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@armaan8014: I don't know where you heard that, but it is pretty similar to the US as far as I know. You need to have a "purpose" for being there for both (and pretty much any other country). As I said, that could be studying or working (through sponsorship in most cases), but there is definitely no free pass to Canada or an easy way. In my opinion, you should stick to the US if that is where you want migrate to, it doesn't make much sense to migrate to a country just so you can then repeat almost the same process again and migrate to another one.

@armaan8014: If you are able to then definitely! Make sure you do your research well and are actually interested and motivated to join that school too.

Unfortunately tuition tends to be super expensive for this kind of courses and I'd say it is not entirely worth it in some cases, but as an international it will help you immensely in building your contact list and could add a lot to your paperwork/resume. I am not familiar with the US immigration streams, but in most cases having studied in the country helps a lot when applying for visas/permanent residency/green card not to mention that it gives you a much better perspective on how the industry and all that works in the US.

Do your research and examine your options in detail. You will be essentially trying to achieve two different and pretty big milestones at the same time, so you have to think thoroughly about how to best approach both. Immigrating is a pretty big commitment, so have that in mind as well.

Have a look at this link too: http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english.html

I've dealt with migrating and immigration issues/processes for a couple of years now (not the US though), and all I can say is that it all boils down to being a pretty good candidate for a specific role within a company (regardless of the industry). So it depends heavily on your potential employer (and all the bureaucracy it entails).

The creative industries hiring process doesn't differ too much from other kind of jobs in the fact that you need credentials, just add a good portfolio to the mix. Companies nor immigration officers know/care about who you are (or you say you are), what you've done or anything that can't be deduced from a diploma/credential/paperwork. Have in mind that you are competing against local-born candidates, which companies usually prefer because they are cheaper/safer, so being familiar with the culture is kind of irrelevant in that case.

If you haven't started the film program yet I suggest that you look into studying in the US instead, going from an international student to a foreign worker is way easier than trying to find a job overseas. If not, look for "working holiday" visa programs and such, those are usually pretty good when it comes to avoiding a lot of the immigration barriers that companies have when hiring foreign workers.

From my experience, migrating to another country is not easy in the least, you'll have to deal with a lot of barriers. There are a lot of bureaucratic barriers in place to deter employers from hiring foreign workers and, on top of that add some dehumanization and biases to the mix. In most cases you will be just a name on a paper for the companies/officers.

All in all, do your best, keep looking and don't give up! Prove to them that you are really passionate about it and work hard!

The depiction of gore in games is pretty much "harmless" per se (as far as we know, as it is only correlational data), especially in this day and age where we have all been bombarded by graphic violence in media throughout our entire lives (at least in the west). Gore is nothing more than the overused way of representing the conflict and obstacle part of game design.

What we should worry about is the glorification/spotlighting of antisocial behavior and the dismissal of empathy (two of the most important characteristics of psychopathy). Fortunately, very few games do that. That is the reason why a child playing Mortal Kombat X is nowhere near the same as a child playing Manhunt, RapeLay and such.

@gamefreak9: There is still a gap, regardless of how much you want to play with statistics. Also, you seem to be forgetting that the world doesn't revolve around US, and most girls don't even have the opportunity to study in other countries.

That study lost me when it tries to justify the income gap with "mothers should take care of the children", with even no research on the subject. What happened to lesbians, asexual women, single/divorced/widowed women, childless women, and so on? You can't just generalize. Failing to recognize the uniqueness of each individual within a society is the biggest failure of modern "democracy".

By the way, saying that everything revolves around free will and then contradicting by talking about genes and tendencies is a giant red flag of the double standard that I was talking about. To think that we are free of any influence and that everybody makes choices in a vacuum is extremely naive. We wouldn't even dress, talk, move, act, think, and socialize this way or study in particular fields if we weren't born in the west to begin with. Even seemingly neutral things like language affect how each individual thinks, there are concepts that aren't even present in some languages. It is just baffling to think that individuals somehow exist in and make choices vacuum.

Throughout my entire career, studies, and life in the western culture. Just because you don't want to admit that psychology and culture studies are valid doesn't mean it isn't happening. It is quite easy to tell from a privileged position that it isn't happening, after all, you are not the one being discriminated. Denial is so effective as a defense mechanism against responsibility indeed.

If anything, the recent movements initiated by many individuals, organizations, and even the government point to it. Not to mention that the gender income gap supports this as well, I'd love to hear how the genes also somehow justify that women should be paid less.

Here is another study in relation to gender bias in science.

if you actually read the articles, you'll see the obvious links to sources and research. And they choose not to join because of people that keep telling them that they are not welcome and that keep telling them that "empirical work" says that women shouldn't be interested in those fields or that they won't be as "successful". Of course "empirical work" would say so, if culture has always been biased against them in the STEM fields. That is like saying that "empirical work" shows that black are more prone to be more incarcerated, when there is an obvious bias towards them in comparison with white people that get prosecuted less.

Women can't succeed in a field if society actively discourages them to try their hand at it in the first place.

That is a poor excuse, honestly. People learn at different rates, time means nothing if you consider the attitudes and aptitudes of the individuals. Not to mention that degrees are pretty much meaningless, anybody who is worth their salt knows that learning happens as much, if not more outside of "full-time work" as inside it. Constantly checking algorithms or however you frame it isn't as hard as you think. Every career is a lifestyle, there are new developments in literally every field every day.

As it turns out, I work on Unity (at a mid-size studio) and program everyday, and I happen to work with female programmers too. Not a single one of them shows any of your projected biases, but they are still outnumbered by men 1:10 in the studio. I also happen to know a couple female PhD students that were lucky enough to have support from their peers and not steered away from the STEM fields by culture, and still none of your biases show.

I suggest you read a bit more research on why women are steered away from STEM fields, instead of just using evolution as an excuse with no actual proof of "the women are bad at science/math gene".

Actually, it is much more complex than just that. It has to do with many more fields such as marketing, computer science and the gender biases in those fields. I'll link a couple of articles that explain the history much better than what I could:

No girls allowed

Why so few women are studying computer science

Research reveals how "Computer Geeks" replaced "Computer Girls"

Sorry, but "how much value you add to the world"? Are you implying that actors, PewDiePie (and most youtube stars), CEOs of monopolies, politicians, athletes, models, religious leaders, mainstream musicians, oil workers and such add more value to the world than scientists, engineers, agricultural workers, social workers, doctors, charities, etc? Who defines this arbitrary value? Let me guess, is it money?

In regards to @sanj's point, he nailed it. Education doesn't stop once you get out of school nor starts in the classroom. Whether people like to learn or not, we recognize and absorb patterns, we imitate the newest trends. We love to be part of the group, wherever that group may be going.

Bingo, so what happens if those women are unlucky enough to be born in an environment that keeps telling them that they are not welcome? Same thing could be applied to any of the diversity issues. What happens if an Asian person is unfortunate enough to be born in a culture/environment that tells them that they are inferior over and over? What happens if a boy is born in a culture that tells them to go and kill people overseas for glory and patriotism over and over?

By double standard I meant that America's culture just loves to claim about how meritocratic they are, and how free they are. American dream and yadda, yadda; yet they also claim that the questionable things about their culture happen because of genetic predisposition. If somebody is smarter than someone else supposedly because of genes, where is the merit in that? If someone abused their children because of genes, then what purpose is there in stopping it? There are going to be more people with the "abuse your children" gene anyway, right?