Word: worldism
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...course, any modern fair is obliged to give frequent lip service to a kind of chipper one-worldism (110 countries have exhibits -- an all-time world's fair record!) and to environmental sensitivity (organizers planted 300,000 shrubs on the site!). Moreover, the gee-whiz, spick-and-span perkiness found in New York's Flushing Meadows in 1964 is strikingly evident in Seville. At any moment, one expects to see teams of Esperanto-speaking U.N. technicians in lab coats disembarking from Hovercraft to brief James Bond...
...joined Le Monde as a foreign news editor in 1951. His favorite editorial litany, honed to perfection in front-page editorials at Diplomatique, concerns the revolutionary struggle of Latin America to escape American influence. Says a longtime rival: "Julien turned Le Monde Diplomatique into an organ of demagogic Third-Worldism...
...promote this one-worldism, the Club is developing what Peccei calls "a trilogy of efforts," starting with a report titled "Reshaping the International Order." Written by Nobel Prizewinning Dutch Economist Jan Tinbergen and 20 top government advisers-Club members are nothing if not highly placed-it is mainly concerned with the kinds of action that might influence selective growth. One recommendation will be to create new international monetary reserves to finance development in Third World countries. Other recommendations are to reduce tariffs on industrial products sold by developing nations, to set up new international agencies to subsidize the conservation...
...some extent, the new protectionism reflects the revival of isolationist sentiment; modern protectionists like to portray themselves as champions of a hard-nosed economic nationalism pitted against a fuzzy-minded one-worldism. More specifically, the falling profits and rising jobless rates of the 1970 recession fanned businessmen's and workers' fears of lower-wage foreign competition. There has also been a panicky loss of faith in the ability of American industry to compete in the world, a feeling supported by figures that show a drastic worsening of the American trade position...
First, the necesity of learning a language would forward the goals of "one worldism" in this non-isolation era of constant, permeating world-wide communication. International cooperation can depend upon the communication between the world's people...