cosmopolitan

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.