Thursday, December 9, 2010

America's fading influence in Asia


For over 20 years Bangkok's expats and rich and famous sent their children to International schools to study all their lessons in American English, but even in SE Asia's most American fixated country America's influence is fading. Many schools are now looking to the rise of a new empire and offering lessons in either English or Mandarin or both. The market has spoken, you need to speak the language of the buyer, and increasingly so that language is Mandarin.

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