Andrew Marantman's The Dell Theory Of Conflict, And Globalization

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Nowadays, due to the advances in transportation and communication technologies, globalization generates further interdependence of both the economics and cultural activities among countries. This interaction causes mutual understanding, balance, and also conflict. Thomas Friedman, the author of “The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention”, speaks highly of globalization. He claims that it could bring peace to human beings, since countries in the same global supply chain are less likely to go to war. Andrew Marantz, on the other hand, realizes that cultural assimilation accompanied by the international collaboration creates an identity crisis in India in his essay “My Summer in an Indian Call Center”. Globalization could cause cultural cost, such as a loss …show more content…

In Marantz’s essay, he claims that “call-center employees gain their financial independence at the risk of an identity crisis” (Marantz 287). This means that in order to have better lives in a globalized world, Indian BPO agents have to give up their original culture and even identities to some extent. While Marantz focuses on the loss of original Indian culture, Friedman is concerned about the distorted cultural self-confidence in some Muslim countries. “At the same time,… this flattening process has intensified the feeling of humiliation in some quarters of the Muslim world over the fact that civilizations to which the Muslim world once felt superior – Hindus, Jews, Christians, Chinese – are now all doing better than many Muslim countries” (Friedman 176). The Muslim world once cultivated a splendid national culture in their history, but many other nations do better in today’s globalized world. Once Muslims realize they are lagging behind others, they may feel a sense of humiliation. Both authors realize that the increasing communication and interaction among cultures generate challenges to the original cultures of some countries. Globalization exposes

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