Quotes About Globalization

Globalisation creates a world where causes are remote form effects, and the connections between them are often hidden or obscure.

One of the greatest ironies of the twentieth century is that when communication has reached its zenith, when the human voice can encircle the globe in a matter of seconds, when man can project the image of his face thousands of miles, it is almost impossible to know with any degree of accuracy the truth of a political situation only a hundred miles distant! Propaganda jams the media of communication.

All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could act out of your noble instincts are over. Except of course, you here in Europe don't yet seem to know it.

People are not two-thirds one thing and the remainder something else. Temperament, personality, or outlook don't divide quite like that. The bits don't separate clearly. You end up a funny homogeneous mixture. This is something that will become more common in the latter part of the century—people with mixed cultural backgrounds, and mixed racial backgrounds. That's the way the world is going.

But tell me, Taro, don't you worry at times we might be a little too hasty in following the Americans? I would be the first to agree many of the old ways must now be erased for ever, but don't you think sometimes some good things are being thrown out with the bad? Indeed, sometimes Japan has come to look like a small child learning from a strange adult.

Culture clash is terrific drama

half the people in London were not English anyway: they were Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Caribbean, Indian and Chinese. All the drug dealers came from islands: Maltese men sold pep pills

Nor would he care what the target was. If they bombed Chile, it would be the same as bombing New York.

This is the problem of having an empire. Riffraff from all over the world think they're part of it." The

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of only 100 people, it would look something like this: There would be 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 North and South Americans 8 Africans 30 white 70 nonwhite 6 people would possess 59% of the world's wealth, and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer malnutrition 1 would have a college education 1 would own a computer

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power.

Globalization is a form of artificial intelligence.

The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.