How to Build Global Community
Think of no one as "them"
● Don't confuse your comfort with your safety
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Talk to strangers
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Imagine other cultures through their art, poetry and novels
● Listen to music you don't understand
● Dance to it
● Act locally
● Notice the workings of power and privilege in your culture
● Question consumption
● Know how your lettuce and coffee are grown: wake up and smell the exploitation
● Look for fair trade and union labels
● Help build economies from the bottom up
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Acquire few needs
● Learn a second (or third) language
● Visit people, places and cultures - not tourist attractions
● Learn people's history
● Redefine progress
● Know physical & political geography
● Play games from other cultures
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Watch films with subtitles
● Know your heritage
● Honor everyone's holidays
● Look at the moon and imagine someone else, somewhere else, looking at it too
● Read the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights
● Understand the global economy in terms of people, land and water
● Know where your bank banks
● Never believe you have a right to anyone else's resources
● Refuse to wear corporate logos; defy corporate domination
● Question military/corporate connections
● Don't confuse money with wealth, or time with money
● Have a pen/email pal
● Honor indigenous cultures
● Judge governance by how well it meets all people's needs
● Be skeptical about what you read
● Eat adventurously
● Enjoy vegetables, beans, and grains in your diet
● Choose curiosity over certainty
● Know where your water comes from and where your wastes go
● Pledge allegiance to the earth: question nationalism
● Think South, Central and North - there are many Americans
● Assume that many others share your dreams
● Know that no one is silent though many are not heard - Work to change this
- A special thanks to Jonathan who gave this postcard to me.
- A special thanks to Jonathan who gave this postcard to me.