A multiethnic society is one with members belonging to more than one ethnic group, in contrast to societies which are ethnically homogenous. By some definitions of "society" and "homogenous", virtually all contemporary national societies are multiethnic. One scholar argued in 1993 that fewer than 20 of the then 180 sovereign states could be said to be ethnically and nationally homogenous, where a homogenous state was defined as one in which minorities made up less than five per cent of the population. Sujit Choudhry therefore argues that, "he age of the ethnoculturally homogeneous state, if ever there was one, is over".
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“Probably I should not consciously and deliberately forsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands of me, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a like but infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preserves it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)