A World We Dare to Imagine Part I

To be frank, before taking this class and reading books about globalization and social issues, the question I thought of most was to become “a person I dare to imagine” myself to fit into the world because I did not know what was happening on the dark side of the world. But now, after seeing the seriousness of the social issues such as poverty, gender inequality, and global warming, I really concur that being a better self has even more influential benefits if we see the big picture from a global and future perspective. I can say that creating “a world we dare to imagine” becomes the No. 1 reason why I must become “a person I dare to imagine.”

In my imagination, the world should be full of opportunities that most people can get access to. I didn’t say it is a “fair world,” because the word “fair” is so hard to define. Given the current situation that there is a huge gap between the wealthy and the poor, I’m not smart enough to define how a fair world should look like, but I believe that “access to opportunities” “for most people” must be better than our current status. An organization works to help the poor to gain opportunities to do what they want to do would become the first step I can do the better our world, no matter whether it is participating into an existing organization or creating one by myself. 

Also, I have always highly valued efficiency in every aspect of society, since, to a larger extent, low efficiency is the most primary reason why there are so many issues. For example, poverty exists since the wealthy take the efficiency from the poor by monopolizing high-quality education and excluding them from beneficial social networks. The quality of education decides the efficiency of people learning knowledge, and the network boundaries prevent the poor with good ideas to have larger social influence. In order to ameliorate the efficiency problem, I was inspired by a traditional Chinese system of pair studying, though its purpose was not to narrow the gap between the wealthy and the poor. In my imaginary organization, I will create a mechanism that pairs a child from a poor family in a country or culture with a child from a wealthy family in another country or culture. They grow up together, getting the same education, living the same life standard, and learning from each other’s culture and country throughout time. When they grow up, they don’t have to stick together, but because of their similar experiences, they both would be more likely to have a better life and a better understanding of the existence of the social gap, which will lead to a further development of the organization to pass from generation to generation. Both of the children would learn to pay back to society in both countries as well. 

Overall, education and social networks are two of the most important factors that contribute to one’s success, so I will take my first step to better the world by improving education systems around the world, making the best of both the poor and the wealthy.