Outgrowing Fear of Annihilation

Psychology Today | 19.05.2026 04:30
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.