Loca Lingo Multicultural

It is definitely worthy to watch this Global Trends Video presentation. It is all about global trends from a health, financial and technology point of view. Definitely great in order to understand the various and current dynamics of “our” world. By the talented and impassioned Hans Rosling (Swedish professor) for TED conference.

You can find all the graphs part of this specific presentation here, and some further explanations on Rosling’s blog.
Featured graphs are about world income distribution, regions income distribution, poverty distribution, regional differences in health and income, income and health of countries, same income and different health, development directions, differences within countries, child deaths.

I clearly invite you to browse all these materials, since it gives clear hindsights about so wrongly called “cultural” differences. Indeed, there are strong chances the needs and behaviors of a large and poor African family will be different from the ones of a tiny and wealthy European one. What is the part of culture in such context ? How would you behave if you were in this African situation ?

Are we therefore talking about cultural differences ? Let’s say we are talking about criteria that could definitely influence them…