More and more people are constantly changing their place of residence and physically as well as psychically passing between national and cultural borders daily, consequently creating and recreating themselves, their identities and their homes. The purpose of this master’s thesis is to identify, through theoretical and empirical work, consisting semi-structured interviews, how in today’s global world, modern young adults shape their identities in the context of constant change of residence, environment, culture and language, how these individuals define the concept of home in terms of their original local and/or national culture and what do they think about cosmopolitism, nationalism and patriotism. Particularly young adults of today’s global world belong to many different, even opposing social groups and identities. They are increasingly creating hybrid identities, that are mixtures of familiar and foreign, combinations of many localities. Home is more an ongoing process than a specific location. Individuals can have several homes, but the most important to which they are constantly returning, we assume, represents the place where individuals start, the place where their loved ones are located, the place of their birth. For individuals of today’s global world home is more and more feeling and no longer that much a physical location. These individuals are supporters of cosmopolitism, which is of the need in today’s world and they do not consider themselves being patriots, although they believe an individual can be both a patriot and a cosmopolitan at the same time.
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