World citizen

World citizen is a term with a variety of meanings, often referring to a person who disapproves of traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship and approves world government and democracy.

Uses

• The United Nations Correspondents Association issues an award called Citizen of the World.
• It may be used by activists such as the World Service Authority that promote an integrated, supranational world government.
• It may sometimes refer to persons promoting internationalism, predicated on the closer cooperation of sovereign states.
• The Bahá'í Faith promotes a concept of international unity akin to world citizenship.

Trivia

• In the 1942 film Casablanca, Rick Blane (Humphrey Bogart) is asked his nationality by a group of visiting German officers. He replies that he is "a drunkard." Captain Renault (Claude Rains) jokes, "That makes Rick a Citizen of the World."

See also

• Anationalism, an Esperanto-based movement for the suppression of nationalism.
• Anti-nationalism, the humanist or humanitarian form of which generally corresponds to the world citizen concept.
• Cosmopolitanism
• Coolitude
• Cosmopolitan democracy
• Global Citizens Movement
• Global justice
• Global democracy
• Mundialization
• Perpetual traveler
• Transnationalism
• Presidential election of United Nations Secretary-General.
• World city
• World government

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