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 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. In this collection of 24 personal & critical essays, Jayon You uses her own experience of immigration to America at the age of 13 as a critical frame for illuminating on HOW we can rise up to the challenges of creating the multicultural democracy in the 21C. She frames three contrasting 'ethos' of societies, 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 the process, she clarifies some of the most urgent questions of our time: HOW immigrants come be integrated into a society & what we mean by 'integration' anyway; HOW a society could embrace diversity without losing culture, identity & solidarity of the nation; HOW the comparative context between an immigrant nation from its inception & an ethnic nation with a growing diversity can help inform each other.​