Quotes About Globalization

Trips are part of humanity. Emigration is a part of humanity. And it's ever more dynamic due to globalization.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce.

The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

You have 62 people worth the amount the bottom three and a half billion people are worth. Sixty-two people! You could put them all in one bloody bus… then crash it!

A Spaniard and a Pole worked in the barbershop where we got our hair cut. An Italian shined our shoes. A Croat washed our car. This was America.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

Now nearly all the mysteries have gone, and there is scarcely an unknown country left to peer at.)

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions." [ Why Societies Collapse , ABC Local, July 17, 2003]

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

The tiny Emirates has more than eight million migrants—more than Canada, France, Australia, or Spain. A rags-to-riches story on a nation-state scale, it was a sleepy patch of desert until the 1960s, when it discovered it held 9 percent of the world's oil.

No country relies on migrants more than the United Arab Emirates, where 88 percent of the population and nearly the entire private workforce is foreign-born.

Migration had brought development, to a degree that no one had imagined. And development brought more migration.

The industry thrives by selling escapist fun at prices the middle class can afford. The mega-ships circling the Caribbean are essentially floating American hotels, freed by foreign flagging from American labor laws. Filipinos work seventy hours a week at less than the minimum wage to bring Americans the blessings of cheap mai tais.

Today anyone can be in business.

The world has never been smaller and markets have never been more open. Don't be a cultural or geographical hermit.

Translation has been used, and should be used, to resist or redirect colonial or postcolonial power.