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I also love multiculturality. My Utopia is a space where all cultures can live side by side. And that’s one reason why I love New York because you have all cultures thereItaly just next to Chinatown in New York, and in my street all the restaurants are Italian. Just the next street over, everything is Chinese – all street signs and shops.Also, there should be much more respect for nature. We allow many things to happen and if it gets too bad people put an end to it. We should go the other way round and nothing that is potentially polluting for our environment should be allowed in the first place.Tell us about this year’s forum that you host.This year we’re discussing extremism in the context of cultural crossroads. Last year we discussed the movement of refugees even before this recent big wave – how do we make this multicultural society function? We are living in a world that is increasingly multicultural whetherwe like it or not, and we have to make it function. This is something writers can contribute to. We always work under human conditions, on the mechanisms and the relationships between individuals.How can writers contribute to this issue?Writers often don’t know much about politics or society, but we know about human beings. If we can help the world understand what makes human beings happy, feel they belong or become extremists, we can maybe help in the political system. We take the special insights that writers have and feed them into the political world. There’s no easy answer for the problems that we have today. Inputs from different perspectives can help us see the bigger picture.This year we discuss what makes people extremists. Some are abusedElite+ 7