A well-traveled polyglot . . .

A well-traveled polyglot is as likely to be among the worst off as the best off---as likely to be found in a shantytown as in the Sorbonne. So cosmopolitanism shouldn't be seen as some exalted attainment: it begins with the simple idea that in the human community, as in national communities, we need to develop habits of coexistence: conversation in its older meaning, of living together, association.

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
(New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006),  xviii-xix.