Blog # 4 The World in www.

After watching the Office Tigers, I have to say that it is interesting to see how a business works as it is outsourcing out of America to boost businesses and have lower waged employers to do the busywork of the corporation. Also, it shows how globalization continues to expand in businesses. I have to say that the topic of out-sourcing was presented to us differently than I thought. I had a general idea about the outsourcing topic before I saw the Office Tigers, but I was able to understand it more from watching the documentary. In the video, I was also surprised to see how hard the employees at the Office Tigers work. Compared to how much we work, they are working a lot harder in my opinion. Some of the workers there are working 24 hour shifts. As for myself, when I was working as a lifeguard, I would usually work for 3-4 hours a day for only a few days a week. Like most people, I try to get as many hours to work as I can so that I’m able to get a bigger paycheck. However, asking me to work for more than 18-24 hours a day, that is asking a too much for me to do. It shows just how much hard work the Office Tigers put in for their jobs.

When it comes to technology, it happens to play a big role in globalization. The reason is because it is used all over the world. It is because of technology that we have been able open the doors of many different possibilities like communicating and being able to business overseas.  An example would be the Office Tigers, which is an American owned company in India. With many major companies working in third world countries like India, this brings up the issue of cultural imperialism. For instance, the people at Office Tigers have to tons of training sessions that teach them how to speak “global English” (image below). They do this in order to remove the trace of their accents when they are on the phone with clients from the U.S.

Technology also plays in the part of cultural imperialism. As new technologies become available to people, we tend to leave the older models behind in order to get the new ones. Drori mentions in “Global E-Litism” that new technology is “simultaneously a global unifier and a global divider”.  Meaning  that even though the advances in technology in the global communication aspect are meant to bring people around the world closer together, most of the world still does not have access to this kind of technology because they do not have the means to use it. As the major technological countries continue to develop new technology that they have access to, the lesser countries are left behind still trying to reach the same access of technology as they have.  It is my opinion that we should allow the third world countries to catch up with us so that they are not that far behind the rest of the countries.