I also wonder how the question was phrased, in my experience <i>Kosmopolit&#x2F;Weltbürger</i> has a lot of cultural baggage in the German cultural sphere; that it requires some sort of personal refinement (Herder, Kant, Klaus Mann), a label most people won&#x27;t assert to themselves.<p>On the other hand the term was used as a negative propaganda term in the eastern bloc[1]<p>In my experience German&#x27;s are way more likely to call themselves <i>Europeans</i> first (more than most other European nationalities), and happily skip the world citizen part for convenience&#x27;s sake. Even the E in PEGIDA stand for Europeans.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rootless_cosmopolitan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rootless_cosmopolitan</a>