The Amero

Wouldn’t it be nice to have just one currency in America?

But what canwe do to accomplish that? Once, I heard somebody that was saying that Canada, the U.S.A, and Mexico had this strange idea of unifying their currencies and call it the amero, but then he said that it was impossible. I wondered why, at the moment I didn’t give it enough attention. With the pass of time I asked myself if it was possible and I discovered that in order to do that, these countries would have to either balance their economies or have problems with it.

If they balance their economy (more less have the same currency value), they will have to increase Mexico’s economy and/or decrease US’s (which I don’t think will happen) to convert their currency to just one. If they join their currencies without a balance, it might happen that Mexico will have several problems because he would not be “strong” enough to support this and Mexico’s economy will be in a hurry.

Beside all these, wouldn’t it be nice to have just one currency and don’t have to worry every time the dollar increases? Maybe Mexico will have a boost in its economy because Canada and the US will push it. This currency, I think, will have the opportunity to fight against Europe. It will have many disadvantages but also many benefits.

If you want to know more about this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_currency_union

Global Culture

Well, it's interesting asking if there could be a global culture…

And my answer will be a NO... And you’ll see why

So, as we remember... Culture includes a way of life, beliefs, styles, values, symbols and it varies according to places, so therefore we can only speak of cultures, not only of one, but of many around the world. The idea of a global culture is impossible, even to distinguish people from other species, the differences between segments of humanity in terms of lifestyle and beliefs repertory are too big, and the common elements too generalized, to led us even consider of a global culture. It would be impossible to integrate all cultures into one, there is a great variety of traditions and customs that they would not give up what they have, what they have learned raised and lived in order to unite us all. To conceive a global culture, necessarily smaller cultures will be absorbed by larger ones and integrated into it, producing a world state with cultural homogeneity and integration.

But also, having differences isn’t bad, plurality and diversity of ideas is what makes people and this world so incredible, it could even be bored if we had all the same culture. Cultural diversity is what makes our planet rich, the variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region, or in the world as a whole. The term is also sometimes used to refer to multiculturalism. But still we can talk about globalization of cultures, which I think is different.