Sign of the times
 

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Seems a hundred years ago when I was told to eat my vegetables because starving kids in China would kill for them.

I have been fighting with our local school to offer Mandarin Chinese as a language elective.

Instead my daughter has to take Spanish.

They've offered Chinese in schools around here for years. There's even a Chinese immersion curriculum. They also have French, German, Spanish, and Russian. This is a good thing.

Reminds me of a joke;
What do you call somebody who speaks 3 languages - Trilingual
What do you call somebody who speaks 2 languages - Bilingual
What do you call somebody who speaks 1 language - American

Fixed it fer ya.

John

Here the boogeyman was "Starving Armenians". Or "The Poorhouse" I was always accused of driving my po' little daddy into. Kids in Poorhouses had to eat gruel & suet, I didn't think either one sounded very appetising...For his part, my po' l'il ole Daddy was always threatening to take me 'n' my sister back to the Orphanage, & get his $19.95 back...They were running a special that day on spoiled merchandise, big kids that weren't cute anymore & ate too much gruel 'n' suet besides...

Mother did it quite simply during the depression - "If you don't eat it for dinner you will get it for lunch tomorrow."

Thats in my old back yard. Chinese will come in real handy when were invaded through mexico.

Been here lately Grumpy ?

The invasion already happened.