"Can There Be World Citizenship?" reading response

     First of all this article was writen in a way where you had to read it about three or four times before you understood what the guy was talking about. It was written in probably the most complex way possible.
     "Can There Be World Citizenship?" is the question Elise Boulding asks for her topic of this article. I will tell you now that this question, how she approached it in her article, is pretty much impossible for one person to grab every perspective there is on it. She brings up that there is a "three-fold citizenship for every human being" and how she describes each of the three citizenship's makes it easier to understand what the point she is trying to get across. Which to me, her point was simple: "we the people of the United Nations" should all be treated fairly, but fairly in the eyes of the beholder, not treated how other people believe "fairly" is. That when a state or local government law restricts us from doing something that is part of our culture or binds us to land, we should go to a higher government, in this case the United Nations, and have something done about it.
    She states "conflicts per se among humans are inevitable because each of us, is a unique person, but responses to conflict are learned. People can learn to use violence in the face of differences, or they can learn to resolve differences peacefully" and I agree with this statement, but it is way easier said then done. For one person to prove another person wrong, it's going to upset that person, and not everyone can handle being wrong as well as others. So there is going to be cases where one person will lash out at another person, its just inevitable. The idea, the thought, of resolving our differences peacefully, is something of a far greater society that we have yet to become. Or will become for many generations. So I say, go for it, try to reach these goals, it won't be easily accomplished, and here is where I answer the question, "Can there be world citizenship?" from my perspective, I know there can be, but it'll be practically impossible to achieve world citizenship anytime soon. Because to reach world citizenship, one must persuade and show others how you can resolve differences peacefully, and that it is possible to resolve something without violence. But the problem that they will encounter, is different cultures believing different ways of resolving things. Someone would have to find a middle ground for all society's and for all cultures to meet and agree on something.
     The two articles "Generation Me" and "The Why-Worry Generation" go to show why we won't be able to achieve world citizenship for generations to come. These two articles state how our generation is all about themselves and only looking out for number one, you. For there to be world citizenship we would need a generation that care more about society becoming one, and cultures coming together, or how Elise Boulding put it "If we of the 10,000 ethnic groups put our imaginations to work on the world as it could be and on the United Nations as it could be. Serious vision work during this United Nations Decade dedicated to a Culture of Peace can eventually guide our strategies toward a workable action program.....to bring that citizenship into action."