Pre-med student Henry Liu says that, the same as many Chinese-American children, most of the people he knew before college were Caucasians. It was only after entering Cornell that "I suddenly discovered one day that only one of the people eating at the same table with me was a white American." He says he has gained a lot from the university's ethnic diversity.
大學以前，他認識、交往的對象多半是美國白人，直到進了康乃爾，「有一天突然發現，同桌吃飯的，只有一個是美國白人」，劉亨利表示，康乃爾的多種族色彩，使他受益良多。