Quotes About Globalization

It is the elites who are loosening their allegiances and workers who are reaching for national flags.

We cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national determination and economic globalisation.

The world's elites have helped to provoke what they feared: a populist uprising against the world economy.

Much like the giant sucking sound of London hoovering up the UK's talent, Chicago now takes the best and the brightest from the small towns of America and plugs them into the global economy. Chicago's success is no longer symbiotic with its rural neighbours. It comes at their expense. Like London, Chicago's erstwhile middle classes also find it increasingly hard to keep up with rising costs. As

To the West's economic losers, cities like London and Chicago are not so much magnets as death stars.

In the West we spend half our time fretting about low-skilled immigrants. We should be worrying at least as much about high-skilled offshoring.

Jeffrey Garten's history of globalisation, From Silk to Silicon, tells the story of the last millennium through ten biographies. His book ends with Steve Jobs. It opens with Genghis Khan. The latter's impact was a fitting one with which to begin his story.

GDP numbers insist we are doing well, at a time when half the country is suffering from personal recessions. The world's most informative graph is the Elephant Chart.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you're any wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

From now on, how one arrives at a definition of the relationship of man's basic nature to his culturally conditioned control systems (extensions) is of crucial importance. For in our shrinking globe man can ill afford cultural illiteracy.

In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed.

Translators transport nations into other nations. They are the first to reckon with distant modes of feeling. Even their mistakes are evidence of a positive force. Translation is our salvation. It draws us out of the well in which, entirely by chance, we are born.

There are no distinctions at all any more, as far as entertainments are concerned, it's big and beautiful everywhere where we are. It would be a great help to us, if we could be everywhere at the same time. And here it is already, your entertainment!

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

the sight of militiamen sipping coffee at Starbucks, their rocket-propelled grenades resting in chairs in a distinctly Lebanese vision of globalization.

This may bear witness to the bulldozing effect of Western dominance, which tends to destroy every indigenous aspect of the cultures with which it comes into contact, but it is not a good argument for the superiority of European music. American popular music has swept the world; but few musicians consider it better than the varieties of music which it has displaced.

Me avergüenza no haber imaginado la medida de su audacia, y lo atribuyo a ser hijo único, caprichoso y despectivo. Parece trivial bucear en tratados de economía, buscando causas objetivas para la pobreza o la opulencia de distintas naciones. No hay más nación que la humanidad, a pesar de todo.

The ideals of free enterprise and global leadership, central to American conservatism, are responsible for the greatest reduction in human misery since mankind began its long climb from the swamp to the stars.

North American civilization is one of the ugliest to have emerged in human history, and it has engulfed the world. Asphalt and exhaust fumes clog the villages…. This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see… the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the globe.

If a middle-class family in Shanghai or Guangzhou is looking for a good-quality product, we want them to look at a maple leaf and say, 'OK, it's good quality.'

When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.