25 Sep
2011
25 Sep
'11
11:30 p.m.
lev@levlafayette.com <lev@levlafayette.com> wrote:
One simple and effective tactic used by the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre (which entirely funded by donations and volunteers) is to simply introduce people to actual refugees so people can hear their side of the story.
This indeed has the potential to be very effective. According to social psychologists with whom I've discussed the issue, there is evidence that equal status contact with members of a group toward which someone has prejudices is one of the most effective means of reducing those prejudices.