Global Culture

I guess using Starbucks in my original manifesto was dead-on. Via kiddo I’m learning of an article written by Bruce Horovitz published on USA Today entitled “Starbucks aims beyond lattes to extend brand”. I guess I’m not being paranoid. Global brands ARE buying our raw culture and selling it at a premium [...]

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The debate that will be taking place within this space is relevant to everyone, regardless of location, ethnicity or age. As this group of students (are demonstrating, the power of globalization and its repercussions will touch us all. Through a series of reports they explore the many faces of globalization and its influence [...]

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From the photo linked in my last post, I realized there was an article from the National Geographic somewhere about Global Culture. In particular it was the August 1999 number, which of course now that I’ve seen the full cover I remember. I’ll have to get a copy of it.
However in the meantime [...]

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In my introductory post I mentioned that this town was the perfect environment to sustain a project like this one. At the time I was thinking of the tech-savvy community and their obsession with tools to exploit social networks, but there is more.
Toronto is currently hosting the CONTACT photography festival with the theme “Imaging [...]

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I realize now that the name of this blog may be deceptive. It implies that the subject that interest me is “Global Culture”, when in facts this project is all about “Local Culture”. I will defer to a future post trying to define one or the other so for now the wikipedia definition [...]

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Since I’m in the process of defining what this blog is all about, I’m browsing around looking for others talking about the global culture. Here is the first one: global village. Their vision statement is quite good and in sync with what I believe. Even recognizing culture at the core of [...]

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While this is my first post, I’m hardly a new blogger and this is definitely not a new idea. This is the culmination of many discussions around the topics of globalization, culture, migrations and the impact that new technologies are having on them. So to all of you that beta-tested the concept, [...]

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