The relationship with the minorities has been better now than it has been through the history of the development of modern states, but the members of minority groups can still be found in a discriminated position. For this reason, the aim of this paper is to explore multicultural attitudes and relations with minority members through a theoretical and empirical framework. The first part of the paper are the main theoretical concepts and approaches related to the issue of accepting cultural diversity through the prism of multiculturalism and cultural pluralism. Then, the concepts of ethnic minorities and social distances are presented with reference to the problem of ethnocentrism. In the second part of the paper, the results of the survey, carried out with the help of an interview questionnaire, are presented on a sample of students (N = 175) of the University of Zadar measuring multicultural attitudes and social distances towards ethnic and religious minorities. The results showed that students have positive multicultural attitudes and neutral social distances towards minorities. The results also show that the region from which students came is an indicator of negative social distance, while the political commitment is an indicator of negative multicultural attitude. Religion and faculty levels are not an essential factor in forming multicultural attitudes and social distances towards minorities.