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In “Cosmopolitanism,” Kwame Appiah uses this term to explain the responsibility that each member of the universe has to one another; a responsibility that goes beyond just country borders. He believes that in this day in age we separate ourselves from others with whom we do not share the same nations, opinions, customs, etc.Kwame Anthony Appiah is our postmodern Socrates. He asks what it means to be African and African-American, but his answers immediately raise issues that encompass us all.An analysis of an Article by Anthony Appiah on Globalization Appiah’s article The Case for Contamination focuses on cultural change and globalization. He sees globalization as a positive thing bringing positive changes to traditional ways of life.
Introduction Like all the other debates, the argument of Anthony Appiah is emphasized upon the concepts of “cosmopolitan” and “globalization”. He assesses whether thought controls language or language controls thought is ultimately improvable.In “Racial Identities” by Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses what a race is and how it is not just a “badge of color” (Appiah, 43). Appiah says that racial identification not only has social effects, but psychological effects that shape the way people conceive themselves. One’s race is not just of skin color but of culture.
Kwame Anthony Akroma-Ampim Kusi Appiah was born on Saturday, May 8 1954 in London, where his Ghanaian father was a law student, but moved at the age of six months, with his parents, to Ghana. (We know it was a Saturday because “Kwame” is the Akan name for a boy born on a Saturday.) His father, Joseph Emmanuel Appiah, a lawyer and politician.
