Quotes About Globalization

Amit mindenütt látunk, az a faj problémája. Egyikünk sem mentes tÅ'le. Aztán ott az a másik üzlet, ami elég elterjedt manapság. Emberek - közösségek, kasztok, fajták, sÅ't országok is - trófeaként hurcolják körbe tragikus történelmüket meg a balsorsukat, vagy mint a részvényt, hogy adják-vegyék a szabadpiacon.

A largo plazo, el «Imperio español», el primer imperio mundial en el que nunca se ponía el sol, se convirtió en un mero tópico de la historia mundial, un asunto generalmente asumido debido a su larga duración. Pero una historia de expansión que duró más de mil años y que atañe a una parte muy considerable del mundo no es un asunto banal, sino algo realmente extraordinario, uno de los hitos más grandes de la historia universal.

L'Occidente mangia sulla terrazza e da basso il resto del mondo attende gli avanzi. [...] Ai ricchi di questi e altri tempo piace così - dice il diavolo roteando la forchetta - e le porte dell'inferno sono larghe abbastanza per qualsiasi pancia.

I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

I like the breath of foreign air, the close-up glimpses of lives far removed from my own. I liked to hear the accents and work out where their owners came from, to study the clothes of people who have never seen a Next catalog or bought a five-pack of knickers at Marks and Spencer.

The city feels as alien as to me as it always has. But, then, everywhere does, these days.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

The problem is not one of globalization, but one of generalization.

America's phones are bliss. Their habit of actually working is very disconcerting: Put in a coin, and speak to whoever answers. I truly hope it catches on everywhere.

It means something, I think, when Thai people learn how to cook Vietnamese noodles for Hong Kongborn teenagers, and as big a fan as I am of authenticity, it probably means something good.

Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (forming the acronym WEIRD).

The authors pointed out that nearly all research in psychology is conducted on a very small subset of the human population: people from cultures that are Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (forming the acronym WEIRD).

The Weirdest People in the World?"2 The authors pointed out that nearly all research in psychology is conducted on a very small subset of the human population: people from cultures that are Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (forming the acronym WEIRD).

chefs, the Guatemalans, sometimes

una moral moderna propia desde fines del siglo XV, comenzando por Ginés de Sepúlveda, filósofo moralista español del siglo XVI, pasando a un Hobbes en el siglo XVII, un Kant en el XVIII, un Nietzsche en el XIX o F. von Hayek en el siglo XX (este último, el formulador vienés del neoliberalismo que justifica la colonialidad, el capitalismo y el liberalismo que se imponen a las culturas periféricas).

la crisis ecológica inevitable causada por el capitalismo y la Modernidad17

International big business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood!

We must now turn to the idea of a systems collapse, a systemic failure with both a domino and multiplier effect, from which even such a globalized international, vibrant, intersocietal network as was present during the Late Bronze Age could not recover.

Monroe's words might serve as something of a warning for us today, for his description of the Late Bronze Age, especially in terms of its economy and interactions, could well apply to our current globalized society, which is also feeling the effects of climate change.

We might laugh at the notion of plastic tea sets in the jungle, but it is a time-honored ritual for Western travelers to collect preindustrial artifacts to use as home decorations...Possession of primitive artifacts suggests worldly knowledge, just as in the highland communities of Borneo an electronic wristwatch that plays "Happy Birthday" is the mark of a great traveler. Funny thing how travel can narrow the mind.

billion, representing almost half of all people and the vast majority of adults on the planet.4 And they're now sending over two trillion text messages a year.

Who would have known that much of the wealth in their nation's booming economy was created on the other side of the world by the most brutal mistreatment of other human beings, many of them women and children?

By turning names into things we create false models of reality. By endowing nations, societies or cultures, with the qualities of internally homogeneous and externally distinctive bounded objects, we create a model of the world as a global pool hall in which the entities spin off each other line so many hard and round billiard balls