In the game of business, China is becoming the dominant player at the cost of the US. The US is seeing their companies leaving and joining China’s team.  Many see this as a “foul play” and critique that outscoring and offshoring is pulling employment from a country that is already high in employment, is a strategy that businesses are using to hide their finances from investors and promotes sweatshops. However, coincidentally we Americans call all the right people to complain about this “then we hang up our Chinese-made phones and go shopping” (Cline). Many rally to stop offshoring and outsourcing overseas but forget the daily necessities we buy and use are in support of it. Many fail to also question, why do companies prefer to have their business functions done in other countries? Companies are not only offshoring to decrease expenses, but prefer China to overcome the U.S.’s domestic restrictions of specific activities.

Global brands are taking up the opportunity to directly outsource manufacturing to China and move their operations overseas. China is the go-to country for outscoring and offshoring. 65 percent of China’s revenues are from IT outscoring alone (Leach).  Its software outsourcing park is located in Dalian, with about 400 businesses that are expected to increase sales to 20 billion Yuan annually. America’s recession is the main reason why companies have moved overseas. Rough economic times forced business owners to cut down on cost and as a result has boosted China’s sourcing market. The Chinese government has made significant policy changes to extend this advantage and welcome in businesses. The government offers businesses financial support, subsidies, tax breaks, and intellectual property protection rights. China has also launched a 2013 campaign against malpractices and bribery. Even though this might be a burden to companies, those in compliance can experience ethical business dealings with others and create a better business environment nationally. The government’s active fight against corruption is attracting investments and businesses. That is just one of the many advantages to outsource or offshore to China.

Companies offshore to China to enter a new market. Galaxy Company not only found it easier to be closer to their biggest group of customers but expanded to China to compete in their market. A companies local presence in China, allows the company to gain more local knowledge which is hard to attain with the never ending disputes between China and the US. Companies are able to focus on their companies because they aren’t caught up in the foreign relations of China and the US. Instead of worrying whether their representative will be able to actually fly to China or their shipments are up to par with the U.S.’s and China’s shipping requirements, businesses can concentrate on core tasks. Their business will not be affected by the countries’ world power battles.

Carrying out research and company knowledge research in China is especially easy now, because of “compelling regional language advantage and cost arbitrage” (Leach). There are roughly 300,000,000 English learners in China and language is less of a problem for businesses that want to offshore to enter a new market.

Companies offshore to gain access to a new pool of talents. China has a more than 60% of high school graduates now attending a university (NYT) and is soon to be the new Ivy League nation with the largest higher-education sector in the world (Time Mag). With better educated students, companies can get more efficient and qualified employees. Offshoring allows companies to a better and large labor pool which may not be available locally in the US.

The main incentive for companies is no doubt, their profit but humans naturally sway to something with more advantages. For certain companies, China’s hold more advantages in the world of business and win their company as a result. America may need to stop playing the blame game and actually present “advantages” to win back their companies to the US.

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 The New York Times “The China Boom” Nov. 5, 2010

A Wah Yuh Nah Seh? - Patwa

Mi nuh tink seh unno really undastand how curropt English really set up. Mi nah lie, mi neva get it eda but tru Ms. Parham class, an d tings we read inna class , mi get ih. First of all, English was set up by a bunch a white foriegnas . A nuh group ah white ppl mi a talk bout eda . Bout tree ar 4 come togeda an seh “ we ago mek one language dat French an Latin cah compete wid”. Dem did wah a language more “ pretigous” den dem language deh. Dis did all start inna England doh. Den as time go on, ppl mek up variations ah English. Dats why ppl inna Zimbabwe speak a different English den d ppl dem inna India. But even inna America , dere is Black – English. D type a English were African Americans dih create. It did sepret from d English d white ppl dida chat in farin. Words like beat box, ain’t an bling; look dem up inna one dictionary and mi bet seh yuh neva woulds find dem.  Yuh wan know why? Cah dem ppl who mek d dictionary , mek sure dem language nuh inna ih. Dem mussi tink seh dem words, some how ago degrade English, mek ih unprestigous, make ih less worthy, mek it ordinary like any oda language.

So yuh eva wonda why when yuh deh a uptown st. Andrew some ppl act stoosh wid dem propa English, why some teacha neva wouldla answa yuh question if yuh nuh asks “properly”, why people look pon u like seh dem and u neva go ah di same school when yuh start twang inna  government place like d bank? English set up dat way. Set up fi mek everyone, every language , every word oda den Standard English  inferior. Mi nuh know why sum ppl ah fight ppl inna JA when a likkle pickey a talk dat raw bawn patwa compared to an uptown gyal which a talk like seh she did live a America all har life when boat ah dem raise inna di sam parish, inna d same ghetto an d same hardships. People really as use patwa to furda mek social class distinctions and oppresss dem owna ppl.

 Believe it or not, mi neva start chat patwa until 2011 (Thanks to a special someone). Yes, imma Jamaican -America but I love patwa. The attitude behin ih , the words ,acrynoms for simple tings and di rhtym of d language. Like wen mi mada deh a market an a sell sum tings from farin, who would tink seh di word “ ray ray “ cah describe simple clothing. Even when sum likkle pickney a fool round wid each other and scream out “ ahhh bayyyy”!!. Ar when a guy approach yuh wid a lean an whisper lyrics inna yuh ear,” mi luv how yuh roun up an nice, mi caah get a minute a yuh time?”. All dem tings deh jus mek me happy inside and mi not even bawn a Jamrock. Mi a  jus an outsider lookin in and admiring d language. (Talkin bout language, yuh kno seh it surprise me dat patwa is not an official language because some lingolist seh so. A foolishness dat doh, cah dat nah stop mi from tell di world mi a bi-lingual) .

People really a figet wah Jamaica did guh tru and even doh d parliament mash up, world boss deh a jail and roads cah neva seem fi fix, wi all can undastand an liberate inna one ting.Patwa. Doh let dem English ppl tell yuh seh yuh accent is vulgar , is illegitimate, is obscure. Tell dem seh dere language is vulgar, illegitimate , is obsure cah dem language only come from ppl who mek ih up, patwa is a living language from strugglers for freedom. To chat patwa allows mi to  connect wid oda Jamaicans, to be included in d culture and be “ one out of many people”, even doh mi bawn a foreign. So imagine wah ih coulda do if all people could liberate inna it. Mi jus hope dat many odas coulda feel dis way. Feel just as proud, happy and liberated to chat patwa and not look down pon ih . cah when yuh look down pan patwa like seh it a one unintelligent language, u a tek side wid d same white man dat look down pon yuh ancestors and tell dem seh dem not even human. Tink bout dat.

( For those struggling to understand my thesis here, it was that Jamaican Patwa ,which is a dialect of English, and other dialects of English should embrace their languages and  not use it to differentiate social classes in countries.  Someone who doesn’t speak Standard English should not be seen as unintelligent and deficient because they are speaking the language of their culture. When one looks down on their own language because it is not the “prestigious” Standard English, you are taking sides with the same white man that may have looked down on your ancestors and told them they weren’t even human.)

Thank you.

-Gena Gordon

Born In America, taken to Jamaica every Summer ( ah nuh hotel life mi ah talk bout neda)

Parents from Trelawny and St. Ann Jamaica

            Is writing of any sort playing a role in this conflict? Is it?

 On January 25, 2013 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara addressed the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. He told the 57 nation representatives present that one of the Ukraine priorities was going to be media freedom. This gave hope to media freedom advocates in Ukraine and around the world. Everyone was ready a bright and better future in free media and speech.

Now, that was only a year ago and look where the Ukraine stands now. Protest against Yanukovich’s agreement with Russia has turned once peaceful protest into riots against government officials. Riots have lashed out in Keiv because of new laws that were passed to stifle protests. The government had set draconian laws that would “prohibit almost any protest, curtail freedom of speech, hobble the press, enable the government to ban citizens from using the Internet and classify advocacy groups as “foreign agents” if they receive money from abroad.” (WashingtonPost)

Anyone, anywhere would react to this, especially Ukrainians that are slowing seeing a dictatorship form in their country.  This law was presented a Thursday and signed into law by Yanukovych late Friday. That Friday gave authorities “far-reaching power to outlaw most forms of protest.”

So, yes, writing is literally playing a role in this conflict; the press, individual speech and public propaganda is being curtailed by the government. But the most important role in this conflict in Ukraine are the citizen; the ones that actually write, fight and die for the freedom for their opinion to be heard.

Ukrainians take pride in Ukraine and their independence from big power like Russia. They don’t want to return back to Russia. Neither do they want Yanukovyc to copy the methods of Russian and slowly turn into a dictator. But, sadly for them, it seems too late.  Yanukovych has totally forgotten parliamentarism , passed an anti-democratic law which and seems to work to forget all the democratic progress the Ukraine made in the past , which not to forget, citizens urged for.

A leader should represent his people but what is Yanukovyc doing now? Instead of actually listening to protester and knowing what their big hullabullo is about, he rather quiet and oppress them. Yes Yanukoyc that is exactly what a great leader should do.

So, to all you news companies that mostly cover America’s potential involvement, Russia power, Crimea’s invasion and Europe’s position, we are forgetting to hear the opinions of the citizens of Ukraine. They are the ones actually living in the country, they are the ones who are affected by Ukraine’s every decision and the one who may or may not live to tell the next generation of this conflict. Citizens are rioting and uprising against government because they want a say, they want their voices heard, and they want their freedom of press and speech. Ukraine citizens play the biggest role in their conflict and could play the biggest role in the resolution. It’s hard to believe Ukrainians are protesting only for meaningless self-fulfillment.