Defining Global Citizenship M501.01 Capt A Phinney 60 min

“farther, faster, cheaper, deeper” Globalization What is globalization? Increasing integration of economies across international borders Efficient movement of goods, services, and money Efficient movements of people (labour) Efficient movement of knowledge (technology) Globalization has been increasing over the past few decades. What factors have sped up this process? Development of economic opportunities in new foreign markets Free trade agreements (eg NAFTA) Advances in technology “farther, faster, cheaper, deeper”

Globalization How has technology increased globalization? Fact: Over 200 million people are living in countries other than their own. How has technology increased globalization? Faster and more accurate analysis of economic trends around the world Easy transfer of assets Efficient methods of long distance communication and collaboration with partners around the world How is globalization controversial? In favour: globalization allows poor countries to develop economically and raise their standard of living Against: globalization mainly benefits multinational corporations and business executives at the expense of local businesses, cultures, and people

Citizenship What is a citizen? An inhabitant of a city, town, province, or nation Local citizenship: being a member of a specific city, town, or province which gives a person various right and obligations National citizenship: refers to the rights and obligations that Canadians have because they live in Canada based on Canada’s tradition of democracy and respect for human dignity and freedom.

Equality Rights Democratic Rights Legal Rights Mobility Rights Language Rights Minority Language Education Rights

Global Citizenship What does global citizenship mean? Everyone is a global citizen because they all live on one planet In a legal sense, there is no such thing as a global citizen because there is no such thing as world government All citizens have a collective responsibility to each other an the planet itself

More than 6. 7 billion people live in the world More than 6.7 billion people live in the world. About 1 billion live in extreme poverty (<$1/day) In Sub-Sarharan Africa, 33 million children were not enrolled in primary school in 2005. “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” – Albert Pine Things to think about… 854 million people still go to bed hungry each night In 1998, the amount of money people in Europe and North America spent on pet food, cosmetics, and perfume, would provide basic education, water and sanitation, basic health and nutrition to all those without those things with $9 billion left over. Each minute, one woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth because she did not receive adequate care.

Activity Write around the outline, words or phrases learned/discussed during this lesson to describe a global citizen Select the most important words and write them on sticky notes without communicating to the other cadets Organize the words and phrases: Knowledge/understanding – put around head Actions – put around hands Attitudes –put around feet