Deployment of America: Collapse of Americans
The hierarchy of the countries is beginning to shift and leaving America behind. This transition of power is the focal point between both Barbara Ehrenreich,PhD, author of “Your Local News-- Dateline Deli”, and Fareed Zakaria, PhD, who wrote “The Rise of the Rest”. It’s Ehrenreich’s theory on how outsourcing is causing America to fall behind that help the reader get a better understanding of Zakaria’s statement that, Americans are living through a power shift called “the rise of the rest”. Throughout Ehrenreich’s article she discusses the impacts and changes outsourcing has played in daily American operations. Zakaria comes back at this by speaking out on how America at one point gave other countries an inch to progress and now they’re taking the mile and surpassing them. Both state this connection by discussing the lack of effort, egotistical attitude, stand still against progress, …show more content…
First off, there’s is no doubt that Americans like to just be able to pay to have the hard labor done for them. Whether that labor may be physical or mental, if it causes extra work that might take some effort, then just let the maid do it. This is the American mentality that’s been built up by culture, and because of it this once prime country is tumbling down the ladder as others step over to get to the top. This realization is opened when Ehrenreich states, “Whoops-- weren’t we supposed to be the innovators?” (609). Yeah well “we” were supposed to be, but being at the top so long caused America to slack off a bit. Come on, the doctors here aren’t even the ones reading that cat scan of poor Timmy’s broken ankle. Who knows if Americans really are just lazy or if they’ve been having others do their work for so long, and now they really are just an
The hierarchy of the countries is beginning to shift and leaving America behind. This transition of power is the focal point between both Barbara Ehrenreich,PhD, author of “Your Local News-- Dateline Deli”, and Fareed Zakaria, PhD, who wrote “The Rise of the Rest”. It’s Ehrenreich’s theory on how outsourcing is causing America to fall behind that help the reader get a better understanding of Zakaria’s statement that, Americans are living through a power shift called “the rise of the rest”. Throughout Ehrenreich’s article she discusses the impacts and changes outsourcing has played in daily American operations. Zakaria comes back at this by speaking out on how America at one point gave other countries an inch to progress and now they’re taking the mile and surpassing them. Both state this connection by discussing the lack of effort, egotistical attitude, stand still against progress, …show more content…
First off, there’s is no doubt that Americans like to just be able to pay to have the hard labor done for them. Whether that labor may be physical or mental, if it causes extra work that might take some effort, then just let the maid do it. This is the American mentality that’s been built up by culture, and because of it this once prime country is tumbling down the ladder as others step over to get to the top. This realization is opened when Ehrenreich states, “Whoops-- weren’t we supposed to be the innovators?” (609). Yeah well “we” were supposed to be, but being at the top so long caused America to slack off a bit. Come on, the doctors here aren’t even the ones reading that cat scan of poor Timmy’s broken ankle. Who knows if Americans really are just lazy or if they’ve been having others do their work for so long, and now they really are just an