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In this article, Jim Roger's argument is that the West are becoming the debtors, whereas the East are becoming the creditors. Therefore, it is important to learn chinese. Also, to learn chinese effectively, one must have the correct environment.

America is utterly failing to produce a generation of global citizens, with only 37% of Americans holding a passport. This shows that a large percentage of the Americans fail to look into the future, thus not able to see the importance of travelling overseas and improve oneself. This can be a very serious problem, because the reality shows that the West is gradually coming to a financial downturn. The learning of Chinese is especially important now, since China would most probably the country that leads the world in the near future. To be able to converse well with the leading nation, one must definitely know Chinese.

Also, being able to blend into the Chinese society by understanding their cultures would be a great help as well. I feel that people from all over the world will soon migrate to China for a better living condition. And since it is gaining power as we speak, it is essential to a citizen of China as soon as possible.

To start off, it would be better if one comes to places like Singapore and Taiwan to stay temporarily, which would act as an adaption period. If a child is brought up in such an environment, she would have a start ahead of other child. In the future, it is almost definite that she would be a very rich person.