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Individuals can contribute cohesion and tolerance to a multicultural world.

Resistance to multiculturalism is, at heart, fear of being wiped out.

Overcoming fear of annihilation requires making the sense of self stable, flexible, and expansive.

The great challenge facing most Western democracies is maintaining cohesion of their increasingly multicultural populations. History has not cast a favorable light on earlier multicultural nations, as regimes in power have tended to suppress all but the dominant culture—or they suffered dissolution through conquest or civil war. The challenges of multiculturalism are mostly social and political, but individuals can contribute cohesion and tolerance to a multicultural world.

The resistance to multiculturalism is based in fear—not just of losing influence, but of getting wiped out, as unrealistic as such fears may be. Fear........

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