Global Culture

Thanks to Jorge @ Catenary for rescuing the Worldmapper from the archive of “lost & found” items. While the whole set of maps sheds a brilliant view of our real world, the following two maps provide a visual representation to the metaphor “the South has set itself up in the very heart of [...]

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During the Clinton Global Initiative a special session was held to discuss the nature of the cities of the future (full transcript). I extracted some facts that found very interesting.

Over half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas.
160,000 people are moving from rural areas to urban areas every single day.
The Tyndall [...]

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Update: after reading the transcript of the session, I thought it was important to reflect the words of Bishop Tutu as accurately as possible.
Dave Johnson has been blogging at Live From The Clinton Global Initiative. This one quote from Desmond Tutu at the Managing Diversity plenary caught my attention when, Bishop Tutu, asked about [...]

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Update:Transcripts for the session are available now in two parts. Read part 1 & part 2.
The Clinton Global Initiative is running its annual meeting this week, and while I’m not quite familiar with their work so far, one of their focus areas is Mitigating Religious and Ethnic Conflict, which got my attention as it [...]

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In the chicano network I provided a quick snapshot of the deep roots that the Mexican community has in the U.S. and some of the historic reasons for this. More recently, an exodus of Mexicans have reached farther regions as a result of the climate of social instability and the idea of recruiting bridge [...]

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The Daily Telegraph published an open letter signed by more than 100 leading doctors, academics and other intellectuals blaming junk food, marketing, over-competitive schooling and electronic entertainment for seriously affecting the development of young children.
In my opinion, the abundance of opportunities for parents in privileged countries is seriously affecting the dynamic of the relationship with [...]

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If you google “cultura global” (global culture in spanish), you’ll get a summary of a session help during the Forum Barcelona 2004. Although the linked page is in Spanish, there is an English version available. The name of the session was “Is There a Global Culture? The Globalization of Media and the Culture [...]

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