Tokyo, in spite of a substantial foreign population and its world-class status, has considerably less of a cosmopolitan feel than a city such as New York.
Another difference, of course, is that Beirut, despite its ongoing tragedies, is still more-or-less functioning as a cosmopolitan, Levantine city.
He feels less an American than a cosmopolitan New Yorker.
Scattered across the globe by hunger and turmoil at home, the Irish have long been a cosmopolitan people, far less parochial than their former proprietors.
The medfly, Ceratitis capitata, is a highly invasive agricultural pest species that has expanded from its native range in sub-Saharan Africa to become a cosmopolitan species in less than 200 years.
But, in ten years' time, it may feel a little less European less cosmopolitan, less polyglot.
But these are not normal times, and people here said that the 2001 Worldwide Food Expo seemed a lot less cosmopolitan than in years past.
So Mormon conservatism takes an independent, and softer, line on immigration than, say, the Bible-Belt folk of the South.Oklahoma is a tad less cosmopolitan than, say, New York, but its politics have been pretty complex.
A cosmopolitan program is neither Utopian nor humanist and finally seems less geared toward how to make art than toward what it means to be an artist.
