<< .... not uncommmon to see lawyers, accountants, and all manner of (other non-productive parasites) taking Chinese. >>
While, meanwhile the entire creative, innovative, industrious and productive world is learning the world's Universal Language: American English!
That's changing. I talk to young professional people all the time who only expect to spend a small portion of their career in the U.S. What's more, they don't see overseas work as anything particularly exotic -- just a fact of their careers. They'll go where the work is.
There seems to be "nodes" of commerce developing -- NY, LA, London, Milan, Paris, Tokyo Shanghai, etc. -- where people with the right skill sets will rotate through.
Obviously Americans or Brits etc. won't give up their citizenships, but they will have little loyalty in regards to employer. Makes no difference to them if they work for a German bank or a Japanese electronics firm.
That's hysterical. The world is learning English and here in the U.S. we are having spanish crammed into our language more and more everyday.
There are more people learning English in China
than the rest of the world combined. English is
the world language. It has a bigger vocabulary
than any other language.
The US is importing its way into oblivion.
The US Dollar is toast.
Get ready to pay a lot more for everything.
We consume almost a trillion dollars more than
we export every year. Americans are asleep at
the switch. Our leaders have destroyed our economy...
period.