EXTRA CREDIT BLOG

Hi guys, here is my blog for extra credit about Appiah believing that a community built on cosmopolitan principles would be one of the finest expressions of our humanity. Hope you enjoy <(^_^)>

I believe that Appiah has great intentions when he says that a cosmopolitan community would be one of the finest expressions of our humanity. But, I believe there are both pros and cons to this type of community. So first, I’ll express what I think is good about a cosmopolitan community. Living in a cosmopolitan place where people tolerate all of your beliefs and values (again they don’t have to agree, but rather just understand them) would truly be a place to take in. I don’t see how there could be any hate or war or anything of that idea if your values were tolerated by everyone. It would most likely be multi-cultural since every culture is understood by everyone. Everyone would matter to everyone else, and they would have their universal obligations to others. Everyone would care if someone else didn’t want “something done unto them,” and rather would ask if they want the same things. So from these few examples you can see a community that is full of respect and understanding, a great idea isn’t it?

Well actually, as great of an idea that it seems to be, I don’t think it would last. As much as you would like to think it’s possible, I think it’s impossible to get everyone to maintain the same understanding for everyone else. But let’s say that it does happen, the community has people who are all complete dedicated cosmopolitans; it still would not work. Cosmopolitanism is all about tolerance of other values, culture, etc. So in multi cultural community, you are bound to have people with many different languages, beliefs, rituals, and religions. Well if all these people are living in one community, they are bound to start creating one universal language so they all can communicate, which would meaning losing a value of their own language. If this community was living and working together, they would start to share their beliefs or rituals with others and everyone would start to have the same ones. People would start to lose their individualism. They would end up creating a new culture that is a mixture of all the other cultures; and therefore lose the cultural differences. Everything would start being the same for people. I believe that if over time it got to that point, people would start to get tired of the same things, and would stop tolerating the normality. And over a period of time, the community would grow, and not everyone in the community would be cosmopolitans, and therefore the community will lose its overall cosmopolitanism values.

So overall, I think that it’s a great idea to try to start a cosmopolitan community, but would be near to impossible to keep it that way. As much as a dedicated cosmopolitan the person might be, I don’t believe that they would stay that over a period of time in this cosmopolitan place. As I said, over time it would lose its cosmopolitan values and would no longer stay a cosmopolitan community. As the “Cosmopolitan Canopy” showed that there can be a small place where people can be a part of cosmopolitanism that does not mean that the people who go to a place that represents a cosmopolitan canopy are cosmopolitan people. I am sure that some people start to relax and venture outside their bubble, but it doesn’t mean that they will tolerate others’ values. So as much as I might agree with the thought at first that it would be a great expression of our humanity, it would have a great downfall over time as the cultural differences disappear and cosmopolitans turn counter-cosmopolitans.


Thanks for reading :)
-Reecie ^_^