Summary Of Your Local News-Dateline Delphi By Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich’s article, “Your Local News- Dateline Delphi”, discusses how certain jobs, especially writing, are being outsourced to other countries. Fareed Zakaria’s writing’s, “The Rise of the Rest”, main idea can be found in the title. This piece of writing is about the rise of other countries in comparison to the United States. He acknowledges how the U.S. used to be the economical powerhouse of the world, but now countries are catching up. While on same subjects, but different topics, Ehrenreich’s opinion on the issues of outsourcing can be used as an unique viewpoint in which to observe Zakaria’s writing and ideas.

Ehrenreich begins her article with the discussion of cheap labor being used to write in papers. She states, “The website

She explains that this was the way America was thinking back in the 80’s after outsourcing manufacturing to different countries. In Zakaria’s writing, he states, “...the United States has lost key industries, its people have stopped saving money, and its government has become increasingly indebted to Asian central banks” (619). Zakaria’s main point in this statement is that the United States is increasingly losing its power due to the country as a whole. Both the government and the people are to blame, according to Zakaria. Ehrenreich’s statement clearly shows how Americans believed that they would be educated and everyone else would provide the hands in the globalized future. However, the future was not globalized in the way America thought it would be. Rather than America just being the “brains” and allowing other countries to do the laborious work, countries have been growing and becoming economically stronger. The unemployed were supposed to find education to be successful, but in this newly globalized world, education is more commonly found and not just exclusive to more powerful countries such as the United

This Ehrenreich quote, “Once quintessential American icons have been appropriated by foreigners” (612), is a good example of the reasoning behind Ehrenreich’s fear. This quote goes on to describe the many different classic American icons are now being found bigger and better overseas. It is not just American icons that are exclusive to being overseas. Ehrenreich has a fear of her job being taken by someone overseas and these icons serve as a good example to show how it’s not just America’s job that are being sent overseas, but rather many the whole culture of