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March 1, 2006
Help define "a global perspective" at our wiki
We're always talking about global perspectives and how people should have them. But one of the things this project is teaching me is that I'm still blinkered in various ways. I think of the time someone in Australia emailed that I was being 'hemisphere-centric' by writing about the end of summer as if everyone was experiencing the same thing.
Defining a global perpective is something that needs to be done globally, not just by a group of mostly U.S. citizens in a publishing office in Massachusetts. We're using software called a wiki to allow many people to contribute ideas and edit one another's work. Please take a look at the current version, and if you'd like to join in as a writer/editor, just drop us a line for a password.
http://aglobalperspective.pbwiki.com
A recent comment says, "One word: me, me, me." If what's wrong with the U.S.A. is that we think only about ourselves, is a global perspective the opposite, completely altruistic? I don't think so, but as ever we want to know what *you* think!
Posted by Karen Christensen at March 1, 2006 8:29 PM