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How do we make democracy work for the poor?
Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher advocating a school of thought called 'cosmopolitanism'.
He describes cosmopolitanism as a very old tradition because the word "cosmopolitan" comes from the Greek phrase from the 4th century BC, 'kosmopolites', which means "citizen of the world".
It is a tradition of thought, which tries to develop a metaphor for the idea that we are all citizens of the world, he explains.
Cosmopolitans welcome diversity of culture,...
