Quotes About Homogenization

It is sad that the more 'successful' a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in.

But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Double, triple, quadruple population. Films and radios, magazines, books leveled down to a sort of pastepudding norm, do you follow me?

The promotion of 'average' individual causes a general levelling down.

the replacement of unique and distinct places by generic blandscapes is severing us from something important.

There are many different artforms that are just being lost because the whole digital revolution has homogenized everything, turned it all into Walmart.

The culture of the Old West, if it ever really did exist, had been tamed and replaced by the uniformity of the Walmart–strip mall–McDonald's homogenizing of America. It was happening in Minnesota, too. Hell, it was happening everywhere in the world.

The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Rankings create incentives for universities to become more like what the rankings measure. What gets measured is what gets attention. That leads to homogenization as they abandon their distinctive missions and become more like their competitors.

Gleichschaltung.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Al final todo se iguala según el nivel más bajo.

The computer tends to equalize everything, all the movies are slowly blending together, the way they look.

In the realm of knowledge, monopoly and conformism are inseparable perils. Monopoly is the danger that a powerful firm will use its dominance to squash the diversity of competition. Conformism is the danger that one of those monopolistic firms, intentionally or inadvertently, will use its dominance to squash diversity of opinion and taste. Concentration is followed by homogenization.

Life on the planet is being homogenized by the expanding human population and the frequent and rapid movement of people and goods, which carry invasive organisms with them. These invasives often flourish in their new ecosystems because, like the woolly adelgid, they have escaped their predators.

There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture or define those who are thrust outside the status quo.

Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

That's the way we're going nowadays. Everything slick and streamlined, everything made out of something else.

For the fragmented man creates the homogenized Western world, while oral societies are made up of people differentiated, not by their specialist skills or visible marks, but by their unique emotional mixes.

Because one's bank account and one's friendships can now be managed through identical machinic operations and gestures, there is a growing homogenization of what used to be entirely unrelated areas of experience.

Desde el siglo XVI ha entrado la humanidad toda en un proceso gigantesco de unificación, que en nuestros días ha llegado a su término insuperable.

The power to homogenize is the heavy artillery that has battered down all Chinese walls.