 | Robert Harlen King - 2001 - 228 páginas
...worldwide scale.20 Resistance to this homogenization comes from the human need for roots. Local culture "roots us, anchors us, identifies us and locates us in this world," Friedman writes. Few things, he believes, enrage people more than to have their cultural identity stripped... | |
 | Yale H. Ferguson, Richard W. Mansbach - 2004 - 384 páginas
...(Washington, DC: Brookings, 19921, p. 195. Thomas Friedman's idea of the individual need for an "olive tree" "everything that roots us, anchors us, identifies us and locates us in this world." 122 Friedman contrasts the "olive tree" with the "Lexus," a robotics-generated car that to him symbolizes... | |
 | Glenn Feldman - 2005 - 410 páginas
...country, sometimes half the same person — was still caught up in the fight on who owns which olive tree. Olive trees are important. They represent everything...roots us, anchors us, identifies us and locates us in the world — whether it be belonging to a family, a community, a tribe, a nation, a religion, or most... | |
 | Robert W. Merry - 2005 - 320 páginas
...computer technologies with which we pursue higher living standards today." The Olive Tree represented "everything that roots us, anchors us, identifies us and locates us in this world—whether it be belonging to a family, a community, a tribe, a nation, a religion." Friedman... | |
 | Ann Malaspina - 2006 - 188 páginas
...sometimes half the same person — was still caught up in the fight over who owns which olive tree. Olive trees are important. They represent everything...roots us, anchors us, identifies us and locates us in the world — whether it be belonging to a family, a community, a tribe, a nation, a religion, or,... | |
 | Rebecca Todd Peters - 2006 - 246 páginas
...globalization." Those in the other half of the world spend their time fighting over who owns the olive trees that represent "everything that roots us, anchors us, identifies us and locates us in this world." 8 Unfortunately, rather than moving toward an analysis of globalization that questions the values and... | |
 | Burak Akçapar - 2007 - 226 páginas
...compelled to take a global and fairly reformist view, at the same time, the olive tree that "represent[s] everything that roots us, anchors us, identifies us and locates us in this world"33 continues to be important in how we perceive the world outside us. Thus, geographical, cultural,... | |
 | Cecil C. Konijnendijk - 2008 - 247 páginas
...comment element of family land in the Middle East). About olive trees, Friedman (2000, p. 31) writes: "Olive trees are important. They represent everything...roots us, anchors us, identifies us and locates us in the world - whether it be belonging to a family, a community, a tribe, a nation, a religion, or, most... | |
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They represent everything that roots us, anchors us, identifies us and locates us in the world — whether it be belonging to a family, a community, a tribe, a nation, a religion, or, most of all, a place called home. 