The Global Drive for Talent - Clip 6: Transcript
Is the United States the Global Capital of the World?
VALERIE GERMAIN
It's an interesting question because if you think about import and export of talent into New York, one of the challenges that we have from an impression perspective in other countries is that we're arrogant.
MAN:
Absolutely.
VALERIE GERMAIN:
And so, you start saying we're the capital of the world and, actually, you will perceptively close borders as opposed to open them because there will be many who are sitting in other countries that are rich, with a depth to them along a particular talent stream, and they will say, I don't want to go into a city that thinks that it's about global domination. So my view would be no.