The diversity advantage : multicultural identity in the new world economy / G. Pascal Zachary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zachary, G. Pascal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism.

Economics.

Physical Description:

xix, 310 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: The New Cosmopolitans xxi

A Liverpoolian Sings Canto-Pop... in Hong Kong 1

Chapter 1 The Identity Toolbox: The Changing Self in a World Without Borders 4

An African Playwright Goes Native... in Belgium 23

Chapter 2 Roots and Wings: Balancing the Demands of Openness and Inheritance, Tradition, and Transformation 27

An Indian Engineer Lives Rio Time... in California 51

Chapter 3 Mongrelize or Die!: The Economic Benefits of Diversity and the Price of "Purity" 56

Indiana Jones Discovers Thomas Jefferson... on a Soviet Farm 83

Chapter 4 Nationalism, Diversity, and Ethnic Strife: The American Way of the Fiction of "Nationality" 93

A Black Hustler Bakes Bread ... in Magdeburg 117

Chapter 5 Europe as a Mongrel Space: Germany's Divided Legacy and the Fiction of "Nationality" 123

A Nigerian Priest Gains a Parish... in Dublin 149

Chapter 6 Diversity by Design: Ireland, Japan, and the Struggle to Replace "Purity" with Hybridity 156

A Dayak Logger Does High-tech... in Silicon Valley 181

Chapter 7 The Multinational Corporation: Friend and Foe of Cosmopolitan Values 198

A Japanese Trader Revives Goose-down Industry... in Poland 217

Chapter 8 Mongrel Leadership in France, Germany, and Singapore: The New Transnational Politics of Diversity 222

Malay Nationalists Who Love... Sinatra and American Wrestling 243

Chapter 9 The Diversity Advantage and Its Critics 246

Conclusion: A Mongrel World 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813340500

OCLC:

50782979