Word: cosmopolitanization
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...passengers may in the past have been disconcerted to discover that a flight to Copenhagen didn't actually land in the Danish capital, but instead flew into the Swedish city of Malm? with a 45-minute bus connection to Copenhagen. Now more and more flyers are staying in the cosmopolitan port, whose old city is surrounded by canals crisscrossed by bridges, rather than using it merely as a drop-off point. Southern Sweden's chamber of commerce executive vice-president, Ingemar Nilsson, says increasing numbers of Britons now "come here to enjoy the clean air and easy access to nature...
...Beijing with a bamboo flute, the equivalent of $1.50 pinned to the inside of his pants pocket and a small bag of soil from the riverbank of his remote southern-Chinese hometown. As a matriculating student at the Beijing Languages Institute, which in 1979 is China's most cosmopolitan school, he is the ultimate rube. He has never laid eyes on a foreigner, listened to a radio, tasted coffee or seen a refrigerator, and when he opens his mouth to speak?whether in English or his heavily accented Chinese?his classmates and teachers just laugh in uncomprehending ridicule...
...swelled to more than 10,000 and was the second biggest in the city after the Japanese. Its members staged operas, ballets and plays?one former ballerina even taught a young Margot Fonteyn to dance?and their restaurants, millineries and fur shops helped give the French Concession its cosmopolitan character. Every self-respecting Chinese gangster had a bevy of White Russian bodyguards riding on the running boards of his Chevrolet...
...captures the atmosphere of contemporary Tokyo and enlightens with the plight of the burakumin. She thoroughly intertwines the tales of three dynamic characters—Lois, a Harvard-educated painter, Shintaro, the buraku, and a stockbroker usually known as Max or Jack. She deftly uncovers the seediness of the cosmopolitan gaijin (foreigner) world of nightclubs and gin-and-tonics, blackmail and insider trading. Her most delightful descriptions are of these underworld dealings and of the intrigues in the personal lives of the protagonists, each of whom loves the one member of the trio who doesn’t love...
With its slick black homescreen with a new-agey world map, this website is more reminiscent of a swanky bachelor’s pad rather than your mother’s travel agent’s office. This site seems to prey only the most cosmopolitan of travelers and temptresses, as most of its deals are for international flights only...