Question

What does the speaker peter alfrandy mean by 21st century paradox?

Answer 1

I sometimes describe myself as a

culturally conflicted Englishman I am

first generation born in the UK I was

educated at the French Lisa in London

for 13 years I spent a lot of my

childhood in Italy and 30 years as an

international lawyer and I've always

been fascinated by cultural differences

but I think it was arriving in New York

as a 21 year old student that I got my

first taste of the oxymoron I'd like to

share with you today Global Village not

global village in the way brilliantly

described by Marshall McClellan when he

predicted the Internet in the 1960s but

more as a word that we use an expression

we use a lot now my New York experience

was not momentous but it left a huge

affect on me I spent my first day

walking the streets in or the word