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There are many people of cosmopolitan temperament who are not from the elites of their societies or the world and while, for a variety of reasons, I think a cosmopolitan spirit does naturally go with city life, that's the life of a very large proportion of human beings today. And I don't think rural people can't be cosmopolitan, in my sense.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Kwame Anthony Appiah
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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