Topic 1: Life in a Global World - Life in a Local World

We are living without any doubt in a global world today - and yet, it is also a world characterized by a multitude of indigenous local cultures. I find this coexistence of the local and the global extremely exciting as well as stimulating since it allows us to experience a cultural variety that has never been possible before.

Please share your thoughts and experiences on the global and the local with the rest of us. Here a few links that may serve as a starting point:

Globalization:

http://www.polity.co.uk/global/links.asp
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization/
http://www.globalconnections.org/
http://www2.education.ualberta.ca/css/css_38_3/ARburnouf_global_awareness_perspectives.htm

http://emergent-culture.com/a-new-global-culture-is-taking-shape-earth-changes-occupy-wall-street-planetary-culture-ows-ows-global-citizen/

Indigenous Cultures of the World:

http://www.nativeweb.org/
http://www.anthropologie.net/
http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com/

http://intercontinentalcry.org/peoples/

http://social.un.org/index/IndigenousPeoples/ThematicIssues/Culture.aspx

http://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_on_endangered_cultures.html