global village

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We’re each assigned a spot in that global village, the homelands reflecting the international nature of the refugee crisis: Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Somalia all get competing, squabbling enclaves.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2023

“It’s a global village and everyone can switch on CNN,” Dr. Zuze added.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2021

“Right now, both China and the United States are at critical stages of development, and humanity lives in a global village, and we face multiple challenges together,” Xi said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2021

"It's not about this global village of everyone being interconnected, but lots of smaller circles," Cool said of such online forums.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2018

This is what television has become since its initial adoption 40 years ago…The world is becoming a global village, as educator Marshall McLuhan predicted it would.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai