Quotes About Globalization

el mundo ha entrado en una «era posthegemónica» en la que «ninguna nación tiene la capacidad de imponer su voluntad a las demás de forma permanente ni sustancial».

Like some kind of migratory bird, money has long had special places to go when it wishes to reproduce in peace.

La conversación es ahora, por necesidad, entre muchos más actores.

Las universidades más prestigiosas del mundo deben ahora competir con rivales de todas partes.

With their ability to move billions of dollars at the speed of light away from a country whose economic policies they distrust, hedge funds are just one of the many financial institutions whose

For a zoned-out, stupefied populace, "democracy" will be nothing more than the right to shop, or to choose between Wendy's and Burger King, or to stare at CNN and think that this managed infotainment is actually the news. Corporate hegemony, the triumph of global democracy/consumerism based on an American model, is the collapse of American civilization. So a large-scale transformation is indeed going on, but it is one that makes triumph indistinguishable from disintegration.

English has become the language of business, hence its popularity. I guess the French have nothing to offer, instead they exploit their friends on a daily basis.

History can still be seen in every culture, economics, politics, ideologies and in our philosophies.

The advice of our parents will vary according to the country we are currently living in and the dominant political ideologies (politideos) of that environment.

The African culture can't be the same as the European, or the European to be similar to the American culture.

The planet is ruled under different calendars, according to the country and religion in which you wish to practice.

World-wide warming moved tropical diseases into northern areas which had no defenses against them.

What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.

When you look at it, on the surface Japan is very westernized, but westernized in a Japanese way," explains Mitsunori Murata, a nutrition expert and professor of pediatrics at Tokyo Women's Medical College. "Maybe we will eat a hamburger, but it will be Japanese-size, not American.

Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.

In search of the past, I have travelled halfway around the globe, from Canada to Afghanistan, from a world of peace, material comfort and technology to a country that lives in the shadow of its history - a place whose only relevance to the rest of the world depends on the value and extent of a Westerner's life and "security". It may be illusionary, self-indulgent or bizarre, but I still think digging into the grave of history might lead to an understanding of the present.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

What struck me so forcefully was how small the planet had become during my decades in prison;

It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western clothes and hair styles to the European practice of colonizing foreign people. Unfortunately, they took up empire-building at precisely the moment when the cost of imperialism began to exceed the benefits.

Technology shapes economics, and economics shapes society.

There is something about African time that even the Swiss find a challenge.