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Yeah, my main takeaway from this is "Learn Mandarin, and ensure that your kids learn it too."

• baybal2 9y ago
  >"Learn Mandarin, and ensure that your kids learn it too." Why not? Getting basic Yue will not be a bad idea too. I'm not a Russian native, but I spent a big part of my childhood in the country. I remember that Muscovite elites had that idea at the time (mid nineties): "my kid will be going to Stanford, no money spared," while smarter far-easterners were sending their kids to back then still cheap China to learn the language and get connections. Guess whose kids fared better in 20 years time? Now, Russia has lost its last vestiges of industrial self-sufficiency, and has no economy for all those US schooled "creative" banker kids to work in. The few people who do get business today, are ones who can drive a truck to Yiwu, have basic commerce background, and knowledge of Chinese along with local connections.