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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