Globalization in Washington, D.C.

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This paper examines how in many ways, the creation of a global cultural community has had a positive affect upon the intellectual and social lives of all Washington D.C. residents between the ages of twelve and twenty. It also looks at how they are the best-educated generation on new information technologies and how they benefit from economic growth. The paper then discusses the negative effects of a global cultural community such as the the lack of certain skills of poor urban youth or their early exposure to various elements of modernity and industrialization. The paper also looks at how this leads to difficulties later on, especially when it comes to competing with more affluent peers.

From the Paper:

"Globalization also means that jobs that once provided part-time income for students have now been exported abroad. "New technologies have replaced manual labor, mainly affecting low skilled jobs in the service sector," and many traditional low-skilled occupations that could provide the underprivileged a first foot on the job ladder have been exported overseas through outsourcing. Also: "many youth in developing countries, as well as marginalized youth in the industrialized world, are unable to fulfill their raised expectations of material well-being," that they gain from observing the lives of their richer same-age compatriots on television. "

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