10년 후 중국 어린이들의 미래상
From NBC News world headquarters in NY, this is NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams brought to you with limited commercial interruption by Pfizer. This is how Yoo Yee Tan spends her Sunday mornings. 8 o’clock, piano lessons. 9 o’clock, roller balding practice.
A quarter past ten, teamwork in confidence-building 자신감 쌓기 exercises. Yoo Yee is just 4-years-old. But her father, a Shanghai automotive executive, who spends $160 every month for these so-called early MBA lessons says it’s never too soon to get ahead start.
He’s not alone in his thinking. Like Yoo Yee, a whole generation of Chinese children is being groomed for ~을 준비하다 success at kiddy Latin dance classes or at golf school, encouraged by affluent 부유한 middle class parents who didn’t have the same opportunities when they grew up.
At this learning center, boys as young as three line up to have their fingerprints scanned into a computer. Parents pay up to $60 to get their prints and brain waves 뇌파 analyzed 분석하다, trying to figure out what subjects their child should specialize in. “Society demands a whole new range of talents. It’s more fierce 치열한 than anytime in the past 20 years with a market for jobs that never even existed in the past.”
Parents know around 10 million Chinese are born every year who will one day join others competing for positions in society and the work force. Striking the balance 조화를 이루게 하다, 균형 잡히게 하다 is the challenge. “All I’m trying to do now is number one to make her happy. Number two to make sure she’s prepared.” Keeping their children one step ahead and China, too. Mark Mullen, NBC News, Beijing.