Nineteenth Global Studies Conference

Abstract

Cultural hybridization is a process that occurs within a transnational world. In cultural hybridity, cosmopolitanism serves as a means of making meaning in the world. This paper explores how human beings utilize different forms of meaning and knowledge, and understand that, in cultural studies, the creation of meanings and cultural identifications is not fixed but rather changes, and references shift in space and time. This research synthesizes work on cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism. Considering cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism in terms of process and practice within the everyday life sphere, through everyday practices such as social relations, cross-cultural media, migration, and localization, where the mixing of cultural elements occurs, it is essential to render concepts of cultural purity, belonging, and identity problematic and ambivalent. This paper posits that the phenomenon of cultural hybridization paves the way for emergent modalities of global empathy and mutual comprehension, potentially guiding the ethos of inclusive cosmopolitan citizenship. The findings of this study contribute to the discourse on globalization, identity formation, and social cohesion by showing the continual re-creation of significance that occurs through the collision of different cultural logics and life-worlds.