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1、Lesson 1 GlobalizationText A Living Between Three WorldsGlobalization, for better or for worse, has changed the world greatly. Though still in its early stage, it is all but unstoppable. The challenge that people face nowadays is learning how to live with it, manage it and take advantage of the bene
2、fits it offers.Many people believe that, because of globalization, productivity throughout the world will be boosted and, as the world becomes richer and more prosperous, living standards everywhere have the potential to rise. However, there are still a lot of naysayers who take the opposite view, c
3、laiming that globalization will have increasingly devastating effects on our lives. Both sides can point to ample examples to support their cases. But in the end, both are probably exaggerating to some extent. What is irrefutable is that the world economic pie is indeed becoming bigger because of gl
4、obalization and it is being sliced differently than before.As a matter of fact, globalization means different things to different people, especially when it comes to touchy issues like jobs outsourcing or immigration. Globalization may create more jobs than it actually destroys, but they are in diff
5、erent sectors and in different geographic regions. In todays world, it takes more skills, education and mobility to be employable. In the following, Sujan Pandit, an Indian writing from Calcutta, describes how he is caught between several tectonic shifts in the global labor market. He also explores
6、how his unique situation gives him choices afforded to few other Indians. My fate is not that of a corporate foot-soldier, which as the television images and newspaper photographs would suggest involves a life of labor in a little cell and in tandem with many other, equally industrious honey-bees, a
7、rmed only with a workstation and telephone.My job in marketing and business development does not eschew face-to-face contact. The company I work for is a small one, but it is spaced over three time zones: in Dallas, New York and Calcutta.But what makes the company distinctive is that it is a post-mo
8、dern firm, since such a firm could scarcely have existed ten years ago. It is what Manuel Castells Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley would have called a network company, held together through e-mails and teleconferences alone.Stepping out of the air-co
9、nditioned office, I am greeted with the hot, damp touch of a Calcutta dusk. I hailed a black and yellow boneshaker of a taxi and instruct the driver to head for my club.His is an old Ambassador car, a poor Morris Oxford imitation dating back to the 1950s and still unchanged a veritable monument of t
10、he pre-globalization License Raj era.As the taxi makes its way through the hustle and bustle of Calcuttas streets, the blaring music and garish film posters, dodging cows and errant rickshaw pullers, I meditate on the scene around me.What a contrast between the work I do and the lives they lead! Wha
11、t does globalization mean to these people? If globalization has to mean anything significant to the Indian poor, it must mean a transformation of their lives. And yet, I can bet 100 to one that their lives will differ in no significant way from their fathers or grandfathers before them. The only con
12、solation I can offer myself is that my job makes me the avant-garde of a movement which may over the course of this century improve their great-grandchildrens lives.Finally, the taxi reaches the club and an old Victorian clubhouse comes into view amidst the sprawling golf course, manicured lawns and
13、 tennis courts. I head for the tea-lounge.With its Daniels water-color prints, richly brocaded chairs, dark mahogany paneling and wooden parquetry, this is the place to enjoy coffee after work. A liveried waiter brings me some.The club itself is a product of that last great age of globalization, wha
14、t Eric Hobsbawm called “The Age of Empire”. Now that we are in another age of globalization, little of the dcor seems to have changed since then.Only then, as an Indian, I would not have been allowed to enter its hallowed portals. Perhaps some thing do change after all!Sipping my coffee, I ponder ov
15、er the question that is being debated in England: “Import workers or export jobs?” The first thing that strikes me is that it presents a so very First World perspective.Sitting in a Third World country, the proposition could equally be phrased as: “Export workers or import jobs?” Actually, whichever
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