In the global village it's harder for scamsters to hide their past, but it's harder as well for reformed sinners to get a fresh start.
In this global village, the village we live in is still where we spend most of our lives, working, playing, socializing, volunteering, even shopping.
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Already in 1962, the prophetic scholar of media Marshall McLuhan foresaw the coming of a "global village": a planet in which information spread as fast as in the farming village of yore.
Marshall McLuhan would remind us, what occurs in one corner of the global village will invariably affect other corners since the global village is now wired and connected.
It's a global village, even in the countryside, and they love 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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Cakarel says he knew that if he was going to succeed in his quest to bring quality cinema to the global village he would have to enlist some of the industry's top brass.
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One especially enterprising worker, amazed at the high rents in these global cities compared with his village on Sumatra, started to rent apartments to sublet as rooming houses for his friends.
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From the village of Vijay Pura in the Indian state of Rajasthan, the global financial crisis seems remote.
If television produced the global village, the Internet produces the global psyche: everyone keyed in like a neuron, so that to the eyes of a watching Martian we are really part of a single planetary brain.
The global village aspect and intertwined economic dependence on each other can be seen in the way global economies enter and exit recessions together, and see their stock markets enter and exit bull and bear markets together.
In addition, they stressed that because our global village is growing more complex and competitive by the day, our ability to adapt to this environment will be vital in the future for every individual living on our planet.
And in today's global village, some think Latin America, Japan and Korea are due to follow the myriad U.S. cities that the league has spread its wings to throughout its history.
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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