Benefits Of Being A Global Citizen

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Those are just a few examples of organizations that can help people throughout the country and the rest of the world. Of course every organization has its strengths and limits for example, one-strength is that they can “raise awareness of key peace, human rights, environmental, and social justice issues”. One limit is that it “requires long term extensive commitment to make institutional change; while mounting powerful critiques of unjust systems, often lacks the power (political and financial) to make a concrete difference in peoples lives- especially in the short term” (Tom O’ Connell). Even though there are many set backs there are also many benefits to at least trying to help people around the world. As Ben Franklin said “either we work …show more content…

One that comes to mind is that we as a society in America may not always know what is going on in different parts of the world because, it is not being covered by media outlets because it may not be a popular issue or may not be brought to the surface. Another obstacle is that we may not be motivated to become an informed citizen because of our own personal dilemmas. A possibility of being a global citizen is that you become more aware of issues globally. I feel that being an informed global citizen is that you are able to help people in ways that you may not think of often, for example, being informed will help you make more conscious decisions about joining certain humanitarian organization. These are just a few possibilities of how we can help the world around us just by being an informed global …show more content…

I feel that without the strides we have taken not just in America, but in the entire world as well are good for the outcome of the future and how future generations will be impacted by the past decisions. The future generations will be able to improve on things that we were not able to improve as a world. Hopefully more countries will sign this declaration for human rights so that everyone has a fighting chance in this world whether they are female, male, black or white. In conclusion, I think that we as a civilization of humans are doing the right things to impact and improve the world now and in the future as

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