This. On the bright side: while intl students face a strong language barrier, I think they mistakenly assume there is also an insurmountable _culture_ and institutional details barrier, which I think is a bit smaller than it first seems.
https://twitter.com/SNageebAli/status/1408160092915122188
I've found intl students tend to shy away from subfields which are very institutional-details heavy, and towards technical subjects not requiring much details. I think partly because they assume American/Western students know all the institutional details
Details like, how does the US healthcare/tax/electricity/financial etc systems work. The advantage here is actually IMO fairly small. The median international student knows ~0 about these things, but so does the median American college graduate!
All this can be learned by just spending a lot of time reading and learning about details. Native speakers of course have an advantage in being able to read much faster than non-natives, but I think the advantage in background info is actually fairly small
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