{"id":11,"date":"2008-03-13T06:13:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T06:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2008\/03\/globalization-lives\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T06:13:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T06:13:25","slug":"globalization-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/globalization-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Globalization lives!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Annette Funicello\" href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/wp-content\/annette-funicello.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"Annette Funicello\" src=\"https:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/wp-content\/annette-funicello.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a> I was witness\u00a0to a conversation this week between Japanese and Mexican colleagues who reminisced about their common experiences as teenagers in the 1990s, on opposite sides of the world, playing the same Nintendo games.\u00a0\u00a0 I was reminded of a conversation I had once in a shebeen (a bar) in rural Zimbabwe in about 1985\u00a0with a <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2011\/04\/the-matherati-martin-harvey\/\" target=\"_blank\">black Zimbabwean mathematician<\/a> about the many American TV series we had both seen growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, again in\u00a0different\u00a0hemispheres and neither of us in\u00a0North America \u00a0&#8211; <em>Superman, Batman, Bonanza, The Mickey Mouse Club<\/em>, etc.\u00a0 But it was not only American culture on our TV screens across the former British empire &#8211; we had both also seen the Japanese historical action series, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Samurai_(TV_show)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Samurai<\/em><\/a>, a hit phenom in both countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was witness\u00a0to a conversation this week between Japanese and Mexican colleagues who reminisced about their common experiences as teenagers in the 1990s, on opposite sides of the world, playing the same Nintendo games.\u00a0\u00a0 I was reminded of a conversation I had once in a shebeen (a bar) in rural Zimbabwe in about 1985\u00a0with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","p1","y2008","m03","d13","h06"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}