商务英语口语视频 (中级)109 The Japanese Are Very Important

AERA Interviewer

Do you mention globalization as a more mature economic term?

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Yeah, yeah, yes.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

What happens when you localize economic activity is that...

Helena Norberg-Hodge

...it, at the same time, revitalizes, restores community, the social fabric,...

Helena Norberg-Hodge

...culture, and it is healing for the environment.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

So, it leads to cultural and ecological renewal.

AERA Interviewer

Mmhmm. So, it's not just one way or one direction that it links together?

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Yes, it is because it allows cultural and ecological diversity to flourish,...

Helena Norberg-Hodge

...whereas the global economic part with giant global business, they promote one culture.

AERA Interviewer

How do you see Japan in terms of globalization and, you know, in the future?

Helena Norberg-Hodge

I think that Japan, because it industrialized and urbanized later...

Helena Norberg-Hodge

...than the English - speaking world and much of Europe,...

Helena Norberg-Hodge

...there is still more of a memory of life with more community and family,...

Helena Norberg-Hodge

...and closeness to nature.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

So, the Japanese are very important...

Helena Norberg-Hodge

...because they have gone through this very rapid industrial development.

AERA Interviewer

So, they've experienced that and they've experienced the terrible pressures,...

Helena Norberg-Hodge

...known, as you say, that are leading to psychological problems,...

Helena Norberg-Hodge

...social problems, environmental problems.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

And they have a memory of something else.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

So, I think they're in a very important position to be leaders,...

Helena Norberg-Hodge

...to find a balance between tradition and modernity, between local and global.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Definitely, it's gonna take a very important role.