Quotes About Globalization

Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

Modern empires rise and fall not on armies, ideology, or violence, but on the instantaneous flow of capital. —Boris Karpov

The excessive speed of mundialization, the exacting demands of the God of consumerism and the to-and-fro swinging, from one period to another and from one domain to another, cause inner heartaches. People feel like individuals "with no sense of belonging" and characters "without qualities". ( "The church was no longer in the middle" )

But in most places, the new global diet has involved a narrowing down of what people eat. Our world contains around seven thousand edible crops, yet 95 per cent of what we eat comes from just thirty of those crops. As omnivores, humans are designed to eat a varied diet, so there's something strange and wrong when, as a species, we become so limited in our choice of foods

Unlike traditional food, which is remembered jointly within families or communities, mass-produced food and drink is remembered across continents.

Then I realised the very question I was asking was wrong. The whole point is that in the 1960s, there was no such thing as an average eater across most countries, just lots of specific and wildly divergent patterns of eating. Back then, there were maize eaters in Brazil and sorghum eaters in Sudan. There were steak and kidney pie enthusiasts in Britain and goulash devotees in Hungary. But it made little sense to ponder how a globally average person

Business is globalizing so fast that it has led to the often quoted clash of civilizations. People simply have not had time to get to know and understand people of other cultures sufficiently to live and work in harmony.

My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train's pulled into Piccadilly Circus they've become a Londoner.

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The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.

But no escape is possible. Capital shrinks space, compresses time.

Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

For educators, not providing a global context for your students in today's world is almost criminal.

the reality is that globalization and international economic integration are too far advanced to be undone, except at very great cost.

might result only in banking activity moving out of the United States to foreign financial centers.

by 2025, 440 cities with a collective population of 600 million (7% of all people) will account for half of worldwide gross domestic product.

Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.

The world is becoming more global, and our music is reflecting that.

A new forum is needed that reflects the realities of today's globalised world and the rising importance of emerging markets.

China will continue to adopt multiple measures to advance the reform and opening up of its financial sector so that its financial market can better adapt to financial modernization and globalization.

In the interests of competitiveness in a globalizing world economy, governments of all complexions introduced labour-market reforms that promoted flexibility but accentuated the precariat's insecurities.

Through trade reforms, Latin American countries can boost their competitiveness in markets for goods and services.

To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'