Being a good citizen is more than just being a good resident

The PACE character trait for November is citizenship. Citizenship is often thought of in two ways.

The first way people may think of citizenship is one’s legal status of being a citizen of a country. In looking at citizenship in this way, the mere fact that you live in a country and have sworn or affirmed your allegiance to the country makes you a member of that country’s society.

In this respect citizenship is belonging to the collective community or society. However, citizenship is much more than just living in and belonging to a country.

Citizenship is also accepting that there are duties a...