In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.
Globalization has redefined the competition for employment and incomes in the United States. Tradeoffs will have to be made between the two.
People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.
'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.
We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.
Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.
Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries.
Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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