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I also wonder how the question was phrased, in my experience Kosmopolit/Weltbürger has a lot of cultural baggage in the German cultural sphere; that it requires
by mxfh 10y ago
I also wonder how the question was phrased, in my experience Kosmopolit/Weltbürger has a lot of cultural baggage in the German cultural sphere; that it requires some sort of personal refinement (Herder, Kant, Klaus Mann), a label most people won't assert to themselves.
On the other hand the term was used as a negative propaganda term in the eastern bloc[1]
In my experience German's are way more likely to call themselves Europeans first (more than most other European nationalities), and happily skip the world citizen part for convenience's sake. Even the E in PEGIDA stand for Europeans.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootless_cosmopolitan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootless_cosmopolitan