Navies as carriers of cosmopolitan culture

Have navies helped introduce cosmopolitan culture to their countries?

Yes; Japanese naval curry and influences carried back to Britain show how maritime contact moved customs between societies.

Naval contact can introduce cosmopolitan habits to the societies that fleets serve. Japanese curry, adapted through the Imperial Japanese Navy's relationship with the Royal Navy, is a familiar example. Cultural exchange also moved back toward Britain from its wider maritime world. Naval contact was therefore a social and cultural process as well as a diplomatic and military one.