by Rosa Viscardi
In: Baikady, R., Sajid, S., Przeperski, J., Nadesan, V., Islam, M.R., Gao, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. 2022.
International community can rely on celebrities to solve graciously any problem. Danny Kaye’s legacy, appointed as Unicef’s first Goodwill Ambassador, has been picked up by several generations of global stars ready to take on all human misery in the name of a transnational activism proudly claimed and exercised without prejudice: human rights, Cold War, famine, gender inequality, charity, health care, public relations, racism, pacifism, environmentalism, pandemic, and so on.
