COSMOPOLITAN

Cosmopolitan Communities

Cosmopolitan Communities

Introduction

Cosmopolitanism

There are different types of communities that exist in the American societies today. One of these types is cosmopolitan communities. Cosmopolitan communities entail a variety of believes, customs, attitudes and interests. Cosmopolitanism is the ideology, according to which, ethnic groups, with similar morality values, belong to one single community. It is believed that the cosmopolitanism is all about creating a government that can rule all the communities, with a variety of beliefs, customs and norms, around the world. It is a system in which different communities come together to be governed by a single entity. This relationship between different communities is not formed because of some kind of autocratic framework but all of them respect each other.

An inhabitant of a cosmopolitan community is known as a cosmopolite or a cosmopolitan, who is bound to share the beliefs and values of his community. No matter what religious, economic or social beliefs a person holds, it is the relationship of respect that becomes a reason for these cosmopolites to form a binding relationship (Heater, 1996, p. 34). In United States, due to the inflow of people from all around the world, there is an increase in the number of cosmopolitan communities due to multicultural provoking.

Discussion

Cosmopolitans share universalism

The cosmopolitans, belonging to different communities, states and nations, share and respect each other's ideas. The idea of cosmopolitanism can be traced back to the times of Cynic Movement that was initiated in the Greece in the 4th century B.C. it was the founding father of the Cynic Movement, Diogenes of Sinope, who emphasized on the notion that every person on this earth was a “citizen of this world”. He believed in this philosophy because he thought himself to be a citizen of the world, who is not caged by the boundaries. Immanuel Kant is one of the modern thinkers, who were in favor of the ideology of cosmopolitanism. He was of the belief that, through the ideology of cosmopolitanism, people could be protected from the dangers of wars and a universal hospitality principle could be formed so that none of the inhabitants of this world suffers from mischievousness of others (Hoffee, 2006, p. 55).

Cosmopolitans also believes that the human self-respect and dignity must be protected and preserved in the international law regardless of any discriminations based on religion, culture, race, political and other ethnicity issues. Beyond these beliefs and ideas, the cosmopolitans also believe that there must be a universal law to protect the environment. They are against the negative impacts of the technological developments in the societies. According to the cosmopolitans, there is no ambiguity that exists in the process of giving equal treatment to every person because there are some universal rights that no one can be deprived of. In view of the cosmopolitans, all the individuals of the world have identical rights.

According to the modern cosmopolitanism thinkers like Emannuel Levinas, the human behavior is not governed by any of the moral laws that are accepted ...