"Human beings have been reduced to consumers."
"Americans are just now waking up to the real world [of Globalization]."
"Globalization has to be a two way traffic."
The Discovery channel is currently airing a special entitled "Thomas L. Fieldman Reporting: The Other Side of Outsourcing." Its content is mainly concerned with the impacts of outsourcing on India's traditionally family- and ritual-centric culture. I still need to digest some of the information, but it's definitely an eye-opening viewpoint.