Pattern Recognition of a Cosmopolitan Practice in the Americas: Transnationality and Transculturality
This article examines the practical forms of cosmopolitanism in the Americas, building on a challenge to its definition mainly inherited from European colonialism on the one hand, and stressing on the other hand, the specific socio-historical development of the Americas. This development is presented through the experiences of meetings of indigenous peoples, European, African and other, which occurred in the history of the Americas, and who have given rein to cultural experiences from the meeting and crossing multiple nationalities. The context of development of national cultures in the Americas, has been strongly influenced by these transnational and transcultural currents, and is well demarcated from the development context of European national cultures. In the contemporary situation, however, is in Europe, through the definition of supranational institutions, and not in the Americas, appear the theoretical formulations of a renewed cosmopolitanism. The Americas have, in turn, hands-on experience of cosmopolitanism, based on transnational and transcultural, it is important to recognize and to reach beyond the limits of the continental forms of integration that lie now in the lack of institutional and theoretical considerations concerning what defines the specificity of the socio-historical and cultural experience of the Americas.