Can Multiculturalism Reduce Prejudice?
Submitted by on January 1, 1998
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In the past several years there has been a growing trend towards multiculturalism in many areas of our society, most significantly on college and university campuses. This is likely due to a belief that the traditional Christian American values and perspective are unable to deal with the growing numbers of various ethnic minorities in our society. Although this trend would seem to have a potential to change society for the better, I believe that it has been and will be largely ineffectual. It does, however, have some possible advantage over society's traditional view.
The contact hypothesis states that increasing contact between groups can in some circumstances decrease prejudice between them. It is possible that mere education about various cultural groups could reduce prejudice similarly to actual contact; by increasing recognition of similarities, providing...