Quotes About Globalization

Having disrupted business practices, social interactions and political campaigns, 2011 will be seen as the year that the rise of the Internet first disrupted foreign relations.

We have to work towards free trade because otherwise we will miss out on many opportunities for cooperation, and relations amongst countries will become much more difficult.

The age of economic relations as the primary arena for interactions between states is already upon us.

We have a very close relationship with Google. We extend our offerings to all the markets that we expand into.

The benefits of globalisation and economic growth are being unevenly distributed and people are acutely aware of their own relative disadvantage.

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

The NBA is getting bigger. Basketball is getting better around the world. There are more players. There are better coaches around it, so that's why there are more international players, not only Hispanic players, but from everywhere.

I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

I hope K-dramas can make inroads into more Asian countries.

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.

I can't always be making 'British films.' Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.

I think if orbital space flight is just the exclusive domain of a couple of countries and a select few, I don't know how far we're gonna get.

I think we have to pick up some sectors where we can make India the global hub in the entire value chain, and the most important sector to pick up should be electronics.

Emerging markets are hugely important.

Countries often prioritise economic interests over human rights - hence all the kowtowing to China.

You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to travel outside the country unless you can speak another language.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

Trascendencia, enfermedad propiamente europea.

ACTUALLY, in many senses there is no "Muslim world" at all, but rather many Muslim worlds, or many Muslim countries and different kinds of Muslims.

The result is that it has become humanly impossible for many around the globe to hear the good news as good. Instead, because of its kingdom-of-the-world associations, they hear the gospel as bad news, as American news, exploitive capitalistic news, greedy news, violent news, and morally decadent news. They can't see the beauty of the cross because everything the American flag represents to them is in the way.