IlliGAL Blogging

I just called home from Shanghai and talked to my older son Max. We were discussing colleges, and based on my impressions from this trip to China, I suggested that he learn Chinese (or some other Asian language) when he goes off to school. My other penguin, Zack, is hoping to sign up for Japanese at Uni High next year, and I think that was a good choice. Projections of future economic might often turn out to be wrong (projections of Japanese dominance of the world just a few years ago don't seem on the mark right now, for example), but economic growth + largest population + continuing globalization means that my children will probably be doing business in China, certainly Asia. They need to become familiar with some Asian language and they need to be comfortable in traveling in and dealing with Asian cultures.