Smart New York kids chew on Mandarin

Sunday Times ^ | April 3, 2005 | Sarah Baxter

[Hildy]

How old are you? 105? Some women keep their maiden names even when they marry. I did.

[lainie]

Excuse me. Before you two get ramped up into calling everybody names, this is not about class envy at all, other than wondering what portion of his money was ill-gotten. This is about an elitist leftist power player sending these signals about the Chinese, as well as some of us laughing out loud that they feel the need to take a 22-month-old child to Shanghai so that she can "soak up the culture."

[OldFriend]

Guess the shoe fit!

I don't see where I called anyone a name.

[reformedliberal]

Yes! I am laughing here!

When my son was 9, we took a trip to the South Pacific. I planned it so that the first 2 weeks would be in Tahiti during the 10 days of his Christmas vacation.

When he was 21, we were going through some of the pictures we had taken. He said:"I barely remember that. You should have put the money in the bank for me. It would have earned interest and I could have it now."

Good luck to Hilton, her fluency in Mandarin and her memories of Shanghai at the age of two!!

And to her parents: I expect Hilton and her privileged friends will appreciate being able to talk about dope, boys and breaking the rules in a language her parents cannot understand.

[Tax-chick]

Gosh, my kids are deprived! I don't even have the furniture and fixtures labelled in English! And my toddler can't give orders to wait staff in any language. I guess they'll just have to be drones in the New World Order.

[lainie]

How dare you. The shoe does not fit. You don't think #60 isn't needlessly pot-stirring? Sheesh man, what happened to you?

[KateatRFM]

Much to the dismay of the French, Mandarin is the second language of Canada already. A fluency in Mandarin will get you a very good job on Bay Street.

Being a typical American who jeers and sneers that anybody who matters will speak English probably won't get you very far in the new world to come.

[OldFriend]

Much to the dismay of some freepers on this thread you are reminding them of how provincial their thinking has become.

[OldFriend]

Perhaps we ought not to be reading to our children before the age of 9 either.

Just keep feeding their bank accounts rather than their minds.

[Hildy]

What's your definition of "stirring the pot?" It sounds like just disagreeing these days is enough.

[Hildy]

I never thought I'd see the day something like this was posted on FreeRepublic.

[lainie]

Insinuating that everyone here is only concerned with Jim Rogers having wealth (while 'we' don't) is unnecessary. It's not the discussion. I don't understand why you would want to do that.

[Tax-chick]

reminding them of how provincial their thinking has become.

My thinking has always been provincial, and that doesn't bother me a bit. However, I don't think there's anything prodigious in a child who's being raised by Chinese servants addressing Chinese servants in Chinese.

[Hildy]

I don't understand why you would imply that this man's money was "ill-gotten."

[OldFriend]

With that kind of thought process and set of values you will never have to worry about your kids becoming rich.

[HitmanLV]

It's just a joke - a quote from one of my fave comedies of the 1990s, 'Rushmore.'

[Hildy]

ROFLMAO!!! TOUCHE!

[HitmanLV]

It's a joke: a quote from the film 'Rushmore,' that's all. ;-)

[Tax-chick]

I thought it was pretty funny.

[OldFriend]

Time for designated threads.......ONLY THOSE WHO AGREE MAY ENTER HERE!

POOR PEOPLE TO THE RIGHT, RICH PEOPLE TO THE LEFT.