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In Search of
Davos
Man Peter
Gumbel
Globalization
is
sweeping
aside
national borders and
changing relations between nations.
What impact does this have on national
identities and loyalties? Are they
strengthened
or
weakened? The author
investigates.
全球化正在扫除国界、
改变国与国之间的关系。
这对国家的认同和对国家的忠诚会带
来什么影响呢？它们会得到加强还是削弱？作者
对这些问题进行了探讨。
In Search of
Davos Man
Peter Gumbel
1. William Browder was born
in Princeton, New Jersey, grew up in Chicago, and
studied
at Stanford University in
California. But don't call him an American. For
the past 16 of his
40 years he has
lived outside the U.S., first in London and then,
from 1996, in Moscow,
where he runs his
own
investment
firm. Browder
now manages $$1.6 billion in
assets
. In
1998
he gave up his
American
passport
to become a
British citizen, since his life is now
centered
in Europe.
makes no difference
for
me,
completely international. If you
have four good friends and you like what you are
doing, it
doesn't matter where you are.
That's globalization.
寻找达沃斯人
彼得
·
甘贝尔
威廉<
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·
布劳德出生于新泽西州的普林斯顿，在芝加哥长大，就读于加利
福尼亚州的斯
坦福大学。但别叫他美国人。他今年
40
岁，过去
16
年来一直生活在美国以外的地方，
先是
在伦敦，
1996
年后在莫斯科经
营他自己的投资公司。布劳德如今掌管着价值
16
亿美元的资<
/p>
产。
1998
年，他放弃美国护照，成为
英国公民，因为他现在的生活中心在欧洲。
“
国家认同
对我来说不重要，
”
他说，
“
我觉得自己完全是个国际人。如果你有四个朋友，又喜欢你所做
< br>的事情，那么你在哪儿无关紧要。这就是全球化。
”
2.
Alex Mandl is also a
fervent
believer in globalization, but he views himself
very
differently. A former president of
AT&T, Mandl, 61, was born in Austria and now runs
a
French technology company, which is
doing more and more business in China. He reckons
he spends about 90% of his time
traveling on business. But despite all that
globetrotting
,
Mandl who has been a U.S. citizen for
45 years still identifies himself as an American.
myself as American without
any
hesitation
. The fact that
I spend a lot of time in other
places
doesn't change that,
亚历克斯
·
曼德尔也是全球化的狂热信徒，
但他对自己的看法与布劳德不同。
61
岁的
曼德尔曾任美国电报电话公司总裁。
他出生于奥地利，
现在
经营着一家法国技术公司，
该公
司在中国的业务与日俱增。他估
计自己几乎
90%
的时间都花在出差上。然而，尽管曼德尔
全球到处跑，已经做了
45
年美国公民的他
还是认为自己是个美国人。
“
我毫不迟疑地把自己
当作美国人。我在其他地方度过很多时间，但是这一事实不能改变我是美国人，
”
他说。
3.
Although
Browder and Mandl define their nationality
differently, both see their identity
as
a matter of personal choice, not an accident of
birth. And not incidentally, both are
Davos Men, members of the international
business
é
lite who
trek
each year to the
Swiss
Alpine
town for the annual
meeting of the
World
Economic
Forum
,
founded in 1971. This
week, Browder and
Mandl will join more than 2,200 executives,
politicians
,
academics
,
journalists
, writers and
a handful of
Hollywood stars
for five days of
networking
,
parties and
endless
earnest
discussions about
everything from post-election Iraq and
HIV
in Africa to
the global supply of oil and the
implications of
nanotechnology
. Yet this
year, perhaps
more than ever, a hot
topic at Davos is Davos itself. Whatever their
considerable
differences, most Davos Men and Women
share at least one belief: that globalization, the
unimpeded
flows of capital,
labor and technology across national borders, is
both welcome
and unstoppable. They see
the world
increasingly
as
one vast,
interconnected
marketplace
in
which corporations search for the most
advantageous
locations to
buy, produce and sell
their goods and
services.
虽然布劳德和曼德尔对各自的国籍界定不同，
他们都将国籍视为个人
选择，
而不是由
出生地决定的。
而且，
他俩都是达沃斯人，这可不是巧合。达沃斯人指的是那些每年长途跋
涉去瑞士阿尔卑斯山
区小城达沃斯参加年度世界经济论坛
——
该论坛始于
1971
年
——
的国
际商业精英们。本周，布劳德和曼德尔将同其他
2200
余名企业高管、政界人士、学者、记
者、
作家和少
数几位好莱坞明星一起，
参加为时五天的交际活动、
宴会和没完
没了的认真的
讨论。
讨论话题林林总总，
从大选后的伊拉克和非洲的艾滋病病毒到全球的石油供应和纳米
技术的重大意义。
然而今年，
或许比以往更甚的是，
达沃斯论
坛的一个热门话题就是达沃斯
本身。尽管与会男女各不相同，但他们大多数有一个共同信
念：全球化，亦即资本、劳动力
和技术不受阻碍地跨国界流动，
是值得欢迎和不可阻挡的。
在他们看来，
世界越来越像一个
巨大的互相联系的市场。
在这个市场里，
企
业寻求采购、
生产及销售产品和服务的最佳地点。
4. As borders and national identities
become less important, some find that threatening
and even dangerous. In an essay
entitled
Denationalization
of the
American Elite,
Samuel
Huntington
describes Davos Man (a
phrase
that first got widespread
attention in the 1990s) as an emerging global
superspecies
and
a threat. The members of this class, he
writes, are people who
loyalty, view
national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully
are
vanishing
, and see
national governments as
residues
from the past whose
only useful function is to
facilitate
the
é
lite's global
operations.
is starkly
at
odds with
the values of most Americans,
who remain deeply
committed
to their