multicultural environment

Culturally varied setting

A multicultural environment is a setting—workplace, school, neighborhood—where people from different cultural backgrounds regularly interact.

The phrase appears often in job postings and institutional language: We value candidates who thrive in a multicultural environment.

It implies diversity of ethnicity, language, religion, or national origin, and often signals an expectation of cultural sensitivity.

Related

ethnicity · coexistence · second generation · mother tongue · heritage · internationalism · open borders · diaspora · tolerance · folklore · world music · cosmopolitanism · migration · global citizenship · civic engagement · street festival · diversity training · language

Opposites
cultural composition

multicultural environmentmonoculture

Single-crop agricultural system

openness to difference

multicultural environmentinsular community

Socially isolated, inward-looking group

demographic mixing

multicultural environmentethnostate

Nation of single ethnicity

ghetto · ethnic enclave

Family

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G