Global Culture

We don’t work because we have to. We work because it is deeply engrained in our culture that one must work. In his book “The Hacker Ethic” (see sidebar), Prof. Himanen provides a very solid example of cultural anthropology when he digs for the origin of such practice, all the way back to [...]

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Without having the nurturing care of their mother culture or the strong support of their community, the children of globalization are usually left alone struggling to figure out who they really are and what alliances they follow, often times falling on the side of hyper-marketing campaigns that spread throughout the globe without consideration for the [...]

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According to Ellen Tomson from Pioneer Press, “living without a TV is the right program”, or at least that’s what she has concluded while following the story of a family that decided to shutdown the signal, for good. Although the article mentions some of the undeniable influence of mass media on the rise of [...]

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Lebanon. A 7 year old girl holds her little brother from the hand while they board the ship that will separate them from their mom forever. She barely knows life herself and doesn’t understand why she must part ways with her loved ones, but is now responsible for the destiny of her little [...]

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In the article “Migration’s impact felt in Mexico as well as U.S.” by Kevin Diaz there is a detailed account of the intimate relationship between St. Paul, Minnesota and Axochiapan, Mexico.
A previous article published by the New York Times last year entitled “Way North of the Border” by Eduardo Porter and Elisabeth Malkin [...]

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Need help settling in a brand new city and don’t know where to start? While it is one of the reasons this project got started (read participate), long before this blog started I was already volunteering time to help the ocassional friend of a friend find its way in Toronto by sharing stories about [...]

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Social Networks. If you’re reading blogs you probably have heard of them. The furor around the media would seem to indicate that they are about the revolutionize the ways of societies. They are correct, except their observation is a few decades late. In fact, the social networks I’m interested in don’t [...]

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