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Back in the late 80s, our family,living in Japan at the time, had an opportunity to tour China. One of the stops was at a university where we were given the opportunity to talk to the young students. These young people were VERY fluent in unaccented American English and would be teaching English to future Chinese students.

One young women that I spoke to, asked me where in the US I came from. When I answered, Boston, she replied "That's where your revolution began" Not only were these students studying English, but American History. Another young man approached us on the Bund in Shanghai and asked if we were Americans. He then asked what state we were living in and when we replied Wisconsin, he replied, "That's the Badger State." They apparently are also learning about our states, trivia. And what else? Why???!!!! Infiltration comes to mind.

After all, how many of us can even speak fluent Chinese--(Mandarin)? And in addition name cities, provinces etc. Or even name all US states and their nicknames, capitol cities etc. It was an eye opener.