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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 [[world]]) and ''[[polis]]'' (city). Its sense overlaps to some extent with [[World citizen|citizen of the world]], implying identification with a world community rather than with a particular nation or people. Indeed, its first recorded usage was by [[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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-Cosmopolitan identity would, as all other identities, be contextual and situated. This might mean that while feeling quite cosmopolitan in a situation, a person could act, for example, as a nationalist in a different context.
-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 with [[nationalism]].
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