To me global is a really familiar word, It seems we can read it watch it every day on Internet, news paper and television.In dictionary Citizen means A person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state or nation.
But What is global citizen?
After few weeks learning, use my own word to explain this word I think is
A person that has an understanding of the world and know his own role as a world citizen also respect his own and others value and culture. Willing to take responsibility and participated in help global issue.
That's remind me a scandal of Chinese red cross organization.
A pretty young woman Ms Guo posted herself with a fancy luxury car on Chinese twitter accompained by her claim t be a commercial general manager for the Red Cross Society of China.
The pictures show that Guo draped across expensive cars and her collections of over 30 Hermes bags.
The Red Cross of Chinese has denied they have links to Ms Guo, who in turn later insisted she was not employed by the charity.
However, a board member of an organization that runs campaigns for the Red cross in China has resigned amid allegations Ms Guo was his mistress and that young woman's luxury lifestyle has been paid for embezzled from the organization.
That year, the charity registered a 60% drop in privates donations. People claimed that they won't do any donation to Red cross any more, There didn't have any possible way to tracking the money. Compare donation to the organization they prefer trust the people working on the first line of saving people. They more prefer deliver goods and food to the first line.
This news already passed about 2 years but in China, Red Cross China still can't win back people's trust. Organizations use people's trust to make profit for their own. I can't say that it only happened in China ,there might be some place else happened that we don't know. But who would take respond for that? People willing to participated in help Global poverty or environment issue. People would like to act in local helping global issue take responsibility in their act but who will take responsibility for the next step ?
BBC News(2013) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-22244339 (assessed : 16/11/2013)
The national (2013) http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/asia-pacific/charity-scandal-rocks-chinas-red-cross (assessed : 16/11/2013)
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