Quotes About Globalization

But free trade is meaningless unless there is also fair trade.

That's the problem. We're now dependent on Japan—and I believe America shouldn't be dependent on any nation.

Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global

Esa idea de mantener interconectado al mundo entero equivaldrá a la muerte en masa. Todo biólogo sabe que los pequeños grupos aislados evolucionan más rápidamente.

Recession, advertising slow-downs, media spin-offs, procurement department investigations, client globalization initiatives, fee-based remuneration schemes and holding company ownership added significant complexity to ad agency operations by 1990. The simplicity of the Golden Age and the Creative Revolution was long gone, whether recognized or not.

different cultures and different dreams not just coexist

was deliberately manufactured by China at 40% below specified strength.

The Internet changes everything," said Long. "Everyone can get connected on the Internet.

Silicon Valley is to the United States what the United States is to the rest of the world.

She spoke seven languages, including Mandarin and Polish, and was finishing up her master's in Intercultural Misunderstanding, which just has to be Europe's next growth industry.

No system in history has been more relentless [than capitalism] in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, pulverizing centuries-old practices in a matter of years, devouring the resources of whole regions, and standardizing the varieties of human experience.

free-market world holocaust.

the typical item of food on an American's plate travels some fifteen hundred miles to get there

It's not food if it's called by the same name in every language. (Think Big Mac, Cheetos, or Pringles.) .

De fapt, chiar È™i cei mai fervenÈ›i adepÈ›i ai alimentelor locale spun c? este în regul? o "cump?n? a alimentelor" (un termen specific unui lanÈ› trofic local, care face o analogie cu "cump?na apelor"), fiind permis? achiziÈ›ia bunurilor care nu se pot produce local - cafea, ceai, zah?r, ciocolat? -, o practic? ce precede globalizarea hranei noastre cu câteva mii de ani. (Fir-ar s? fie!)

Wes Jackson calls our species "homo the homogenizer.")

It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.

It is an intellectual and moral vacuity that has crippled what the World Social Forum's founders sincerely hoped would produce some sort of democratic alternative to what they saw as the heartless corporate model of globalization.

I love Singapore because there's a lot we can learn from them!

Singapore admires America's dynamism, vibrancy, and capacity for self-renewal. These qualities attract the best and brightest from around the world.

My grandmother used to get her shoes made in Paris in the '30s, and they would be shipped to her in Singapore.

There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

We have always argued that attempts to isolate Belarus, like other countries, lead to a dead end. In this situation, everyone loses.