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The Active Voice: Robert Reich is pressing the reveal key for society

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The Trade-Off Between an Internationalist Perspective and a Local Perspective

Young people today, if they have a four-year college degree from a fairly good or like Berkeley, superb university, I think that they do connect with the equivalent of college graduates from very good universities around the world. They have less connection geographically and intellectually and emotionally with people who live within three miles of their homes or their rental homes. That is good in one respect, that we do want people to be thinking globally, but it's potentially very bad in another. It's too easy for people to secede from their neighbors, their communities, their societies into little bubbles of people who are just as rich, wealthy, just as endowed, privileged as they are.

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