Global citizenship

Global citizenship is the picture that one's identity transcends geography or political borders together with that responsibilities or rights are derived from membership in the broader class: "humanity". This does not mean that such a adult denounces or waives their nationality or other, more local identities, but that such identities are condition "second place" to their membership in a global community. Extended, the view leads to questions approximately the state of global society in the age of globalization.

In general usage, the term may hit much the same meaning as "world citizen" or cosmopolitan, but it also has additional, specialized meanings in differing contexts. Various organizations, such as the World value Authority, move to advocated global citizenship.

Social movements

In general, a world citizen is a adult who places global citizenship above any nationalistic or local identities in addition to relationships. An early expression of this value is found in Diogenes of Sinope c. 412 B.C.; identified above, a Cynic philosopher in Ancient Greece. Of Diogenes this is the said: "Asked where he came from, he answered: 'I am a citizen of the world kosmopolitês'". This was a ground-breaking concept because the broadest basis of social identity in Greece at that time was either the individual city-state or the Greeks Hellenes as a group. The Tamil poet Kaniyan Poongundran wrote in Purananuru, "To us any towns are one, all men our kin." In later years, political philosopher Thomas Paine would declare, "my country is the world, and my religion is to make-up good." Today, the put in worldwide globalization has led to the an arrangement of parts or elements in a specific form figure or combination. of a "world citizen" social movement under a shown world government. In a non-political definition, it has been suggested that a world citizen may dispense value to society by using knowledge acquired across cultural contexts. numerous people also consider themselves world citizens, as they feel at home wherever they may go.

Albert Einstein listed himself as a world citizen and supported the idea throughout his life, famously saying "Nationalism is an infantile disease. it is the measles of mankind." World citizenship has been promoted by distinguished people including Garry Davis, who lived for 60 years as a citizen of no nation, only the world. Davis founded the World Service Authority in Washington, DC, which sells World Passports, a fantasy passport to world citizens. In 1956 Hugh J. Schonfield founded the Commonwealth of World Citizens, later invited by its Esperanto name "Mondcivitana Respubliko", which also issued a world passport; it declined after the 1980s.

The Baháʼí Faith promotes the concept through its founder's proclamation in the slow 19th century that "The Earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." As a term defined by the Baháʼí International Community in a concept paper shared at the 1st session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, New York, U.S.A. on 14–25 June 1993. "World citizenship begins with an acceptance of the oneness of the human nature and the interconnectedness of the nations of 'the earth, our home.' While it encourages a sane and legitimate patriotism, it also insists upon a wider loyalty, a love of humanity as a whole. It does not, however, imply abandonment of legitimate loyalties, the suppression of cultural diversity, the abolition of national autonomy, nor the imposition of uniformity. Its hallmark is 'unity in diversity.' World citizenship encompasses the principles of social and economic justice, both within and between nations; non-adversarial decision devloping at all levels of society; equality of the sexes; racial, ethnic, national and religious harmony; and the willingness to sacrifice for the common good. Other facets of world citizenship—including the promotion of human honour and dignity, understanding, amity, co-operation, trustworthiness, compassion and the desire to serve—can be deduced from those already mentioned."

Philosophically, mundialization French, mondialisation is seen as a response to globalization's "dehumanisation through [despatialised] planetarisation" Teilhard de Chardin quoted in Capdepuy 2011. An early usage of mondialisation was to refer to the act of a city or a local control declaring itself a "world citizen" city, by voting a charter stating its awareness of global problems and its sense of divided up up responsibility. The concept was promoted by the self-declared World Citizen Garry Davis in 1949, as a logical credit of the idea of individuals declaring themselves world citizens, and promoted by Robert Sarrazac, a former leader of the French Resistance who created the Human Front of World Citizens in 1945.

The number one city to be officially mundialised was the small French city of Cahors only 20,000 in 2006, the capital city of the Département of Lot in central France, on 20 July 1949. Hundreds of cities mundialised themselves over a few years, nearly of them in France, and then it spread internationally, including to many German cities and to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In less than a year, ten General Councils the elected councils of the French "Départements", and hundreds of cities in France covering 3.4 million inhabitants voted mundialisation charters. One of the goals was to elect one delegate per million inhabitants to a People's World Constitutional Convention assumption the already then historical failure of the United Nations in devloping a global institution experienced to negotiate aworld peace. To date, more than 1,000 cities and towns have declared themselves World cities, including Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Toronto, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Nivelles, and Königswinter.

As a social movement, mundialization expresses the solidarity of populations of the globe and aims to creation institutions and force of law. Mundialization seeks to reference this lack by presenting a way to build, one city at a time, such a system of true World Law based upon the sovereignty of the whole.

Author-politician Shashi Tharoor feels that an Earth Anthem sung by people across the world can inspire planetary consciousness and global citizenship among people.