Global Culture

This week we were all reminded of how real the sentiments of segregation are in the U.S., thanks to the comments Senator George Allen made to an Indian-American (see video below). The editorial of USA Today emphasizes that for a country that was born from immigrants, has the highest rate of immigration and plenty [...]

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There is a certain hint of a solution in the Toronto Star (Canada) article “Redefining multiculturalism” when it tries to alleviate the claims of others that multiculturalism should be abolished. In concrete, it proposes:
Instead of funding ethnic dance shows, the government needs to modernize immigration and settlement programs into one basket with the common [...]

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This past weekend I attended the Power of Place festival at the Harbourfront centre (Toronto, Canada). A quick glance at the program reveals the wild variety of performers from all corners of the world. It is this culturally rich because it looks to attract the culturally diverse audience of the Toronto scene, [...]

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Via one of the Creative Commons features I came across the openDemocracy online magazine. Reading about their articles filed under “arts & culture” I found a little experiment they ran a couple of years that resonated a lot with what we’ve set to do here. The first post of a discussion forum [...]

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