Scholarship students in Bogota receive hateful welcome messages from wealthy classmates
Scholarship students in Bogota receive hateful welcome messages from wealthy classmates
Feb 5, 2015 posted by Rebecca Florey
The new government scholarship program which allows more than 10,000 low-income students to study in the best universities in the country, has not been well received by some of the wealthy students who published a series of hateful messages on social media.
In a flurry of messages which often began with “I have nothing against the scholarship students, but …,” the scholarship students were being referred to as ‘thugs’ by the perturbed paying students.
The offensive messages began circulating on social networks relating to underprivileged youth who have been admitted to Bogota universities such as Los Andes and La Sabana, until recently only affordable by the most wealthy in the country.
On a university confessions page where the students normally wrote anonymously about the boy or girl they had a crush on, many students began posting offensive and accusatory messages suggesting that the new influx of underprivileged youths had led to robberies and thuggish behavior on campus.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/scholarship-students-bogota-receive-hateful-welcome-messages-wealthy-classmates/
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