Global Culture

I tried to pick not the most popular blogs, nor those that I read most frequently. Not even those that are closely related to what I write about. Instead I tried to find views from abroad to things that interest me.

oDToday: written by the openDemocracy staff, this blog provides a raw feed to [...]

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Francesca from the “global village” blog provides an interesting follow up to our previous post a two-way street regarding the intent of migrants:
When we move to a new country, why are we really leaving our old home, and why are we claiming a new one? I think for some immigrants the move is political. They [...]

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Georgetown is in fact located in Delaware, but over the last decade Guatemalan immigrants have taken over many of its neighborhoods, bringing profound transformation to the area. The full account of this evolution is given by Christopher Caldwell in “the weekly Standard” with an article entitled “Hola, Delaware!”.
I posted about a similar article [...]

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“If you want to be understood… listen”
This how a very powerful trailer anticipates one of the best movies of the year, Babel from Mexican director Alejandro Gonz√°lez I√±√°rritu. Watch the trailer and then come back to read some of my previous posts such as “culture migration” or “guy-from-the-train”. They will make more sense. [...]

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Reading about the British-born terrorists which plot was discovered recently, and remembering how in Toronto 17 youngsters, Canadian born and raised, were planning to behead Stephen Harper, the question of multiculturalism acquires new relevance. We can define multiculturalism as how well a society will receive the different cultures that form the threads of its fabric. [...]

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This week we were all reminded of how real the sentiments of segregation are in the U.S., thanks to the comments Senator George Allen made to an Indian-American (see video below). The editorial of USA Today emphasizes that for a country that was born from immigrants, has the highest rate of immigration and plenty [...]

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Thanks to EM from “Mind Unbound” for her inspired satire of a certain kind of Declaration that could very well have been the manifest that lawyers wrote when ideating the modern concept of a Corporation:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that in the pursuit of happiness we shall all compete against each other for [...]

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