SOC207: Closely read this article: ‘The Death of Cosmopolitanism’, and write an essay Response to answer the Following: Social Stratification Essay, SUSS, Singapore

Closely read this article: ‘The Death of Cosmopolitanism’, and write an essay response to answer the following:

a)  Discuss in your own words what you have understood of ‘cosmopolitanism’ from its use in the article. Substantiate your insight with evidence from the article as well as with your learning about the concept from the course.

b)Takingofffromthearticle’sdiscussionofthethreattoaborderlessEurope, examine the impact of the death of cosmopolitanism within the Southeast Asian region in a post-COVIDclimate. (Meaning of post-COVID in this assignment = since you started knowing about COVID because COVID is not over)

You may choose to label your response as (a) and (b) however, your essay will be marked as a whole. As such, please ensure that you craft your response as one coherent essay that avoids repetition and/or redundant content. Rather, you are encouraged to interconnect your response across both parts for seamless development of your points,

 Death of Cosmopolitanism

A couple I know who’d been living in Beijing—she’s American and he’s Australian —are marooned in Budapest, waiting for China to reopen its borders. A friend wrote me from Boston. She has both an American and an Irish passport and is unsure whether she can enter France to see her partner, to whom she’s not married. Another friend, who is American, married her French partner this month before he returned to France because they didn’t know when he would be allowed back into America, or she into France.

Cosmopolitanism—or travel, period—has become deeply confusing in the theCOVID-19 era. When the pandemic hit, borders began closing around the world

Now they are reopening gradually, but also arbitrarily, in ways that seem determined less by infection rates and more by politics, economics, and, for some countries, a need for tourists. To those of us who came of age after the end of the Cold War, these sudden and in many cases incoherent closures are not just irritating; they are crushing

a rapid and dramatic stricture of everything many of us had been lucky enough to take for granted: open borders and freedom of movement. For decades, Europe has been the emotional center of this belief in a borderless world. European Union nationals can live, work, and study in any of the bloc’s 27 member states, while visitors can travel throughout the 26 countries in the Schengen Area without internal border controls. In much of this region, you use the same currency and can drive across a national frontier without knowing it; roaming on your cellphone is free. Europeans can (and do) live in one country and commute into another. Some towns lie along a border, and residents move unencumbered from one country into the other