cosmopolitanism

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Today, the phrase suggests Mitteleuropa, the borderless, multilingual cosmopolitanism of pre-1914 Europe; the world of yesterday, as the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig called it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

A concerted campaign has cropped up seemingly overnight to turn Mamdani’s victory into an opportunity to attack cosmopolitanism.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2025

Mr Suraiya spiritedly defended the magazine: "JS spoke to a certain urban educated cultural sensibility that was in a sense, Westernised, but it was shaping a distinctly Indian cosmopolitanism".

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

"Ostelsheim has set a clear example, and in that sense has also made history. Also a strong signal for cosmopolitanism, for tolerance," he said, adding he might never have had such chances in Syria.

From Reuters • Apr. 5, 2023

Our contemporaries would score off us in local interest, but we should take the shine out of them in cosmopolitanism.'

From The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel