In some countries, the integrationist perspective has become legislated in as policies of
multiculturalism, which encourage and support the maintenance of valued features of all
cultures, and at the same time support full participation of all ethnocultural groups in the
evolving institutions of the larger society (see Berry, 1984, and Berry & Kalin, 1999, for an
analysis of the Canadian policy).What seems certain are that cultural diversity and the resultant
acculturation are here to stay in all countries. Finding a way to accommodate each other poses a
challenge and an opportunity to social and cross-cultural psychologists everywhere. Diversity is
a fact of contemporary life; whether it is the ‘‘spice of life’’ or the main ‘‘irritant’’, is probably the
central question that confronts us all, citizens and social scientists alike.