The Common American Pop Cosmopolitan

        The Jenkins text describes the idea of the Pop Cosmopolitan, and builds on the concept which was first introduced by a University of California, Berkeley, text in 2004. Jenkins himself writes that Pop Cosmopolitan is "someone whose embrace of global popular media represents and escape route out of the parochialism of their local community" (Jenkins, 1). I enjoyed the article and agreed with many of the points made by Jenkins within the text, but I cant help but notice that he seems (at least, in my interpretation) to present the pop cosmopolitan as somewhat of a rarity, or as if such a person was an anomaly within the general public.
       This was somewhat surprising me, as I would actually disagree with Jenkins in this aspect, as I would assume that the vast majority of the general public, specifically the American general public, would embody this image of the pop cosmopolitan. Jenkins noted the girl in the convenience store as a pop cosmopolitan, and the middle eastern teen using an American Photoshopped photo as anti-American propaganda is a pop cosmopolitan. But I would classify the man questioning the girl, and the people wearing the shirts as pop cosmopolitan as well, and why wouldn't they be? They have still been effected by, of have embraced some aspect of another culture at one time as well most likely. Even something minor or something the average American would consider civilian like ordering Chinese or Italian food, or watch some sort of content containing subtitles, could be considered, at least so some level, pop cosmopolitan. I quite frequently eat food of other cultures, occasionally watch foreign movies, speak a mostly broken mangled form of Spanish, traveled out of the country, and have fond childhood memories of playing Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh with friends. I don't feel like any of these things are unusual in the slightest, and is fairly typical American male behavior. American culture itself is built on the cultures of those who first arrived here before us, so I feel it should, in fact, be assumed that the average American is, at least to some level, a pop cosmopolitan, and that this kind of person is in fact not a rarity or far from the norm, which I got from the Jenkins article.