Citizens of the world: Living in an age of accelerating globalisation, Part 1

Citizens of the world: Living in an age of accelerating globalisation, Part 1 In this first article in a series, Penelope J. Corfield explores living in an age of accelerating globalisation as part of the citizens of the world focus. One ‘vast empire of human society’ spreads throughout the world – and throughout all time. And it flourishes, despite the many global variations in climate, languages, and manners – and despite many disagreements between these global citizens. The ardent young William Wordsworth expressed that viewpoint in 1800. And others – from Socrates in classical Greece to America’s Dr Martin Luther King Jnr in 1967 – have made the equivalent point, when declaring themselves to be ‘citizens of the world’.