By Jon Duschinsky
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We cannot really understand where we are and work out where we are going if we do not have a clearer idea of how we got here. Thomas Friedman identifies 10 processes, or flatteners, that have played an important, if not essential, role in moving us toward this globalized society. I have taken these 10 flatteners and put them in 31 FLAT AND BEAUTIFUL a philanthropic context. What emerges are four major trends: political, technological, human, and economic. Political Trends Politics has played a huge part in our lives as citizens of the world in the past 100 years.
I waited on a bus for nine hours in Bratislava to travel to Vienna. We didn’t believe that our passports would be accepted! As we stepped out of the bus in Vienna, suddenly the joy of actually being there was turned into shock at the incredible difference between the two countries—what people were buying there, the shops they had, the cafés they were sitting in. For us, Czechoslovaks, it was unbelievable. “Even if the euphoria around the revolution quickly turned to the challenges of building a democracy, it doesn’t take anything away from the fact that this change was produced by hundreds of thousands of individuals coming together.
Or maybe you could just simply check out the financial flows of Western Union, and look at how much money from rich Indian families in Delhi and Bangalore is now flowing into poor, depressed Indian communities in the United Kingdom. Or how much money from successful Mexican entrepreneurs is now flowing into deprived Mexican communities in the United States. We live in a world where foundations and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are multinationals, where multinationals are foundations, and where the divide between haves and have-nots, between rich 15 FLAT AND BEAUTIFUL and poor, is no longer geographic.