Being Democratically Global

I was flabbergasted by the statement of Suresh Kalmadi the whole sole of the Indian Olympics Council abbreviated as IOC that ‘What good would the Asian games be for India?’ The result was that we lost the acknowledgement of being the host for the same. We had one chance just reaching the expertise in the globalized world and we lost it just because of some big mouthed stuff by some of the higher official. I wonder what kind of gap is to follow in the economy between India and China when China will host the next Olympics. A communist country like China is ready to except this globalized world and a democratic; secularist country like ours is still behaving conservative.
We still shout on the multinationals coming in India but never speak about overpowering them. I would just like to quote an example here. NIKE means victory; it also means a type of expensive sports shoes. In the minds of the anti-globalization movement NIKE stands for victory of a western footwear company over the poor and dispossessed. It is the symbol of unacceptable global triumph of global capital.
Often sold for many times more than the wages of the worker who makes them, NIKE shoes are hate objects more potent, in the eyes of the anti globalists, even more than the McDonalds hamburger. If you want to be trendy these days, you don’t wear NIKEs; you boycott them.
So I was interested to hear some not only praising NIKE sweatshops, but also claiming that NIKE is an example of a responsible business and that someone was the ruling communist party in Vietnam. Today Nike has around six times more workers in Vietnam than in U.S.
In truth the work looks tough and the conditions grim, if we compare Vietnamese factories with those in the west, but that’s not the comparison these workers make. They compare the work with NIKE with the way they lived before, on the way their parents and neighbours still work.
Ten years ago when a small factory of NIKE was established in Vietnam, the workers had to walk to their factories, often for many kilometers. After three years they could afford bicycles. Another three years down they could afford scooters. Today NIKE’s first workers could afford to buy even a car.
I would refer same as the case in India too. Why do we yell always for the multinationals? Why don’t we ourselves seek betterment? We are capable of producing a competitive market even while the western competitors march in. The thing to be thought about is why still we are the third world. Its time when we identify ourselves on this new accessible platform provided.