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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
'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.
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.
There is going to be globalization, but we need to do it under terms - under rules that work as rules work for our domestic economy on the dynamic of capitalism. You need to do trade in the same way.
Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.
Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.