Global Culture

About a year ago, Coca-Cola Co. announced it would attempt to take on Starbucks by introducing new technology to deliver single servings of coffee through their own newly designed brewing machines. Last month the first Far Coast Cafe opened its doors in Toronto, Canada.
Since I don’t drink coffee, it is hard [...]

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If you liked the interactive visualization from Gapminder about human development trends you are definitely going to enjoy watching its creator Hans Rosling debunk the myths about the developing world earlier this year at the TED Conference. This global health expert uses the power of statistics to convey his strong message about global trends.

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It’s only fair to promote a real debate on the issues that concern us. Through this blog, I’ve always talked about the negative impact of globalization, so to fuel the debate I had to find a voice that cheers loudly for it: George Reisman is a well known economist, author of Capitalism: A Treatise [...]

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An article entitled East Meets West published recently at The National Interest online promised some insights into the current evolution of cultural transfer between China and America. Instead it turned out to be an exhaustive analysis of the coming of age of India as a decisive factor in balancing the power of China. [...]

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Wikipedia has a fairly complete guide to inappropriate social conduct classified by country. Whether trying to decide how to participate in a traditional ceremony or just eat a meal displaying proper manners, this guide should be quite useful for the global citizen.
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A recent exchange with Richa Govil from Infosys led me to a couple of posts on their blog: The War for Talent Heats Up and Talent Wars, cont’d…. Their blog provides an insight into globalization from the perspective of those on the other side of the equation, supplying the talent to the corporations [...]

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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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