Asian students face mockery, exclusion at Australian universities, national study finds

The country’s largest university racism study found many students feared reporting discrimination because of academic and visa consequences.

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Asian and international students at Australian universities reported being mocked for their accents, treated with suspicion in classrooms and ignored by campus reporting systems, according to a landmark study released by the Australian Human Rights Commission. The report found racism was pervasive across the country’s higher…