27 November 2005

How do you say "mall rat" in Arabic?

This article from Newsweek International writes on the growing trend of mall construction in developing nations.

This whole global economy thing really is benefitting more folk than it exploits. How to spread 'mall culture' deeper and farther across the globe will be up to corporations not governments. States that rail against the U.S. and its culture on the one hand, while employ U.S. firms to build lavish palaces to consumerism on the other, will seem hypocritical in the eyes of the local population.

Also, the access to the fruits of prosperity and the prosperity that this access helps accelerate will help create a more peaceful globe.

You don't need to 'imagine' world peace hippie style, you need to build world peace one trade partner at a time.

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