Naomi Klein Quotes

Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.

We are turning the world into a McDonald’s ecosystem with the same species living roughly the same way everywhere.

There is something romantic about the world being a diverse place, where every place has a Starbucks and Denny's.

The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.

Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of the world that has a Gap and Benneton's, and the upscale versions of those.

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

To me, America is just another market.

Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.

The young people of every nation are coming to resemble each other more and more, and are slowly becoming strangers to chauvinism and racism.

I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?'

The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.

We had a very upwardly mobile economy, and that peaked around the 1950s when the typical middle-class American family consisted of a father with a job and stay-at-home mom who took care of the kids.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

My personal opinion about the world is that it's homogenized.

'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new brown Stride Rite Mary Janes with little purple and silver flowers when the old shoes were pinching the toes.

Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a romantic, is sad for me to say.

China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization.

Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.

If New York has just become a mall for the world, then what's the difference between being here and somewhere else?

Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.

"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.