Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

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

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

…It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.

Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

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.

One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'

Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there's a Starbucks and McDonald's everywhere, and you could feel like you're in Florida. But in Japan, you know you're there.

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.

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

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

Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.

If you watch 'American Idol,' and you close your eyes, you don't know who's singing because they all sound exactly alike.

TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.

If the academic community gets its way, we will soon all be speaking with a single voice.

So many people want to have this typical look and this typical everything and it's all the same everywhere.

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

Everyone is concerned about his niche, his name, and wants to adapt the concept to so-called national characteristics. But at the end of the day, it's all the same.