Term 3 Week 4(Blogging Assignment)

In this article, Jim Roger's main aruguement is that in order for children to survive in an increasingly more competitive world of the 21st century, students have to be able to immerse themselves in different cultures and languages. Countries would continue to grow "closer" and "closer" together with the advancements in technology and it would be almost impossible to isolate oneself from the different countries that we would meet as we join the workforce in the future. He further mentions that if America were to continue to feel superior of its superpower title, they would eventually lose out in the future to the rising economies. Hence, immersion in the different cultures and languages would be vital to one's survival in the future.

I feel that Jim Roger's arguement in which he decides to send his children in order to prepare for the future where Asia would be the leading super power in the world is a very viable one. He argues that he sent his children to Singapore to study in order to enable them to be bilingual as to prepare for the future. I agree with Jim Roger's arguement. Currently, China is undergoing rapid industrialising and is the biggest producer in the world, manufacturing most of the things that the world uses. If we were to consider the world to be a car, China would be like the engine as it drives the world onward as it produces almost every single thing that the world needs. Furthermore, there are also other developing economies such as India could turn out to be the next China in 50 years time. On the other hand, the West consisting of european countries and the United States are facing a mountain of debts and are struggling to pay it off. The United States are currently facing debts in the sum of trillions and several European countries such as Greece are bankrupt. If one looks at this situation from this point of view, it would be obvious that the West and losing the advantage that they used to hold and the East are catching up at an alarming rate.

It would be important to put students in a global world since young as by doing so, students would not feel out of place if they were to leave school and enter the workforce. This would allow for students to transit from schooling to the workforce better and much easier Hence, Jim Roger's arguement can be easily justified.