Recently I spend a very short week in my lovely county Peru. As I was coming back from the "Departamento de Arequipa" (2,350 meters above sea level and 1,000 kilometers south from Lima) to the capital, Lima, the plane which was ready to depart, made a "U" turn towards the airport. I was thinking, now what-? another delay from the many I had in American Airlines lately. As this was happening I started talking to my next seat neighbor (worried about what was happening). The gentlemen's name is Javier, a 50+ year old Anthropologist.
Minutes went by and finally the plane took off we started talking about what he does. In my mind I had a pre-conceived idea that his field doesn't connect directly to design. How wrong I was. During our chat we talked about different cultures and later on in the Latin American one. This made me more interest in the conversation because I always want to learn more about it. Well the interesting thing he said is that this culture I have just recently mentioned is looked or thought as the culture of the future. You can imagine my face when he said that. -and I asked, why? He said because in the future and with globalization people are going to be a mix of a lot of cultures. Not just isolated ones. Genetically as well Latin Americans have a blend of many races and ethnicities which makes us more sensible to understand more cultures. I found this very interesting and fascinating. I asked then..,Why do you think we all/most Latinos/Hispanics have this closeness when we are next to each other, that prompt smile, that wanting to talk, that openness...He said:..It might come from the European Latin side of the conquers; Spaniards. A cultural thing.

Here is a picture I took of the Andes from the Airplane.

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