Globalisation Pushes Communities to be Imaginative

Today people are uprooted and they question the meaning of place. Is the USA still the land of freedom and opportunity? Is Paris still the city of romance? The United Kingdom a global power of significance? Holland the model country for a progressive tolerant world, with Amsterdam as the capital of open-mindedness? Syria and Iraq’s Mesopotamia the cradle of civilisation? Rio de Janeiro the party capital of the world? The Himalayas the centre of spirituality?

Emerging communities

At the same t...