Further ephemera on the flattening of the planet

Check out Face of Tomorrow, a site that generates composites of the face of a particular city based on photos of current inhabitants, disregarding whether the subjects are natives, migrants, or tourists. The faces of Sao Paolo look cool. The face of Los Angeles might look like... Who knows? I noticed the site linked on Ricardo's Blog, which also points out an interesting article in El Universal about the mapping of the Mexican genome. The project was started in 2005 by 20 researchers at the National Institute of Genome Medicine. They studied the genetic make-up of 140 men and women from seven states: Sonora, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Yucatán, Veracruz, Guerrero, and Tamaulipas, all of which are strongly represented in Southern California. Their findings? Mestizo Mexicans are a mix of no less than 35 different ethnicities from Europe, Asia, and Africa. Makes sense. And it can only get more mixed-up. How many Americans and Europeans live now in Mexico again? Staying on topic, Global Culture imagines an "utmost global citizen," who feels as "comfortable drinking his morning coffee at a Paris bistro as bargaining for the best fruit in a street market in Oaxaca."
* Photo from Face of Tomorrow.