A Story from the Citizen Diplomacy Council of San Diego
A recent story we received was a recent occurence of citizen diplomacy in San Diego with Iraqi youth experiencing the United States. Diplomacy at the domestic level is just as important as diplomacy abroad and often times allows Americans to offer up hospitality and friendship with the comfort of familiar surroundings. It provides them the excellent opportunity to be citizen diplomats to others visiting the United States on exchange programs and educational trips.
This story, from David Hines, an intern with the Citizen Diplomacy Council of San Diego shows us how we can benefit from interacting with others from other countries, like Iraq. As David details, there were many new things he learned from spending an entire day with Iraqi youth visiting the United States through an exchange with the State Department.
Please read David's story and continue to send us more stories as we count down the U.S. Summit and Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy in November!
Posted Thursday, September 2, 2010