Cosmopolitan train, this. People of all nations.

He's running the business from the Cosmopolitan.

Of course, a cosmopolitan class is hardly new.

The Cosmopolitan. I'm going to take a suite.

Ooh, where shall we go, Sir Horace? The Cosmopolitan?

This gentleman has invited me to a repast at the Cosmopolitan.

Singapore, a cosmopolitan city State with a multiracial and multireligious population, is particularly vulnerable.

Of course we have a fashion house but... there's no cosmopolitan cabinet in it.

And therefore, they are, as a result, more cosmopolitan in many ways than the West.

The cosmopolitan influential in the town is like the medical specialist the local influential is like the family doctor. Merton concluded It appears that the cosmopolitan influential has a following because he knows , the local influential because he understands .

Perhaps it is accepted resignedly, as the cosmopolitan class is too amorphous and ill defined to be the target of any social movement. There is no spokesperson for the cosmopolitan class, no organization that could be blamed for what is happening.

And Paul Cohen argues that the West thinks of itself as probably the most cosmopolitan of all cultures.

27. The German authorities have worked hard to restore the image of a peaceful, liberal, cosmopolitan and democratic Germany.

In our classroom, there were children from all nationalities, yet this diversity did not necessarily lead to a cosmopolitan, egalitarian classroom democracy.

First, it allows us to showcase our Arab filmmakers and voices to one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, New York City.

The liberal policies implemented by Côte d'Ivoire since independence, combined with regional developments during the colonial period, resulted in the emergence of a cosmopolitan population in Côte d'Ivoire.

How will the cosmopolitan class behave as their role in the world economy continues to strengthen? How unfeeling will they come to be about the people who share their neighborhoods?

This new leadership elite is in many ways more cosmopolitan than its predecessors their average level of education is higher a few have foreign degrees. Women also play a somewhat greater role.

It was pointed out that international migration, an important dimension of contemporary globalization, is giving rise to culturally cosmopolitan cities in which urban ethnic spaces are emerging, often in the form of ethnic ghettos.

Core to the advance of democratic participation and the engagement of the international community in that process was the emergence of a cosmopolitan law , in which the division between international and constitutional law had become blurred.

But embracing cosmopolitanism also means that once a society admits new members, those members are obliged to open themselves to their new society. Multiculturalists are reluctant to endorse this part of the cosmopolitan bargain, but liberals must.

You know, back then it was a way to show that you were sophisticated and cosmopolitan if you were a guy and you wanted to impress a girl, you could take her out on a chop suey date.

The international community must therefore come to the rescue of the Saharan people, who were open minded, noble, hard working, cosmopolitan, and respectful of women, and from whom the rest of the Muslim world could draw a good example.

As globalization proceeds, with the help of ever faster communications, faster travel, and more powerful multinational corporations, a new, cosmopolitan social class seems to be emerging. These citizens of the world are developing loyalties to each other that cross national boundaries.

In the twenty first century, the new information age creates opportunities not just to be cosmopolitan in spirit and orientation, but to forge strong connections with other cosmopolitans. The cosmopolitans have shared experiences they are directly communicating with each other across the globe.

Clinton has acknowledged that he could have done more to galvanize the UN and other countries to save lives in Rwanda. But good leaders today are often caught between their personal cosmopolitan inclinations and their more traditional obligations to the citizens who elected them.

Right wing politics, especially when based on ethnic nationalism, are rarely good for minorities, who fare better in a more open, cosmopolitan environment. Jews were among the most ardent supporters of black Americans struggle for civil rights in the 1950 s and 1960 s.

In a world of globalization, however, many people belong to multiple imagined communities. Some local, regional, national, cosmopolitan seem to be arranged as concentric circles, with the strength of identity diminishing with distance from the core but, in a global information age, this ordering has become confused.

What stood out instead was their habitual frame of reference, which was tied to their personal identities. When Merton engaged people in conversation, any topic would remind the cosmopolitan influentials of the world at large, while local influentials were reminded of things in their own town.

Moreover, Israel is painfully aware of the many legitimate interests that Europe has in the region. Instability is a threat to those interests, and with Europe becoming a cosmopolitan continent with a huge Muslim population, the Arab Israeli conflict has, for Europeans, an undeniable domestic dimension as well.

New populist parties garner large numbers of votes simply by frightening people about the supposed horrors of Islam, or of clashing civilizations. For the populists, however, the real enemies perhaps even more nefarious than the immigrants themselves are the cosmopolitan elites who tolerate and even encourage these horrors.

One must realize that individuals choose whether to play the role of cosmopolitan or local, and how much to invest in that role. People make a conscious choice to become either cosmopolitans or locals, depending on their own personal talents and the perceived returns from making the choice.

They are home to most of the hundreds of millions of Chinese who have been lifted out of extreme poverty in just a few decades. Beijing and Shanghai are almost overwhelming in their scale and energy, lined with shimmering skyscrapers, adorned with bright neon lights, and teeming with increasingly cosmopolitan citizens.

In a world in which people are organized in national communities, a purely cosmopolitan ideal is unrealistic. Global income equalization, for example, is not a credible obligation for a national political leader but such a leader could rally followers by saying that more should be done to reduce poverty and disease worldwide.

If Abe and his allies were cosmopolitan in their outlook, with a deep understanding of, or concern for, other countries, the decision to revisit the 1993 apology would indeed be extraordinary. But, as is true of many political leaders, especially on the nationalistic right, they are chauvinistic provincials whose concerns are almost entirely domestic.

Rovere s influential people seemed to be sharply divided into cosmopolitan influentials, who habitually orient themselves with respect to the world at large, and local influentials, who orient themselves with respect to their own town. As he and his assistants interviewed people, the division between the two groups became more intriguing, and significant, in his mind.

Popular reaction against the cosmopolitan, coastal, and market oriented reforms of Zhu and Jiang brought to power leaders whose formative experiences were in the inland provinces of Gansu and Tibet. Riding a wave of resentment against inequality and social tensions, Hu and his prime minister, Wen Jiabao, promised a harmonious society, without the stresses of Zhu s agenda.

Nor is this pressure confined to the United States. New middle classes are emerging globally, and magazines like Cosmopolitan and Vogue are targeting newly middle class women in India and China many of them part of a generation with its own disposable income for the first time ever in their family histories with the very same luxury goods.

Hong Kong s first chief executive, Tung Chee hwa, was widely viewed as a wise choice. The Western educated heir to a shipping fortune, and unusually well connected with the global elite, Tung was thought to be a conservative, thoughtful, cosmopolitan man imbued with liberal values and free of ties to the powerful families that dominated the real estate industry in the territory.

This unwitting comparison usually comes out in favor of Chinese officials, who are, as a group, better educated, more cosmopolitan, and more focused on business (because the ruling Communist Party uses economic growth and foreign investment as criteria for promoting officials). And, as an organization, the Chinese state is far stronger and more purposive than states are in more typical developing countries.

The big, cosmopolitan cities of Beijing and Shanghai have grown dramatically, but the bulk of the urban migration has been to cookie cutter small and medium size industrial towns that have mushroomed over the last decade. By clustering industrial infrastructure and using the hukou system of city specific residency permits, the authorities have been able to control the process surprisingly well.

The term global village was first popularized in the late 1960 s by Canadian communications maven Marshall McLuhan in response to the already powerful communications media of that day. But McLuhan could not have anticipated the cosmopolitan class, because he could not have anticipated the immense development of direct interpersonal communications media that allow cosmopolitans around the world to form friendships.

By contrast, in Poland, which had witnessed its own tentative opening in the March student movement, a nationalist authoritarian faction exploited all that was intolerant and ignorant in Polish tradition, employing xenophobia and anti intellectual rhetoric. Polish Interior Minister Mieczyslaw Moczar, the leader of the nationalist faction, combined communist rhetoric with a language proper to fascist movements in order to mobilize the masses against the cosmopolitan liberal intelligentsia.