Humanity, Religion, Class, Gender, Race, Youth & Sexual
Orientation

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Non-territorial identity: the aspects of being that are not bound to the territorial location. (Transplanetary Identities)
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E.g.: faith: the religious faith, the age: teenagers, elders, or the gender: women or men.
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Since when did the non-territorial identities exist?
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Non-territorial affiliations existed prior to contemporary large-scale globalization, e.g. world religion.
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Supraterritorial affiliations now touch more people more regularly and more intensely than ever.

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Anthony Giddens: ‘humankind in some respects becomes a “we”, facing problems and opportunities where there are no
“others”.’
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Environment: Transworld associations and campaigns: Greenpeace, World Wildlife Funds
(WWF)…etc.
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Global Relief Campaigns:
Humanitarian relief or aids: famines, epidemics, and natural disasters.
Global mass media: ask for donation to provide emergency relief.
Humanitarian interventions: genocide, crimes against humanity.
Philosopher, Peter Singer: ‘it makes no moral different whether the person I help is a neighbor’s child ten yards from me or a
Bengali whose name I shall never know, ten thousand miles away’

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Substantial Peace Movements:
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Protest against war and militarization, e.g.
Transworld campaigns against nuclear weapons since 1950s. (small scale)
15 Feb 2003: campaign against US-led military invasion of Iraq (30 million people from 60 countries)
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Transworld Humanity on Development: everyone should benefit from certain economic, political, cultural and ecological standards of living.
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Substantial Transworld Human Rights
Regime: Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (UDHR); Geneva Convention;
International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights (ICCPR); International Covenant on
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
(ICESCR)…etc.

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The Core Tenets are in principle non-
territorial:
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‘They can be embraced and practiced anywhere on earth’.
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Co-religionists have greater direct contact with one another as of the facilitation from modern technologies.
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E.g.: global openness to allow idea of
Transworld umma of Muslim (hijab).
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Aeroplanes have drawn haji from everywhere (the Muslim’s ritual in Mecca,
Saudi Arabi); the number has increased from 100 000 to over 2 000 000 recently.
Religious websites and organizations: organization of the Islamic Conference
(OIC), the International Islamic News
Agency…
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The creation of Universal Islamic Declaration on Human Rights…