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Cosmopolitanism seeks to affect changes in cultural norms through the cultivation of self-awareness, identity, empowerment, and agency. Coupled with education, these powerful tools contribute to shaping a global society. Examining identity through the lens of gender roles and patriotism, it becomes evident that identity can be fluid, and cosmopolitan values can be universally applied. Cosmopolitanism transforms individual identity that, by extension, has the potential to transform the cultures and societies in which individuals participate.  \nAcore value of cosmopolitanismis that all humans have equal worth. The recognition of equality  \nof the other begins through one’s development of self-awareness and acknowledgement of self-worth. From here, humans can influence and shape not only their personal identities but also, in extension, the identities of their cultures and societies. After all, from where do beliefs, traditions, and values originate if not from human nature, imagination, and construction? According to David Hansen (2008), “social change and, in particular, social improvement are inconceivable without individual response, imagination, and action”(p. 21) . In agreement with Hansen’s assessment, this essay illustrates how a combination of self-awareness, education, empowerment, and agency provides a framework for the evolution of identity and social change.  \nCosmopolitanism indicates “a way of being in the world, a way of constructing an identity for oneself that is different from, and arguably opposed to, the idea of belonging to or devotion to or immersion in a particular culture.”(Waldron, 2000, p. 1) . A cosmopolitan sensibility reflects an emotional or spiritual process of evolution. Viewed as transformational practice, cosmopolitanism appreciates identity and culture as fluid concepts. Such fluidity creates power to transform the relationship between the self and other and leads to the potential to affect change within the broader scope of society.  \nSelf-awareness proves a challenge to cultivate but is a primary component in the evolution of an inclusive perspective. It is linked to self-identity, and together these concepts illustrate the process of becoming or being cosmopolitan. An assumption made about self-identity is that it is a static label or defined description of an individual. Jason Hill (2000) raises concerns about the idea of a fixed identity:  \nThe contemporary self is to a large extent mired within racial and ethnic paradigms that define it exclusively in such terms. That is, the self is predicated on several assumptions…. included among them is the assumption that racial and ethnic concepts of self are stable, objective, and closed. Such views are also predicated on further assumption: that this sort of self is static and nonevolving. (p. 6)  \n© 2009 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 12(1): 86-91.  \nEssay: The Evolution of a Cosmopolitan Identity  \nDale Snauwaert (2004) further illustrates Hill’s concerns by explaining that the most prominent beliefs tied to self-identity are religious and political, and that identity can become so dependent upon these belief systems that a challenge to that system is experienced as a threat to one’s own identity. These apprehensions can be countered, however, by constructing self-identity as a fluid, dynamic process of discovery. The understanding that an identity evolves over time provides a sense of flexibility and freedom to “become” – to become more cosmopolitan, compassionate, more sensitive, a better person, and so forth. 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