Globalization wields powerful influence over societies and cultures. Business travelers and tourists both observe and distribute new ideas. New ideas, interactions, foods and products are tried, then embraced or discarded. With the internet or satellite television, films, publications, photographs, news reports and cartoons can travel instantly, entertaining or angering audiences around the globe. With social media like Facebook or Twitter, individuals offer news and own instant pronouncements on trends. Whether slowly through immigration or immediately online, these connections bring about some convergence of norms on fashion to human rights while also provoking challenges from traditionalists. A global society has emerged, and it’s tightly linked.

Asians Offer Region a Lesson – in English

Latin Americans must learn English or continue to lag behind Asia economically
April 25, 2004

Many Bay Area Immigrants Have Split Olympic Loyalties

Where identity and sports mix in San Francisco’s immigrant population
Mark Emmons
August 11, 2004

Soccer “Match for Peace”

A soccer match intended to foster peace and goodwill in Haiti did exactly that, before a sellout crowd
Michael A.W. Ottey
August 19, 2004

Fighting Over the Best and the Brightest

German academic organization presents concept to halt mass exodus of young researchers to America
Carsten Germis
August 20, 2004

A Question of Identity

British Indian expatriates arouse controversy by expressing contempt for the term, “Asian”
Hasan Suroor
August 17, 2004