Quotes About Globalization

aunque fuese cada vez más patente que habían perdido la partida imprudentemente entablada con los chinos, los americanos quizá tenían aún algo que decirnos, al fin y al cabo habían dominado el mundo durante cerca de un siglo, debían de haber adquirido cierta sabiduría, de lo contrario era para desesperarse.

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

We have come to accept that our morality simply no longer has currency outside our own culture.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

I thought that no matter how many hills and brooks you crossed, the whole world was Korea and everyone in it was Korean.

I thought that no matter how many hills and brooks you crossed, the whole world was Korea and everyone in it was Korean. —Park Wan-suh

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

Foreigners have become people everywhere.

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

PROPENSITY OF THE YOUNG TO QUESTION AUTHORITY AND challenge power is now amplified by the More and Mobility revolutions. Not only are there more people than ever under thirty, but they have more—prepaid calling-cards, radios, TVs, cellphones, computers, and access to the Internet as well as to travel and communication possibilities with others like them at home and around the world. They are also more mobile than ever.

Short-term travel has quadrupled: in 1980, the number of international tourist arrivals accounted for just 3.5 percent of the world's population, compared to almost 14 percent in 2010.16 Every year, an estimated 320 million people fly to attend professional meetings, conventions, and international gatherings—and their numbers are steadily growing.17

nunca tan pocos tuvieron la posibilidad de hacer tanto daño a tantos a un precio tan bajo. Es

When Americans sip their iconic Budweiser, they are in fact enjoying a beer produced by a company engendered by a 2004 merger of Brazilian and Belgian breweries that in turn managed to gain control of Anheuser-Busch in 2008, thus forming the world's largest beer company. Its CEO, Carlos Brito, is from Brazil.

cuando las fronteras se vuelven porosas y la población gobernada —o controlada— es más móvil, a las organizaciones establecidas se les complica mantener su dominio.

En el siglo XXI, el poder es más fácil de adquirir, más difícil de utilizar y más fácil de perder.

the world market for cheap labor exceeds even the market for cheap sex.

Although coming from different perspectives, analysts such as Kaplan and Amy Chua, author of World on Fire, have argued that the rapid pace of globalization and the weakening of states have made violent conflict more likely, and that attempts to create Western-style democracies where they do not currently exist are likely to backfire into violence.37

so long as all countries have not one labor market but in practice two—one legal or tolerated, another underground and unregulated—certain kinds of labor such as garment manufacturing, domestic work, and sex will keep producing huge profits for human smugglers and traffickers.

Economists and sociologists have concluded that what drives migration is not absolute deprivation,50 or poverty,

globalization and technological innovation have made it easier for employers to move jobs to other countries or to eliminate them altogether, changing the balance of power in favor of employers.

los micropoderes están limitando las opciones disponibles para los megaactores

el ascenso de China» es el tema noticioso más leído del siglo XXI.