I never felt myself to be the “other” until I emigrated to Costa Rica. I’d never imagined that leaving one’s own country to install oneself in a foreign land redefines identity, and, sometimes, even one’s purpose in life. At least, that’s what happened in my case.
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The first time my family went to Monteverde in our native Costa Rica, we thought we were well-prepared for what we anticipated to be a long trip on dusty country roads—as travel-loving Ticos, we had been on many such trips around our country.
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Two years ago, I attended the Mexican Cities Initiative (MCI) Symposium and was captured by the students presenting about informal street markets, religious pilgrimages and the transportation and sale of gasoline throughout Mexico.
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During the fall 2022 semester, I was invited to participate in hosting Kichwa Otavalo diplomat Diego Tituaña at Harvard for a discussion of global indigeneity at the United Nations.
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Almost twenty years ago, Thomas Friedman claimed that globalization had made the world flat. From Shannon O’Neil’s point of view, the topography is a bit more rugged.
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