Break dancing is becoming a suburban phenomenon, with youngsters studying hip-hop movies like "Beat Street," "Breakin' " and "Wild Style" from the 1980's or collecting videos of current hip-hop competitions to mimic the moves.
Italian universities are full of youngsters studying subjects in which they are not interested but which their parents think are good, regardless of the job prospects.Around 86,000 jobs, mostly low-skilled, have been lost in Italy's textiles and clothing businesses since 2006, and many jobs in shoemaking have also gone, as work has moved to lower-cost countries.
Another option concerns the number of teachers in secondary schools - cutting their number by 1% (equivalent to 15 staff) could save £600,000 but would mean fewer subjects would be on offer at some schools, especially for youngsters studying for Highers and Advanced Highers.
But his father, a dressmaker of modest means in the Chinatown section of Boston, discouraged Kraft from playing sports, preferring instead that the youngster study to become a rabbi.
"There are youngsters who study Chinese who are not Chinese in origin, but they want to study it for linguistic purposes, business purposes," he said.
But they do allow academic youngsters to study three or four unrelated subjects to a high standard.
Among other things, the trust offers bursaries to ethnic minority youngsters to study architecture, the profession her son had been training for.
In some cases, healthy youngsters are study subjects, raising questions about whether they are being exposed to risks without possible benefit.
Meanwhile families from the prime minister's downwards are sending their youngsters to study abroad.So what shape will Vietnam's syncretistic economy take?
