The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge: Picking Globalism's Winners and Losers

by G. Pascal Zachary

Reveals through vivid examples that the key new determinants for business, political, and cultural success are national diversity and a "mongrel" sense of self. In a tour of emerging global civilizations, readers meet a gallery of fascinating characters who possess a mix of roots and wings, including a Borneo tree cutter who masters America's high-tech culture, and Soo Ing, a German-educated daughter of Chinese immigrants to Canada. The author is senior writer at The Wall Street Journal , a contributing editor of the radical newsmagazine In These Times , and a columnist for Technology Review . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

384 pages, Hardcover

Published July 5, 2000

Reviews

[Sam Berner · Rating 4 out of 5]

This resonated with me, a mongrel myself. Zachary didn't go overboard with his cosmopolitan ideals. But he failed to predict the crisis, and he still has little explanation of why we are so nationalistic. Maybe he should have read some evolutionary psychology?