Week 3

While reading an article about cosmopolitanism, I found myself agreeing with much of what was said in favor of the approach to global relations.  America has swung on both sides of the spectrum, from being extremely closed off to world affairs during its early years, to becoming a global superpower after the second world war.  Often we as Americans are raised to believe that our country is superior economically, politically, and educationally to other nations.  This worldview is super biased and often leads people to snub other countries or even label them as "inferior." I really like the quote that cosmopolitans know that "no local loyalty can ever justify forgetting that each human being has responsibility to ever other." Partial cosmopolitanism strikes a nice balance between loyalty to one's own country and loyalty to the world as a whole.  It's pretty easy to be cocooned within my own understanding of the world from over here in Utah, but I'm really glad that I'm going to have this wonderful opportunity to learn about and care for people who come from different areas of the world. 

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