Word: cosmopolitans
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...national identity among those whom they saw as their compatriots and to rally them for nationalist causes. Now, however, the emergence of a global economy, plus the arrival of transnational coalitions (on issues such as women's rights or the environment), has led many elites to develop a more cosmopolitan identity. Yet the average citizen in most countries remains strongly nationalistic and often strongly opposes elite views...
...Goble is not alone--many of the neighborhood's residents, most who lived in the area for decades, would not trade its slow-paced style for any of the more cosmopolitan Cambridge districts...
When it's warm, Harvard Square is a magnet for young people in less cosmopolitan suburbs. The Pit People are just the most colorful example--they're the flock of pierced, dyed, leather-clad youths next to the T stop...
...streets and cafes of Beirut are filled with ambitious, entrepreneurial Arabs from around the region, eager to transform the country. Visions abound: some see Lebanon as a kind of Singapore of the Middle East, a technology and business center for the entire region. Others dream of a more cosmopolitan nation that recalls Lebanon's days as one of the Mediterranean's most opulent jewels...
...dream" doesn't necessarily have to constitute something particularly sophisticated, either. Cosmopolitan ran an article last month about a DKNY publicist who launched a website that chronicles her fictional character, a trendy Manhattanite named Vivian. Supposedly, thousands of people are logging on daily to check out what "Vivian" is up to--you can even leave your name and e-mail address so she can contact you "should something major be going on, or just to say hello." One wonders what "major" fictional event could possibly be important enough to manifest itself tangibly--did Vivian get an invisible...