Global Culture

With his post On re-thinking immigration, Michael Parekh provides insightful comments on an article from the Wall Street Journal entitled The Coming Crunch where the pros and cons of population growth are analyzed. All this in light of the recent 300 million americans milestone recently reached by the U.S.
Michael, working in the financial industry, [...]

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I’m convinced that we have a huge education mission ahead of us. Helping people discover our Global Culture is not trivial when there are so many negative forces at play. The posts in this space refer commonly to migration and globalization as shaping forces that are defining the future of humankind and corporations [...]

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It is a common trait of corporations to focus on the now. Obsessing about earnings for the quarter, forecast for the year, franchises to open the next year; their ability to think long-term is almost non-existent. This is why it is so easy for environmentalists, anti-globalist, and other movements thinking about the [...]

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Immigration is one of the main themes of the Canada in 2020 space, presenting opinions by leading personalities on the issues, events and trends that could transform Canada by the year 2020. With the essay Sao Paulo of the North: The Effects of Mass Immigration, Daniel Stoffman presents a looming picture of the future [...]

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The BBC News is running a story as the US population reaches 300 million. With the recent announcement of a fence to be built between US and Mexico, I figured it was only fair to reiterate some of the statistics around migration:

Hispanic population: 4% in 1966, 14% today, 25% in 2050 (projected)
Over the next [...]

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Although I have to admit that I resent some of the comments that CNN’s anchor Lou Dobbs has made in the past regarding illegal immigration, his recent appearance in The Daily Show to promote his book, “War on the Middle Class“, provided great insight to what is likely the terrible sentiment brewing among middle class [...]

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Dr. Clotaire Rapaille uses a combination of phychiatry, physchology and cultural anthropology to provide powerful tools to large corporations trying to understand how to penetrate the minds of their consumers. His approach, Archetype Discovery, allows organizations understand why a certain group of people do what they do, whether the research is related to a [...]

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