Many young Japanese express the wish to become kokusaijin. ... It means that one is able to understand people in other countries, and with this understanding see the virtues and defects of one's own with an eventual aim of devoting one's efforts to making both one's own country and the rest of the world more decent places for human being to live.
――徳島文理大学 人間生活・総合政策・文学部(1月30日実施)――2005年