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2. Teaching children from an early age to respect all groups : 
We must teach children, including ones very different from their 
own - prejudice can be nipped in the bud or at least curbed.
Valuing Diversity is very important. Ethnocentrism should be 
discouraged. The education of young children should promote 
respect for a multicultural society and tolerance and acceptance 
virtures that need to be developed quite consciously. 
3. Increased Intergroup Contact : This is based on the Contact 
hypothesis: the theory that direct contact between hostile 
groups will reduce prejudice. Recent findings indicate that if 
people merely know that friendly contacts between members of 

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their own group and members of various out groups (groups in 
which we do not belong) is possible, their prejudice towards 
these groups can be sharply reduced. E.g., The various Mohalla 
committees that operate in different areas after the 1992 
communal riots in Mumbai are based on this reasoning that 
increased inter-group contact can remove prejudice and hatred. 
However, there are some conditions like the groups interacting 
must be roughly equal in status, the contact situation must 
involve cooperation and not competition. They should work 
towards shared goals and the setting should help them 
understand each other better. In short, direct inter-group contact 
can be an effective tool to combat cross-group prejudice. 
4. Recategorization: redrawing the boundary between ‘Us and 
Them’: Once individuals mentally include people, they once 
excluded from their ingroup (groups in which we belong) within 
it, prejudice toward them may disappear. Reminding people that 
they are part of large groups - for instance, that they are all 
Indians, Americans Canadians or even human beings - can help 
accomplish this kind of recategorization.