ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a promising procedure, meant to improve intergroup contact, the Culture Assimilator training procedure. It outlines the principles of the Culture Assimilator and presents a short overview of results obtained with the procedure. The chapter looks at the Culture Assimilator from the point of view of more recent theorizing and research on intergroup conflict and interethnic relations, as summarized by M. Hewstone. It focuses on emphasizing differences and/or similarities between groups and also presents guidelines for the application of the Culture Assimilator procedure in interethnic relations. The chapter then presents in more detail some effect studies which form part of a second series of assimilators, especially developed for multicultural domestic use, like the relations between white and black Americans in the United States. It explores the usefulness of the assimilator procedure with regard to different ethnic groups within one country, such as the ethnic minority groups of Turks, Moroccans and Surinamese in the Netherlands.
