Global citizen

“Global citizen” is a phase which is not strange with almost persons. When a person who is called a global citizen, we think immediately that he or she has a large number of relationships and communications with other countries. Besides, they are awareness that the world is a global community; they can bring world peace, concern for fellow human beings, human rights and human dignity. So, are you a global citizen? What measurements are needed? A global citizen must possess plenty of characteristics; but, three main important qualities of characteristics to become a global citizen are bravery, knowledge of one or more language, and responsibilities.

Bravery doesn’t require a global citizen to hurt and kill. However, if it’s necessary bravery person can hurt and kill terrible things. Have you ever asked yourself that you can brave to try to save life? Global citizens are risking their lives every day to help other citizens and to save them all from harm. They’re sense of protecting people from the risks even that actions can bring nothing for them. Specially, global citizen are always look for the benefit for everyone. For example, global citizens go where deadly disease is and are not afraid to help save the sick. Global citizens are trying perilous experiments so as to find out better knowledge for human race. Others on thousands of locomotives are not afraid of sudden death if they can save their passengers from harmful accidents. Global citizens are ready to face the strong floods and the storm to help flood victims. Global citizens stand ready to die for bringing little children safely out of burning buildings. Brave women risk their own lives daily for sake of others. Indeed, all these are brave actions and it is brave to try to save life. If you only speak theory you don’t brave to make it happen, you can’t do anything which is really useful for human race. Therefore, bravery is one of the important qualities to be a global citizen.

Next, foreign language plays important roles in becoming a global citizen. There are many practical reasons that a global citizen should learn foreign languages. Every country has different customs and cultures. Learning another language help a global citizen gains knowledge about another culture and easy to associate with all people in the world. When a global citizen learns a second language, he or she sees that there are other ways to see how issues to affect the environment such as population explosion, polluted level to every country, epidemiological and so on then they have foreign language to research lots of variety documents, directly discuss and unite with another in the world to find out proper solution for these problems. Perhaps the most powerful effect of learning another language is communication. With a second, or third, or fourth language, one can make contact with any fellow human being. Through communication, one sees that the human mind, keep in contact with other people, greater understanding of other cultures, better communication with other peoples that can help promote world peace. It is necessary for global citizen to learn the language in order to communicate with people who come from different countries and to learn from them.

Finally, global citizen must fulfill responsibilities to their life, their families, their country and the world. Global citizen’s responsibilities to their country are to be good citizens and to be patriotic. As good citizens, they should obey the laws of their country and respect its leaders. As patriots, they should be proud of our nation and loyal to its heritage. Good citizenship and patriotism require that global citizen put the interests of their country before their own individual desires. Global citizen’s responsibilities to the world are the most important of all. It is brotherhood, peace, and good will toward all men everywhere. Finally, it is need to remember that global citizen have to have a responsibility to the world they live in. It is important that global citizen learn foreign language to help people live peaceful with the other nations of the world, and to protect our environment. If they carry out these responsibilities, they will be respected citizens of their country. Therefore, responsibilities are necessary for global citizen.

Some people believe the world would be a far better place if we all believed we were citizens of the world. Being a global citizen involves brave actions, have knowledge about the many fields in the life and have responsibilities not just to each other but to the earth itself. I think everyone want to live a happy life in the future, so we start acting to become a global citizen who always bring good things for the life.