cosmopolitan

(noun)

A city/place or person that embraces its multicultural demographics.

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Examples of cosmopolitan in the following topics:

  • Summary

    • Certain individuals may act as "bridges" among groups, others may be isolates; some actors may be cosmopolitans, and others locals in terms of their group affiliations.
  • The Silk Road

    • China was open to foreign cultures, and its urban areas could be quite cosmopolitan.
  • The Growth of Cities

    • Even in the early nineteenthcentury, New York City was a cosmopolitan enclave with a transitory population made up largely by immigrants.
    • By 1800, Boston was transformed from a relatively small and economically stagnant town to a bustling seaport and cosmopolitan center with a large and highly mobile population.
  • Syntrophy

    • The house dust mite (sometimes referred to by allergists as HDM) is a cosmopolitan guest in human habitation.
  • Manufacturing and Trade

    • The city was a cosmopolitan port with a variety of jobs that attracted more immigrants than did other areas of the South.
  • The Limits of Progressivism

    • Urban cosmopolitan scholars recoiled at the moralism of prohibition and the intolerance of the nativists of the KKK, and denounced the era.
  • Federalism

    • They were generally local, rather than cosmopolitan, in perspective, oriented toward plantations and farms rather than commerce or finance, and wanted strong state governments with a weaker national government.
  • Introduction: Groups and sub-structures

    • For example, some people may act as "bridges" between groups (cosmopolitans, boundary spanners, or "brokers" that we examined earlier).
  • Contemporary Indian Art

    • Contemporary Indian architecture tends to be cosmopolitan, with extremely compact and densely populated cities.
  • The Swahili Culture

    • These early Swahili city-states were Muslim, cosmopolitan and politically independent of each other.
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