美国留学生车祸(【双语看美国】枪支暴力吓退国际学生？专家：人身安全问题成赴美留学最大担忧)

【双语看美国】枪支暴力吓退国际学生？专家：人身宁静成绩成赴美留学最大担心

美国校园枪击案频发引发国际眷注。随着枪支暴力事变接连不休地要挟着美国校园宁静，越来越多国际学生对赴美留学的宁静性感受担心。

据高等教导内幕（Inside Higher Ed）网站4月10日报道，对大范围枪击事变的担心以前成为影响国际学生赴美留学的主要要素。国际教导研讨和战略独立参谋拉吉卡·班达里表现，比年来，枪支暴力和人身宁静成绩成为赴美留学最突出的弊端。人身宁静也是很多身在美国的国际学生体贴的成绩。一项观察体现，四分之一在美留学生对其地点学校的枪支暴力成绩感受担心。文章称，对很多人来说，只管赴美留学仍旧值得冒险，但专家表现每起枪击事变都市让招生变得愈加困难。文章摘编如下：

When Zhenyang Xu, a second-year international Ph.D. student at Michigan State University, first received the alert that there was an active shooter on campus, he barely thought twice about it.当密歇根州立大学二年级博士留学生徐振阳第一次收到校园内有枪手出没的警报时，他几乎没有在意。

“I looked at my phone and I just thought,‘Oh, OK. Another one,’” he said.“It’s so normalized here and we get so much news about shootings that I didn’t notice it was something entirely different and scarier until more alerts started coming.”“我看动手机，只是想，‘哦，好吧。下一个信息’。这种消息在这里宁静常了，我们收到过太多关于枪击事变的消息，致使于在更多警报显现之前，我完全没有注意到这次产生的事变不同寻常、愈加可骇。”

Three students were killed and another five were injured in the Feb. 13 shooting at Michigan State, including two international students from Xu’s native China—one of whom, 20-year-old John Hao, was paralyzed from the neck down. Xu said the tragedy was a wake-up call, an all-too-visceral reminder that the plague of gun violence he’d read about in the news was a frightening reality in the country where he’d chosen to study.2月13日，密歇根州立大学产生校园枪击事变，三名学生遇害，尚有五人受伤，此中包含两名中国留学生。20岁的郝同砚在这次枪击事变中受伤，招致颈部以下瘫痪。徐振阳说，这场哭剧是一个警钟、一个极具打击力的提示，提示他那些以前在讯息里看到的枪支暴力成绩在美国事一个可骇的实际。

图源：视觉中国

The fear of being caught in a mass shooting has become a major factor in international students’ decisions about whether to study in the U.S. According to a fall 2018 survey by the Institute of International Education, the issue with the biggest year-over-year increase in concern among international applicants in 2017–18—a year in which U.S. institutions saw a decline in international enrollment—was their “physical safety in the U.S.”对大范围枪击事变的担心已成为影响国际学生赴美留学的主要要素。国际教导协会2018年春季的一项观察体现，2017-18学年的国际哀求者对他们“在美国的人身宁静”的担心同比增幅最大，这一年美国学校的国际学生人数有所下降。

It’s also a daily concern for many international students already studying in America: according to a 2019 survey by the World Education Services, a quarter of international students in the U.S. expressed worry about gun violence at their institution.人身宁静也是很多以前在美国的留学生天天都体贴的成绩：依据天下教导办事中央2019年的一项观察，四分之一在美留学生对其地点学校的枪支暴力成绩感受担心。

Rajika Bhandari, an independent consultant on international education research and strategy, said that in recent years fears about gun violence and personal safety have eclipsed other perceived drawbacks of studying in the U.S.国际教导研讨和战略独立参谋拉吉卡·班达里表现，比年来，对枪支暴力和人身宁静的担心以前跨越其他成绩，成为在美国留学最突出的弊端。

“In broad global surveys, when students have been asked about the downsides of going to the U.S., we’ve seen the lack of personal safety rise to the top,” she said. “Before it was primarily about cost and visa hurdles, which of course are still there; it’s just that personal safety has really become quite magnified.”她说："在广泛的举世观察中，当学生被问及赴美留学的缺陷时，人身宁静成绩上升到了首位。而从前主要的停滞是用度和签证，固然这些仍旧存在；只是一局部宁静成绩真的愈发严峻。"

The gun violence driving these fears has not abated; in the past few months alone, campus shootings have dominated headlines. In October, a University of Arizona professor was murdered by a former student; the next month, three University of Virginia football players were shot and killed on their team bus, allegedly by a classmate. The February mass shooting at Michigan State exacerbated the concerns of international families since the gunman injured two of their own.而枪支暴力成绩并没有取得好效控制，仅在已往几个月里，校园枪击事变就占据了各大讯息头条。客岁10月，亚利桑那大学的一名传授被教过的学生杀害；11月，弗吉尼亚大学的三名足球运倡导在球队的大巴上被枪杀，据报道抢手是他们的一名同砚。本年2月，密歇根州立大学的大范围枪击事变加剧了国际家庭的担心，在这起枪击事变中有两名遇害者是国际学生。

It’s not just campus shootings driving safety fears. In November 2021, Shaoxiong Zheng, a Chinese international student at the University of Chicago—a dream destination for many international students—was shot and killed in a street robbery. A week later, hundreds of students, many of them international, marched across campus to call for stricter gun legislation, holding signs reading, “We’re here to learn, not to die” and “Who’s next?”引发宁静担心的不仅仅是校园枪击事变。2021年11月，芝加哥大学中国留学生郑少雄在一次陌头掳掠中被枪杀。一周后，数百名学生（此中很多是国际学生）在校园内游行，要求加强枪支立法。他们手举标语：“我们来这里是为了学习，而不是赴死”，“下一个是谁？”

2021年11月18日，芝加哥大学校长保罗·阿利维萨托斯在为郑少雄举行的悲悼会上公布发言。图源：新华社

The 2019 WES survey found not only that international students in the U.S. were concerned about gun violence but also that some were more concerned than others. Only 25 percent of students from Latin America and 32 percent from Europe said they were worried about gun violence, compared to upward of 40 percent from South Asia and East Asia.天下教导办事中央的观察还发觉，与其他地区学生比拟，亚洲学生更担心枪支暴力成绩。25%的拉丁美洲学生和32%的欧洲学生表现他们担心枪支暴力，而在南亚和东亚学生中这一比例高达40%。

Jenny Lee, a professor of educational policy studies at the University of Arizona, chalks this up to the rarity of guns in China and other Asian countries.亚利桑那大学教导政策研讨传授珍妮·李将此归因于枪支在中国和其他亚洲国度的有数性。

“In Asia in particular, it’s not just hard to obtain a gun; you don’t really ever see them.,” she said. “So that general sense of unease around guns is heightened.”

“尤其是在亚洲，枪支是很稀有的、很难取得的。因此，亚洲学生对枪支暴力的不安感加更剧烈。”

编纂：董静。李蕙帆（练习）

泉源：中国日报网