Super People

Although this article is not directly about globalization, it does address the increasing world competitiveness in our society. There has been, in the past twenty or thirty years, a Great Academic Leap Forward that has both resulted from and contributed to growing inequality in American society. Children start to work hard for a successful future from a very early age, and being brilliant is just not enough anymore to get into a good college and to lead a 'successful' life. In today's globalized society, students also have to compete with other "Super People" from all over the world, and because colleges and universities want a diverse student body, being foreign is often an advantage in itself. But the greatest advantage of all is simply having money. Rich people can practically buy their children "Super" resumes by sending them to build schools in Bolivia or the like. (Not to say that all this volunteer work is bad; it isn't. High achieving students do a lot of good in the world.). But just like the wealth gap in American society, the gap in education and intellectual capital is growing. While rich kids all over the world are achieving higher than ever before, the quality of education in poor, inner-city schools is the same as ever. The globalized world had led to an even more over-worked and success-driven society in which some people are winners and some people are left behind in the dust before they even know the race has started.