Quotes About Globalization

migrants bring economic benefits to a country, including for its workers in terms of more jobs and higher economic growth,

We Americans unjustly hold the French to a New World standard, the authors state. But they're no more New World than the Japanese.

Les places sont envahies de chaises en plastique et de parasols dédiés au dieu Coca-Cola.

we now live in a society

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution — turn one's back on American cinema.

Each of us was born in an era when complexity has become the hallmark of our existence.

At the end of the day, we supported globalization because we wanted to be able to buy cheaper computers, cheaper vehicles, cheaper clothes and cheaper furniture. Wal-Mart parking lots were jammed with North American workers buying bargain-basement-priced goods made in China even if in the process they were shopping themselves right out of their own jobs.

That tablecloth created by forced labor looks amazing on that table manufactured with formaldehyde in a sweatshop.

Do you have the new phone yet that someone made continents away because they were forced to and then someone else starved to death because when they mined the components they destroyed all the crop lands and the forest?

We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy, it is actually not. Western culture, now globally dominant, has systematically trained us to think and act as though we are separate individuals, often in competition with each other for scarce resources of one sort or another, primarily money, which has be-come the perceived means to all we want and need in life.

The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens the demise of our whole civilization.

The world of today is at the crossroads--[t]he whole scheme of aimless capitalism and the last dregs of traditionalist nationalism are being seen more clearly in their death struggle.

Whether they will or no, Americans must begin to look outward.

European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.

In understanding the widespread use of skin-lightening creams among black women in South Africa, the USA, the UK, and many other societies, from Brazil and the Philippines to Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and the Caribbean, the role of white colonialism by the British, Spanish, and Portuguese cannot be underestimated.

I've been looking out at the world through windows I've opened across the net. It's an extremely close-minded and twisted world.

In a globalized world, security can no longer be thought of as a zero-sum game involving states alone. Global security, instead, has five dimensions that include human, environmental, national, transnational, and transcultural security, and, therefore, global security and the security of any state or culture cannot be achieved without good governance at all levels that guarantees security through justice for all individuals, states, and cultures.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

No se trata aquí de establecer una jerarquía entre los pueblos. Al contrario. Se trata de mostrar que el hambre es su mayor seña de identidad. A los países que nos dan la lata con el carácter supuestamente único de su población, hay que decirles que toda nación es una ecuación que se articula alrededor del hambre.".

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

Weaken American encryption and consumers - both good and bad actors - will simply seek their technology from companies based abroad. Weaker encryption also means weaker national security.

Being in the European Union, we would be building bridges between the 1.5 bn people of Muslim world to the non-Muslim world. They have to see this. If they ignore it, it brings weakness to the E.U.