Global Community by Jason Rubinstein

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When I was a Sophmore in high school, I traveled with the American Music Abroad honors chorus to Europe and had my first chance to experience the diverse cultures of our world. As a junior, I participated in the ACDA All National Multiculrutral Honors Choir, which presented me with the unique opportunity to learn cultural music from an array of different countries, and interact with interesting artists from around the country. I am now a third year undergraduate at Rutgers University majoring in Environmental Policy, Institutions and Behavior with a minor in Marine Science. My studies in college have been geared towards understanding how different people interact with the environment, and each other. I am also currently interning at the New Jersey Governors Office for the Energy and Environment and Transportation Policy Advisors to the Governor. This experience continues to expose me to the great diversity of my state. When I began thinking about what it means to be a global citizen and the importance of understanding the diversity of the world, I started writing this song. Here is the finished product, I hope you enjoy and can take something away from it. I know I have. Thank you for considering me for the diversity abroad scholarship.

Semester at Sea Diversity Abroad Scholarship Music Video response to: How does a deep understanding of diversity make you a more effective global citizen?




Near Bohai Bay, teens work 12 hour days
Making shirts and our blue rays
for pennies.
They can't afford, the products that we horde
There voices never heard
In destitution.

We live in a global community
A changing world for you and me
Won't turn a blind eye, just stop and question why
If we hope to live in this world of diversity

In the heart of Pali, a young man answers the phone for me
Solves problems with my technology
At midnight.
He drops his Indian slang, sounds like he's one of my gang
But where does his true identity hang
In the balance?

We live in a global community
A changing world for you and me
Won't turn a blind eye, just stop and question why
If we hope to live in this world of diversity

On Cape Town streets, poor children face inopportunity
Aids and educational inequity
Social injustice
As our Explorer sails, global thinking prevails
We realize what this world entails
Open eyes from all we have seen

We live in a global community
A changing world for you and me
Won't turn a blind eye, just stop and question why
If we hope to live in this world of diversity

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Study Abroad
• Diversity Abroad
• Semester at Sea
• International Student Travel
• Global Exchanges
• Rutgers University
• Jason
• Rubinstein

[meepyderp]

I really enjoyed the lyrics; they shed light on some of the people left to sink or swim in the rapidly rising tide that is globalization. You illustrate what we each have to do in our daily lives to ensure that the creation of a global community is a positive experience. We have to begin by questioning.

Thanks for the insight :)