#globalization

Recent evidence confirms that retail prices of essential consumer goods in poor countries are not appreciably lower than in the United States or Western Europe. In fact, with deregulation and "free trade", the cost of living in many Third World cities is now higher than in the United States. My experience in Latin America and Haiti is that the prices of meat, fish and fresh vegetables are about the same as in the United States. Can you imagine eating on less than one dollar a day? ↗

— Vincent A. Gallagher

#globalization #injustice #poverty #experience

Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#globalization #internet #russia #should #speedy

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations. ↗

— William Greider

#globalization #instrument #international #international relations #marketplace

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#demonstrate #economy #fact #globalization #got

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning. ↗

— Clare Short

#accusing #being #equivalent #favor #globalization

Im Verlaufe nicht nur der ökonomischen, sondern auch der politischen Globalisierung kann das kardinale völkerrechtliche Prinzip der Nichteinmischung in Gefahr geraten. Besonders gilt dies für dasVerhältnis des Westens zur islamischen Kultur. Vornehmlich von meinem toten muslimischen Freunde Anwar as-Sadat habe ich den Respekt gegenüber anderen Religionen gelernt. Ich habe von ihm gelernt die gleichen Wurzeln von Judentum und Christentum und Islam. Und inzwischen habe ich ausserdem gelernt, dass Konfuzius, Sokrates oder Lao Tse und ebenso Zarathustra und Gautama Buddha ein halbes Jahrtausend, Moses oder Echnaton ein ganzes Jahrtausend vor Jesus von Nazareth gelebt haben - und dass sie wahrscheinlich deswegen doch nicht unglücklicher gewesen sind als wir Heutigen. Unter den globalisierten Umständen der heutigen Menschheit geziemt jedermann Respekt und Toleranz gegenüber den Kulturen der anderen. ↗

— Helmut Schmidt

#politics #religion #tolerance #religion

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#care #globalization #hate #i #imperialism

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#culture #doing #economic #entire #globalization

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#cultural #culture #emergence #global #globalization

Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly. ↗