Quotes About Globalization

by 1905, cotton experts estimated, a full 15 million people, or about 1 percent of the world's population, were engaged in the growing of cotton.

And I said to myself, what connection shall there be between Power in Manchester and Nature in America?

Para el monolingüe no hay sino una lengua desde donde se piensa un solo mundo, y lo distinto siempre se da -si es que se da- peligrosamente: en traducción.

As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any way, but that the very places they patronize are destroyed by their affection.

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

Strangely enough humanity has so far met in the tea-cup. It is the only Asiatic ceremonial which commands universal esteem. The white man has scoffed at our religion and our morals, but has accepted the brown beverage without hesitation. The afternoon tea is now an important function in Western society.

Samia, it appeared, had become one of those desis who drink Pepsi in Pakistan and lassi in London.

if the mixing of peoples was the order of empires and the 'unmixing of peoples' the order of nation-states, what's on the horizon?

I left Bulgaria when I was a seventeen-year-old East European, and I am now, by all appearances, a 32-year-old 'global soul'. But everybody needs a borrowed 'us' from time to time, even a global soul. And after half a lifetime and several other countries, the Bulgarian 'us' is still the only honest one I have.

Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.

I love Forever 21. A friend of mine introduced it to me when I was in New York. I was borrowing a dress and said, 'Where's that from?' and she said, 'Oh, it's Forever 21,' and I said, 'What, I've never heard of that!' and she said, 'Oh it's this American brand,' and I thought, 'Why doesn't England have that; why doesn't Europe have one?'

The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.

A funny thing happens when you go to another country or invest in a company from another country. Suddenly everyone in that community realizes that YC is for them, too.

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

While U.S. investments in India are growing, we also need Indian investments in America.

When I go to Iran, I see... that there are all different shades and colors in Iran, from atheist to religious zealot. So Iran is no different than any other country. I mean, they are connected with the rest of the world.

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

But I believe Ireland is getting more European, and the young are looking toward Europe for jobs - just as there are a lot of Europeans coming to Dublin.

The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.

There's no such thing as the 'Irish Internet.' It's just the Internet.

Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.