ABSTRACT
While many parts of the world made great strides in reducing racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination during the 1960s and 1970s, a casual glance across the globe quickly reveals that the scourges of ethnic and gender intolerance are far from having been eliminated. Despite intense and almost desperate efforts to eliminate ethnic intolerance and discrimination, they appear to be every bit as bad at the close of the 20th century as at the beginning of the century. The questions addressed by this chapter are: Why are ethnic, racial, and gender discrimination so difficult to eliminate, and what can we do to hasten their demise?
