293: Zak Dychtwald | How Young China Will Change the World
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4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Zak Dychtwald (@zakdychtwald) is the Founder of think tank and consultancy Young China Group and author of Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World.
What We Discuss with Zak Dychtwald:- At 417 million strong, China has more millennials than North America, the Middle East, and Europe combined.
- Chinese millennials and its younger generations are experiencing -- and influencing -- a society and culture changing at 10 times the speed of what Western millennials have experienced.
- What this breakneck rate of change means for the childhood of someone growing up in modern China and the effect it has on his or her resulting worldview.
- Whether we view it as a collaborator, competitor, or consumer, this "Young China" is the single most important rising actor on the world stage.
- How Zak became fluent in Mandarin -- considered by the CIA to be the hardest language to learn in the world -- at the highest level in two and a half years instead of the customary six.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:06.0 | As always I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. |
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| 0:38.0 | So if you're smart and you like to learn and improve then you'll be right at home here |
| 0:41.6 | with us. |
| 0:42.6 | I've done several shows about China in the past few months and it's something I've |
| 0:46.6 | been interested in for the past several years. |
| 0:48.8 | I think the writing is on the wall in terms of China becoming the largest economy in |
| 0:52.9 | the world in short order. |
| 0:54.7 | While we sometimes might fear China or not even understand China or just decide not |
| 0:59.3 | to think about the complex issues that arise when it comes to China, well that's just |
| 1:03.8 | not how we roll here on the Jordan Harbinger show. |
| 1:06.6 | Today, Zack Dijkwald, author of Young China, How the Restless Generation Will Change |
| 1:11.0 | Their Country and the World. |
| 1:13.0 | Zack joins us today on the show. |
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