Mariko sanchanta biography for kids

And here ladies and gentlemen, we have every American anxiety about education and our place in the global economy, reduced to a single, nursery-school white board.

Burson-Marsteller's Mariko Sanchanta tweets this picture from a Hong Kong pre-school (h/t to Business Insider).

It's like they're trying to raise an entire brood of eTrade babies.

Mariko Sanchanta leads the media practice for Burson Marsteller in Asia.

Mariko Sanchanta is half-Japanese, half-Thai, and has a quarter When she was a child in the US, Mariko was the only Asian kid on the block.

We are the “sandwich generation”, balancing the needs of a young family and our own careers with the needs of our aging parents.

I am thrilled to share that I have joined Blackstone as SVP, Global Public Affairs.

As a half-Japanese child in the suburbs of Washington DC, my mother forced me to spend my Saturdays resentfully stuck at Japanese school.

Horrifying.

But anyway, I do think there's a constructive lesson to be learned here, and not just that Hong Kong is apparently one enormous trading floor. The children of China's semi-autonomous metropolis are known for dominating international math tests, along with Asian neighbors Japan, South Korea, and Singapore.

And part of that success almost certainly stems from a cultural comfort with numbers, which they start pressing early on (extremely early on, in the case of this school). A