Her parents are caucasian Americans, her home is a $1 million villa on the Hudson River and her favorite place to play is a swing in the yard.
But when Hilton Augusta Rogers, aged 2, swings through the air on sunny mornings she doesn’t express her joy in English. “Geng gao,” she calls to her father Jim. “That means ‘higher,'” he says, pushing the swing. The girl is happy and burbles in a child’s Mandarin Chinese: “le, le,” she says. Then she asks for a fresh piece of “gua gua.” Each word makes her parents proud of their little globalization project: Who else at Hilton’s age can already say “melon” in the language of a future economic world power?
Hilton is Jim Rogers’ latest investment…
Now he wants to prepare his only child for the 21st century. “China will be the next world superpower,” he says. “We think we’re doing something very good for her.” That’s why he and his wife Paige, 37, have put Hilton in the hands of a Chinese au pair.
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