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.
