Global Culture

The thing about The Namesake is not that it is a great movie (although most avid movie-goers will be satisfied), but that it treats universal themes with such clarity that anyone who has been through the experience of leaving one’s land should be able to relate, even if not from India. Directed by [...]

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The March/April 2007 issue of Foreign Policy has an article by Harvard Business School professor Pankaj Ghemawat entitled Why the World Isn’t Flat (subscribers only).
Professor Ghemawat main argument is that most proponents of globalization or anti-globalization are wrong: The world is not as globalized as they all want us to think.
the [...]

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Hot Docs, the Canadian International Documentary Festival will be running in Toronto from April 19 to 29. A festival like this one is always a great opportunity to see the world through the eyes of others and discover how no matter how far they are, the themes are recurring and quite familiar. [...]

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In the utmost global citizen, I talked about the value of being a global citizen. Now I would like to address what I consider is the single most important mission of this project: building a community of global citizens. Why? It is clear to me that many of the social [...]

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Onemanbandwidth reports that Dell has plans to market a super cheap computer for countries with massive populations like China, India and Brazil.
Dell’s “EC280″ model is looking to cash in on volume demand in the world’s second largest market and beyond. Smart thinking. It is good to see the West adapting to the China market instead [...]

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Let’s start with a powerful assumption: a panel of experts has used the vast resources of the web to determine who is the utmost global citizen. To keep thinks colorful, we shall call him Phileas Fogg. A British citizen with known addresses in London, San Francisco, Manhattan, Dublin, Tokyo & Istanbul; manages [...]

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It is too easy to pick on the global warming skeptics that have used crazy arguments such as
the possible detonation, on uninhabited land north of 70° latitude, say, of a limited number of hydrogen bombs. [...] The presence of those particles would serve to reduce the amount of sunlight reaching most of the Arctic’s surface. [...]

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