Kwame Kilpatrick

population by a patriarchal society in a way to control population growth. Mara Hvistendahl’s “Missing: 163 Million Women” focuses on the causes, consequences, and global implications of the gender imbalance in congruence with sharing of local practices. Kwame Anthony Appiah offers cosmopolitan concepts of taking interest in practices that lend significance to human life and shared practices in his book Cosmopolitanism. The global problem of gender imbalance challenges Appiah’s notion of coexistence in agreeing

technology, making it way easier for us to know what’s going on around the world from our couch with the help of the internet, which is known as globalization. Because of globalization it has become easier to communicate with people which is what Kwame Anthony Appiah emphasizes on “making conversation” and “the primacy of practice”. Appiah also talks about another concept that is cosmopolitanism which means global citizens of the world and how it may either bring people together or draw them apart

Kwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher who deserves great recognition in this age. After earning his Ph.D at Cambridge University he went on to teach at many Ivy League schools. He wrote the book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers which touches on many of the controversial topics of our present time and connects them to past problems that now seem to have a clear solution. Appiah 's discussions of various topics point out many of the difficulties faced by the HIV/AIDS victims, who are

In Kwame Appiah’s introductory chapter, Critical Thinking, he delves into the topic of cosmopolitanism, and its necessity within our modern world. Appiah claims that while complete cosmopolitanism may not be obtainable or optimal, partial cosmopolitanism is the ideal model for us to follow. He supports this claim by highlighting that the modern world is expanding rapidly in its population leading to a critical need for conversations to be established amongst ourselves. As a civilization who is divided

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

American society is embroiled in racial issues, which are rooted in the label of race and the divisions it causes. By creating labels and applying them to individuals, people are expected to fit into certain life “scripts” based on these labels. Kwame Anthony Appiah, in “Racial Identities” keenly describes “collective identities” and the issues that they cause. The effects of racial identities are extensive and extreme; they play an inherent role in who I am and they are deeply grounded in the history

their own goals and thoughts in their mind. With the 7 billion different thoughts in the world similar thoughts converge and create a community of the similar mind and eventually form something called culture. Every culture is different and unique. In Kwame Anthony Appiah’s novel “cosmopolitism,” in the chapter “Whose Culture is it anyways,” he talks about how citizens from different countries should learn about the cultures of the other countries in the world to make the world a better place. In the

which simple values and cosmopolitan ways would have changed the story, likely for the better. Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all humans are in the same community in the form of certain shared morals that we have. The author of Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Appiah, believes that all humans share a certain set of values, including the belief that everybody matters. In the book, there are many unneeded conflicts, and heartless acts. I am going to point out a few events that occur in the story in which cosmopolitanism

cultures through the same idea. The character Mr. Smith, in Things Fall Apart, replaces Mr. Brown as the Christian missionary in Umuofia, who runs the church. He is a strict white man who is not understanding to Umuofia’s culture. When one applies Kwame Anthony Appiah’s idea of cross-culture communication in Cosmopolitanism to the character, Mr. Smith, in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, this character changes by accepting other beliefs, including everyone no matter their status, and continuing

people. However, a convert by the name of Enoch creates tension and unrest between the tribe and the missionaries. If this character were to be more cosmopolitan, one who is familiar and accepts other cultures and ideas, and followed ideas presented in Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Cosmopolitanism his actions would have been vastly different. When one applies Appiah’s cosmopolitan ideas, in Cosmopolitanism to the character of Enoch in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the character of Enoch changes to become an individual