Americ Top Dog Or Underdog - 1556 Words

America: Top Dog or Underdog? Fasten your seatbelts ladies and gentlemen because I’m about to talk you on a field trip that will brush the dust particles off of your brain cells and make you see America like you’ve never seen it before. Your mind will be blown with the statements made by the two authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Fareed Zakaria. This is about to be the most fascinating adventure of your life. Outsourcing, international relations, and foreign policy all combined into one paper. Barbara Ehrenreich’s article â€Å"Your Local News--Dateline Delhi† explains the economic pressures that America is facing such as outsourcing. Fareed Zakaria takes on the global effects of outsourcing in his article â€Å"The Rise of the Rest† in which he†¦show more content†¦Ehrenreich is one of the many Americans that are against the idea of our nation helping others. She thinks that outsourcing is weakening America on the whole. Ehrenreich’s thesis is, after all, is that th is obsession with capitalism has depleted our nationalism; and America has become so obsessed with helping others that we do not take time to help our own â€Å"failing† country. Many people may compare outsourcing to hashtags or selfies, a waste of time and pointless. Also, people may say that outsourcing hit America in a huge tidal wave that is now uncontrollable. Ehrenreich exemplifies this when she writes,†I should’ve seen it coming. In the eighties, US companies began outsourcing the manufacturing of everything from garments to steel, leaving whole cities to die† (609). Basically, Ehrenreich is saying that if outsourcing ruined us then, it will ruin us now; but clearly outsourcing has not ruined us that much because, of all of the jobs that we have outsourced in the last decade, we’re still standing strong. Zakaria contradicts this by saying,†Over the past twenty years, as globalization and outsourcing have accelerated dramatically, Americ a’s growth rate has averaged just over 3 percent† (619). We’ve outsourced all of these jobs and yet our population has grown. The fact that we’re giving opportunities to other countries has not taken