Cosmopolitan is that which is linked to all countries or that is common to them.
Cosmopolitan is an adjective that describes everything that is common to countries . Said of an individual , a cosmopolitan being is one who conceives all corners of the planet as his homeland .
The word cosmopolitan , in fact, comes from a Greek term that in Spanish is interpreted as "citizen of the world."
Regarding an animal or a plant species, an organism is said to be cosmopolitan when it acclimatizes to any territory or manages to withstand all types of climatic conditions.
Origin of the term cosmopolitan
It should be made clear that those who first used the term cosmopolitan were the Stoic philosophers and they openly declared themselves citizens of the world. Those were the members of a philosophical movement, created by Zeno of Citium in the year 301 BC. C , who left humanity as a legacy his theory of knowledge or Stoic morality.
The expression citizen of the world is usually applied to those who seek to overcome the limits of geopolitical division and the national citizenships that correspond to the various sovereign States . Cosmopolitans reject the patriotic identity imposed by national governments and recognize themselves as independent as citizens of the Earth.
The notion in politics
Beyond the ideological or philosophical issue, the integral cosmopolitan supports a political plan designed to develop a new model of citizenship that has global reach and is voluntary.
Cosmopolitans believe that the person must acquire voluntary commitments and the right to active participation in the place they select to reside, within a local and federative administration with other localities. In this way, the man will be a local citizen of the area of which he is a neighbor as long as he lives there and maintains the will to be a citizen.
Among the causes defended by cosmopolitans are freedom from any type of national, ethnic, sexual or religious prejudice , gender equality, auxiliary languages, the universal system of weights and measures, the universal currency, democratic globalization and education and health care for all .
Cosmopolitan cities are characterized by cultural diversity.
Cosmopolitan cities
In the same way, it should also be emphasized that today the term cosmopolitan is widely used to refer to various cities in the world. Specifically, when this word is used to refer to a specific city, what is meant is that many people from different places in the world live there, that many cultures coexist and that it is open to all types of cultural influences regardless of where they come from. come
Thus, for example, in Spain it is common to use the aforementioned adjective to describe places like Barcelona or Madrid . An example of this could be the following: «Madrid is a cosmopolitan city that opens its arms to welcome people from all over the world willing to enrich themselves with the cultural mix that exists thanks to the harmonious coexistence of American, European, Africans and Asians .
A 19th century magazine
It is interesting to note, finally, that in the mid-19th century there was a periodical called "El Cosmopolita" .
This political and journalistic magazine was created and directed by the writer Juan Montalvo , an Ecuadorian who tried to use this medium to publicize situations and events that were taking place throughout the planet.