Global Culture

In a passionate defense of real multiculturalism delivered back in 2003 at TED, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis used the wealth of his experiences with some of the most fascinating indigenous cultures of the world to build a powerful argument in favor of the value of cultural diversity:
The world in which we live in does [...]

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A very detailed portrait of a typical middle-class chinese family serves as the background for the story The New Superpower: China’s Emerging Middle Class by Noreen O’Leary in a recent issue of Adweek Magazine. The story, intended for an audience fascinated with marketing strategies, is full of success stories of global brands making their [...]

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Although the Face of Tomorrow project seems to have come to a halt after 2004, the idea that cities assimilate their migrants and eventually their inhabitants mix giving place to new generations of cosmopolitan beings with ancestors from all over the globe is still a powerful one.
The large metropolises of the world are magnets for [...]

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Every year, Foreign Policy and A.T.Kearney partner to produce the Globalization Index. Collecting data for the most populated countries in areas such as Foreign Investment, International Travel, Internet Users and Servers, Remittances, Involvement in International Organizations and Missions the analysis tries to provide a measure of how well countries are playing the globalization [...]

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Globalization is likely one of those words that must appear in newspapers every day. But the recent post about an article canadians & globalization got me thinking about doing a little historical research of my own: browsing through the digital archive of the Toronto Star (Canada), I found the first use of “globalization” was [...]

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I’m loving every page of the new book by Alex MacGillivray A Brief History of Globalization, where he attempts to address one of the very few areas that has not been discussed enough when it comes to globalization: it’s origins. The wide scope of his project doesn’t deviates attention from the key milestones that [...]

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Last week columnist David Crane from the Toronto Star (one of my local newspapers) wrote and article entitled Don’t discount the positive side of globalization to which I barely paid attention because it didn’t provide any new information that readers from this blog would already be aware of. I had my own attempt to [...]

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