DweezelJazz Art Blog » relocating http://www.dweezeljazzart.com/DJBlog Discussing art, egg tempera painting, digital painting, watercolor, sketching, composition and color, storytelling. Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:52:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Are You A Citizen of the World? http://www.dweezeljazzart.com/DJBlog/2007/07/are-you-citizen-of-world/ http://www.dweezeljazzart.com/DJBlog/2007/07/are-you-citizen-of-world/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:00:00 +0000 DweezelJazz http://www.wildish.eu/?p=253
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]]> The speed and ease of travel by car, train, and air, along with the accessibility of communication via the Internet, has made the world seem a smaller place. For some people that has resulted in a social network that reaches far beyond the local community in which they’re living.Have you stopped to consider how many of your friends live in your close neighborhood compared with the number living elsewhere? Many people are linked far and wide by work associates, acquaintances, friends, and even family. Social links traverse counties, countries, oceans, time zones, cultures, languages — all with little regard for the historical formalities or limitations of borders.There are an infinite variety of reasons for traveling or moving. Some people move to find work. This is a big motivator these days and the distances traveled to satisfy these needs are farther and farther away from the person’s place of origin. Some are forced to move to avoid conflict in their region. Some people move looking for better weather or to live near a place where they can more easily pursue their hobbies. Others just want to explore and experience new environments, learn languages and make new friends. Children with parents that move frequently have both opportunities and challenges as a result. They may move to completely new continents in which they learn new languages and cultures. As children they adapt and become very much a part of the societies in which they live. If this happens even once in a child’s life it can deeply influence their outlook.As more and more people move and adopt new communities as their own, it not only affects their lives, but it also exposes the friends they leave behind to new things. The new place is shared by description, friends and relatives come to visit, some move to be nearby. A large cultural exchange and growth occurs as a result. Whether we travel or not, if we know people who do and we’re in contact with them, we indirectly experience some of their new environment. Each contact of this nature brings the extended world closer to us.Do you have friends on the other side of the world that you miss? Or family that you see only after getting on a plane? Do you meet people and make new friends on the Internet who are in places you’ve never been to? Do you miss a culture you no longer live in? Do you feel torn in your feelings of belonging to more than one place or society? As more and more people answer these questions with yes, the more fully our planet is moving toward having a functioning integral global society.

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  3. The Way In Which We’re Changing Our World
  4. Apartment Living, Part II
  5. What Can We Do As Individuals For The Environment?

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