This presentation is about if people consider themselves as global citizens. This was made for the course Intercultural Communication. My teammembers were: Jef De Smet, Stijn van Rompaey, Wouter Merckx and myself Christophe Jacobs.

1. Intercultural
Communication:
Global citizenship
Jef De Smet
Christophe Jacobs
Wouter Merckx
Stijn Van Rompaey

3. Introduction
 Preparation of questions:
 “Do you know what global citizenship is?”
 “Do you see yourself as a global citizen?”
 “Do you think that global citizenship is important?”
 “How will global citizenship evolve?”
 “Has multimedia an influence on global citizenship?”
 Interview on the streets of Leuven

4. Global citizenship definition
“Global citizenship or world citizenship is typically defined as a person who
places their identity with a global community rather than their identity as a
citizen of a particular nation or place. The idea is that one’s identity trancents
geography or political borders and that the plantetary human community is
interdependent and whole humankind is essentialy one.”

5. Our opinion
 We feel like global citizens
 Global citizenship is inevitable
 Global citizenship is growing fast
 Group T is an international engineering school
 Leuven has a lot of Erasmus students
 Travelling

6. Bryan
 23 years old
 Studies rechtspraktijk (practical law) in Leuven
 Father: Nigerian
 Mother: Congolese
 Born in Belgium, lived in Amerika, England and Italy

7. Bryan
 ISEC
 Consulting agency
 Sending people on international internships
 Sharing of experiences
 “The world is one community, As global citizen you have to go to different
places.”
 Comes in contact with a lot of cultures (erasmussers).
 “I believe in global citizenship. We are all humans, you can’t see youself as a
global citizen if you didn’t went to other countries.”
 “It would be hypocrite from myself if I didn’t see myself as al global citizen.”
 “Technology would never be as big as it is, if it weren’t for global citizenship”

8. Eva
 22 years old
 Slovenian
 Erasmus student economics
 “I am a global citizen because I study in Leuven for 7 months.”
 “It’s not hard to adapt to Beglian culture”
 “There is not a big difference between Belgian and Slovenian culture.”
 Slovenia has a mix of different cultures because it’s a small country
 Global citizenship is inevitable because transportation and communication
technology is growing fast.

9. Law student
 21 years old
 “Global citizenship is one citizenship for the whole world.”
 “I am a global citizen because I’m member of the Free International Student
Organisation.”
 “There are differences between cultures but they are not insuperable.”
 “It’s practical impossible not to be a global citizen.”
 “Distances are easy to overcome with digital communication.”
 “Global citizenship is important to avoid conflics.”

10. Chinese girl
 Erasmus student
 Master in European studies
 23 years old
 “Global citizenshitp is the feeling where you belong to, your identity.”
 “Your cultural origings.”
 “A unified place for people, we all belong too the same society.”
 “Internet is very import to feel like a global citizen.”
 Transatlantic trade investment partnership (TTIP)
 The Asian bank

11. Two girls in the park
 25 years old
 Custom advisor (bachelor in public relations and master in bussiness
communication )
 Event manager (bachelor in history and master in cultural management)
 “As human you can try to be a global citizen but you will always carry your
personal cultural background.”
 “Studying is an important time to develop as a global citizen.”
 “Technology is very import to become a global citizen.”
 “Travelling and internet are easy nowadays.”

12. We are all global citizens!

13. General conclusion
 Social media
 It’s olny going to get more important
 Easy transport
 Shengenzone (open borders)
 Ineternet
 Intercultural society
 Technological advances as a result of global citizenship

14. Cursus links
 Every person of our interview considered themselves as a global citizen
 So they see persons from another country not as a strangers but rather as persons
with other cultures but eventually, we are all the same.
 Otherization: “This theme will explore a major inhibition to communication
by looking at how, so easily, we can construct and reduce people to be less
than what they are.”
 The people we interviewed knew that you better don’t make predjudices.