Advocacy For Cosmopolitanism

The Internet is playing a very important role in the evolution of digital technology, but although it has seen remarkable growth over the last few years, its dispersion remains highly asymmetric. It is widely believed that the so called information age will bring radical change and improvement, and countries all over the world are busy with constructing the necessary infrastructure, the "information superhighways," in order to meet the challenges of the information society of the twenty-first century. Kwame Anthony Appiah’s essay “Making Conversation” tell us about human’s conversation

Appiah spends more than half of his introduction describing how complicated the word cosmopolitanism truly is. He keeps revolving around the overlapping idea that we as a people, are not confined to the limits of what our eyes can see. Our strengths, our experiences and our knowledge comes from more than where we were born or how we were raised. We cannot and should not be limited to those

The United States is the richest nation, yet millions of Americans live below the poverty line and millions more struggle every month. The children in society today living in poverty is increasing daily. The majority of these children are from single-parent homes where sometimes parents are not working or have become disabled and therefore cannot work. Children who are raised in foster care and leave as adults do not have strong relationship ties most of the time and are at an increased risk for experiencing poverty, early parenthood and homelessness (American School Board Journal, 2007). The reason for most of the poverty in the United States is due to low family incomes.

While reading The State of America's Children, the short stories stood out to me the most. By reading about some of what people have to go through, I was able to develop a deeper understanding of how poverty impacts children and their families. The experiences discussed throughout the article, such as the event on page 7 stirred up some emotions about the topic.

Those who argue that poverty has no effects on the mind and development of those who grow up and live in it are merely blind to the struggles of families that cannot afford the basic necessities needed to live. While I knew that there had to be some adverse effects brought on by growing in environments that are undoubtedly less than ideal but, this writing has given me a new perspective on poverty and more of a reason to help bring an end to

Utilizing a wide variety of subjects, including literature, history, and philosophy—as well as his own personal experiences, Kwame Anthony Appiah through his novel Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, seeks to explain the similarities and differences of the people that inhabit the world. Prehistoric hunters and gatherers formed close-knit communities which were founded upon survival, humanity, in turn, was shaped by those experiences. Centuries later, those close-knit communities have expanded into kingdoms, cities, nation states, and world order. Appiah states that, cosmopolitanism “begins with the simple idea that in the human community, as in national communities, we need to develop habits of coexistence: conversation in its older meaning, of living together, association” (Appiah, xix). Here, Appiah reminds humans that we have been living beside each other since the beginning of time.

Jo Goodwin Parker, writes a narrative based on her own experiences while being poor in the essay “What is Poverty.” The author has lived through a variety of illnesses while being the only provider for her six children as demonstrated by the following statement, “…they

I agree with your statement about Cosmopolitanism, it is fascinating term. Meeting people from different cultures and countries make your life so rich of knowledge and experiences. Social workers have the honor to meet and serve families from different background, and learn from them, I think we are privilege for doing this job. Don’t you think?

This earth that all humans live on is becoming increasingly globalized, and the question often arises of what this means when analyzing the world through an ethical perspective. A globalized world most definitely demands the need for a cosmopolitan ethic at its most basic definition, despite the term being something that has been around long before globalization become a relevant term. Hutchings defined cosmopolitanism in her book Global Ethics, on page 10: “Cosmopolitanism, essentially any form of moral universalism that takes the human individual as the foundation of moral value.” Throughout this paper, I will discuss why globalization demands a cosmopolitan point of view through the three branches of globalization: political, social and economic.

Each belief has a function of interpretation, and the need for interpretation is a function that is situated at a specific time and place. Hence, We need all the perspectives to achieve the universal ethics as possible, but not fall into Universalism; as many means of approach to other but trapped by particulars. The examples of public ownership of art, belief in witchcraft and science, they have all challenged this ancient stream of thought in a world full of strangers, rather the existence of different shows that people are bound together by our common value and humanity. In modern society, we are interdependent and through this organic unity, we know Cosmopolitanism is a universal trait of humankind. Cosmopolitanism is what we have come aware of through modern transportation and information system. Whatever cosmos means to us today, in our current situation, it functions as an approach to work with forms of differences. At the heart of Cosmopolitanism, the goal is not to categorize different models of thinking/knowing and put them into a hierarchy, instead to allow people have the freedom to opinion. Without a fixed criteria of the epistemic norm of truth, and focused our shared value on humanity, we can ascribe freedom to everyone and advance human civilization as a

Throughout the essay, the author uses many creditable sources to appeal to ethos as well as what she has personally experienced as being a single mother. She also included some of the studies that are done on single mothers by experts such as: sociologist and professors. Being a single mother in society is very different from being a mother. According to “In Defense of Single Motherhood,” “A Pew Research Center poll on family structures reports that nearly 7 in 10 Americans think single mothers are a “bad thing for society”” (Roiphe 58). Roiphe also uses her own personal experience on what it is like being a single mother with two children. Using her personal experience adds so much to the message, but not only that she also provided us with

Culture of poverty theory emphasizes that this parenting style can be continuous in the generation, this tends to bridge the gap between children that are emerging from poverty. (Fram, 2000) says the motive is to break the culture of poverty by changing parenting style and attitude of the less privileged parent

My love for children has always been something that has pushed me into going into a helping profession. In my field placement I am working primarily with African American children from low-income families and families that live in low income neighborhoods. This inspired me to look further into the plight of impoverished children and the effect poverty can have on them. I seek to explore the biological, educational and social effects it has on their lives. This will allow me to create better programs and allow me to find solutions for them. Poverty affects children as an environment that is damaging to their mental, emotional and spiritual development. (UNICEF, 2014) This goes beyond traditional definitions such as low income or low levels of consumption. It is rare that child poverty is differentiated from poverty in general when it should be. Poverty is not just a measure of children’s suffering it also measures their disempowerment. Poverty also can risk a child’s safety. (UNICEF, 2014) Material deprivation can have children more susceptible to violence and abuse in the home as well as in school. Some of these children are forced to work at a young age at the expense of their education and recreation. (UNICEF, 2014)

Children from broken families nowadays choose to live their life worth it. Because the child has no parents to lean on, they stand by themselves and hold on to something which will make their lives better. This shows that even if children suffered from a traumatizing event, they still managed to recover and help themselves alone which makes them an independent person, a better person in the community.

This suggests that single mothers that are not married to the child’s father have a higher chance of facing poverty, than those who are with their child’s father. Not having the support of the father in a single parent household can limit the growth of the family and restrict their ability to stand firmly on their feet.