What makes a good global citizen?

 “What is a global citizen?” Many people think that global citizen is a person who has many especial abilities to save human kind like superman. But they misunderstand about this phrase. In fact, a global citizen is a normal person who can help the world and people around them by practical activities. But what qualities make a good citizen?” It’s not easy to answer. It depends on their way to help people. But in my opinion, a global citizen must have such qualities: empathy, equality and awareness.

      The most important quality of the global citizen is empathy. A global citizen must be empathetic another person especially unfortunate people such as the poor and disabled. That means a global citizen is able to understand another person’s circumstances, thoughts and feelings. He puts himself in another person situation in order to know what they feel or why they like that. It’s very important because if he doesn’t understand them how can he help them? By a heartfelt empathy, he can understand how they stand a pain, so it will be easier to share and encourage them overcome the difficulties. For example, seeing a lot of children shriveling on sidewalk because of being cold and hungry after the earthquake in Japan, how does a global citizen feel? To be sure that he never ignores them. It doesn’t mean he helps ones because he is a global citizen or it is a responsibility but empathy. He knows what happened, and understand how the children feel and also feel the pain like ones. It is his dynamic make him help them willingly. Therefore, by empathy, a global citizen can travel anywhere to help anyone who needs.

     Equality is the second quality of a global citizen. An equal global citizen is a person who treats all people the same without racial discrimination, skin color (yellow, white, or dark), rich or poor, religions…Provided that anybody needs, the global citizen is willing to help enthusiastically. When we need the help, although you have dark skin and I have white skin, he also gives the same help, without “special treatment” to you or me. Although a global citizen comes from Asian, he can go to Africa to teach for illustrate people by like Asian. With a child who is a victim of AIDS, he also opens his heart to help the child have a smile and not to complex in order to integrate with society. The Global citizen is like that. In his mind, there is no word “discriminate”. He knows that people all the world are the children of “mother earth”, so why do we discriminate to each other? Thank to this quality, a global citizen bring people around the world the smile and happiness.

       Finally, it is also an important quality is awareness. A global citizen has to know what happens in the world, how people’s life are in other to decide his actions. For example, in the world, every 3.6 seconds has a person die of hunger and 75% of them are children. The global citizen knows that they are waiting for his help. Moreover, children are the master of the world so he not only campaigns people collect food, money for famine relief but also travels each place to support and help them recover. By the awareness timely, a global citizen can help our life more beautiful.

    The global citizen is helping the world become more and more beautiful and people feel happier. We can hope that, the world will have no war, no hunger, and no diseases in short time. We are the youth so please “say “we” are the global citizen” to built a better life.