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The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

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.

Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.