<P> Not surprisingly, those who are high in global human identification are less prejudiced toward many groups, care more about international human rights, worldwide inequality, global poverty and human suffering . They attend more actively to global concerns, value the lives of all human beings more equally, and give more in time and money to international humanitarian causes . They tend to be more politically liberal on both domestic and international issues . They want their countries to do more to alleviate global suffering . </P> <P> Following a social identity approach, Reysen and Katzarska - Miller tested a model showing the antecedents and outcomes of global citizenship identification (i.e., degree of psychological connection with global citizens). Individuals' normative environment (the cultural environment in which one is embedded contains people, artifacts, cultural patterns that promote viewing the self as a global citizen) and global awareness (perceiving oneself as aware, knowledgeable, and connected to others in the world) predict global citizenship identification . Global citizenship identification then predicts six broad categories of prosocial behaviors and values, including: intergroup empathy, valuing diversity, social justice, environmental sustainability, intergroup helping, and a felt responsibility to act . Subsequent research has examined variables that influence the model such as: participation in a college course with global components, perception of one's global knowledge, college professors' attitudes toward global citizenship, belief in an intentional worlds view of culture, participation in a fan group that promotes the identity, use of global citizen related words when describing one's values, possible self as a global citizen, religiosity and religious orientation, threat to one's nation, interdependent self - construal prime, perception of the university environment, and social media usage . </P> <P> At the same time that globalization is reducing the importance of nation - states, the idea of global citizenship may require a redefinition of ties between civic engagement and geography . Face - to - face town hall meetings seem increasingly supplanted by electronic "town halls" not limited by space and time . Absentee ballots opened the way for expatriates to vote while living in another country; the Internet may carry this several steps further . Another interpretation given by several scholars of the changing configurations of citizenship due to globalization is the possibility that citizenship becomes a changed institution; even if situated within territorial boundaries that are national, if the meaning of the national itself has changed, then the meaning of being a citizen of that nation changes . </P> <P> An interesting feature of globalization is that, while the world is being internationalized, it's also being localized at the same time . The world shrinks as the local community (village, town, city) takes on greater and greater importance . This is reflected in the term glocalization, a portmanteau of the words "global" and "local". Mosco (1999) noted this feature and saw the growing importance of technopoles . If this trend is true, it seems global citizens may be the glue that holds these separate entities together . Put another way, global citizens are people who can travel within these various boundaries and somehow still make sense of the world through a global lens . </P>

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