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By: Global Culture » top brands of 2006

Global Culture » top brands of 2006 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:06:35 +0000

[...] Want to read more? In misunderstanding globalization I had criticized one of their previous articles. [...]

By: Global Culture » the south in the hearth of the north

Global Culture » the south in the hearth of the north — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:56:35 +0000

[...] Thanks to Jorge @ Catenary for rescuing the Worldmapper from the archive of “lost & found” items. While the whole set of maps sheds a brilliant view of our real world, the following two maps provide a visual representation to the metaphor “the South has set itself up in the very heart of the North!” coined by Marco @ Insurgelicious and mentioned in the previous post misunderstanding globalization. [...]

By: Boli-Nica

Boli-Nica — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:11:40 +0000

I would argue there is a much more multi-layered flow than a simple directional, one or two way flow, that even Hewitt puts forward..

I like to use the example of Reggaeton music. It is music, created by Puerto Rican kids – many who went back and forth from Puerto Rico and the mainland US – who were influenced by Puerto Rican traditional music (itself influenced by African and Iberian music), New York rap/hip-hop (influenced by Jamaican “toasting” and African-rooted R & B) and Jamaican dancehall music (influenced by rap! and African music).

This intersection of what you could call “Western”, and “non-Western”
are so thoroughly imbedded in the DNA of this music, you can not extricate it and say it is A or B, it is both A and B.