{"id":35236,"date":"2018-02-23T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35236"},"modified":"2018-02-03T09:29:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T14:29:43","slug":"qotd-cosmopolitans-as-viewed-by-non-cosmopolitans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/02\/23\/qotd-cosmopolitans-as-viewed-by-non-cosmopolitans\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Cosmopolitans, as viewed by non-Cosmopolitans"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; it\u2019s a problem that our tribe of self-styled cosmopolitans doesn\u2019t see itself clearly <em>as<\/em> a tribe: because that means our leaders can\u2019t see themselves the way the Brexiteers and Trumpistas and Marine Le Pen voters see them.<\/p>\n<p>They can\u2019t see that what feels diverse on the inside can still seem like an aristocracy to the excluded, who look at cities like London and see, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dissentmagazine.org\/blog\/britains-eu-problem-london-problem\" target=\"_blank\">as Peter Mandler wrote<\/a> for <em>Dissent<\/em> after the Brexit vote, \u201ca nearly hereditary professional caste of lawyers, journalists, publicists, and intellectuals, an increasingly hereditary caste of politicians, tight coteries of cultural movers-and-shakers richly sponsored by multinational corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They can\u2019t see that paeans to multicultural openness can sound like self-serving cant coming from open-borders Londoners who love Afghan restaurants but would never live near an immigrant housing project, or American liberals who hail the end of whiteness while doing everything possible to keep their kids out of majority-minority schools.<\/p>\n<p>They can\u2019t see that their vision of history\u2019s arc bending inexorably away from tribe and creed and nation-state looks to outsiders like something familiar from eras past: A powerful caste\u2019s self-serving explanation for why it alone deserves to rule the world.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Douthat, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/03\/opinion\/sunday\/the-myth-of-cosmopolitanism.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Myth of Cosmopolitanism&#8221;, <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, 2016-07-03.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; it\u2019s a problem that our tribe of self-styled cosmopolitans doesn\u2019t see itself clearly as a tribe: because that means our leaders can\u2019t see themselves the way the Brexiteers and Trumpistas and Marine Le Pen voters see them. They can\u2019t see that what feels diverse on the inside can still seem like an aristocracy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,41,13],"tags":[262,651,907],"class_list":["post-35236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-culture","tag-multiculturalism","tag-snobbery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9ak","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35237,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35236\/revisions\/35237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}