Quotes About Globalization

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

I believe whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies.

The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

Now, after the material resources of the colonies have been looted, their spiritual and cultural resources are being transformed into commodities for the world market.

I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that's it.

We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

The full truth is that trade does create some (hopefully better-paying) jobs, but it also destroys other (lower-paying) jobs. But that's a complex, even equivocal, message.

The time—which, looking back, seems so idyllic—is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption.

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

So long as it remains out of touch with the rest of the world, an ideal society can be a viable society.

Hoy el inglés se ha convertido en un idioma tan importante que hasta los norteamericanos van a tener que aprenderlo.

I produttori di seta di Lavilledieu erano, chi più chi meno, dei gentiluomini, e mai avrebbero pensato di infrangere una qualsiasi legge del loro Paese. L'ipotesi di farlo dall'altra parte del mondo, tuttavia, risultò loro ragionevolmente sensata.

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

The Morning After Coffee Bar was different from the mass-produced coffee bars that had mushroomed on every street almost everywhere, a development which presaged the flattening effects of globalisation; the spreading, under a cheerful banner, of a sameness that threatened to weaken and destroy all sense of place.

She had noticed that there was a tendency on the part of some Americans to believe that everybody, deep inside, wanted to live in America, and that it was inexplicable that people who could do so did not.

steamships insult the dignity of distance

Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at the time. The world was made to sound as if it belonged to other people--to those who lived in distant countries that were so different from Botswana; that was before people had learned to assert that the world was theirs too, that what happened in Botswana was every bit as important, and valuable, as what happened anywhere else.

The poem had said something about being grateful for the small scale, for the local, for the minor things that gave meaning to life. And Angus was right: these things were being forgotten in the headlong rush into globalisation, which drained identity out of life, rendered it distant, impersonal.

products of soulless machines and relentless globalization…

Look at what very ordinary people have lost, and think about that for a moment. What has happened to working-class communities in Scotland? To miners, for example. To fishermen? Who? You might well ask. To men and women who work with their hands? Who again? These people are being swept away by globalisation. Swept away. Now they're all so demoralised that they're caught in the culture of permanent sick notes. And who speaks for the young Scottish male, as a matter of interest?

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.