Our Common Future – Educating the Citizens of the World
Posted by Fausto Aarya De Santis on May 5, 2010 under Articles, News | 
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Loyalty to national governments and to more local identities is not seen in contrast but, on the opposite, as necessary correlation, of a wider loyalty to the planet, both are the two sides of the same love of humanity as a whole. Preservation of cultural diversity is seen possible only as far as there is a global effort to generate synergies amongst the different local identities that contrast uniformity that is now being imposed as a result of politically ungoverned economic globalization.
This new emerging vision of “world citizenship” encompasses the principles of social and economic justice, both within and between nations; non-adversarial decision making at all levels of society; equality of the sexes; racial, ethnic, national and religious harmony; and the willingness to sacrifice for the common good.
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Quotation from Daisaku Ikeda
Fausto Aarya De Santis said,
Marcel Baaijens wrote:
I am a globalite and suffer from globalitis (a desease that makes you feel at home, or gives you a sense of belonging in many places, but not one in particular, forcing one to ‘go home’ to many places, they are not necessarily places I lived and can include places where significant events that shaped my life may have taken place. Some ‘places’ that… See More are ‘home’ are Glendaloch(Ireland) Mar Musa (Syria), Sydney (Australia), Boudhanat (Nepal), Amsterdam, Amersfoort and Marken in Holland, Varanasi (India), Farafra, (Egypt). Ladakh region, (India). Wellington (New Zealand) Musically: eastern Europe. Some places I lived never felt like home (Chicago,USA, Delft, Nethrelands).
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