Disadvantages Of Cosmopolitanism

For global risks, it is the central part of Beck which in conjunct with financial crisis, global warming, the nuclear threat, terrorism, and so on. Thus facing with the cosmopolitanism is an inevitable trend in the second modernity. Because those problems produced by global process are no longer belong to one country or nation, rather, they are pose threats to all of the human beings. They affect different countries, states and religions. There is no doubt that no one in the society can avoid of confronting with these issues. It unites people around the world to come up with the ideas to deal with the affairs and make a better world together.

Firstly, the notion of cosmopolitanism is quite large and contains too many categories, to some extent, it lacks direction and require code of ethics. For example, the risk society produces new issues that people are not familiared with; different kinds of people are fighting against different problems, especially for the incongruous customs and conflicts. In this case, the moral norms for both private and public are needed to help them making decisions and intervening their lives as well as adding up contents for cosmopolitan societies.
The second problem with the notion is Beck overstates the liberation of cosmopolitanism by escaping the restrictions of conventional forms. In other word, it is a paradox theory just like the dilemma situation mentioned above. On the one hand, Beck suggests that cosmopolitanism is an independent form which is different from the traditional dimension; on the other hand, it is undeniable that the norms and rules of cosmopolitanism are partly rooted from and establish on the