Global village is coming to town

There are 245 countries in the world, and two types of people.

1. Citizens of well-developed countries. Their country exports entertainment to the world and it helps them spread their culture, e.g. USA, Russia, UK etc.
2. Citizens in other countries. They feel their contributions are missing. So, they wish to exhibit their cultures to the world, “Our culture should add up to the globalization, too!”, e.g. Czech Republic, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Mongolia, etc.

If you’re #1, you have to know A LOT to fit in this Internet roaming, jet plane flying world,. If you’re the second type, #2, you may want to show your country to the world, screaming “I’m from (your country here)”.

Whichever of the above you’re trying to accomplish, I have a good news – Global Village. This is a multi-culture festival, which will be held this summer in the University Building U2.

Barbora, an AIESECer who is part of the team preparing this event asked me to post about it on the blog. “A lot of foreign people gather in Zlin to present their country to the visitors of this event. They offer samples of their traditional meal, teach the visitors words from their language or even traditional dances” she said.

Even for bystanders, who don’t want to go up and represent their country, they are saving money by watching it. Because they get to know and experience culture shock free in Global Village, instead of traveling there and paying for loads of money (9,999€).

If you like free things by the way, this is another reason you should join, I’d say. You could probably taste many types of foods free such as:

• Fried meat, sweets, pancakes, biscuits, cookies.

Also I’ve read about Global Village in Dubai, where people buy many fancy foreign things, such as:

• Traditional clothes, jewelleries, souvenirs, handcrafts.

Oh wait, instead of pathetically trying to describe the event by listing words, I can show you a video. D’oh! Click here to watch the video!

I list all the other things I found interesting below:

• The organization team pays for your expenses, and you can buy anything you want to present your country.
• You can be as creative as you want to represent you country, e.g. Powerpoint presentation, songs, teaching traditional dance, basic vocabulary etc.
• There is “Zlin dog” students film festival after it, jackpot!
• Then, all the students go after-party!

Update: it is in June 4th. Don't forget to watch the video!