The World in "www."

*opinion based response

The society in which we live in today shows us that technology has impacted and created our sense of individuality. A large percent of americans have the capabilities to access the internet. We use technology so much that it seems to serve us as means of gaining our information quick and fast. We live in this world of capitalism. We engage in exchanging information fast. We don’t really seem fascinated with how it came about. 

Office Tigers by Liz Merman presents to us what it means to globalize our products and corporate well-being by outsourcing our work to “people who aren’t utilized.” I had a very hard time digesting this movie. It wasn’t as interesting as it was infuriating. Socioeconomic status and corporate imperialism threading across what we call “third world” countries. We are disseminating information and work we don’t want.

Not only do we give work to other places, we destroy their culture by infringing and invading our own. Call centers in India replace their own histories for fake ones. They recreate themselves for our benefit. We disvalue them with trainings for them to appear as american. They work with the discomfort of becoming someone who doesn’t exist. Their accents are covered, their identity is changed, and at the end of the day they are expected to return to their own lives.

We displace humans as a means of not having to do the work ourselves. 
Our readings tell us that racism permeates the digital world and shows us racism. We then cybertype people. We create a whole new world where we are able to see what was. It shows us the natives of places “conquered.” In addition, we create the labels in which cybertyping helps support the stereotyping of peoples worldwide. The labels which anyone now has the access to. A space which gives us new ways to transfer racism. 
this all for me is distasteful. however, there is no way i can change this at the moment. sure awareness is key, but so is action radical and not. we outsource so much work it would be detrimental to the economy to not. this is because we as a society are in such disarray we can’t even figure out what we want for ourselves. we let people think for us. we don’t go against a flow of information that is threatening an already established way of thinking. “why reinvent the wheel?”


What I disapprove most is the greed that disseminates as a result. By creating a world of materialism based on currency. People work so hard and want to earn so much when we have a world that can sustain itself and instead we worry about the person who is and should be number one. We as a society care more about selfish “needs” and “necessities” that we forget about the other people we trample on knowingly and unknowingly. We are creating the world of modernization and post-modernization where everything is becoming the same.



Not only that but how this fuels western society thought over the East encapsulating them in a world where they are unable to escape economic dependence. We keep societies other than our own where they are and continue by creating for them an inconvenient dual society where they start to become acculturated and sometimes assimilated destroying their ways of life.