Word: cosmopolitans
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...Modern day public discourse on race is insufficient and has instead been conveniently and irresponsibly framed in terms of diversity. The idea is that by being around different groups of people and by learning about their unique experiences, one is able to acquire a cosmopolitan perspective that will ultimately create racial harmony. Even more preposterous is the notion that diversity automatically leads to equality...
...living in New York for five years. The 28-year-old banker says she came home for "the good life" and that she's excited by the changes. "Many of the reasons people leave Singapore when they are young will be gone," Kwok says. "Life can only become more cosmopolitan and sophisticated. Everything will be less boring." Kwok adds that she expects Singapore will become "more of a melting pot like Manhattan, but at the core will be the heartlanders who've lived here for a long time and can pass along their values...
...been ages since adjectives like "sleepy" or "charming" have been attached to Chiang Mai. For years, Thailand's second city has been grappling with the same environmental problems as Bangkok (explosive population growth, unsightly sprawl, heavily polluted air and incessant traffic) with little of the capital's cosmopolitan sheen to compensate-except, that is, in the area of housewares, crafts and design, where Chiang Mai still maintains an edge. Reputedly Thailand's artistic capital, it enjoys perennial influxes of expatriate and local artists, gallery operators and designers attracted to the long traditions of craftsmanship...
When Hosseini went back to Kabul, the prosperous, cosmopolitan metropolis he remembered was gone, replaced by a polluted, impoverished, war-shattered city. "There's a line in my first novel where this guy says, 'I feel like a tourist in my own country,'" Hosseini says. "I felt the same way." He strolled around Kabul for weeks visiting relatives and talking to people he met in the street. "Some of the things I heard, I wouldn't have believed. This one guy told me he walked into a house one day and saw these three girls: one killed...
...launched its second issue at a reception last night at the Harvard College Women’s Center. The previous issue of the magazine, which founder and editor-in-chief Thea L. Sebastian ’08 called a “slightly more academic collegiate oriented version of Cosmopolitan or Seventeen,” came out in December 2005 amidst questions over its financial sustainability. This year, the magazine printed only 200 copies—3300 fewer copies than last year’s pioneer issue—with grant money from the Ann Radcliffe Trust and the Undergraduate...