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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Responsibilities

It is true that a Globalcitizen has responsibilities beyond his/her own yard. But in what form do those responsibilities materialize?
My definition of the responibilities are as follows: A Globalcitizen is responsibile to help others if able without risk for the own person. The citizen is not supposed to go around and force a certain way of thinking or a specific culture or a political system onto others that are different and for some reason considered wrong.
Western powers have managed to involve themselves in many struggles in which they had no reason for being. The western powered displayed an shocking amount of ignorance towards other cultures, this ignorance has caused even more problems when the western cultures tried to 'liberate' certain people. It is not to say that the Soviet Union was any better while it was in place, it seems that the more recent 'super-nations' or 'super-powers' have been very interested in other nations or other cultures politics and costums. There were empires that reigned before the British ,which I would define as one of the first recent 'super-nation', those other older empires at least most of them showed by far greater tolerance than it seems possible to see from today's 'super-nation'. It might be that certain customs seem unfair and anti-human, but the same might be true for western costums out of the perspective of those whom we judge.

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