Global Engagement

Global engagement is very important to our world. I didn’t know what it took to be globally engaged and how simple it could be. As stated in the presentation being globally engaged can be as simple as obtaining a passport and traveling to a different country. Knowing what is going on in the rest of he world is vital to our lives. We are not the only country in the world and it is naïve to think that we are the only one that matters.
In the video “Running Dry” I saw how bad it really is in other parts of the world and how good we have it. While fresh water is scarce in parts of India and Africa we in America use water frivolously and waste it everyday. We do not realize how much work goes into getting us clean drinking water. Jane Seymour put it best when she said that the global humanitarian water crisis is not only an economic issue, it’s a moral issue. We choose whether or not we care about these things and whether we decide to do anything help.
There are different ways you can become globally engaged here at ASU. You can attend and ASU international film series, attend an ISO world festival on campus, or you can attend an ASU international lecture. One of the best ways to becoming globally engaged is to take advantage of ASU’s studying abroad programs, more of like a crash course in engagement. About 62 percent of students study abroad in Europe. ASU is a great facilitator for global engagement.