An Essay Based on “We Are Not the World” “We Are Not the World”, written by Greg Ip, is an informative article depicting the ongoing struggle between the differing ideas and worldly impact of the nationalists and the globalists. Throughout this article, Ip touches on the topics of the rise of nationalists, what these nationalists do and do not have in common, globalism’s background and purpose, China joining the World Trade Organization, the impact of the euro, the financial connection of the world, the irrelevance of national regulation, the influence of immigration and unemployment, and how to resolve the differences between nationalism and globalism. The first major key point of the article is that the “new nationalist surge” (Ip, 2017)
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Even though globalism had peaked in the 2000s, and the effects of globalism seemed to be beneficial, once the globalists saw globalism as an outlook and a lavish lifestyle, that is when it began to, what Ip calls, overreach in various countries. For example, Ip points out that when China joined the World Trade Organization, Bill Clinton, former President of the United States, falsely predicted that China joining the WTO would be more than advantageous. However, China violated the rules of the WTO, while also not violating them at the same time through discriminating against foreign products. This caused Chinese imports to the United States to eliminate 2 million American jobs, but it was completely different with the exports to China. No such elimination occurred in …show more content…
This is the main difference between globalists and nationalists because the globalists believe that there should be open borders, which leads to free trade, which leads to worldwide economic profit, while the nationalists believe that the country they live in should come first, and that borders should not be open to all. Leon Fink, a notable history professor from the University of Illinois in Chicago, notes that the nationalists are, “…flaying a liberal internationalist world order that has hemorrhaged the jobs of the domestic working class for the profits of a financial elite.” (Fink, 2017). Fink mentions this because he wants to showcase the main perspective of nationalists such as Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen. Donald Trump has repeatedly made his opinion about how Mexican immigrants are coming into the United States and taking Americans’ rightful jobs quite clear. However, Robert Zoellick, a former president of the World Bank, is quick to point out that these immigrants are mostly coming, not from Mexico, but from Central America. He proposes that President Trump should instead work with Mexico to build up a better defense that would bar thieves, drug dealers, and the like from entering their countries. (Zoellick,
Even though globalism had peaked in the 2000s, and the effects of globalism seemed to be beneficial, once the globalists saw globalism as an outlook and a lavish lifestyle, that is when it began to, what Ip calls, overreach in various countries. For example, Ip points out that when China joined the World Trade Organization, Bill Clinton, former President of the United States, falsely predicted that China joining the WTO would be more than advantageous. However, China violated the rules of the WTO, while also not violating them at the same time through discriminating against foreign products. This caused Chinese imports to the United States to eliminate 2 million American jobs, but it was completely different with the exports to China. No such elimination occurred in …show more content…
This is the main difference between globalists and nationalists because the globalists believe that there should be open borders, which leads to free trade, which leads to worldwide economic profit, while the nationalists believe that the country they live in should come first, and that borders should not be open to all. Leon Fink, a notable history professor from the University of Illinois in Chicago, notes that the nationalists are, “…flaying a liberal internationalist world order that has hemorrhaged the jobs of the domestic working class for the profits of a financial elite.” (Fink, 2017). Fink mentions this because he wants to showcase the main perspective of nationalists such as Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen. Donald Trump has repeatedly made his opinion about how Mexican immigrants are coming into the United States and taking Americans’ rightful jobs quite clear. However, Robert Zoellick, a former president of the World Bank, is quick to point out that these immigrants are mostly coming, not from Mexico, but from Central America. He proposes that President Trump should instead work with Mexico to build up a better defense that would bar thieves, drug dealers, and the like from entering their countries. (Zoellick,