Proud Citizen of the World - October 2016

Something further to say on #proudcitizenoftheworld While I've been lucky enough to live in different places, I could equally feel like a citizen of the world had I only lived in the same house, in the same village, in the same county, in the same country. A feeling of belonging doesn't have to be constrained by a particular boundary. And equally a feeling of not-belonging doesn't necessarily come with the word foreigner tattooed to its forehead. Increasingly individuals are faced with global realities - Climate Change, Industrial Relations, Conflict, Illness. Not all bad either - advances in medicine, technology, education should be reaped in a global way. Sharing the human experience should not stop at our national borders. If believing that internationalism is a more productive (and humane) way of living than Ms May's vision of flag waving nationalism makes me a part of the liberal elite (tautological really as internationalism is pretty closely tied up with liberalism) then print up the T-Shirts!