In this chapter I sketch how the concept of cultural democracy developed in discourses in the United States and Europe. I consider the underlying value connecting these historiographies to be the understanding of cultural democracy as an invitation to genuinely meet the “cultural other”. Following this brief exposé, I investigate how a cultural-democratic practice contributes to local democracy in the city of Rotterdam. A group of young inhabitants of this Dutch harbour city critically reflects on their position and the concept of equality in a postcolonial capitalist urban environment. Drawing on Homi Bhabha’s classic concept of third space, I posit that the work of the Nite Shop is cultural-democratic and employs an imaginative language. It designs a performative deliberative practice to politics of inclusivity, creating awareness of the ethics of recognition and dignity. Thus, the system’s discourse of hospitality receives resistance from within its economic and postcolonial context. The discussed case study significantly contributes to the understanding of the affordances of the relation between culture and democracy.