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?