研究生英语Lesson-1--课文Globalization.docxVIP

Lesson 1 GlobalizationText A Living Between Three WorldsGlobalization, for better or for worse, has changed the world greatly. Though still in its early stage, it is all but unstoppable. The challenge that people face nowadays is learning how to live with it, manage it and take advantage of the benefits it offers.Many people believe that, because of globalization, productivity throughout the world will be boosted and, as the world becomes richer and more prosperous, living standards everywhere have the potential to rise. However, there are still a lot of naysayers who take the opposite view, claiming that globalization will have increasingly devastating effects on our lives. Both sides can point to ample examples to support their cases. But in the end, both are probably exaggerating to some extent. What is irrefutable is that the world economic pie is indeed becoming bigger because of globalization – and it is being sliced differently than before.As a matter of fact, globalization means different things to different people, especially when it comes to touchy issues like jobs outsourcing or immigration. Globalization may create more jobs than it actually destroys, but they are in different sectors and in different geographic regions. In today’s world, it takes more skills, education and mobility to be employable. In the following, Sujan Pandit, an Indian writing from Calcutta, describes how he is caught between several tectonic shifts in the global labor market. He also explores how his unique situation gives him choices afforded to few other Indians.My fate is not that of a corporate foot-soldier, which – as the television images and newspaper photographs would suggest – involves a life of labor in a little cell and in tandem with many other, equally industrious honey-bees, armed only with a workstation and telephone.My job in marketing and business development does not eschew face-to-face contact. The company I work for is a small one, but it is spaced over thre