How do we create an inclusive & egalitarian society in which diversity is not merely tolerated or managed but fully harnessed as a thriving lived experience for enrichment of everyone involved & benefit of the society as a whole? Despite progress made over the last decades, MULTICULTURALISM still remains an enduring challenge, all the more urgent as we stand at the junction of retrogressing to the homogeneous & hierarchical past rather than progressing towards egalitarian, inclusive & plural ideals. ​MULTICULTURAL CHALLENGE, a collection of essays by Jayon You, uses her own experience of immigration to America at the age of thirteen & what gave her a resolution on the questions of belonging, identity & relationship between cultures as a critical frame for illuminating HOW we can rise up to the challenges of creating a multicultural democracy in the 21C.  ​She frames three different 'ethos' of societies — from 'assimilationist', 'multicultural' to 'a society full of multicultural individuals' — making visible WHY where we stand now is still a problem & HOW we can move beyond where we stand now towards creating a truly multicultural society. In it, she clarifies some of the most urgent questions of our time: ​what facilitates integration of immigrants & what we mean by 'integration' anyway; HOW society could embrace diversity without losing culture, identity & solidarity of the nation & HOW the 'values' of the host nation & the 'values' that immigrants bring can be harmoniously reconciled.