Quotes About Globalization

The fund owns shares in over eight thousand companies, which effectively means that Norwegians own over 1 per cent of the world's listed companies, almost 2 per cent of Europe's and 0.7 per cent of Asia's.

Chinese technology, much of it stolen from the United States, was saving his life. How ironic, Michael thought to himself.

There are more people now with wireless connections than with flush toilets, according to the United Nations (2013).

With diets Westernizing globally, Alzheimer's rates are expected to continue to increase, writes one researcher in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, "unless dietary patterns change to those with less reliance on animal products.…

Many governments see it [disease prevention] as an internal business," said the WHO's director-general. "There is a basic gut feeling that this is my problem, I will deal with it in my way. Now, in a globalized world, any disease is one airplane away. It is not a provincial or national issue, it's a global issue.

But when people move from low- to high-risk countries, their disease rates almost always change to those of the new environment.16 New diet, new diseases.

These acts recall the 1971–72 "Chicken War" between America and Europe, and the grain embargo that quadrupled wheat prices outside of the United States. It was this embargo that inspired OPEC to enact matching increases in oil prices to maintain terms-of-trade parity between oil and foodstuffs. The "oil shock" was simply a reverberation of the U.S. grain shock.

What remains under consideration is how Cincinnatus, the early Republic, and the other examples, cultures, and structures of governance will be considered in future decisions of how human beings will live in a globally connected commercial, technological, and cultural world.

Delta Airlines recently proposed giving frequent flyers a controversial perk: the option of paying $5 extra to speak to a customer service agent in the United States, rather than be routed to a call center in India. Public disapproval led Delta to abandon the idea.

They resented meritocratic elites, experts, and professional classes, who had celebrated market-driven globalization, reaped the benefits, consigned working people to the discipline of foreign competition, and who seemed to identify more with global elites than with their fellow citizens.

Frank's mention of a "moral judgment handed down by the successful" touched on something important. Encouraging more people to go to college is a good thing. Making college more accessible to those of modest means is even better. But as a solution to inequality and the plight of workers who lost out in the decades of globalization, the single-minded focus on education had a damaging side effect: eroding the social esteem accorded those who had not gone to college.

Tone-deaf to the mounting resentments of those who had not shared in the bounty of globalization, they missed the mood of discontent. The populist backlash caught them by surprise.

al igual que ocurrió con el triunfo del Brexit en Reino Unido, la elección de Donald Trump en 2016 fue una airada condena a décadas de desigualdad en aumento y de extensión de una versión de la globalización que beneficia a quienes ya están en la cima pero deja a los ciudadanos corrientes sumidos en una sensación de desamparo.

Global supply chains, capital flows, and the cosmopolitan identities they fostered made us less reliant on our fellow citizens

Em condições de desigualdade desenfreada e de mobilidade social estagnada, a repetição da mensagem de que somos responsáveis pelo nosso destino e que merecemos o que recebemos corrói a solidariedade e desmoraliza aqueles que foram deixados para trás pela globalização.

Designed to leave the world's economic destiny at the mercy of bankers and multinational corporations, Globalization is a logical extension of imperialism, a victory of empire over republic, international finance capital over democracy.

You may not be able to imagine what it means to see upper-middle-class Indians wearing traditional African shirts and black Kenyans wearing Indian saris as they circled up to share the Lord's Supper together. And I'm confident you cannot imagine the food.

Letting rich countries buy their way out of meaningful changes in their own wasteful habits reinforces a bad attitude—that nature is a dumping ground for those who can afford it.

Capitalism always draws from the cheap labor pool; the profit is greater when the expense is limited

This is an instructive model for the proliferation of other infectious diseases as population growth and "progress" create better roads and more mobility while reducing jungle and forestland. As a result, microbes that may have stayed in their particular niches for centuries or longer are now emerging into far larger problems.

Irónicamente, el modo en que hemos organizado el mundo para mejorar la eficiencia, el desarrollo económico y nuestro estilo de vida - los esfuerzos generalmente útiles para transformar el planeta en una aldea global- nos ha hecho más susceptibles que en 1918 a los efectos de las enfermedades infecciosas.

China's everything. Nothing else matters. We don't get China right, we don't get anything right. This whole thing is very simple. China is where Nazi Germany was in 1929 to 1930. The Chinese, like the Germans, are the most rational people in the world, until they're not. And they're gonna flip like Germany in the thirties. You're going to have a hypernationalist state, and once that happens you can't put the genie back in the bottle.

These immigrants held out the hope of a new golden age for the old continent.

All in all, airport shops still form part of the national culture; but a part that is safe, attenuated, and wholly adapted to global consumption. For the traveler at the end of his journey, it is a halfway house, less interesting and less frightening than the rest of the country. I had an inkling that, more and more, the whole world would come to resemble an airport.