Word: cosmopolitanism
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...from A.D. 1 to A.D. 33 happened to be a high point for the holy city. It was, says Eric Meyers, professor of Judaic studies at Duke University, "a great, great metropolitan area" and home to the lavishly restored Jewish Temple, a world-renowned wonder. It was prosperous and cosmopolitan. And it was also, unknowingly, the cradle for something else, a way of believing, of seeing, that would change the West and the rest of history. It is worth revisiting Jerusalem during this period not so much in celebration as in curiosity--to know the metropolis that shaped Jesus' last...
...Until the beginning of the 1990s, when the Soviet Union began to disintegrate, Grozny was one of the most livable places in the Caucasus. The climate was mild, the surrounding countryside spectacular, and fruit, grapes, wine and dairy products abundant. There was a cosmopolitan population of over half a million: Russians, Chechens, Armenians, Azeris, Jews and other peoples of the Caucasus. Now Grozny is more like a post-nuclear nightmare, a city systematically leveled by the Russian military campaign that propelled Vladimir Putin to the presidency a year ago, where gunfire and explosions are still so common that they blend...
...Europe has long had its share of cosmopolitan globe-hoppers such as Pichler. But now, even those who don't fit into the go-anywhere jet set can now lay claim to a more expansive world. The ease of travel, the advances in communications technology, the ubiquity of multinational brand names, the interdependence of the global economy - all have served to provide young adults with a set of mutual experiences, attitudes and cultural cues. In a Continent where 83% of young West European adults carry mobile phones, this generation's lingua franca is the text message. Europe's nightclubs have...
...come upon an intelligent elitist long, long dead, especially when we live in an Ephesus of our own, filled, as his was, with mediocrities and idiot intoxications. Haxton writes in his introduction: "To a sober mind, the drunkenness of cultic worshippers must have been particularly unappealing in a cosmopolitan city like Ephesus, with gods of wine on every side, drunken Greeks initiated into the Thracian ecstasies of Dionysus running amok with drunken Phrygians worshipping Sabazius, Lydians possessed by Bassareus, and Cretans in the frenzy of Zagreus, all claiming in their cups to have transcended understanding...
...electricity and running water. A lone goat bleating often punctuates the usual rural stillness, but when people gather for traditional ceremonies the landscape reverberates with songs of courting and dances of war. Isicathamiya embraces both these vibrant customs and the modern cultural innovations brought by Zulu workers living in cosmopolitan cities such as Durban...