I was sent this by a friend who obviously knows my prediliction for all things Disney. It set me thinking however about global culture or rather the decline of it and the fact that culturally we are all becoming similar. We eat the same food from Burger King and Pizza Hut shop in Zara, Mango and Continente and watch American soap operas. This sent me off on another train of thought about the decline of languages and culture globally and how over 1200 languages and all of the associated knowledge and cultural heritage, a legacy of the brilliance of humanity, have been lost in the last 20 years as we as a world become more globalised. For those who want to get ahead of the game there is a really interesting speech by Wade Davis on Ted Talks, and who could fail to be intrigued by the true story of the poo knife. Want to know more then just click on the link!
Year 11 and year 12 IB will study this phenomenon, and much more, in Globalization next year and also the ideas behing the theory of glocalisation.
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