Running head: REDUCING CULTURAL CONFLICT AND PREJUDICE 1
Reducing Cultural Conflict and Prejudice
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Summary
Prejudice triggers cultural conflicts despite the civilization of an individual or
community, resulting from fearing and uncertainties. Four vital approaches are applied to reduce
multicultural conflicts and animosity. The first strategy is creating equity in legal status, power,
and economic opportunities. The approach above gives all the individuals in a society an equal
chance to participate in national events. Secondly, the communal institutions and authorities
must strain to provide a supportive environment in terms of economically, legal, and moral
frameworks. Segregation, as a policy, should get banned. The third strategy is the provision of an
environment for multidimensional cultural interactions both within the formal and informal
sectors. According to the contact hypothesis, people from diverse cultural backgrounds eradicate
their biased perception of others once they interact and engage in food, cultural practices, and
learning diverse traditional values during interactions.
In the question of handling people from different cultures, intellectual knowledge may be
essential. However, the more critical aspect is understanding the person's traditions and attitudes
from the other culture. According to Hall & Hal (1987), learning different traditions is hard, but
it is even harder to understand them without the insight of their traditions. The above can be
applied to minimize the likelihood of biased perceptions.
The question of human nature unearths the potential of humans in portraying cruelty and
also showing deeds of goodness through inspiration. The current crisis of conflicts and wars
waged within communities is a result of the psychological misunderstandings and biases that
exist between multicultural groups on earth.
The other question that is based upon prejudice founded on multicultural groups is the
current likelihood of reduced misunderstandings in the global village interactive environment.
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With increased cross-cultural awareness, there is an opportunity to increase awareness of cultural
awareness based on exposure.
Question 1: Is there a possibility of global wars and crises amongst different communities likely
to end in the global village regime?
Question 2: Are there mutual understandings between the global community members for a
typical course of goodwill?