Anonymous wrote:The tuition for said school is $1400 a year. She may be upper or middle class in Pakistan but for the USA she is definitely from a low income background
Anonymous wrote:Not to excuse what she did, but most people here have no clue about her. She is a Pakistani Hindu. Do any of you know what that means? It's pretty much like growing up Jewish under in early Nazi Germany Young Hindu girls are abducted frequently in Pakistan and forced into marriage after conversion with no way to escape because once they convert, leaving Islam carries the death penalty in Pakistan. If you resist you could get killed. Like this case.... Btw, this Duke girl is from the same province, Sindh...
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/18-year-old-hindu-girl-shot-dead-in-pakistan-following-failed-abduction-attempt-article-90364537
The blasphemy laws are insane in Pakistan. You say something even a little uppity and you can get lynched to death like this one
https://www.geo.tv/latest/387095-sialkot-lynching-horrific-and-inhumane
So you have to be really really really nice. Speak extra sweet, never act uppity, never say that you are being ill treated, lest you piss off some crazy dude.
The constant stress of growing up in such a country, scars you forever. She is definitely "NOT ENTITLED". The only reason she got to attend Duke is because she got a full ride, because her family is too poor to send her to school in the US but she must have been really good academically in Pakistan.
I don't know why she did what she did, but she is not some privileged Asian striver
Anonymous wrote:Not defending her but it's possible that she didn't think of it as plagiarism. Other countries don't have the same concept of plagiarism and copyright we do.
I've seen plenty of Indian movies that are word-for-word copies of American movies.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wow, Duke again in the news for bad behavior?
Ha! Just embarrassing how many times this has happened and they never learn.
Yet kind of on point that they get treated to a lifeless speech about being members of the island nation of Duke, and then find out it’s warmed over Nation of Harvard propaganda.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So on brand for Duke.
This year from our school 10 kids applied to Duke including my DS but Duke took the kid with the absolute worst grades and with no real extracurricular. Parents are very rich and apparently donated and kid has two other siblings attending. They did not even take any other kid - most of whom were really great students. After this experience, I am turned off by Duke and somehow this headline affirms my thoughts on the school.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wow, Duke again in the news for bad behavior?
Ha! Just embarrassing how many times this has happened and they never learn.
Anonymous wrote:Wow, Duke again in the news for bad behavior?