little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite’s global operations. ”Huntington argues that Davos Man’s global-citizen self-image is starkly at odds with the values of most Americans, who remain deeply committed to their nation. This disconnect, he says, creates “a major cultural fault line. In a variety of ways, the American establishment, governmental and private, has become increasingly divorced from the American people.”
随着对边界和对国家的认同变得不那么重要，有些人将此当成威胁，甚至危险。哈佛大学教授塞缪尔?亨廷顿在一篇题目为《死魂灵：美国精英的非国家化》的论文中将达沃斯人（该说法在20世纪90年代首次引起广泛关注）描写为新兴的全球超级物种和威胁。他写道，该阶层的成员“不需要什么对国家的忠诚，将国界视为障碍，而值得庆幸的是这种障碍正在消失，他们还把国家政府看做是历史遗留下来的东西，它们唯一的作用是为精英们的全球运营提供方便”。亨廷顿提出，达沃斯人全球公民的自我形象与大多数美国人的价值观完全不同。后者依然坚定地忠于他们自己的国家。他说，这种脱节创造了“一个重大的文化界限。美国当权派﹑政府和私营企业均与美国大众渐行渐远”。
5 Naturally, many Davos Men don’t accept Hutington’s term. Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, argues that endorsing a global outlook does not mean erasing national identity. “Globalization can never provide us with