The volume you hold in your hands (or have opened on your screen) is a result of the editors’ observations and perhaps initially also only of the assumption of a current shift in societal understandings of majorities and minorities. Groups we had so far thought of as part of the majority, as part of what in German is labelled the Mehrheitsgesellschaft, have recently positioned themselves as threatened mi-norities to claim rights. We are well aware that the we of the observer’s position is of special importance in such a statement and that such statements are funda-mentally bound to one’s own affiliations. This is certainly also true for William Davies, whom we cite here as an example, because he makes similar observations quite accurately and rightly refers to debates about recognition: “The struggle for recognition has turned into an arms race, in which majority cultural identities deploy the language of minority rights in their defence. In contexts such as Brexit, liberals have also engaged in demands for identity recognition, with street pro-tests, flags and claims of cultural marginalization.” (Davies 2021: 85)