Quotes About Globalization

la religión ha sido la tercera gran unificadora de la humanidad, junto con el dinero y los imperios. Puesto

Un virus español puede abrirse camino hasta el Congo o Tahití en menos de veinticuatro horas. Por lo tanto, no habría sido descabellado esperar un infierno epidemiológico, con un envite tras otro de enfermedades letales.

Simultaneously, instead of calling customer service in Bangalore to complain about your printer, you could talk with an AI representative in the Google cloud

Nunca antes la paz ha sido tan generalizada hasta el punto de que la gente ni siquiera puede imaginar la guerra.

Aunque la globalización e internet salvan la distancia entre países, amenazan con agrandar la brecha entre clases, y cuando parece que la humanidad está a punto de conseguir la unificación global, la propia especie podría dividirse en diferentes castas biológicas.

At the close of the twentieth century it appeared that the great ideological battles between fascism, communism and liberalism resulted in the overwhelming victory of liberalism. Democratic politics, human rights and free-market capitalism seemed destined to conquer the entire world. But as usual, history took an unexpected turn, and after fascism and communism collapsed, now liberalism is in a jam. So where are we heading?

Cuando se trata del clima, los países ya no son soberanos. Se encuentran a merced de acciones que otras personas efectúan en la otra punta del planeta.

The economic pie of 2014 is far larger than the pie of 1500, but it is distributed so unevenly that many African peasants and Indonesian labourers return home after a hard day's work with less food than did their ancestors 500 years ago.

Trade cannot exist without trust, and it is very difficult to trust strangers. The global trade network of today is based on our trust in such fictional entities as currencies, banks and corporations. When two strangers in a tribal society want to trade, they establish trust by appealing to a common god, mythical ancestor or totem animal.

A global world puts unprecedented pressure on our personal conduct and morality. Each of us is ensnared within numerous all-encompassing spider webs, which on the one hand restrict our movements, but at the same time transmit our tiniest jiggle to faraway destinations.

British officers arriving in India were supposed to spend up to three years in a Calcutta college, where they studied Hindu and Muslim law alongside English law; Sanskrit, Urdu and Persian alongside Greek and Latin; and Tamil, Bengali and Hindustani culture alongside mathematics, economics and geography.

Throughout this book, I often use the first person to speak about the future of humankind. I talk about what 'we' need to do about 'our' problems. But maybe there are no 'we'. Maybe one of 'our' biggest problems is that different human groups have completely different futures. Maybe in some parts of the world you should teach your children to write computer codes, while in others you had better teach them to draw fast and shoot straight.

Mentre nel 2010 l'obesità e le malattie connesse hanno ucciso circa 3 milioni di persone, i terroristi hanno fatto 7697 vittime in tutto il mondo, la maggior parte delle quali nei paesi in via di sviluppo. Per l'americano o l'europeo medio, la Coca-Cola costituisce una minaccia assai più letale di al-Qaida.

Perhaps in the twenty-first century populist revolts will be staged not against an economic elite that exploits people, but against an economic elite that does not need them any more.

As money beings down the fans of community, religion and state, the world is in danger of becoming one big and rather heartless marketplace

the crucial factor in our conquest of the world was our ability to connect many humans to one another.

There is just no such thing as "Christian economics," "Muslim economics," or "Hindu economics.

the numbers from 0 to 9. Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic numerals even though they were first invented by the Hindus (even more confusingly, modern Arabs use a set of digits that look quite different from Western ones). But the Arabs get the credit because when they invaded India they encountered the system, understood its usefulness, refined it, and spread it through the Middle East and then to Europe.

So good nationalists should now be globalists. This isn't a call for establishing a "global government"—a doubtful and unrealistic vision. Rather, to globalize politics implies that political dynamics within countries and even cities should give far more weight to global problems and interests.

Comerciantes, conquistadores y profetas fueron los primeros que consiguieron trascender la división evolutiva binaria de «nosotros frente a ellos» y prever la unidad potencial de la humanidad.

Merchants, conquerors and prophets were the first people who managed to transcend the binary evolutionary division, 'us vs them', and to foresee the potential unity of humankind. For

Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.

What we've witnessed in the past 25 or 30 years is just incredible. We've birthed 30,000 or 40,000 restaurants. I used to go to Europe every year to get experience [and ideas]. I don't go to Europe anymore. I go to Oregon, I go to Washington, I go to Louisiana, I go to Little Rock, I go to Austin, I travel New York City. I don't go to Europe anymore.

This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept.