Modern society has no choice but to admit that multiculturalism has changed the very face of European cities. Western society faces a paradox. On the one hand, a product of it’s own capitalist dynamic, society has developed greater diversification of products and styles and personalisation of services. Claudio Chipana […]
Author: The Prisma
In the “moving continent”: each immigrant is a Ulysses
Emigration is not just a question of adapting to life in a new country but also of having to deal with feelings of guilt, loneliness, homesickness, frustration and expectation.
Billions of people have poured their hope for the future into a new life in another country and continent. They emigrate following their dreams, in the hope of finding their place within a society different to their own.
Multiculturalism: Social engineering for a balance of unity and diversity?
I want to examine the key issue of how to establish a balance of diversity and unity. Too much diversity, and society will fragment; too much unity and we have a closed society. How do we find the balance? Is it too much to suggest that it is possible to […]
The Philosophy of Liberation: A philosophy from the Global South
The language of liberation has been transformed and political programs that were once just wishful thinking are beginning to have a concrete realization in Latin America, however the urgency of the message of liberation has become more apparent. Cl audio Chipana The philosophy of liberation in Latin America […]
On the roofs of La Candelaria
The people of this neighbourhood in Bogota and the nomadic tourists observe, by surprise, when they look up into the sky, the figures in glass and latex of Jorge Olave. Armando Orozco Tovar This neighbourhood, old and located in the centre of the capital of Colombia, is […]














