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Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.
Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
Much of reality TV has been like the worst nightmares of Theodor Adorno and Jean Baudrillard come true, its seductive allure turning us into gossips in the global village.
We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.
In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.
In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.
After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I'm also Romanian and whatever other oddities of temperament I picked up elsewhere, in Transylvania or France, for instance. These days, everybody is both an exile and a resident - they don't call it the global village for nothing.