World citizen
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World citizen is a term with a variety of meanings, often referring to a person who disapproves of traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship and approves world goverment and democracy.
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[edit] Uses
- The United Nations Correspondents Association issues an award called Citizen of the World.
- It may be used by activists such as the World Service Authority that promote an integrated, supranational world government.
- It may sometimes refer to persons promoting internationalism, predicated on the closer cooperation of sovereign states.
- The Bahá'í Faith promotes a concept of international unity akin to world citizenship.
[edit] Trivia
- In the 1942 film Casablanca, Rick Blane (Humphrey Bogart) is asked his nationality by a group of visiting German officers. He replies that he is, "A drunkard." Captain Renault (Claude Rains) jokes, "That makes Rick a Citizen of the World."
[edit] See also
- Anationalism, an Esperanto-based movement for the suppression of nationalism.
- Anti-nationalism, the humanist or humanitarian form of which generally corresponds to the world citizen concept.
- Cosmopolitanism
- Cosmopolitan democracy
- Global justice
- Global democracy
- Mundialization
- Perpetual traveler
- Transnationalism
- Presidential election of United Nations Secretary-General.
- World government
[edit] External links
- Cosmopolitanism at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Living in the World Risk Society by Ulrich Beck at the London School of Economics
- Great Transition Initiative Paper Series Global Politics and Institutions, paper #3 , and Dawn of the Cosmopolitan: The Hope of a Global Citizens Movement , paper #15, explore the potential for the emergence of a cosmopolitan identity and corresponding institutions.
