This is how WordPress, international politics, and race relations took me on a Proustian journey and left me repeatedly watching Ute Lemper sing Surabaya Johnny on YouTube yesterday instead of spending time researching for my novel. The highlighters are laid across my desk; the green, the blue, the pink at oblique angles to the William Morris […]
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World Citizens
Cosmopolitanism is a philosophical position that treats all people as belonging to a shared, single world regardless of cultural differences. The theory originates from Greek philosopher Diogenes (c. 412 BCE – 323 BCE) who declared that he was a ‘citizen of the world’. Cosmopolitanism seeks to acknowledge and celebrate individual differences without judgement, but also recognise […]