The title of the conference seemed to indicate we are going to speak about the singularity of some social contexts with substantial ethnic diversity that requires a particular and specific response. These reflections attempt to present a generalized and normalized view of multicultural contexts as the dominant framework for current and future social policies in Europe. Our European society is more and more multicultural. On the one hand, there are migratory movements from non-European countries and, on the other, the European Union (EU) composition and its enlargement process contribute to a continuous flow of territorial mobility. Both phenomena accelerate cultural diversity. Nevertheless, to talk about cultural pluralism, we must take into account both the progressive loss of cohesion in our societies and the fact of increasing diversification of individual and group identities, which is related to changes in familial structures, labour relationships, consumer habits and differentiation of values and beliefs.