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-The word '''cosmopolitan''' describes an environment where many cultures from around the world coexist; or a person whose perspective reflects exposure to a variety of cultures.  It may also have the weaker senses of "worldly" or "sophisticated".
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-The word derives from Greek ''[[cosmos]]'' (the [[Universe]]) and ''[[polis]]'' (city). Its sense overlaps to some extent with being a [[World citizen|universal citizen]], implying identification with a world community rather than with only a particular state, nation or people. Indeed, its first recorded usage was by [[Diogenes of Sinope|Diogenes]] the Cynic, who described himself as a "''kosmou polites''", i.e. "a citizen of the world"; and as such he would seek attachments beyond the local ones, disregarding the importance given to 'accidentally' obtained concepts of gender, place of birth, place of residence and so on.
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-The word is sometimes misused to mean only "the global", either as a person who is seasoned in ways of the world, or as an adjective, to describe something with a far-reaching impact. However, it is argued by many scholars that a [[multicultural]] context, multiculturalism, is a necessity for people to develop a cosmopolitan identity.
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-The cosmopolitan view is the core of [[cosmopolitanism]], a socio-political stance or movement which sees all persons in all nations as members of a single global community -- in contrast or conjunction with [[nationalism]].
-In the last period of [[Stalin]]'s dictatorship in the [[Soviet Union]], the phrase "[[rootless cosmopolitan]]" was used as an antisemitic codeword to accuse the [[Jewish]] community of lacking cultural roots within Russia.  Later on in the Soviet Union, being described as a cosmopolitan could be a [[euphemism]] for being an [[enemy of the people]].
-There are several branches of modern cosmopolitan thought. Cosmopolitanism can be;
--  cultural, and this implies to be influenced or to be knowlegeable about the habits and attitudes of different peoples
-- moral, when we ask ourselves or our community if we have a responsibility to help peoples of other cultures
-- institutional, if we are willing to generate political institutions capable to  represent different peoples and therefore providing the material instruments to make individuals genuine citizens of the world.
-References
-Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, New York, Norton, 2006
-Daniele Archibugi (ed.), Debating Cosmoplitics, London, Verso, 2003
-===See also===
-* [[Cosmopolitan distribution]]
-== External links ==
-* {{Citation
-  | last = Brookes | first = Julian
-  | title = Cosmopolitanism: How To Be a Citizen of the World
-  | journal = Mother Jones Magazine
-  | date = [[2006-02-23]]
-  | year = 2005
-  | url = http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2006/02/anthony_appiah.html
-  | accessdate = 2007-06-22 }}
-* {{Citation
-  | last = Judt | first = Tony
-  | title = The Rootless Cosmopolitan: Edward Said
-  | journal = The Nation
-  | date = [[2004-07-01]]
-  | year = 2004
-  | url = http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040719/judt
-  | accessdate = 2007-06-22 }}
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