Baggini, whose work includes a consideration of The Poppadom Paradox – where people's enjoyment of feeling multicultural depends on others remaining mono-cultural – also wants to brood about terrible coffee.
Nationalists cannot understand that one can be multilingual, multicultural, cosmopolitan... without feeling obliged to make a choice between them once and for all".
Across Europe, a quest for some basic values that can contribute to establishing solidarity and feelings of belonging in multicultural nation-states is currently taking place, but through what measures this social cohesion best can be achieved is a contested issue.
Now the nation is unmistakably multicultural, and its multitasking citizens are comfortable feeling centerless.
In the age of populism, to use Kymlicka's words (Kymlicka, 2016), multicultural master narratives nurture anti-immigrant arguments and feelings, or even radical views of national civic integration, ranking duties as a condition sine qua non of rights.
"Being a multicultural person is very, very important to me," she says, "the feeling of collaborating with other people and being in touch with other ideas.
As a retired English educator in a multicultural district in New Jersey, I saw firsthand the results of the feeling of shame in those with brains in their heads.
At the heart of Phillips's new-found conservatism is a profound feeling that the postwar transition in the west towards a multicultural, sexually tolerant, more open society has come at a profound cost.
"I have newfound love for him, for what he said about how we are a multicultural city, we can't begin to single out cultures, harbor ill feelings.
This feeling of 'not being a part of society', however, is precisely what multicultural and intercultural authors want to tackle with the 'multiculturalization' or 'mainstreaming' of the basic structure.
