ABSTRACT
Might a cosmopolitan identity emerge as the logical cultural response to mundialization and economic globalization? With this question in mind I conducted in-depth interviews with 20 young people between the ages of 16 and 29 in Tijuana during 2004. This paper is the result of an analysis of their discourse on the phenomenon generically described as globalization. I present here the varied reactions of young Tijuana residents to what it means to be young, a border dweller, Mexican, and tijuanense and the ways they characterize members of ‘other’ cultures with whom they share metropolitan Tijuana.
