Quotes About Globalization

Millions of people around the world learned to speak English as a second or third language, or sixth, and fluently. He'd always thought they envied his country, maybe wanted to live there, but now he wondered if they just liked English-language movies and TV shows. And maybe, just maybe, they learned English because most English speakers were too lazy or arrogant to become proficient in other languages.

harsh neo-liberal "adjustment" (the so-called "ajuste duro") of the 1980s.

I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.

Urban revolution" identifies a long historical shift, from an agricultural to an industrial to an urban world, according to Lefebvre's account, but it also captures a shift in the internal territorial form of the city, from the originary political city through the mercantile, then industrial, city to the present "critical phase," the harbinger of a certain globalization of the urban.

New methods of accessing and communicating information unite regions as never before and project events globally—but in a manner that inhibits reflection, demanding of leaders that they register instantaneous reactions in a form expressible in slogans. Are we facing a period in which forces beyond the restraints of any order determine the future?

Relations between China and the United States need not - and should not - become a zero-sum game ... Key issues on the international front are global in nature. Consensus may prove difficult, but confronation on these issues is self-defeating.

Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world

Merchants of Death.

This whole world was a processed petroleum product.

Through the army, in fact, the standard model of the megamachine was transmitted from culture to culture.

Globalization is going to bring us closer and closer together across nations and technology you can't stop.

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

Most of the expressions we use in economics are relative terms. All of us are votaries of free trade.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?

In a global world, nationalism is a fantasy, and it's poison. It used to be appropriate, but it's not anymore, and we haven't learned that lesson yet.

Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That's, like, two billion people.

Although it's the second largest country in the world, our useful area has been reduced. Our immigration policy is disgusting: We plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders, and we want to increase our population to support economic growth.

The global capitalist project, which we are all a part of, leaves people behind. I don't know what the answers are - I don't think any actor does - but figuring it out through entertainment can be very useful.

Although TikTok is a Chinese app, it had a humungous Indian user base.

The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.

When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world.

It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.

Timbaland uses a lot of Indian music and that has certainly familiarised me about the music of India.