#globalization

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

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The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

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But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization. ↗

— David Korten

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In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization. ↗

— David Korten

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There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations. ↗

— David Korten

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Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

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For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

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Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

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Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment. ↗

— Evo Morales

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