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In an overcommunicated society, a borderless communication world, where physical borders have become obsolete in parts of Europe, but where perceptual borders have hardened, the quest for ways to soften cross-cultural unrest has become important and timely. Stereoptypes perpetuate misunderstanding and misconceptions, causing behavioral deseases that feed on prejudice, racism, and xenophobia. Terrorism, growing immigration, and home grown terror -and the why and how of all these and the rest-  have changed people’s behavior towards the others. If stereotypes represent only a minority of negative events and behaviors, what can make the majority “others” get rid of those unrelated yet prevalent steroptypes that are associated to them? Investigating prevalent sterotypes may lead to a sterotype diet. In this case a diet is the process of getting rid of what is useless or harmful, while keeping, augmenting, and even adopting what is useful and representative.

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