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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 [[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]] 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. |
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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]]. |
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==Negative usage== |
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In the last period of Stalin's dictatorship in the Soviet Union, the phrase "[[Rootless cosmopolitan]]" was used as an antisemitic codeword. |
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