Irene Skovgaard-Smith The Complex World Of A Global Citizen

In “The complex world of a global citizen”, Irene Skovgaard-Smith explains that global citizens are complex people with roots and they come from a wide range of people, backgrounds, and cultures. This is found by looking at what these global citizens do to be considered multicultural. Also, looking at the fact that there is not a defined global culture, we can also better understand global citizens have their own roots. Knowing the limits of global citizens can help to understand more about where they come from.
Skovgaard-Smith argues that global citizens originate from a wide range of places and social backgrounds. Therefore, those who identify as global citizens have gone through a lot of cultural shedding. This cultural shedding is shown by Skovgaard-Smith’s research explaining that global citizens share a sense of belonging and an identity. Even with the newfound sense of belonging and a shared identity, global citizens, or cosmopolitans, are not fully shedding the culture of their original ethnicity or nation. The bits of the cosmopolitan’s original culture that they do not shed go into what is referred to as a melting pot of cultures, which is the collection of different cultures brought together by global citizens …show more content…
Skovgaard-Smith notes that they share a cosmopolitan identity, meaning they feel less affiliated with their original country and culture. When cosmopolitans do not shed their original culture, they bring new traits to the melting pot. This reinforces the idea of being a global citizen who has lived in different places around the world and doesn’t associate with the country they originated from. It is important to keep in mind that global citizens are not people without roots. All cosmopolitans have a place to call home, which is where their roots are