"Other Side of Outsourcing" by: Thomas Friedman

“30 Little Turtles” an article by Thomas L. Friedman. Is about the positive encounter Friedman experiences. In receiving a standing ovation “from a roomful of indian 20 year olds”(Friedman) by simply reading “ a paragraph”. During a proper canadian pronunciation teaching, in helping minimize and mask indian accents; In future call center operators. Friedman's article remains optimistic in its entirety. Believing there are many benefits to outsourcing, for it creates prosperity. However, in Stephanie Malinowski article “ Questioning Thomas L. Friedman Optimism in “30 Little Turtles”. She is quick to point out just how absurd Friedman’s article is. Due to the fact he portrays a condescending attitude (toward the indian students), insufficient

American and Indian culture are different in similar in many ways. In the video “30 Days: Outsourcing” we got to follow a man Chris Jobin, into India and see firsthand just what living in India is like. Upon arrival he starts to notice somethings are very different than what he is accustom to, but there are also some that are very similar. One of the very first things he sees when he arrives is all these new business buildings next to little shacks that people live in. Then when he gets to the house he is staying at, the family meets him at the door and does some ritual on him. After his initial first day, he notices that the main job in India, is the lowest job in America.

International relations is a topic that is constantly changing and can be very fragile. In the article, “Your Local News- Dateline Delhi” Barbara Ehrenreich, a respected journalist, shares her personal insights into the outsourcing of American jobs to foreign lands. Ehrenreich’s cynical attitude, use of dry humor, and rhetorical questions makes this daunting subject easier to take in. Fareed Zakaria, a well-known author, explains the globalized world and where outsourcing fits, in an excerpt from his book, The Post-American World. Zakaria looks back in history to show the reader how the world came to this “globalizing moment”, then he hypothesizes the future of the global economy by piecing together all of the elements. Ehrenreich shows

“Mansi, your grandfather was very religious, but he also knew that India is not the same now that it was when his father was a priest,” Dad thought very carefully as he spoke. “He had to admit that no matter how hard I worked, it would be difficult to raise you and your brother here if we wanted secure futures for

| This detracts the credibility of the narrator by suggesting that the writer is quite desperate for a story in order to make money. It makes it seem like he is travelling to India as a last ditch effort to save himself financially, which to me makes him less credible.

Immigrants’ refusal to appreciate a fused culture promotes division. Mukherjee questions the idea of immigrants losing their culture for American ideals: “Parents express rage or despair at their U.S.-born children's forgetting of, or indifference to, some aspects of Indian culture,” to that Mukherjee asks, “Is it so terrible that our children are discovering or are inventing homelands for themselves?” (Mukherjee, 1997, para. 28). Many immigrants experience anger when their children no longer hold the ideals of their home country. This tension produced within the household hinders the unity within a resident country’s culture and encourages division within families. Using herself as an example, Mukherjee provides another instance of anger directed at her from her own subculture: “They direct their rage at me because, by becoming a U.S.

She explains her thesis by stating “Others who write stories of migration often talk of arrival at a new place as a loss of communal memory and the erosion of an original culture. I want to talk of arrival as a gain,” (360). The key points of the text include Mukherjee describing her transition between Calcutta and the United States, and what it means to be and American and how culture influences that aspect. The information in the text is significant; the people of America are a part of a melting pot, sometimes it is hard for them to find the distinction between American culture and their own. The information in Mukherjee’s story is clear and specific, unbiased, and is relevant to the purpose of the story. I believe Mukherjee has achieved her purpose of informing her audience about cultural differences; she presents certain strengths and weaknesses within the text.

     The exporting of American jobs is an issue that is important and will become increasingly so as more and more white collar jobs are shipped overseas. American companies in the past few decades have been sending American jobs overseas paying residents of other countries pennies on the dollar what they had paid American workers to do. This saves the companies millions of dollars on labor costs but costs Americans precious jobs.

The opening paragraph acknowledges an ethnic stereotype of Indians. Before even introducing the fact that he was an Indian, he pointed out the fact that he couldn’t read, and then added the details of the financial difficulties his family faced living on the reservation. The information also challenges the stereotype by always providing an example to how his family would make it through the tough times. He says that they were poor by most standards, but his parents would find a minimum-wage job to make them middle-class by reservation standards.

Ehrenreich's ideas about outsourcing in the article “Your Local News- Dateline Delhi” help to understand Zakarias statement in the article, “The Rise of the Rest” about “the rise of the rest” which means that the rest of the world is catching up with the United States on a economic scale because the reason the U.S. is outsourcing jobs, is because other countries are growing to become more equipped to handle the jobs. Ehrenreich talks about how outsourcing is such an awful thing because Americans are losing their jobs. However Zakaria talks about how outsourcing is helping the entire world because it allows nations to increase their standard of living.

Outsourcing is a method used by many corporations in which their products are manufactured in foreign countries often for cheaper labor.This method method of productions has it’s pros and cons.

Friedman and Mandelbaum are both “frustrated optimists” of America 's future (7). They know the potential American has, and that it is filled with creative talented and hardworking people that can accomplish almost anything if they work together (Friedman and Mandelbaum, 8). At the same time, they are frustrated because they discovered that “many of those people feel that our country is not educating the workforce they need, or admitting the energetic immigrants they seek, or investing in the infrastructure they require, or funding the research they envision, or putting in place the intelligent tax laws and incentives that our competitors have installed” (Friedman and Mandelbaum, 8). American

In this chapter, Thomas Friedman looks at how cultures and societies will have to deal with and adapt to the changes that globalization brings to the way of doing business. It affects whole companies and individuals. He gives the perception of the world is flattening by comparing the Industrial Revolution to the IT Revolution that is happening right now. The flattening process was identified by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels in the Communist Manifesto, published in 1848. Marx’s writings about capitalism state “the inexorable march of technology and capital to remove all barriers, boundaries, frictions, and restraints to global commerce (Friedman 234).”

He often mentions about the effect of outsourcing jobs form The United States to foreign countries. He analyzes the effects from both sides perspective. While reallocating jobs from America to foreign countries improves that country’s economy and GDP, it consequently also increases the demand for American goods in that nation. In his view this is a positive development which will refine itself continuously and continue to grow to a point when the world economies become lateral that

Critics see outsourcing as impacting both domestic and foreign countries in a negative way. Domestic economics falters since business is transferred to outside sources, therefore local employment suffers, prices may rise, and people may lose their jobs. The United States loses about 230,000 jobs a year due to outsourcing and new jobs are not crated that frequently or rapidly, therefore local unemployment rises. At the same time, the US also loses skills due to outsourcing. Developing countries also experience global stratification where, even though the imported business upgrades social conditions, social demarcation and hierarchy occurs where the labor class is exploited by newly formed elite. This is called "Global stratification". Consequences may be disastrous not only for the country