美國(guó)校園槍擊案頻發(fā)引發(fā)國(guó)際關(guān)注。隨著槍支暴力事件接連不斷地威脅著美國(guó)校園安全，越來(lái)越多國(guó)際學(xué)生對(duì)赴美留學(xué)的安全性感到擔(dān)憂。

據(jù)高等教育內(nèi)幕（Inside Higher Ed）網(wǎng)站4月10日?qǐng)?bào)道，對(duì)大規(guī)模槍擊事件的擔(dān)憂已經(jīng)成為影響國(guó)際學(xué)生赴美留學(xué)的主要因素。國(guó)際教育研究和戰(zhàn)略獨(dú)立顧問(wèn)拉吉卡·班達(dá)里表示，近年來(lái)，槍支暴力和人身安全問(wèn)題成為赴美留學(xué)最突出的弊端。人身安全也是許多身在美國(guó)的國(guó)際學(xué)生關(guān)心的問(wèn)題。一項(xiàng)調(diào)查顯示，四分之一在美留學(xué)生對(duì)其所在學(xué)校的槍支暴力問(wèn)題感到擔(dān)憂。文章稱，對(duì)許多人來(lái)說(shuō)，盡管赴美留學(xué)仍然值得冒險(xiǎn)，但專家表示每起槍擊事件都會(huì)讓招生變得更加困難。文章摘編如下：

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.
當(dāng)密歇根州立大學(xué)二年級(jí)博士留學(xué)生徐振陽(yáng)第一次收到校園內(nèi)有槍手出沒(méi)的警報(bào)時(shí)，他幾乎沒(méi)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.”
“我看著手機(jī)，只是想，‘哦，好吧。下一個(gè)信息’。這種消息在這里太平常了，我們收到過(guò)太多關(guān)于槍擊事件的消息，以至于在更多警報(bào)出現(xiàn)之前，我完全沒(méi)有注意到這次發(fā)生的事件不同尋常、更加可怕。”

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，密歇根州立大學(xué)發(fā)生校園槍擊事件，三名學(xué)生遇害，另有五人受傷，其中包括兩名中國(guó)留學(xué)生。20歲的郝同學(xué)在這次槍擊事件中受傷，導(dǎo)致頸部以下癱瘓。徐振陽(yáng)說(shuō)，這場(chǎng)悲劇是一個(gè)警鐘、一個(gè)極具沖擊力的提醒，提醒他那些曾經(jīng)在新聞里看到的槍支暴力問(wèn)題在美國(guó)是一個(gè)可怕的現(xiàn)實(shí)。

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.”
對(duì)大規(guī)模槍擊事件的擔(dān)憂已成為影響國(guó)際學(xué)生赴美留學(xué)的主要因素。國(guó)際教育協(xié)會(huì)2018年秋季的一項(xiàng)調(diào)查顯示，2017-18學(xué)年的國(guó)際申請(qǐng)者對(duì)他們“在美國(guó)的人身安全”的擔(dān)憂同比增幅最大，這一年美國(guó)學(xué)校的國(guó)際學(xué)生人數(shù)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.
人身安全也是許多已經(jīng)在美國(guó)的留學(xué)生每天都關(guān)心的問(wèn)題：根據(jù)世界教育服務(wù)中心2019年的一項(xiàng)調(diào)查，四分之一在美留學(xué)生對(duì)其所在學(xué)校的槍支暴力問(wèn)題感到擔(dān)憂。

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.
國(guó)際教育研究和戰(zhàn)略獨(dú)立顧問(wèn)拉吉卡·班達(dá)里表示，近年來(lái)，對(duì)槍支暴力和人身安全的擔(dān)憂已經(jīng)超越其他問(wèn)題，成為在美國(guó)留學(xué)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.”
她說(shuō)："在廣泛的全球調(diào)查中，當(dāng)學(xué)生被問(wèn)及赴美留學(xué)的缺點(diǎn)時(shí)，人身安全問(wèn)題上升到了首位。而以前主要的障礙是費(fèi)用和簽證，當(dāng)然這些仍然存在；只是個(gè)人安全問(wèn)題真的愈發(fā)嚴(yán)重。"

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.
而槍支暴力問(wèn)題并沒(méi)有得到有效控制，僅在過(guò)去幾個(gè)月里，校園槍擊事件就占據(jù)了各大新聞?lì)^條。去年10月，亞利桑那大學(xué)的一名教授被教過(guò)的學(xué)生殺害；11月，弗吉尼亞大學(xué)的三名足球運(yùn)動(dòng)員在球隊(duì)的大巴上被槍殺，據(jù)報(bào)道搶手是他們的一名同學(xué)。今年2月，密歇根州立大學(xué)的大規(guī)模槍擊事件加劇了國(guó)際家庭的擔(dān)憂，在這起槍擊事件中有兩名受害者是國(guó)際學(xué)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?”
引發(fā)安全擔(dān)憂的不僅僅是校園槍擊事件。2021年11月，芝加哥大學(xué)中國(guó)留學(xué)生鄭少雄在一次街頭搶劫中被槍殺。一周后，數(shù)百名學(xué)生（其中許多是國(guó)際學(xué)生）在校園內(nèi)游行，要求加強(qiáng)槍支立法。他們手舉標(biāo)語(yǔ)：“我們來(lái)這里是為了學(xué)習(xí)，而不是赴死”，“下一個(gè)是誰(shuí)？”

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.
世界教育服務(wù)中心的調(diào)查還發(fā)現(xiàn)，與其他地區(qū)學(xué)生相比，亞洲學(xué)生更擔(dān)心槍支暴力問(wèn)題。25%的拉丁美洲學(xué)生和32%的歐洲學(xué)生表示他們擔(dān)心槍支暴力，而在南亞和東亞學(xué)生中這一比例高達(dá)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.
亞利桑那大學(xué)教育政策研究教授珍妮·李將此歸因于槍支在中國(guó)和其他亞洲國(guó)家的稀有性。

“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.”
“尤其是在亞洲，槍支是很罕見(jiàn)的、很難獲得的。因此，亞洲學(xué)生對(duì)槍支暴力的不安感加更強(qiáng)烈?！?br>

編輯：董靜。李蕙帆（實(shí)習(xí)）