Qualities of a global citizen

Global citizen is not a new phrase in our society nowadays. Nevertheless, not many people understand exactly about it. Who are global citizens? What are their qualities? How to be a good global citizen? A global citizen is someone can help people them by practical action and has many good qualities such as: responsibility for our world, sympathy to others people, belief in his ability, curiosity to learn more new thing about the world and equality to everybody. How good a citizen is depend on their activities to our society.

First, global citizens are curious and they want to learn more about the world. Curiosity is the first quality that global citizen must have. Human’s ability is limited; therefore, we have to improve it day by day and try our best to apply it in practice to make ourselves better, and global citizens do, too. Global citizens are good people, who born with “large arms” and “friendly smiles” to change the world in Peace and Happiness. So they have to learn more than ever. Global citizens have to improve their knowledge so as to recognize themselves, and their responsibility to them, to their families, even their countries and their planet. They do not study only by repeating and learning by heart everything written in the books but also traveling around to understand effectively  life coming around. That means they have to study by themselves and do not depend on any books, documents etc... and the update information is really necessary. Each year, there are over 15 million children die of hunger and AIDS killed more than 39 million people this year. Update information help global citizens understand and find a best solution so as to help all the victims. Curiosity is one of the qualities cannot replace because who want to help others must have knowledge.

Second, equality and sympathy are two of the most important qualities of a global citizen. Equality means acting fairly in choices, decisions… and sympathy means understanding and sharing. Every day, AIDS kills thousands of people and millions of people are facing to death. We all know that it is uncured diseases; therefore, no one wants to help them, share with them. So how can they live? Global citizens sit down next to them, give them their hands, take care of them and rise fund to help them live happily in the rest of their life. We all feel very sorry about the earthquake in Japan recently but what we did for them? Maybe it is just a little money. However, global citizens are willing to travel to Japan to help and encourage them overcome the difficulties. Global citizens do not care about whom you are, you have dark skin or white one, you are Catholic or Buddhism, you are African or European as long as you are one of very small person in this planet and you need. How can global citizens can do like that? They are not the Gods, not Angles, not Superman, they are just normal persons. They are fair and sympathy.

Finally, responsibility and belief are very necessary qualities of a global citizen. Many people say that: “you can lose almost everything except your belief”. Belief make people believe in their choices so they have dynamic to work well. Global citizens are not exceptional. They have to believe in their decisions and practice them with all their heart to get succeed. We are living in this world and our responsibilities are to protect “our house”. Every year, thousands of people are killed by earthquake and tsunami. We all know that people can fight against nature but we can do something to improve it by protecting environment. Global citizens play an important part to get everybody together finding out the best solution. They are not only the readers but also the main members take part in many useful activities such as “hour time”, “environment day”, “no smoking day”… global citizen do everything with all their belief that they can make the world better. They take their responsibilities not in a short time, they spend all their life building us a happy and peaceful world.

Do you want to become a global citizen? Do you have enough sympathy, belief, responsibility, equality to be a global citizen? If you are not, try your best to become a good global citizen so as to make our world peaceful and happy.