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OutsourcingchangesthefaceofAmerica

ANDREW MATYSIK EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AJM722@CABRINI.EDU

The year was 1988, and Avnee Ingle was just a 5-year old Indian girl awaiting her father's return from one of his numerous visits to America for an engineering position. Graduating from a highly regarded university in India, Mr. Ingle was an exceptional student in search of employment in the United States.

"He was originally recruited by a German engineering company," Avnee recalled. "After a few months there, he found another job in Tanzania, Africa."

Mr. Ingle accepted these various positions with the constant goal of finding work in America in the back of his mind.

Being bounced around from India to Germany and then to Tanzania, Africa, was a game of hop-scotch no solid family would have amusement playing.

In 1988, howev~r, Mr. Ingle was ahead of his time. This period was when the groundwork for monster technological corporations, such as Microsoft, was just being laid. "Windows" was the up-and-corning attraction for many software engineers and technological wizards. The possibilities for the computer age were endless, and-help was need- ed from the most gifted scientists and engineers around the world, no matter how far the search could be.

The technological society was embarking upon a process of "flattening," a term dubbed by expert writer on global~zation, Thomas Friedman. By flattening, Friedman means that the world is no longer round, and a level playing field is emerging for all businesses, no ma,tterwhat the geographical location.

Mr. Ingle continued his quest to remove his family from an India that Avnee describes as an overpopulated and polluted area. A cleaner, safer and more organized America was the environment Mr. Ingle wanted for his children.

After numerous trips to the U.S., Mr. Ingle finally got word from a friend of an engineering position that was available in America. An assured engineering position in the U.S. would allow Mr.Ingle and his family to begin their lives together in his premeditated dream.

As technology advanced, broadband cables became the Earth's neck tie and wrapped around the world to connect countries oceans away form each other. As a result, a kick-boxer in Wyoming could communicate with a fellow martial arts lover in

Thailand with a simple click.

Once the leaders of America's business world gripped the importance of such developments, the word "outsourcing" became an everyday word for the everyday citizen. The basic concept of outsourcing is better work for cheaper labor. As a result, computer, telemarketing, engineering and scientific research were just a few of the positions flying to countries like India and China quicker than an American's attention span.

Friedman has made a career out of stressing the urgency of globalization to the American citizens. At the present time, people such as Mr.Ingle no longer fret to find a job in America; American corporations are fretting to find him. The corporation will now accommodate their needs, due to superior work ethic, scientific excellence and mathematical knowledge.

Avnee Ingle now enjoys a college education in America quite different from her father.

However Americanized she might be, Avnee still realizes the importance of education, as she hopes to eventually get her Master's degree to ensure a safe position incapable of being shipped to another country.just as many have before.

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