Quotes About Globalization

For us to support the liquidation of a simple life in a large part of the world is not a particularly attractive prospect.

Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.

Migrants are the creators of some of the biggest and most liquid capital flows anywhere. They send back some $600 billion in remittances every year,6 which amounts to three times more than the direct gains from abolishing all trade barriers, four times more than all foreign aid, and 100 times the amount of all debt relief.

Today, the eight richest individuals on earth, all men, own more than does half the planet,6 or 3.7 billion people, combined. The top 1 per cent have more wealth than the bottom 99 per cent combined. There are 1,542 billionaires today, whose fortunes rose by a fifth in 2017,7 to $6 trillion – equivalent to the GDP of the UK and Germany combined.

I am often asked, "Which Korea do you come from? North or South?" It is a nonsensical question. The chance of me or any Korean out and about in the world being from the North is almost nil. Virtually no one gets out of North Korea.

First Globals are ready to go anywhere, experience everything, and work and live in exotic places, and for them, family life takes priority over work life and a flexible, diverse, collaborative, fun learning environment is key.

Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to care more.

The fall of Wall Street is for market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for communism.

The online moguls have tried to persuade us that we're not losing a nation, we're gaining a world. Pynchon proposes that both are mere second lives, fakes. Only family is real.

Rootlessness had no color, however. It makes no difference to live in one place or another and being born here or there was an accident. One was a chameleon, countries and people mere scenery.

El capitalismo no es un mero sistema económico, sino que posee una visión totalizadora y articulada del hombre, una antropología corrosiva que se funda no sólo en la liberalización del consumo, sino también de las costumbres

In Tuzla, erzählt sie, gebe es Kinder, die noch nie eine Portion Pommes frites gesehen haben. Hach, denke ich, so viel Elend auf der Welt. "Und Sie", frage ich, "schon mal eine Portion Pilav gesehen?" Sie stutzt. "What's Pilav?" "Fastfood"' sage ich. "Landestypisch." Das habe ich von der Menütafel an der Wand in ihrem Rücken abgelesen. Sie wechselt das Thema.

As Americans gained a new belief in their manifest destiny around the globe, Hawaiians lost their country, the first sovereign nation to become a casualty of America's imperial outreach.

On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access.

Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language.

Why does the American cyberindustry have a thing for Indians?

Indians can identify with the Indian sensibilities, and rather than taking something from foreign films, it is always good to make a movie which has been enjoyed by a certain audience or in a certain part of India and make it available to a larger audience.

If you go to America or London, you will see Indians shining.

For many Indians, their future as global players is linked to the American dream.

Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.

Social media has brought the whole world together, and that's good in some ways and bad in others, because a lot of the individuality that we all had, everybody shares it now.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.

I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries.