I want a short debate speech on the topic "GLOBAL AWARENESS MAKES US RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD".
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A Citizen of the World: A Global Citizen Essay
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Through the course of this semester we have been learning about the topic ‘global citizenship’. A broad based topic that had no exact definition tied to it. In and out of class we have been asked to read a number of articles and book passages to help us form a definition of what exactly the term global citizenship means to us.
So exactly what is global citizenship? Global citizenship is not simply defined as one thing; it is a large array of various definitions. The basis of it is global citizenship is being a responsible and active member of the global community. To me a global citizen is a citizen of the world.
Though global citizenship is being a citizen of the world, it takes more than just caring about global issues. Global…show more content…
As a global citizen you have to support and care for humankind as a whole.
No matter your definition of global citizenship it all comes down to the same thing, and that is being apart of a community on a global level. To be a global citizen we have to be somewhat intercultural. Part of this means being able to communicate and understand what is going on. “When people from two different cultures meet, there is infinite scope for misunderstanding and confusion” (Argyle 1983: 189). As a global citizen we have to be able to communicate with one another to solve problems as a whole. If there are intensive language barriers we won’t be able to work together. As global citizens we have to work with one another to make the world a better world.
Global citizenship is this want to ‘fix’ the world, “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” –Albert Einstein. Global citizenship is attacking issues with higher thinking. It is different "ways of thinking and living within multiple cross-cutting communities—cities, regions, states, nations, and international collectives…" (Schattle 2007, 9). There is more to the term global citizenship than we would think. Global citizenship is a way of life and practice essentially. Just as religion is a way of life and practice so is being a global citizen.