num_pages: 384
description: 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)
language: English
title: The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge: Picking Globalism's Winners and Losers
titlecomplete: The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge: Picking Globalism's Winners and Losers
ratings_count: 12
publisher: PublicAffairs