In a western world premised on a culture of denial of differences, is a concept of ‘national character’ meaningful? Or a basis for harmful stereotyping? Can we learn anything constructive about differences, if, indeed, they exist? . Nigel Pocock . Studies of neurogenesis and synaptogenesis (the life-long generation of new […]
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The other, the same
I woke up this morning wondering what the best way to die would be. I’d been reading about it in Che Guevara’s Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War, and Che himself had read about it in Jack London’s To Build a Fire. I’d discovered London’s book a while back being […]
José Barahona… In Lisbon I remembered you
What is it like for a Latino man with few resources to look for a new life in a different continent? Even a common language plays tricks. And when things are hard, do you stop calling your family? These are the issues in this new film between fiction and documentary.
Towards Latin American multiculturalism
Proposals like the plurinational state in Evo Morales’ Bolivia and the incorporation of elements of the indigenous world-view like ‘sumac causay‘ (good living) in Latin American political discourse, marks a shift toward political multiculturalism in Latin America. .Claudio Chipana G. . Multicultural reality is nothing new, it not a […]
José, my homeless friend
We feel an enormous emptiness when we lose a friend. An emptiness which fills with anguish, and overflows with anger when we discover in the empty spaces of our lives that the time we should have given to our lost friend has slipped away.
















