Examining the Multicultural Experiences of Chinese Graduate Students at the University of Toronto through the Lens of Critical Multiculturalism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research project investigates Chinese international students multicultural experiences. The existing literature shows that language barrier, cultural adjustment and social support are the major factors that influence international studentsâ life abroad. However, with liberal multiculturalism as the mainstream ideology, multicultural research appears to have a liberal multiculturalism tendency. In this research project, critical multiculturalism is employed as the theoretical framework to avoid the negative impacts from liberal multiculturalism. The study is based on the narratives of four Chinese international students at the University of Toronto. The results of the study show that the lack of recognition of cultural diversity, the evaluation of cultural diversity in a deficit model, failure to show empathy with students from different cultural backgrounds, the assumption of a â samenessâ among international and domestic students, and stress to assimilate into the dominant culture in the public sphere contribute to the pressure faced by international students.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".