4) Although Anderson puts several insights as to how cosmopolitanism is defined, there is no particular condition that is most adequate. Anderson has several characteristics that are all equally essential in order for a person or place to be considered pluralistic. For example, if area has many different ethnicities represented but these ethnic groups remain separate from one another, this is not considered cosmopolitan. It is obligatory that all of the different conditions be met in order to fully display a cosmopolitan society/ individual. Although Anderson is not fully clear on what specifically attributes to cosmopolitanism, he provides plenty of information on this phenomenon. The reader is able to pick out the characteristics they find
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Anderson struggles to make sense of the multiethnic societies existing in today’s world and the complexities that influence how the human interactions take place here. He portrays what he terms as cosmopolitan canopies as spaces that offer some sense of relief from urban tensions, allowing people to interact as equals. In each of the canopies that Anderson describes, we can sense his hope that cosmopolitan canopies, specifically, may open people’s minds and allow them to let go of previous feelings of particularism. Anderson displays Lonergan’s level of action because he tends to focus more on how cosmopolitan is not being displayed in these cities. Anderson uses his own experiences and observations to create a sense of how cosmopolitanism can be created, by describing situations where it does not seem to exist. By showing areas and events in which people act more ethnocentric as uncomfortable and undesirable, he is teaching people to be more open minded in order to create a more successful society. Anderson seems to have a positive outlook, however, stating, “As we move toward a day when these particularities matter less and less, the ethno perspective may lose its force and cosmopolitan tolerance may take its place’ (p. 198). He does not give a solution on how to make societies more cosmopolitan, but after reading this it is easy to pick out different ways to live that can ultimately lead individuals doing so. In the final chapter of the book, Anderson offers some advice as to how people can keep an open mind and seek out to make others comfortable, rather than withdrawing from the unfamiliar (p. 281). Anderson explains that the term “canopy” is an umbrella term and includes compact public places, a specific city street, or entire neighborhoods. It is up to an individual person to live with a cosmopolitan outlook, as Anderson sees it,
Anderson struggles to make sense of the multiethnic societies existing in today’s world and the complexities that influence how the human interactions take place here. He portrays what he terms as cosmopolitan canopies as spaces that offer some sense of relief from urban tensions, allowing people to interact as equals. In each of the canopies that Anderson describes, we can sense his hope that cosmopolitan canopies, specifically, may open people’s minds and allow them to let go of previous feelings of particularism. Anderson displays Lonergan’s level of action because he tends to focus more on how cosmopolitan is not being displayed in these cities. Anderson uses his own experiences and observations to create a sense of how cosmopolitanism can be created, by describing situations where it does not seem to exist. By showing areas and events in which people act more ethnocentric as uncomfortable and undesirable, he is teaching people to be more open minded in order to create a more successful society. Anderson seems to have a positive outlook, however, stating, “As we move toward a day when these particularities matter less and less, the ethno perspective may lose its force and cosmopolitan tolerance may take its place’ (p. 198). He does not give a solution on how to make societies more cosmopolitan, but after reading this it is easy to pick out different ways to live that can ultimately lead individuals doing so. In the final chapter of the book, Anderson offers some advice as to how people can keep an open mind and seek out to make others comfortable, rather than withdrawing from the unfamiliar (p. 281). Anderson explains that the term “canopy” is an umbrella term and includes compact public places, a specific city street, or entire neighborhoods. It is up to an individual person to live with a cosmopolitan outlook, as Anderson sees it,