This is a two-way process of legal production and legal consumption. Legal production is, indeed, conscious of the multicultural soil from which this production is nourished. Legal consumption of the norm by individuals is a way individuals will be receiving and experiencing choices informed by a wider cultural context to the ones they are accustomed to. They may be educated in the practices and sensibilities of tolerance and intolerance each time they are confronted with a norm that is different to those they normally know. Recall, of course, that the differences can play out both to their advantage and disadvantage.
None can be unaware of the new context to which they belong.
In this sense, then, we have a vision of a society with multicultural sensibilities which is not only reflective but also constitutive of individuals with multicultural sensibilities. It coexists alongside them in the sphere of application of Community law which overlaps only partially the national and transnational spheres. Implicit in this reading of the European situation is the recognition of the multiple identity of the individual. Implicit in this reading also is an I which has a multiple identity defined by diverse things such as gender, religion, personal history, etc., each of which brings with them not only cultural sensibilities but also their own claims for loyalty and corresponding, and oft-conflicting, sets of values. From time to time, choice have to be made between the pull of conflicting values and loyalties.