Global Culture

The greatest documentary I’ve seen since “The Corporation” is delivered by Annie Leonard, an expert in sustainability, in a video.
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns, with a special focus on the United States. All the stuff in our lives, [...]

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Do you think that foreign nations should participate in the election of American presidents?
Writer David Usborne writes Outside Influence - USA in the February 2008 issue of Monocle:
Look beyond the cliché of hidebound insularism and you quickly see that just as the rest of the world is not immune to American influences, America is not [...]

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I’m sure is not because Monocle released their most liveable cities report just a month ago, but now is The Economist releasing their Liveability rankings with the article Where the grass is greener. While Monocle’s report came in the form of a wonderful edition, perfectly written and documented, the Economist Intelligence Unit barely [...]

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The Economist Intelligence Unit in collaboration with the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and a wide variety of organization and endorsed by an impressive list of international figures has launched the Vision of Humanity site.
Peace and sustainability are the cornerstones of humanity’s survival in the 21st century. The major challenges facing humanity today are [...]

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The Toronto Star has been running a series entitled War on Poverty. Although the focus of the series is on the local problem (as it should be), the issues and ideas are likely to be global. To the main question as to Why is the gap between rich and poor widening, the newspaper [...]

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To assert that economists use statistics for the same reason that the military uses body-counts: to dehumanize the victims and make it easy to carry on with the task requires some guts, and this is the kind of language that The Big Sellout is not afraid to use. Of course when you have heavy-weights [...]

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A new take on the old debate of homogenization of culture in hands of global corporations is brought by the Global Politician with an article by Trish Hallmark. Exploring the usual argument about how deep american culture has penetrated other countries and whether or not this has had a positive influence on them [...]

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