This entry introduces cross-cultural psychology and compassion, and explores the link between the two. Cross-cultural psychology is a branch of psychology that evaluates how cultural factors impact people’s behaviour and mental processes. Cross-cultural psychology aims to foster our understanding about differences and commonalities across cultural groups. Compassion, whose word origin is “to suffer together”, is commonly understood as recognising the suffering and distress of others, with a commitment to alleviate or reduce the suffering. Globally, the importance of both cross-cultural psychology and compassion has been increasingly recognised as of late. Cross-cultural psychology is important today for numerous reasons, some of which include that as societies are becoming increasingly multiculturally diverse, in order to better address individual needs (e.g., mental health services) it is imperative to pay attention to and understand diverse worldviews and behaviours. To better understand such worldviews, those in the helping professions must be able to challenge assumptions that are common in a narrow focus on Western, middle-class Caucasians, which has been the dominant view for some time (e.g., research fields) ^[1][2]. As compassion can lead someone to take action to alleviate suffering, it can also lead to a higher awareness of mental health, higher quality of healthcare, and increased professional ethics and social harmony ^[3][4][5]. The authors will discuss how these two concepts of multiculturalism and compassion are linked, and inform each other.