This is a must see video for anyone who’s never been to India and is remotely interested in the results of globalisation. I’m obsessed with this subject for many reasons — being an Indian is one of the primary reasons. The uneducated backlash of people who don’t fully get being part of a global economy is one of the other reasons. In other words, I’m clearly motivated by my Indian heritage.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Doing business with the world’s greatest democracy is a good thing — for everyone in the long term.
Maybe I was too young to really get an accurate litmus test at the time, but I don’t remember the movement of manufacturing jobs to Mexico creating the same level of furor that it has with technology jobs and India. Maybe it’s the level of education of the people who’s jobs have left for India, or maybe it’s the fact that so many more people are affected due to the new world order.
Globalisation is not just a matter of Americans getting technical support and credit card questions routed to India. Indians are quickly becoming more American-ised at a rate quicker than some are willing to accept. Liken it to Elvin Presley and his questionable hip movements during a time when sex was still taboo. But I’m not really over concerned with the minutia of Indian youths being obsessed with material goods and pop culture. My concerns lie squarely with India’s poor.
Indians are changing in parallel to the rest of the world. Americans benefit from a free market economy. But on the other side, literally across the pond, India’s poor are being left out of the economic boom. Things are only getting more expensive for people who already earn very little.
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Not really sure whoe “Elvin Presley” was. Have heard rumors of an “Elvis”, but never a mention of “Elvin”. Was he shorter with pointed ears, living in a tree and making cookies to this new-fangled rock-n-roll?