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Entry: Global Hybrids Go Home Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/global_hybrids_go_home#25704 Post contents: <i>It suggests that while this political, economic, and cultural revolution can help make individuals more productive, more prosperous, more mobile, it cannot ensure that these same individuals will abandon their old civilizational identities.</i> But from your synopsis it sounds like the reason for the character's "returning to their roots, whether they like it or not" is not any internal contradictions in their lives in New York, but the simple, contingent fact that the US government arrested Tarek, presumably because the US isn't globalized enough. Otherwise, Tarek would have lived globally ever after in New York. The cure for globalization, it seems from the synopsis, would be more globalization. Sent at: 2008 07 06