ABSTRACT
As this century comes to a close, an examination of global demographic trends reveals a world in which more and more societies are characterized by cultural heterogeneity. In the twenty-first century, there will be fewer and fewer ethnically homogeneous or so-called “ethnically pure” societies. Indeed, the very concept of homogeneous national cultures is in a profound process of redefinition (Bhabha, 1994; Said, 1993; Takaki, 1994). Even today, almost every society can be described as multicultural, populated by different cultural groups, who have moved to that region for reasons that may be economic, social, or political. What then are the implications of these dramatic population changes for research and practice in the progressively multicultural world of the twenty-first century?
