Someone who is sophisticated is experienced in the ways of the world and has highly developed tastes in the matter of culture. In the UK, people who are sophisticated are the sort of people who go to the opera and the theatre, listen to classical music, read literary books, and have a strong aesthetic sense of how they dress and behave. In India, they are probably not likely to go to the popular Bollywood films.
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