A Global Community

            The rising technological advancements in this day and age have allowed our world to be characterized as a global community.  The project of corporate globalization has found its way to success.  In order “to control a democracy,” it is has become more and more crucial to control the media (Roy 3).  The primary media outlets in America are owned by six major companies (Roy 3).  In fact, “the six largest cable companies have eighty percent of cable television subscribers.  Even Internet websites are being colonized by giant media corporations” (Roy 3).  But how does corporate globalization affect Americans? 

American companies have transferred most of their manufacturing jobs to foreign countries because it is almost always a less expensive way to do business.  In addition, service and technical jobs are presently suffering a large migration to foreign labor as well.  Apparently, this "liberates" Americans to be leaders, up-marketers, and graspers of the latest technologies.  However, in reality, this doesn’t seem to be the case.  “These jobs are also being done by qualified professionals in other countries”.  President George W. Bush has said to countless Americans who are looking for jobs, that the answer to getting a better career is to get a better education.  However, many Americans realize that even if they do receive a higher education, “jobs such as medicine and research and development are successfully being done in other countries,” so the work is simply decreasing.  Increasingly, Americans with college degrees are unable to find work, while the same degrees in other countries are in demand.