It is a paradigm transformation of our world: Notions of a nation's size, wealth, power, military might, population and G.D.P. mean something altogether different from what they meant a generation ago.
Across Asia, as elsewhere in the world, notions of masculinity are infused with power, control and entitlement, the source of much brutality against women and children, including gang rape by teenagers in Cambodia and daily violence in families in China, to name two examples, activists and researchers said.
This directly contradicts Thomas Friedman's flat-world notion that globalisation has emasculated the state.
I had only a vague first-world notion of "deforestation" and this being bad.
"But I find it, in a way, a small-world notion of the value and significance of a piece".
But aha, the pope would say, here I am being a cultural colonialist, seeking to impose my first-world notions on those of a developing community that has a very different perspective.
Some scholars have been skeptical of the notion of world opinion, arguing that it lacks methodological rigour.
If the transworld identity theorist were a Lewisian realist about possible worlds, this notion of existence in a world could be clearly distinguished from the neutral notion of existence according to a world, on the grounds that the existence of Russell in a world would require his complete or partial presence as a part of such a world (cf. Section 1.2 above).
They furthermore felt unworthy of the company of individuals from this perceived alternate world, a notion that affected their self-esteem and feeling of acceptance.
