China will be on the top by 2025

Many experts and civilians throughout the world believe that China will be a major force in the near future. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) recently arrived at that same conclusion with concrete numbers to back their contention up and this is what I think as well, for several reasons. China will become the largest economic entity on the planet by 2025, the accounting company said in recent report.
First of all we have to take into consideration that Chinas economic development over the past two decades has surprised both her critics and supporters. Since 1978 when china launched its “Four Modernizations” reform process under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, growth has averaged 9.5% annually. Involving his future not merely of interest of experts, as geopolitical balance has direct consequences for every part of the world.
Another import issue to considerate is the new Silk Road that describes the flourishing economic and cultural rise of china. The scenario reflects China’s peaceful geopolitical integration and its sizeable role in the exchange of goods, services, investments and ideas.
Here I attach some predictions about how things are going to be in the next years with China if this continue being as is going now.
“2011-2020: china actively engages with the world. It plays a constructive role by helping with peacekeeping, seeking to reduce the dangers of conflict in Asia, and even taking important steps with the international community to improve climate security and reduce the global environmental footprint of energy use. At the same time domestic reforms and a growing middle class provide the building blocks to develop the Chinese market. This allows for a measure of social security and resources redistribution within the country.”
“2021-2025: A growing appetite for political freedom emerges as media controls diminish, individual rights and civil liberties improve and the separation of the judicial, legislative and executive branches is openly discussed. Some challenges remain as average incomes are still below those of developed countries and the problems related to an ageing population need addressing. However, it is clear that by 2025 china is on its way to achieving balanced development and sustained high growth, and is a respected global actor.”

References
http://www.moodyseconomy.com
http://www.weforum.org
http://www.pwc.com/

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Expatriates and Inmigrants

This two words could mean pretty much the same, they both refer to someone who's left his home country to work abroad, but expatriates refer to the one most of the time from the developed countries who chooses to work abroad in a good position to fulfill his expectations and follow his professional carreer; on the other hand the migrant tends to be seen as someone who's forced away from home by poverty and need. An expat is someone who's a choice, a migrant is someone who doesn't see any other way out of his condition. Europeans, Americans, Australians and Japanese abroad are most of the time referred to as expats, while Latinos, East Europeans, Arabs, Africans and Asians are consiedered migrants.

Globalization and culture

According to the class of today, I found out an important part of an article, that can show us, how globalization can affects a determinated culture, in this case the indian one, characterizated for being really traditional:

"Macaulayism of British India has become in letter and spirit the Globalization of today. Pound Sterling has been replaced by the US Dollar. To the people of India in general and educated Indians in particular, Globalization seems to be rather mild and well meaning, more like an imperceptible breeze, which blows in silently, fills up the psychological atmosphere, creates a mental mood, inspires an intellectual attitude and finally settles down as a cultural climate � pervasive, protein and ubiquitous. It is not out to use a specified section of Indian society as a vehicle of its virulence. It is not like Islamism which wants to destroy the body of a culture in one fell sweep. It is not subtle like Christianity which subverts a society surreptitiously. Yet at the same time, it is a creeping toxaemia which corrodes the soul of our Hindu culture and corrupts our time-honoured social systems in slow stages. And its target is every section of Indian society."

Taken From "Impact of globalization on indian culture" by V. Sundaram December 3 2006

Culture VS Organizational Culture

The culture across time has been a mix of features and spiritual toughts, that characterized a society or social group in a given period of time. It also includes lifestyles, ceremonies, art, inventions, technology, value chains, human rights, traditions and beliefs. This concept is referred for a long time for an activity due the interaction of society, but later this term was taken to the organizations in the eighties, and started to become stronger.

Organizational culture is the interaction of values, attitudes and behaviors shared by all members of a company or organization. It has been as well as a characterized way of thinking and do the things in a determinated company.

Here we can find out that both definitions point to the same way, saying that is all what identify an organization and make the diference, making the members feel part of it.