The rise of the Internet was supposed to create a global village, in which people would be as likely to have friends in the Antipodes as in their own street.

因特网的兴起本以为会产生地球村，如此一来，人们异地交友就像和他们的邻居成为朋友一样容易。

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Dear friends, the people of China and the United States live in the same "global village", you on the west side and we the east.

朋友们，中美两国人民同住一个“地球村”，你们在西头，我们在东头。

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If Facebook is to prosper it needs to accept that even in an emerging global village, many people will not want to live in houses that are made entirely of glass.

即或是在一个新兴的地球村，Facebook若要兴旺发达，也必须接受这种现实。因为，许多人并不想生活在一个完全由玻璃建造的房子里。

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They wanted to help develop it, they wanted to be able to say I had a part in creating this incredible new form that brings people across the world together, makes the world more of a global village as we call it.

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And, of course, Brazil and India have the same fears of China as global low cost manufacturer as the US. In India, each village has their own little gods of protection and people tend to have god idols in their homes the way a Brazilian might have a statue of Jesus with open arms, like the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio, decorating their book shelves.

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