Jang suggests looking for people who have a more cosmopolitan mind-set, who understand how to work and relate across cultures.
"It was a dream of cosmopolitan riches of the mind.
When first attempting to get published, Winton had to cast his mind to cosmopolitan readers and estrange himself from the native landscape whose stories he actually wanted to tell.
The imminent Futurism compilation on London label City Rockers showcases most of electroclash's leading lights and reveals an unusually cosmopolitan network of like minds: Ladytron and Alpinestars in Britain, Miss Kittin and the Hacker in France, Peaches and Chicks on Speed in Germany, Tiga & Zyntherius in Montreal, Felix Da Housecat in Chicago, Fischerspooner in New York.
The mind of the cosmopolitan culture could also open itself to new blood and fresh views.
No one living outside a few neighborhoods in New York — or similar neighborhoods in London and a few other cosmopolitan cities — knew about, never mind cared about, most of the music being made there in the mid-'70s.
"We find they are positioning it to the kind of sophisticated cosmopolitan buyer we had in mind," said André Balazs, the well-known hotelier, who was brought in by the developers — S. Lawrence Davis and Alex Sapir — to help create a stylish image for the building.
While the perfumer paid homage to bigger, more obvious cosmopolitan destinations that typically come to mind (New York, Paris and Tokyo), he reveled in exploring smaller, more intimate ports of call and translating their most memorable qualities into a spritz.
"I want to be married with kids in 10 years," the star, who is currently single, told Cosmopolitan, adding that she keeps an open mind about whom she chooses to date.
Even her frame of mind is, in spite of her cosmopolitan culture, Tuscan.
"Changing My Mind" displays many of its virtues: a cosmopolitan suavity and wit that often relieves intellectual ponderousness.
