diversity (as in region populated by people from a diversity of countries or backgrounds) n.: cosmopolis
The subway, I find, is also oddly liberating. It takes you not only to your destination, but along the way to another world. Your fellow riders are a jostling microcosm of a teeming cosmopolis: men, women and children from every stratum of society, of every imaginable color, sporting all kinds of dress (or undress) and chattering in most of the languages of the planet. (Shashi Tharoor, Letter from America: “Notes from the Underground,”
Newsweek International, 8/27/2001, p. 41.)
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