Zogby on First Globals
If you’ve been reading our blog regularly, you’ll know that we frequently write about First Globals. We’ve discovered through our surveys and research that this generation of people between the ages of 18 and 30 are the most likely to have traveled or lived abroad, the most likely to keep in contact with friends and family living abroad, and hold political opinions that differ significantly from older Americans.
A new blog post in the Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a speech John Zogby gave at that organization’s Leadership Forum. Discussing First Globals, Zogby says that today’s college students are “the most diverse, multicultural generation yet produced” and that they are ” as likely to say they are citizens of the planet Earth as they are to say they are citizens of the United States.” Furthermore, these First Globals are more likely to seek a spiritually fulfilling life than a materialistic and status-driven life.
How do you think the global orientation of this younger generation will affect politics and life in this country in the future? If you are a First Global, does this description accurately represent you?
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I think globalization in genereal, and the “global orientation” of the younger generation will lead to increasingly worse kakistocracies “leading” the United States. The idea that a country needs to be “liked” to prosper is wrong. Cooperation where it serves U.S. interests is good, but blindly following along for the sake of incrasing its likeableness will ultimately lead to ruin.
“There is a rank due to the U.S. among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.” President Washington, Dec 3, 1793, 5th Annual Message to Congress.