News about the world #1
Sometimes you’re cruising along and you read something that makes you go hmmm.
Global Cities, By Anne-Marie Slaughter, The New York Times, August 31, 2007
…For those of the commentators who asked what I am doing here, my husband and I decided to spend a year in Shanghai mostly to expose our sons, 8 and 10, to Asia as best we could. We are both half European by birth and grew up going back and forth either figuratively or literally between America and Europe. But Asia is a vast unknown to us. After our first visit to China three years ago, we realized that our children are going to have to be as comfortable with Asia as with Europe if they are going to be living and working in a global economy (and Latin America, but they have been learning Spanish since kindergarten in Princeton public schools and will have many opportunities through school and other activities to travel south)….
How are you doing this for your kids? Grandkids?
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism.
It is not the conviction that something will turn out well,
but the certainty that something makes sense,
regardless of how it turns out.”
Vaclav Havel
quoted by Tim O’Reilly