Quotes About Globalization

By 1902, when Abuelito, my grandfather, was twenty years old and moving the tassel from one side of his graduation cap to the other at the University of Notre Dame, Julio César had thousands of rain-forest Indians making him rich. They were the Huitoto, the Bora, the Andoke, the Ocaina: from fierce headhunters to doe-eyed forest folk.

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.

America has had to turn to foreigners to finance its debt - not surprising since household saving in the last years has plummeted to zero. China is one of the largest holders of American debt.

Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.

[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.

The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.

Andrew Walls, "It is a delightful paradox that the more Christ is translated into the various thought forms and life systems which form our various national identities, the richer all of us will be in our common Christian identity."[155]

Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.

the best brass bands and popular American and British singers the Philippines could imitate.

Is everybody supposed to run current account surpluses? If so, with whom—Martians? And if everybody does indeed try to run a savings surplus, what else can be the outcome but a permanent global depression?

The suffering of the conquered and colonized people appears as a necessary sacrifice and the inevitable process of modernization. This logic has been applied from the conquest of America until the Gulf War, and its victims are as diverse as indigenous Americans and Iraqi Civilians. Enriqué Dussel, The Invention of the Americas

Waikïkï is less Hawaiian than it is a bad mix of Las Vegas and Cancun.

A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.

The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European.