1. According to Appiah, cosmopolitanism is the belief that we have an obligation to other humans while also celebrating and understanding that which makes us different from other humans. He gave examples of practices among communities that were changed for the better, because of them being exposed to the ideas and practices of other people. One example he gave was that of the Chinese foot binding, where a woman wraps her foot so it cannot grow. The outcome is a deformed and painful foot, but because it had been so ingrained in the culture, there was little to no effort to change it, until China joined the global stage where they found that the act was seen as weird. It was because of this foreign influence that groups in china finally made change and successfully convinced people to stop the practice.
2. I’m mostly confused on his last few chapters and how they come back to his main points about cosmopolitanism.