Posts Tagged ‘Travel’
Innovation and creativity around the world
In creativity and independence, From Around the World, Series on March 31, 2012 at 10:26A new series…
Other posts in the series:
https://lifeandetc.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/the-gambian-voting-mechanism/
“The need to live in a world of difference” and “the end of the requirement to be equal”
In From Around the World on December 31, 2011 at 18:13Following my post about “What it means to travel”, the following conversation (in English) with Zygmunt Bauman analyses the need to live in a world of difference.
In this conversation Zygmunt defends that in the past there was a strict global order of cultures. The Europeans in the past thought they were on top of the cultures and the foreigners who moved to their countries (or where under their rule), had to adapt and assimilate their culture.The pyramid of cultures has fallen. This concept of superiority and its consequence of assimilation was a way to deal with difference that no longer applies to the present world (multicultural it has always been) where there are means of communication and transportation that put us all dependent and together.
According to Zygmunt, we have to evolve our reaction to “these eternal differences” and communicate with the different cultures.
Failing to properly communicate with a stranger is also a kind of darkness, it’s like a fog.
Gambia’s Voting Mechanism
In creativity and independence, From Around the World, Series on December 18, 2011 at 14:08Voters enter a booth and pop a clear glass marble into one of three drums representing the candidates, instead of a putting a ballot paper into a box.
It’s a unique system introduced in 1965 because of Gambia’s high illiteracy
Gambia’s chief electoral officer Kawsu Ceesay
Patagonia: Carretera Austral, From Puerto Montt to Villa O’Higgins
In From Around the World on March 16, 2011 at 00:47The carretera austral was built during the chilean military regime. It’s goal was to give land access to the Aysén territories through the Chilean side (before it was only possible to access these territories by land through the argentinian side) and increase Chilen sovereignity in the region – the Beagle conflict had only been a few years earlier.
The carretera austral is in blue. (Image is courtesy of wikipedia)
Trans-Amazonian highway: From João Pessoa to Lábrea!
In From Around the World on March 16, 2011 at 00:45
Pan American-Highway: 46000KM from Usuhuia to Alaska!!
In From Around the World on March 16, 2011 at 00:43
Best of CHile: LAguna de San Rafael
In From Around the World on March 16, 2011 at 00:34
(Please jump to 1.40s on the video)
Explorer of Patagonia: Padre De Agostini
In From Around the World on March 16, 2011 at 00:00
Explorer of the moutains and regions of Patagonia!
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