first few months. I don't see this happening with the Indian students here.
With all the media attention in India about Australia being a racist country and Indians not coming here. I say good riddance, you are right that they have not properly evaluated their expenses here, and are just trying to come here and hope for the best. This would ensure only the "quality" Indians would come here. If you have not done any "homework" on coming to Australia please don't even attempt to come over here.
You right. These chaps have come over to get PR, hoping to work and I suppose unscrupulous agents have fed them some nice things as well. Their currency is also weak so they become desperate once they come over.
I do recall when there was a surge of students from PRC, SEA that there were issues and resentment particulary from Melbourne some sometime around mid 2000s. Some of the rich chinese kids were flying around melbourne in expensive cars. Howard had to reassure the locals that they are stiudents and they will be gone eventually. He also released numbers and the fact that most of the schools,colleges in Melbourne were concentrated nearby giving the impression that was a surge in migration. I was surprised that Indonesian students had huge numbers until I realised that its the Indonesian Chinese. For them, matricualtion and Uni is always OZ. The differnce was that these students were more security conscious and had common sense.
