1. Social Studies 10-1 Chapter 16
The Global Citizen
Social Studies 10-1
Chapter 16

2. Key Terms
cross-cultural communication

3. What is a Global Citizen?
Today, global interdependence is a reality.
Whether it's the clothes we wear or the technology we use, our daily lives are affected by what people on the other side of the planet are doing.
It's important to know how our neighbors live, and what effect we have on them

4. How do you decide to be a Global Citizen?
If you were born in Canada, you are a Canadian citizen.
Since we all inhabit the planet that automatically makes us a global citizen
Being a global citizen is self defining, that mean we do not have a piece of paper saying we are, but we have a greater responsibility

5. How do you Identify the Global Citizen?
Criteria according to Oxfarn
is aware of the wider world
respects and values diversity
is willing to act to help others
accepts responsibility for his
or her own actions
Do you Agree?

6. Acting Like a Global Citizen
Assume responsibility
Work collaboratively
Act Locally Think Globally!
Correct injustices – look past the here and now

8. Civil Society
A sector of society made up of nongovernment and non-business groups. Civil society includes community groups, non-governmental organizations, faith-based groups, and universities

9. Aims of Civil Society
Civil society raises awareness of highly focused and specific ideas, concerns,
and programs that a group is advocating and working to have implemented

10. Views of Civil Society
Some critics of civil society say that the aims of groups involved in this sector
are too narrow and too focused on single issues. Critics say that the groups
ignore the complexity of the issues involved

11. Active Citizens
Mother Theresa actions of a single person can bring about change
George Manuel, of the Secwepemc Nation of British Columbia, believed that only through working together in “mind, body and spirit” can Aboriginal people shape their own destiny

12. Active Students
Harry Ainlay High School in Edmonton, for example, students organized the Breaking Borders Club in 2006

13. Active Consumers
consumer activism can successfully persuade companies to change the way they do business
For Example
Boycotts protesting the use of animals in the testing of cosmetics
2001, a “No Sweat” campaign by university students, such as those at the University of Alberta, successfully persuaded many North American universities to stop buying clothing, such as T-shirts, from companies that produce the goods in sweatshops

14. Active Corporations
Many corporations recognize that it is good business to act as good global citizens
These companies recognize that ignoring the environment and human rights will hurt everyone in the long run

15. Active You
“A global education enables us to understand our roles in a global community and teaches us how our actions affect people across the world. It also demonstrates how events around the world affect us as individuals, and therefore cannot be ignored.”
Michael Adams and Angelo Carfagna