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Deadly Bickering

With the rise of technology that ever increases the connectivity of the world, each of our own limited spheres of culture and experiences have become interconnected. We are creatures of inseparable biases, limited worldviews, and many nationalities, all caught in an inescapable web of shared…

Do We Need to Escape our National Identity(ies) to be a “Citizen of the World?”

But what exactly does being a “citizen of the world” mean one may ask? Put it this way: to be a global citizen is to…

Why Brazilians should subscribe to a global identity

Valentina Korte

“What is the one main reason people in your home country should identify either nationally or globally?”

Lessons by Indian-Americans on Assimilation

There is a typical desi uncle that lives across my street. I mean “typical”. Pot…

Give up the exotic cars, chefs and chauffeurs to save the planet? Or can we have both?

As humans we are inherently selfish, but we are also innately cooperative. Struggling with moral dilemmas on a daily basis, we decide whether to be altruistic decent beings or…

The Key to Genuine Global Citizenship

Nations ARE their people. A nation should support its citizens first and foremost, and if its people identify as global citizens, surely, that nation should support and embrace those citizens just as much as the more national ones. If a nation doesn’t support its…

Nation Building- A one-nation job?

What comes to mind when I say the words “Nation-Building?” To the Ameican Zoomer or Millennial, the same series of familiar scenes may play in our minds. Whether it is U.S. GI’s standing amidst a burning oil field, George W. Bush’s premature “Mission Accomplished”…

What Would Drive Progress Without Competition?

As you all know, U.S. is one of the most well-developed countries in the world with access to pretty much any basic necessities that you can think of. “With great power comes great responsibility,” I felt like this quote very much applies to the…

A Hybrid Sense of Self

Juan Miguel Bugayong, a name that epitomizes an increasingly globalized world, and an ongoing movement of international…

Sharing Is Caring, but Do We Actually Believe So?

Today, vaccine shortages still run rampant in many poorer countries, particularly in many African countries. Hati Maronjei, a street vendor who lives in Zimbabwe, has been going to a clinic in the capital for four months straight and has yet to…