We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.
I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.
What we have, however, is an issue that has tremendous impact here at home, and we believe that Americans are starting to feel vulnerable, not just from what is going on around the world but right here in the United States.
All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
It's a pretty frantic world that we live in.
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
What happens in one region affects people across the world.