If a person is said to have citizenship, then he is said to have claim to a certain country or state. Some think that citizenship can go much farther than that. In our lifetime, we can only know what we have learned from our past and we can only imagine what the future could hold. With this in mind, we can speculate what citizenship in the new millennium could be like. Improving on what we have is a great place to start.
Citizenship starts at the personal level.
As persons, we have to grasp the concept that we make up what citizenship is. We can either develop the standards of citizenship or we can allow them to deteriorate before us. As a child, I longed to receive the good citizenship award in school. I longed for it because it was an award well worthy of respect. Because I longed for it, I endeavored to better myself and thus hoped to gain the award.