I feel so deprived that I never had an international nanny--just a mom that stayed at home.
I would be very, verp happy with a Chinese coed "nanny"...but then the misses would want a young muscular "poolboy".
The kid's name is Hilton?
Good Gracious. She better be worth some money.
Rarely have a read anything so full of laughable cliches about WASPy, coastal, upper-class yuppie types. It has everything: a "villa" on the Hudson, a 63-year-old with a 2-year-old daughter, the daughter's name being, Lord help us, "Hilton", the daughter described as an "investment" and clearly being concieved as a plaything or pet to the aging millionaire couple, connections to George Soros, and, of course, the oh-so-trendy idea of getting a Chinese nanny (God forbid the PARENTS raise the child) to "prepare" the child for the "economic world of tomorrow" in which China is inevitably the "future economic world power". It's like a joke article!
Of course China will be the world superpower, if latte-swilling yuppie snobs like this, who think that would be so beautifully, wonderfully "multicultural" (as long as the third-world stays out of their backyard, except when their Mexican gardener is mowing the lawn), are running the country. Fortunately, they're not.
I wonder if her parents will understand her when she says "I have a bad earache" in Mandarin.
Jim Rogers is smart man.
However, he does have tendency to take things to extreme.
If people don't know him, HE IS NOT A LIBERAL by any strecth of imagination. If any thing, he is Conservative as far as economic policy goes.
In any case, hope I am wrong, but I believe Nuclear Holocaust would have wiped off civilization long before 2040.
check it out...so Liberty will know Vietnamese. It's close enough.