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When I submitted the (exact) same article last night I thought about how this topic was covered in a book I read titled, Superclass: The Global Power Elite and
by wj 11y ago
When I submitted the (exact) same article last night I thought about how this topic was covered in a book I read titled, Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making. Part of the premise was that people in some of the large (and prosperous) cities of the world have more in common with each other than they might with the many of the people of their own country.
Due to the mobility offered by airlines, the concentration of successful people going to relatively few universities, and the global reach of their companies, many New Yorkers might know more people living in London than they knew living in the majority of U.S. states.
http://www.amazon.com/Superclass-Global-Power-Elite-Making/dp/0374531617/ref=pd_sim_14_5?ie=UTF8&dpID=51Rr-qrkJOL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR100%2C160_&refRID=1QBKGWQ2X1MQXCT4BN26 http://www.amazon.com/Superclass-Global-Power-Elite-Making/d...
Personally I have always felt that people who live in large cities have a much easier time navigating foreign large cities (even if they don't speak the language) than people from smaller towns in the same country. Using a subway for instance.
- Spooky23 11y agoThat's a great example of the endgame of income inequality will transform the world. I find it sad, as that is the cynical world my children will inherit.
- clamprecht 11y agoHonest question: Did you believe this before you had children, or did you realize it afterwards?
- Spooky23 11y agoMore afterwards. For me, getting acquainted with schools again has made academic discussion more real. Also, watching the changes in industries I interact with at work over the last decade has been eye opening.
- flubert 11y agoYou may also like: "Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite" http://nationalinterest.org/print/article/dead-souls-the-denationalization-of-the-american-elite-620 http://nationalinterest.org/print/article/dead-souls-the-den... "Debates over national identity are a pervasive characteristic of our time. In part, they raise rhetorical questions, but they also have profound implications for American society and American policy at home and abroad. Different perceptions--especially between the citizenry and the more cosmopolitan elites--of what constitutes national identity generate different national interests and policy priorities. The views of the general public on issues of national identity differ significantly from those of many elites. The public, overall, is concerned with physical security but also with societal security, which involves the sustainability--within acceptable conditions for evolution--of existing patterns of language, culture, association, religion and national identity. For many elites, these concerns are secondary to participating in the global economy, supporting international trade and migration, strengthening international institutions, promoting American values abroad, and encouraging minority identities and cultures at home. The central distinction between the public and elites is not isolationism versus internationalism, but nationalism versus cosmopolitanism."