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Grade 9: Frenshman Project Presentation (3)

May 18, 2020

On May 8, Fenya from class 9(2) shared the freshman project done by her group. When presented with the simple yet inordinately subjective theme of “Who are we in SHSID”, their team was left in disarray. They struggled to find a unique, unanimous decision on what represented every single individual on the campus. After much bantering, they finally decided to battle the infuriatingly general freshman project theme with an equally idiosyncratic topic of global citizenship.

Globalization is the idea that we can be connected to all cultures and products around the world. As an international school situated in China, the students of SHSID uniquely relate to this. They are from a wide range of countries and/or ethnicities, and such a culturally diverse environment with ties to all corners of the globe has its own unique perspective—and factors that shape such a perspective. Since global citizenship is a sense of belonging to a broader community and a common humanity, multiple approaches could be taken towards the topic. Thus, students were each given individual freedom to emphasize either political, economic, social or cultural interdependency between either the local, the national and the global communities. Due to the flexibility in subject matter, each student chose a subject most akin to their interests. After that, whichever way they dissected the theme was completely up to them. This worked out quite beautifully. When given this freedom of interpretation, each member of the group covered completely different areas of daily life that all somehow still connected to the root theme of their global identity as an international student. The final result then featured topics from sustainability all the way to movie indulgence. Global citizenship was analyzed from every angle possible.

Fenya said her generation grew up in a constantly changing world of cultural diffusion and sociality. A global mindset has become part of their everyday lives, as they are linked to others on every continent. As a member of the SHSID community, global citizenship is a key facet of a student's identity that influences his or her day-to-day actions as well as opinions of issues happening on a global scale.

（Written by Fenya Pictures by Fenya Supervised by Menglei Wang）