1、GlobalizationUnit 4In Search of Davos ManUnit 4G R _ Part Division of the TextPart Division of the Text Part Para(s) Main Ideas 1 13 2 45Introduction to Davos Man and the World Economic Forum.Debate over the impact of globalization on current society and culture. 3 68 History of globalization and it
2、s recent trends and future prospects.4 911 Globalization versus nationalism and the challenges it facesD R _ Text 1Globalization is sweeping aside national borders and changing relations between nations. What impact does this have on national identities and loyalties? Are they strengthened or weaken
3、ed? The author investigates.William Browder was born in Princeton, New Jersey, grew up in Chicago, and studied at Stanford University in California. But dont call him an American. For the past 16 of his 40 years he has lived outside the U.S., firstIn Search of Davos ManPeter Gumbel“National identity
4、 makes no difference for me,” he says. “I feel completely international. If you have four good friends and you like what you are doing, it doesnt matter where you are. Thats globalization.”D R _ Text 2first in London and then, from 1996, in Moscow, where he runs his own investment firm. Browder now
5、manages $1.6 billion in assets. In 1998 he gave up his American passport to become a British citizen, since his life is now centered in Europe. D R _ Text 3Alex Mandl is also a fervent believer in globalization, but he views himself very differently. A former president of AT&T, Mandl, 61, was born i
6、n Austria and now runs a French technology company, which is doing more and more business in China. He reckons he spends about 90% of his time traveling on business. But despite all that globetrotting, Mandl who has been a U.S. citizen for 45 years still identifies himself as an American. “I see mys
7、elf as American without any hesitation. The fact that I spend a lot of time in other places doesnt change that,” he says. Although Browder and Mandl define their nationality differently, both see their identity as a matter of personal choice, not an accident of birth. And not incidentally, both are
8、Davos Men, members of the international business lite who trek each year to the Swiss Alpine town for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, founded in 1971. This week, Browder and Mandl will join more than 2,200 executives, politicians, academics, journalists, writers and a handful of Holl
9、ywood stars for five days of networking, D R _ Text 4parties and endless earnest discussions about everything from post-election Iraq and HIV in Africa to the global supply of oil and the implications of nanotechnology. Yet this year, perhaps more than ever, a hot topic at Davos is Davos itself. Wha
10、tever their considerable differences, most Davos Men and Women share at least one belief: that globalization, the unimpeded flows of capital, labor and technology across national borders, is both welcome and unstoppable. They see the world increasingly as one vast, interconnected marketplace in whic
11、h corporations search for the most advantageous locations to buy, produce and sell their goods and services.D R _ Text 5D R _ Text 6As borders and national identities become less important, some find that threatening and even dangerous. In an essay entitled “Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the
12、American Elite,” Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington describes Davos Man (a phrase that first got widespread attention in the 1990s) as an emerging global superspecies and a threat. The members of this class, he writes, are people who “have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries
13、as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, can and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the lites global operations.” Huntington argues that Davos Mans global-citizen self-image is starkly at odds with the values of most Americans, who remain deeply committed to their nation. This disconnect, he says, creates “a major cultural fault line. In a variety of ways, the American establishment, governmental and private, has become increasingly divorced from the American people.” D R _ Text 7
