I Want to Be a Global Citizen

Tainan Municipal Fusing Junior High School in Taiwan

Tzu-Yen Wang (王子晏)

In my mind, to be a global citizen isn’t so important to me until I learn how people devastate the earth. I love my hometown. I think such a beautiful place should be protected and we shouldn’t do the earth any harm. If I am a global citizen, the most important duty must be to help the earth to survive.

Tainan, my hometown, is rich in historical sites and cultural heritage. With its long history, Tainan is filled with many important cultural and historic relics which are the reminders of the city's past. Bird-watching in Tainan is also a joyful must. Every year, black-faced Spoonbills, an endangered species, visit Tainan to stay for the winter. About two thirds of the world population winters in Taiwan's Tsengwen River estuary.

I can’t imagine if the air in my hometown isn’t fresh anymore, the trees die, the animals cry or the rivers have no more lives, and how can we still survive? I can’t bear if pollution is our neighbor, destruction becomes our belief, and paleness is the only color of the breathless earth, and how can we still live with them? If everyone can do something helpful, the earth will give us one more chance to have it again. Believe me.

I want to be a global citizen. I will invite everyone to join the saving the earth projects. I need everyone around me to help make less noise. I can also advise everyone and myself to stop ruining animals. I wish everyone and my family members to ride bikes more and drive cars less. I have to remind everyone to economize on water. To waste less energy and to make less pollution are my duties. Eat less meat and keep the earth cleaner and healthier. I want to be a volunteer to recycle everything that can be used. To save the earth is not only my dream but also everyone’s wish. If I can, allow me to be a global citizen. I want to keep my hometown old and wish the earth young forever, if possible.

As Global Citizens We UniteHearing my parents talk about all the different places they had lived in prepared me for thinking globally. This perspective took away any fears of being able to function in a foreign country.(Anna Sui, Designer)

In these tough times, it’s easy to forget that during the past century, the world has gotten better. World War I & II? The call of truce has been dialed for the sake of every human being. 1907 financial panic? Capitalism has changed more than a million people’s economic life. But nowadays, problems just keep revealing and emerge from every aspect. Amid all the difficulties and hardship that we are about to undergo, I see one silver lining. It tends to lure people from every nation and races into one particular unity, consisting of us, global citizens.

Global warming and deforestation are just the beginning of a chaotic era. How about the future of civilization? It’s not as conspicuous as what the paranormals think.

Globalization is an inevitable example of the result of the enhancement of technology. That is why, in this matter, being a global citizen means that we have to think universally, and exchange our thoughts with other inhabitants in the world coming from any kinds of nations.

The main point of being a global citizen is once again, to create a limit in national individuality, gain cooperation between each and every world citizens, valuing diversity, and understanding that our ethnicity, creed, and color are of secondary importance to the fact that we are all human beings.

For me, personally, this is only a matter of self realization. If someone ask me;

“Ok, you, what would you do to solve this mess?”

I’d answer consciously, “I’ll gather all the people in the world and start managing a civilized community of diversity with a natural environment as best as I can.”, with fragments of hoped viability.

In this vast globalization era, people are starting to cooperate with expatriates and international workers on merely any project. And that is the fun of it. We tend to mingle with anyone and endeavor to avoid further unprecedented problems in the social community. The role of racism in most countries is less widely appreciated nowadays.

After centuries of transformation, the world has finally come to the time of modernization, where each and everyone of us is a part of the global community. Since we all know that the world is in a rapid process of globalization, we must too, globalize ourselves, for the good of all mankind.

Nabila SekartantiClass SBI 8-1SMPN 49 Jakarta, INDONESIA

Name: David Egong

GLOBAL CITIZEN

What is a global citizen? Can any person become a global citizen? A global

citizen, is literally a person who is a citizen of the world. As long as a person does care

and is concerned about things happening to the world, he is a global citizen. You might

be wondering about the jobs of a global citizen. As a global citizen, one should not be

afraid to advise others.

If you see a person throwing rubbish onto the floor, muster up your courage to

advise him or her. As you know these days, our globe is alerting us to stop making her ill.

There are disasters, such as volcano eruptions, abnormally heavy snow, tsunamis and

hurricanes. The global issue now is global warming. Do not call yourself a global citizen

if you do not know this issue.

Men still do not want to stop development, carry out deforestations, and resort to

open burning. Most of them do these for one reason – money. Men could do anything for

money, even destroying the habitats of many species of floras and faunas. This does not

mean that development should not be carried out. However, the process should be given a

quota.

Nowadays, there are so many people cutting down the forests. The local

government should limit the number of license given out for deforestations. The trees, the

grass, the forests are the ‘lungs’ of the Earth. Why should men destroy these forests? Men

cut down the forest for their own benefits and fail think of the negative effects of their

actions.

The gases that come from the factories, vehicles and open burning contain a lot of

poisonous compounds that may harm human life. Actually, there are ways to overcome

all these problems. It is just that, men doubt their ability in saving our globe.

The inventions by our great inventors were to make our lives more relaxable and

simpler, not to harm human lives. A few inventors that share their useful inventions with

us, Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, James Watt and Robert Hooke. I am

sure their motive of inventing was to help make our lives easier than the past.

If everyone tries struggling to put in an effort making our lives easier without

abandoning the environment, I am sure that everyone will live a happier live. However,

irresponsible men still live among us, destroying the environment.

The environment provides our needs to us. It provides us with food, building

materials, shades and many more. What have we done to our environment but to keep on

destroying the scenic nature.

Besides, men carry out nuclear tests. During the tests, radioactive rays are

released, which may be harmful. These tests also bring about the depletion of the ozone

layer. The ozone layer is know as the protective layer, which filter out ultraviolet rays.

The ultraviolet rays can cause skin cancer and cataract.

Our every action has its own positive and negative effects. Hence, to overcome

these circumstances, we have to think before we act. For example, in some places, we can

see people throwing rubbish onto the street. What will these cause? The rubbish stinks as

day passes and causing the tourists to avoid visiting places like that.

As global citizen, we should always do the right thing so that the others may

imitate our good actions. Good actions may not only involve advising people to do this

and that, but to do the right thing ourselves: Picking up the rubbish, cleaning up our

house and its compound and buying environmentally-friendly products.

If you go to a supermarket, you will see that some products are labeled as

‘environmentally-friendly’. Environmentally-friendly products are products that will not

harm the environment. On the other hand, when shopping, bring your own reusable

shopping bag so as not to waste the plastic bags.

To conclude, I hope everyone of us would think of the environment, which had

become habitat to men and other living things for an infinitely long period. The

environment is in our hands. Hence, we should take care of it wisely.

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