What does it mean to be world citizen?
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What does it mean to be world citizen?
At The Global Citizens’ Initiative we say that a “global citizen is someone who identifies with being part of an emerging world community and whose actions contribute to building this community’s values and practices.”
To test the validity of this definition we examine its basic assumptions:
• that there is such a thing as an emerging world community with which people can identify;
• that such a community has a nascent set of values and practices.
Historically, human beings have always formed communities based on shared identity. The same identity gets forged in response to a variety of human needs— economic, political, religious and social. As group identities grow stronger, those who hold them organize into communities, articulate their shared values, and build governance structures to support their beliefs.