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International detachment from nation and culture, treated here as both Jewish elite strength and anti-Semitic trope.
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cosmopolitanism
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "live in the city you're gonna be much more creative than you think you're gonna be more creative than you if you live in..."
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Jiang says city life and cosmopolitan exposure usually make people more creative, but Dante's case shows that travel without rooted attachment can also become spiritually empty.
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Jiang reads Sidonia's indifference to creed, country, class, and character as an anti-national intellectual cosmopolitanism associated with anti-Semitic tropes.
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Sidonia's network of adventurers, spies, outcasts, and secret Jews is read as evidence of international cosmopolitan reach.
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Al-Andalus is presented as wealthy, cosmopolitan, innovative, beautiful, and open because Jews, Christians, and Muslims worked together there.
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Jiang applies Doug's point to Islam: when the Islamic empire shifted its capital to Baghdad, it became a multicultural universal empire forced to absorb different traditions and cultures.
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Constantinople's significance came from being a world center for trade, Greek and Roman intellectual inheritance, and cosmopolitan life.
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Jiang says the Arabian Peninsula in 600 CE was the world's hotbed of innovation because it was creative, open, cosmopolitan, and positioned at the center of trade.
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Jiang says that when he visited Israel in May 2012 he experienced it as small but unusually open, cosmopolitan, technologically impressive, and a plausible future for the Middle East.
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"live in the city you're gonna be much more creative than you think you're gonna be more creative than you if you live in..."
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"he may leave points physically but even when he leaves florence he still remembers florence he still um is nostalgic for lord he still..."
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"The only human quality that interested Sidonia was intellect. He cared not whence it came, where it was to be found, creed, country, class,..."
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"Okay, so again, this is a very anti -Semitic trope. Where Jews don't like the idea of nation, or culture, or religion. They like..."
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"Okay, keep on going. It was not, however, intellect merrily in these unquestionable shapes that commanded his notice. There was not an adventurer in..."
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"Okay, all right, that's fine, okay. Look, the idea is that Jews are, first and foremost, international, the cosmopolitan, right? And as a result,..."
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"So. So I had a chance to visit Israel in 2010, in May 2020, sorry, I visited Israel in May 2012. And I visited..."
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"We'll discuss this later when we get to the American Revolution. The reason for Jack de Molay being burned is the Catholic Church accuses..."
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"It's beautiful. It is extremely creative, and it's very powerful, okay? So this is Al -Andalus, the architecture. This is some of their buildings...."
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"Around the year 1600. Okay? And that was when England which for the longest time was this poor island island was now becoming emerging..."
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"And this was the center of what we call the Orthodox Church. So the, so, so the citizens were treated extremely well. Okay. This..."
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"Also because it was the center of the world, it was very multicultural, very cosmopolitan. You had basically all major ethnicities living inside the..."
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