How to be an active citizen and spark change | Gabriel Marmentini

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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What does it mean to be an active citizen? It's about more than just voting and paying taxes, says social entrepreneur Gabriel Marmentini. He explains why we can't rely on the state alone to solve all our problems — and presents the four key ingredients for anyone to become a change-maker and engage in solving public issues.

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0:12.0	What does it mean to be a great citizen? Talked daily, I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:12.6	What does it mean to be a great citizen?
0:15.4	Civic educator Gabriel Marmentini says we are unprepared to do it well in our democracies.
0:21.2	In his 2023 talk at TED Democracy, he breaks down a more expansive view of citizenship that begins with just four ingredients.
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1:03.3	dot com to find out more. Once we are born voila
1:09.5	magically we are already citizens right right? Partially right. At least for me. Yes, we do have rights,
1:17.4	duties, we belong to a nation. When growing up, we are probably going to pay taxes and to vote and all these are well known
1:24.9	characters for good citizens and indeed they are relevant they are true but thinking just
1:29.4	this way we are reducing a beautiful concept of citizenship because citizenship is way more than that.
1:36.0	People in my country are mostly individuals rather than citizens.
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