Global Culture

Hugo, Paco & Luis are Mexican farmers. They came to Canada as part of its Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. Their employer is an old Italian with a small farm a couple of hours away from Toronto. While I could describe in detail the painful story of their season as foreign workers, I’ll [...]

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The front cover of The New York Times Sunday edition shows a picture of a group of kids playing soccer in a dirt field in Rio de Janeiro, which leads to the article “In Brazil, Unpaved Path To Excellence” by Larry Rohter. Before I continue is important to admit that living in Toronto has [...]

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After having read “Does Globalization Threaten or Nurture Local Markets?” by Randall Frost and On cosmopolitanism by Marco Hewitt, I’m realizing there is an important argument that must be made. But first I should probably provide a quick summary of these articles.
Randall Frost writes on brandchannel.com, which is produced by Interbrand, a global corporation [...]

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended Canada’s immigration policy stating that:
Canada’s diversity, properly nurtured, is our greatest strength
Rob Mickleburgh from the Globe and Mail is covering Harper’s participation at the United Nations’ World Urban Forum with an article entitled “Harper defends Canadian diversity”.
While Harper’s address to the forum was centered around the nation’s efforts to [...]

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One of the conclusions that can be drawn from the comScore Media Metrix analysis for the month of May is the continuous growth of social networking. According to Stowe Boyd in his post “The Rise of Web Culture and Its Enemies”:
This is an implicit rejection of the controlled media depiction of purpose and meaning [...]

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I will explain how a community of immigrants grows strong by borrowing ideas from the “User delight and the guy-from-the-train phenomenon” post by Kathy Sierra:
You know the story: you take the same train to work every day. One Saturday afternoon you’re in a cafe when you spot a familiar face at the next table. “Hey, [...]

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It’s not just a catchy phrase. It refers to the process of documenting how snippets of cultural behavior are moving beyond their original culture, and it is one of the most important tools that I believe we can implement to better understand how Global Culture is evolving.
Memes, a concept first introduced by Richard Dawkins [...]

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