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“The ChiComs are going to create their own useless “Baby Boomer” generation.”

Been there done that.
Currently you have millions of one child families with both parents and 4 grandparents desperately pinning their hopes on that child. There are some seriously, seriously, seriously spoiled kids in China. They make US millennial’s look demur, polite and hardworking.

Hong Kong is the same way. It is so expensive there people don’t get married until they are 40 and only have one child. It is a city of 350,000 misbehaving children.

Then there is the other end of the spectrum. Many of the kids are pushed so hard academically that they are just weird. In my time in HK and China teaching school I really felt sorry for them. Children shouldn’t have anxiety dreams in the third grade. One of my hats was Textbook Manager. At the end of every academic year I’d have parents want to check out their child’s books early so they could drill and kill them over the summer. Often you’d have a child come back with EVERY answer in a math book memorized.

But, never once did I have a parent ask about music, or art. They also didn’t care about ethics or honesty most of the time. Win, succeed, achieve, first place, was all that mattered. I had to explain to more than one that an 85% in SAT was not a B.

Honestly, a lot of those kids were socially stunted, mean and extremely self centered. I’ve seen boys in 11th grade that could not tie their shoes because the maid dressed them in the morning. I ran across multiple kids in high school that didn’t know how to turn on a microwave oven, or that didn’t know you couldn’t put metal plates in one. And this was in a Christian school.