cosmopolite
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The cosmopolite respects and appreciates difference, while acknowledging that “no local loyalty can ever justify forgetting that each human being has responsibilities to every other.”
From Slate • Sep. 14, 2018
In an era when university art departments, like museums, tended to be divided into fiefs, each controlled by a specialist, Mr. Rosand, a genuine cosmopolite, walked a broad terrain.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2014
Intending to make a cosmopolite and a critic of himself in his middle age, the boy from The Bronx has bought a tweed suit and a pigskin briefcase and begun a book on Giotto.
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He is therefore a cosmopolite who believes that "it is extremely hard"�and extremely important�"for one man to understand the nationalism of another."
From Time Magazine Archive
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You are polite, and I'm cosmopolite, my dear Davis.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 by Various