my role as a citizen of earth

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"My Role as a Citizen of Earth" In the vast universe, we were born on this planet called Earth, where various cultures and ethnicities, all living things, and all of nature exist together. However, in our world today, we face numerous problems─ environmental destruction, resource depletion, wars and conflicts, poverty, and many more─ that make our future uncertain. Given this situation, what do you think is the best way forward for humanity? How do you wish to fulfill your role as a citizen of Earth? To be human with a purpose - Religion - Power - Patriatism Many people point their hands at the muslim terrorist and thus the muslim community, saying that they should be ashamed of themselves, that they are a disgrace to the human race. Bit did we forget that those terrorists are human too like us. So we should be just as ashamed or more as we look at what our world has become due to matter of miscommunication, superiority, misunderstanding.

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Page 1: My Role as a Citizen of Earth

"My Role as a Citizen of Earth" In the vast universe, we were born on this planet called Earth, where various cultures and ethnicities, all living things, and all of nature exist together. However, in our world today, we face numerous problems─ environmental destruction, resource depletion, wars and conflicts, poverty, and many more─ that make our future uncertain. Given this situation, what do you think is the best way forward for humanity? How do you wish to fulfill your role as a citizen of Earth?

To be human with a purpose

- Religion- Power - Patriatism

Many people point their hands at the muslim terrorist and thus the muslim community, saying that they should be ashamed of themselves, that they are a disgrace to the human race. Bit did we forget that those terrorists are human too like us. So we should be just as ashamed or more as we look at what our world has become due to matter of miscommunication, superiority, misunderstanding.

Every fault of mankind whether different ethnicity, race, gender, power is not the absolute fault of one group or individual then related to their country but the fault of the whole. Therefore it is then our responsibility, as humans, to act and reinforce the notion of unity by acting on behalf of citizens of Earth, not just citizens of your particular nation. It is then, united by unity, under a nation of Earth that humanity can only improve for the better and succumb…

My role, your role, our role, as a citizen of earth is to be human. Sounds simple, yet so difficult in this world society that we live in. The balances of good and evil, poor and rich and different races not yet equal. Will it ever be?

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It is not enough to be human, the news and events occurring today seem to suggest that maybe it’s better not to be human. Not if it means to steal, kill and destroy others. There’s too much of a discrepancy between

As humans we have rights we are born with but many are not priverlleged to have, specifically those living with poverty. Thus it is the responsibilities of those who have those rights to give it to them. To be human with a purpose,

As a citizen of the Earth Nation, in which all nations come together and there is no discrepancy of race, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status. I would

My parents are Samoan, yet I was born in New Zealand and lived in Australia. I have citizenship in two of these places and yet as my role as citizen of this earth, I choose to be neither because I’ve come to realise something very important. What seems to divide us is our ethnicity, religion etc. ,