cosmopolite

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The cosmopolite respects and appreciates difference, while acknowledging that “no local loyalty can ever justify forgetting that each human being has responsibilities to every other.”

From Slate • Sep. 14, 2018

In an era when university art departments, like museums, tended to be divided into fiefs, each controlled by a specialist, Mr. Rosand, a genuine cosmopolite, walked a broad terrain.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2014

He is therefore a cosmopolite who believes that "it is extremely hard"�and extremely important�"for one man to understand the nationalism of another."

From Time Magazine Archive

He can play by turns the extravagant cosmopolite who rides horses with President Reagan, and the devout Muslim who is officially known as Commander of the Faithful.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sparrow is a regular cosmopolite; we have found it wherever we have found man; ever with the same vivid, petulant, quarrelsome character; ever with the same sharp, angry cry. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis