What is a Global Citizen?

Case 1: Lester B. Pearson

• won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force

Wikipedia

Global Citizenship is both a moral and ethical disposition which might guide an individual or groups' understanding of local and global contexts- and their responsibilities within different communities.

Case 2: Justin Bieber

The United Nations

• Held concerts over the globe

Global citizenship is an umbrella term for the social, political, environmental, or economic actions of globally-minded individuals and communities on a worldwide scale.

Case 3: Dr Wong & Flora

Look at these four cases: are they global citizens?

Scholars

So what is global citizenship anyway?

Scholars

features:

(cc) image by nuonsolarteam on Flickr

• practice of cultural empathy

• a choice and a way of thinking

What else might

you add?

• contribution to social justice, humanity and peace

• the cultivation of principled decision-making

• Responsible for the condition of the Planet

Spark

• participation in the social and political life of one's community

• Members of the human race

Precise

• Individual subject to moral law

Vague

• self-awareness and awareness of others

Case 4: Are you?

2007, Seattle, the USA

others' perception about China

be aware of media construction

2011, Hong Kong

1. reflect on the social problems in China from

the criticism of others:

food security, political freedom, education, human rights etc.

What ever your beliefs, ground them in knowledge and encourage others to do the same. Listen respectfully, we can ALL learn from each other, and we can ALL learn all of our lives.

milk scandal of China in 2008

2. Avoid generalizing

other countries

Global Citizenship

2012, Turkey

Globalization

=the extinction of local culture ?

localized global impact

globalized local community

Individual actions generates

global impact

What would you consider when buying/having a steak?

Price?

Taste?

expiration?

Why does it mater to me?

Our connection with "Global Citizenship"...

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The melting iceberg

in the Antarctic?

Affect

Individual

Globe

The forest in Amazon

Affect

Water pollution across

the world?

On our way to global citizens

individual actions generates

global impact

Did you have these experiences?

The global issues and personal welfare

Kinsey: "Think globally and Act Locally"

Think globally

and act locally

act locally

Think globally and

A visit to the Payatas Dumpsite

Ordered too much food

in "all you can eat" but did

not finish them all?

resources

• Think before buying
• Donate or sell used objects

bought some food

because they were on sale,

but you did not actually

need them at all.

disaster

-> Reflect on my own daily habits

Did not check the

expire date

of the milk you bought

throw them away directly

epidemic

Think globally

and act locally

• Read and learn about how products are produced - where do you stand? Your beliefs are yours, do your research and support them with confidence and knowledge.

In Europe and America, every individual consumer wasted 95-115 kilograms of food

Each year: The amount of food wasted = half the amount of the grain crops produced

The whole world: one seventh of people are in hunger; one third of the food wasted

(FAO,2011)

act locally

Think globally and

• exercise consumer power

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