But Midlanders point to signs of growing cosmopolitanism, including a planned 110-unit, loft-style apartment building downtown.
In his eyes, Mr Schnittke was in thrall to formalism, cosmopolitanism and, worse still, religion.
We tend to trumpet the very best of international music, celebrating our discerning cosmopolitanism.
This model proved a galloping success, spreading around the world to about any city with some claim to cosmopolitanism.
Music critic John Brady has this whirlwind tour of something called Pop Cosmopolitanism.
It is quite clear that globalisation and cosmopolitanism are nails in the coffin of deluded ideas of national identities.
The trick is to argue for greater cosmopolitanism and less nativism than we see today, without having to advocate for open borders.
Via the internet, satellite dishes, travel and interaction with a 2m-strong diaspora, its people are painfully aware of the prosperous cosmopolitanism enjoyed elsewhere.
If the new Chinese elite can be persuaded that deliberately eating endangered species ill befits their aspirations to cosmopolitanism, there might be some hope for the sharks.
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Whether built with delicate sensitivity to materials or dull adherence to principles, the glass box became an icon of Cold War capitalism, a symbol of modernist cosmopolitanism befitting a global superpower in the making.
Asked to sum up, Professor Giddens said and I have this almost verbatim that the seminar showed there was a new cultural sensibility emerging, based on the collapse of neo-liberalism and post-modernism, and the start of global cosmopolitanism.
While Spanish football's reputation for sophistication and flair has made la Liga one of the most attractive and marketable competitions in world football, attitudes in the stands have not always kept apace with the cosmopolitanism on display on the pitch.
The takeaway is that economists should stress the cosmopolitan, and instead of dismissing cosmopolitanism as merely implying untenable open borders we should be focusing on how to create immigration policies short of open borders take as much advantage as possible of these trillion dollar bills.
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