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Global Village:: Learning to Live Together

Attention Catcher: Statistics

Out of the five ways to write an attention catcher, I have used statistics to start this essay.

Dr Shashi Tharoor, a prominent Indian parliamentarian, debated the case “This house believes Britain owes reparations to her former colonies” initiated by Oxford Union. Dr Tharoor’s side won the controversial debate with 185 votes to 56. The OxfordUnion published the debate on YouTube in 2015; since then the video has been watched by more than 4.7 million, liked by eighty-nine thousand, and shared by thousands on social media. The Union channel has been subscribed by more than three-hundred-fifty-four thousand subscribers, while the views it has received on its different videos are in billions. Today humanity lives in a world where Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Whatsaap, Pinterest and Wikipedia have become the buzzwords. Undoubtedly, the reader him/herself must have frequently accessed these along with many other social- and web-sites. The same words would not have rung a bell even in the last decade of twentieth century. Today’s world aka global village is formed on an intricately weaved network of optic-fiber cables that have made it a well-connected place, giving billions of its inhabitants an unbelievable opportunity to live simultaneously on earth and in (cyber) space.