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After reading “The Global Village Finally Arrives” by Pico Iyer I think that it is true of what’s going on in the world today. Pico is English but with Indian parents, both whom are professors at Oxford, and Harvard Universities. He has written many travel books, essays, and fiction. Pico writes for Time Magazine. Seems like he has a lot of success in his time of writing. In this reading it talks about how the world is becoming more alike. It talks about how other countries in the world are becoming more multi-cultural like America. He makes the statement “what is in California today is in America tomorrow, and next week around the globe.” Also he talks about how you can be in like Italy or Europe and be watching a baseball game in South America. Pico then moves on to how different cultural foods are in other cultural restaurants. For example he says that in that you can find enchiladas in every menu in Nepal. I don’t think that is a total true fact, but I get his point. Towards the end of the reading Pico goes on saying that “the world will not become America, but America may still, if only symbolically, be a model for the world. I believe what he is trying to day is that the world is not going to be exactly like America but it is going to try to resemble America as much as it can. But also the other cultures are not going to give up their own beliefs to become more like America.

I think that this is a very important piece of information to read. It gives you three different view points of where he is coming from. Also he gives many examples to follow up on his opinions. First Friedman starts to try and explain the difference between the world now and how it was before the 1980’s. He refers to the earlier world as “the cold war system” and now as “globalization”. A good example that Friedman uses is in the cold war system was based on the one word wall or the Berlin Wall. This was basically saying our world was divided up. Now Friedman say the world today is based on one word web or the internet. An example that he uses to get this across is that someone in another country can be as close to you as someone in the next dorm-room. A second balances that Friedman talks about is Supermarkets, and the Electric Herd. The Electric Herd is just millionaires that have nothing else to do with their money besides to invest it into these “Supermarkets or global markets” all over the world. I think that these can have a big influence in our world, because they don’t kill people, but they can have a big affect on our economy. The third balance that Freidman refers to is “super-empowered individuals”. He gives the example about Bin Laden and the war he declared on the United States. He got one country to fire seventy-five missiles that cost one million dollars a piece at one man.

Most all sports have a require drug test. Some of the athletes are using these performace enhacing drugs to get bigger, stronger, faster,ect. This also harms them alot more then they think. They use this drugs insted of steriods to try and beat the system. Basically this is cheating and i think that they should be band from sports for life.Do you think that these users shold be band from sports for life?

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