OpenCouchSurfing.org » Prejudice and Discrimination http://www.opencouchsurfing.org The campaign for a truly open CouchSurfing organisation Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:32:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Actually, do HospEx Networks really facilitate ‘Intercultural Understanding’ successfully? http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2008/03/13/do-hospex-networks-really-facilitate-intercultural-understanding-successfully/ http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2008/03/13/do-hospex-networks-really-facilitate-intercultural-understanding-successfully/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:43:08 +0000 adia >t]]> http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2008/03/13/do-hospex-networks-actually-promote-intercultural-understanding/ As it seems interesting to set the things here in a wider frame (see, a.o., “Is travelling noble? Or: “The Emperor’s New Clorths” by PickWick), and some thoughts around this theme come up a couple of times recently (e.g. we vs. them), I would like to continue with this and publish more thoughts in this direction. I hope that this post is appreciated and will, hopefully, function as an opening to an interesting discussion and to new insights. And maybe even more people do so in future. Those lines have been first published, by me, on the HospEx Ne>>t Wiki under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.

 

 

 

 

‘Prejudice and Discrimination will always be with us.’
Hospitality Exchange Travel Networks a respond to this?

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin
but by the content of their character.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

 

After a short introduction to Hospitality Exchange Networks, prejudice and discrimination and their relationship to each other, this essay will examine two widely known psychological theories that can be relevant in the reduction of prejudice. At the end, the relevance to Hospitality Exchange Networks will be evaluated.

 

Read the whole essay on HospEx Ne>>t Wiki.

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Interesting Further Reading

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