Global Citizenship What is a global citizen?

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Global CitizenshipWhat is a global citizen?
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A Global Citizen is Someone Who

• Is aware of the wider world
• Has a sense of their own role as a world citizen

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A Global Citizen

• Respects and values diversity

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A Global Citizen has an understanding of how the
world works

• economically
• politically
• socially
• culturally
• technologically
• environmentally

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A Global Citizen

• Is outraged by social injustice

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A Global Citizen

• Participates in and contributes to the community

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A Global Citizen

• Is willing to make the world a more sustainable
  place

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A Global Citizen

• Takes responsibility for their actions.

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Why Global Citizenship?

• The world we live in is unfair, unequal, and
  unsustainable.
• Global citizenship promotes the challenging and
  changing of this.

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Why Global Citizenship?

• We live in a diverse society and Global
  Citizenship gives people the tools to counter
  ignorance and intolerance within it.

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Why Global Citizenship?

• We live in an interdependent world and Global
  Citizenship encourages us to recognize our
  responsibilities towards each other.

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Why Global Citizenship?

• We live in a rapidly changing world and Global
  Citizenship is about flexibility and adaptability
  as well as about a positive image of the future.

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Why Global Citizenship?

• Global Citizenship acknowledges that we have
  power as individuals each of us can change
  things and each of us has choices about how we
  behave.
• Individually and collectively, we can make a
  difference!

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