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Thanks to the increasing connection between countries in the world,
every day in my life is a global experience.
I am able to obtain a great range of goods and services,
with qualities among the best, and costs the lowest.
Trading enables efficiency as each country focuses on its “comparative advantage”,
literally what it does better than others.
However, my experience is not the case for everyone.
Many people are limited to what they can get domestically.
There are places where internal supplies are barely accessible.
Africa for instance.
Every minute a child dies from malaria, the disease that can be prevented by using nets.
In my country, you can buy a net at $1.5.
Lack of education,
gender issues,
unequal distribution of income,
lack of infrastructure and so on
are barriers to economic development,
and they keep millions of people excluded from having a good life.
If those countries cannot tackle the problem by themselves
then help is needed from the rest of the world.
But once again we build up barriers against each other.
Tangible and intangible ones.
Why? Because we still cannot get rid of
the cautious attitudes toward what we regard as “outsiders”.
It’s still about “every man for himself”.
However, in a situation like today,
when globalization is an eminent force that hardly be stopped,
we cannot expect to gain at the loss of others
or witness others in distress and hope it won’t touch us.
Like a domino effect, when a country goes down,
everyone will be affected, sooner or later.
Also, we are now facing problems
that even the strongest nation cannot deal with alone
and collective actions are required.
It’s necessary to get above the mindset of my country, our country
and think in term of my world, our world.
For the near future,
the key to a better world is
cooperation, coopération, cooperação, 合作 , hợp tác or…
you know what I mean.
It’s time to turn ME into WE.