"In the Diversity Advantage, G. Pascal Zachary provides a provocative roadmap to the new civilization arising out of the sweeping shifts in the world economy. He reveals that the key new determinants for any nation's economic, political, and cultural success are, surprisingly, a diverse population and a "mongrel" sense of self. Roaming the globe, Zachary shows how the rise of new forms of identity and migration are helping to determine exactly who will win and lose in the next century. Zachary's thesis isn't just about nations but about individuals, too. In his tour of a new global civilization, we meet a fascinating gallery of successful characters who possess an intriguing mix of "roots" and "wings". Strong enough to know who they are, they are nevertheless always adding skills and traits from around the world - and in the process bestowing the gifts of creativity and social capital on the cities and states that they call home." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction: The New Cosmopolitans

A Liverpoolian Sings Canto-Pop... in Hong-Kong Chapter 1 The Identity Toolbox: The Changing Self in a World Without Borders

An African Playwright Goes Native in Belgium
Chapter 2 Roots and Wings: Balancing the Demands of Openness and Inheritance, Tradition, and Transformation

An Indian Engineer Lives Rio Time In California
Chapter 3 Mongrelize or Die!: The Economic Benefits of Diversity and the Price of "Purity"

Indiana Jones Discovers Thomas Jefferson on a Soviet Farm
Chapter 4 Nationalism, Diversity, and Ethnic Strife: The American Way of the Fiction of "Nationality"

A Black Hustler Bakes Bread in Magdeburg
Chapter 5 Europe as a Mongrel Space: Germany's Divided Legacy and the Fiction of "Nationality"

A Nigerian Priest Gains a Parish in Dublin
Chapter 6 Diversity by Design: Ireland, Japan, and the Struggle to Replace "Purity" with Hybridity

A Dayak Logger Does High-tech in Silicon Valley
Chapter 7 The Multinational Corporation: Friend and Foe of Cosmopolitan Values

A Japanese Trader Revives Goose-down Industry in Poland
Chapter 8 Mongrel Leadership in France, Germany, and Singapore: The New Transnational Politics of Diversity

Malay Nationalists Who Love Sinatra and American Wrestling
Chapter 9 The Diversity Advantage and its Critics

Conclusion A Mongrel World

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index