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Why is Japan, a country that looked economically invincible a decade ago stagnating, while long-moribund Ireland booms? What qualities will insure the continued dominance in the new millennium of U.S. culture, society and business? In The Global Me, The Wall Street Journal's G. Pascal Zachary provides a provocative roadmap to the new civilization arising out of sweeping shifts in the world economy. He reveals—through vivid examples of individuals and institutions—that the key new determinants for economic, political and cultural success are, surprisingly, national diversity and a "mongrel" sense of self. Roaming the globe, Zachary shows how the rise of new forms of identity and migration are helping to determine exactly who will win and lose in the next century. Zachary's thesis isn't just about countries, but about individuals, too. In his tour of a new global civilization, we meet a fascinating gallery of characters who possess an intriguing mix of "roots" and "wings." Strong enough to know who they are, they are nevertheless ceaselessly becoming someone else—and in the process bestowing the gifts of creativity and social harmony on the cities and states that they call home. Social critics, pundits, politicians and economists will argue about The Global Me this season. Years from now they will realize the prescience of Zachary's original and compelling vision of a world where nations who embrace multiculturalism win big and those who do not are doomed to stagnation or worse.

INTRODUCTION The New Cosmopolitans

THE SINGER

CHAPTER 1 The Identity Toolbox

THE WRITER

CHAPTER 2 Roots and Wings

THE MANAGER

CHAPTER 3 Mongrelize or Die!

THE SEEKER

CHAPTER 4 The Hybridity Factor

THE HUSTLER

CHAPTER 5 Mongrel Nation

THE REBEL

CHAPTER 6 Diversity by Design

THE MAKER

CHAPTER 7 The Cosmopolitan Corporation

THE PREACHER

CHAPTER 8 Mongrel Leadership

THE IMITATOR

CHAPTER 9 The New Cosmopolitans and Their Critics

CONCLUSION A Mongrel World

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

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作者简介：

G. Pascal Zachary is a senior writer at the Wall Street Journal, which he joined in 1989. His writings have appeared in other publications, including the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Mother Jones and Washington Quarterly. He is a contributing editor to the radical newsweekly In These Times, for whom he writes about political economy and jazz. He also writes a column on innovation for Technology Review. He is the author of two previous books: Showstopper, a 1994 account of the making of a software program at Microsoft, and Endless Frontier, a biographer of Vannevar Bush, organizer of the Manhattan Project. Zachary lives in London.

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"Diversity," declares Wall Street Journal senior writer G. Pascal Zachary in his opening to The Global Me, "defines the health and wealth of nations in a new century." Changes in economics, technology, and identity, he argues, have made diversity an increasingly common thread among successful people, thriving countries, and "the world's biggest, richest, most profit-hungry corporations." Zachary examines our growing propensity to lay claim to both "roots" and "wings"--meaning specific "ethnoracial affiliations"--as well as an openness to new ties, leading to creativity and economic strength. He goes on to show how this is playing out in the United States, Germany, Ireland, and Japan; the benefits and drawbacks involved; and how leaders can advance the former while constraining the latter. Zachary uses the terms "mongrel," "hybrid," and "cosmopolitan" interchangeably to describe the new world citizen, and kicks off every chapter with illustrative vignettes spotlighting real-life examples from England, Switzerland, California, Moldova, Germany, Canada, and Thailand. In the future, the author concludes, hybrid cultures at all levels will prevail over their counterpart monocultures "in the intensifying global competition for trade and technology, wealth and jobs." His argument is provocative and original. --Howard Rothman

This is the third book by Zachary, a senior writer at the Wall Street Journal's London bureau, whose previous works include Showstopper, a 1994 account of the development of Windows NT, and Endless Frontier, a highly regarded 1997 biography of Vannevar Bush. Here he changes gears and considers how, under the right conditions, individuals, groups, organizations, and nations that foster an acceptance of diversity can triumph in the global marketplace over those that don't. Punctuating his narrative with life stories drawn from "new cosmopolitans" living in England, Ireland, Germany, Japan, Korea, Israel, Macedonia, Borneo, and the United States, he shows how individuals who cross traditional cultural bounds bring new opportunities and innovation to those with whom they work. Most telling is his condemnation of the Germans and Japanese, who erect barriers to the cross-cultural activities he advocates, and his praise of the Irish and the companies in Silicon Valley for encouraging such activities. Recommended for both academic and larger public libraries.DNorman B. Hutcherson, California State Univ. Lib., Bakersfield