Talk:Global citizenship

can anyone define globalisation? I do not have an expensive dictionary and using the internet hurts my head too much. i would like to know what major dictionaries like Merriam-Webster say what globalisation is.

Not too enthusiastic about merging

World citizen is about a political goal to create democratic world institutions of which all earthlings would be citizens. Global citizenship is more vague, it is the feeling to belong to the same world. A merger might confuse those two aspects, they are certainly complementary but are not at the same level. BTW, another article about a close concept is democratic globalization, which has its own approach also. We have here quite a rich topic, and to have three article to show each side of it is quite justified. --Pgreenfinch (talk) 08:20, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

agreed. world citizen and global citizen, while similar sounding seem to be different.Twinscimitars (talk) 14:30, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, to merge the two would deny the imminent overshadowing of the world citizen concept by the global citizenship concept. I am currently working in grad school and studying this topic, it is, simply put, the position or status of being a citizen of the whole world, with all the rights and privileges that implies. Furthermore, it is a concept that implies being a good citizen. Key parts of global citizenship include a respect for any and all fellow global citizens, no matter their race, religion or creed. It also denotes a commitment to the environment and the sustainment of the Earth. It does not; however, go as far as to say that one automatically accepts the beliefs of another citizen, but that one judges those believe with a clear, open mind and evaluates while respecting the believers right to believe what they will.