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Only 37 percent of Americans hold a passport (aku yang sengal ni pon ada pasport...er...pakai ke tak jerlah isunya...but the issue is...aku ada...ko ada?). Fewer than 2 percent of America’s 18 million college students go abroad (kawan aku ramai jer dapat gi oversea) during their undergraduate years—and when they do go, it’s mostly for short stints in England, Spain, or Italy that are more like vacations (...kawan aku pergi, definately for study!!! not wasted). Only a quarter of public primary schools offer any language instruction at all, and fewer high schools offer French, German, Latin, Japanese, or Russian than they did in 1997. The number of schools teaching Chinese and Arabic is so tiny as to be nearly invisible.

Meanwhile, 200 million Chinese schoolchildren are studying English. South Korean parents recently threw a collective hissy fit, demanding that their children begin English instruction in first grade, rather than in second. Nearly 700,000 students from all over the world attended U.S. universities during the 2009–10 school year, with the greatest increases in kids from China and Saudi Arabia. “Not training our kids to be able to work and live in an international environment is like leaving them illiterate,” says David Boren, the former U.S. senator and current president of the University of Oklahoma. The gap between our ambition and reality yawns wide.

so, tak perlu nak bangga sangat dengan mereka...you know what i mean...aku sangat bersyukur dilahirkan di Malaysia...ada adat, culture, tradition untuk dibanggakan, untuk diwarisi...mereka seperti...tiada.

tolonglah...at a point where i thought dah takde lagi dah mindset seperti: "you are from ma-lay-sia? you mean Africa?" tengok tengok ada lagi...

lecturer aku kat UKM bercerita tentang reaksi orang sekeliling masa dia kat Texas. After lengthy explanation, problem still not solved: "ooohhh...i thought you live on trees." !!!!!!

kalau sebut Texas...ko bayangkan diaorg ni duduk dalam straw hut ke? takkan kan...tak perlu lame sangat kot pemikiran...logic la sikit...

aku rasa, aku cukup well informed dengan apa yang terjadi disekeliling aku....di serata dunia...mungkin aku tak tau the exact fact, details and crisis...but at least, i am still in the loop.

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oh ya...if you read the full text...it might appeared as if i have taken it a bit out of context...tapi...what ever lah...