Fareed Zakaria's The Rise Of The Rest

Buckminster Fuller once said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality to change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” America in many ways was the existing model, we were on top in almost every industry. Today the rest of the world has become the new model. In Fareed Zakaria’s article, “The Rise of the Rest,” He explains how America is falling behind as the rest of the world is exceeding, leaving us in the dust. Barbara Ehrenreich, helps us understand Zakaria’s thesis, in her article “Your Local News - Dateline Delhi,” by describing the outsourcing of many jobs. Outsourcing has created cheap economic opportunities for American’s, at the cost of them falling off their throne, allowing the rest of the world to snatch the opportunity for domination.
With today’s modern technology, we can access the entirety of human knowledge by the click of a button. This means anyone with access to the internet, can be educated on any subject. Ehrenreich is amazed that, “One of the indian reporters… has a degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley.” The opportunity is there for anyone to take, and these individuals from the rest of the world are gonna seize it at the very moment it becomes apparent. As the world globalizes, someone in India, can have the same opportunity as someone in America. America being the country creating the opportunity, does not necessarily mean it will be the country to grasp it. When America was isolated, was when they could take the opportunities that they created for themselves. Zakaria list’s many examples of America taking control, summing it up as, “Only ten years ago, America was at the top.” Ten years ago, you would have to be educated by a teacher in your own country, but we are able to attend a class across the world, while sitting in our living