TEDxDoiSuthep - Mohezin Tejani - Global Nomads Bridging Gaps Between Cultures
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Mohezin Tejani, an Indian-Shia Muslim by ancestry, is a political refugee from Idi Amin's Uganda and an award-winning writer. Liberated from the confines of his own culture by political realities, he set out at the age of twenty-one to learn how to be rooted in the absence of a place to call home. Over the next three decades on the road, he work... Read more
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- -: TEDxDoiSuthep - Mohezin Tejani - Global Nomads Bridging Gaps Between Cultures
August 3, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Mohezin Tejani, an Indian-Shia Muslim by ancestry, is a political refugee from Idi Amin's Uganda and an award-winning writer. Liberated from the confines of his own culture by political realities, he set out at the age of twenty-one to learn how to be rooted in the absence of a place to call home...
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- -: Jerry Mander - Globalization and Indigenous Cultures
January 8, 2007 (over 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://www.fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=533 Author and social critic Jerry Mander discusses how the cultural concepts of indigenous peoples endure despite globalization, and speculates on the benefits of adapting these ideas to modern life. ----- In this spirited book, Jerr...
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- -: Antoine van Agtmael - "The Emerging Markets Century"
January 29, 2007 (over 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=576 Author and former World Bank executive Antoine van Agtmael forecasts what he calls the "Emerging Markets Century," in which the economies of the U.S. and Western Europe are eventually eclipsed by those of former "third world" countries ...
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- -: Antonia Juhasz - A History of Opposition to the World Bank
April 13, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=835 Anti-globalization author and activist Antonia Juhasz discusses the history of opposition to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. ----- Antonia Juhasz is a visiting scholar at the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Po...
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- -: Joseph Stiglitz - Sharing the Benefits of Globalization
February 22, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/05/Joseph_Stiglitz_Economics_of_Information Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that developed nations have so far largely mishandled the economic benefits of globalization. ----- Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz ("Globali...
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- -: Peter Mandelson - In Defense of Free Trade
February 25, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/11/08/U_S__and_Europe_Confronting_Global_Challenges E.U. Commissioner for Trade Peter Mandelson gives a defense of free trade practices and globalization. ----- Europe and the U.S.: Confronting Global Challenges with Peter Mandelson. In a speech at the C...
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- -: The Problem with Prosperity - Fareed Zakaria
June 27, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/27/Fareed_Zakaria_Thriving_in_a_Post_America-Centric_World Bestselling author Fareed Zakaria warns that as global prosperity levels continue to rise, competition over global resources will similarly increase. ----- The rise of other nations need not me...
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- -: America's "Brain-Dead" Politics - Fareed Zakaria
June 27, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/27/Fareed_Zakaria_Thriving_in_a_Post_America-Centric_World Author Fareed Zakaria criticizes American political culture for ignoring global issues, and for focusing on short-term political benefits at the expense of long-term prosperity. ----- The rise ...
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- -: Carbon-Copying Americans - Thomas Friedman
October 18, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/23/Tom_Friedman_Hot_Flat_and_Crowded Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist Tom Friedman discusses the increasing trend of developing nations to aspire to U.S. levels of economic consumption, and warns that this trend may be extremely detrimental to...
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- -: Martyrdom and the American Empire - Rick Steves
February 11, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/01/26/Rick_Steves_A_Perspective_on_Iran Travel writer Rick Steves discusses the seeming contradictions of suicide bombing and Islamic 'family values,' comparing the concept of martyrdom in Iran to images of heroism in the United States. Steves says that muc...
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