The term 'global citizenship' can assume a lot of definitions and can be associated with a lot of factors. In my point of view, a global citizen can be defined not as someone who travels a lot, knows many idioms or has lived in many other countries. A global citizen is someone who can respect the differences among different cultures, admire their costumes and traditions and is able to take the best of each place. It means to think the whole world together instead of small parts. Global citizens are aware of the most important problems of the world and understand that the solution need to start with them.
In the video below, Carlo Strenger discusses the importance of leaving a religious community as a child and discovering a broader "tribe" of world citizens to join. Stressing open world views over closed world views, Carlo discusses the important work of the World Citizenship Project and the mission of the New Cosmopolitans. Illustrating from Galileo Galilei and Freud to nowadays he tries to demonstrate the importance of tolerance and respect for human beings.
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