Can you disprove this? Running cultural and faith awareness projects doesn’t reduce levels of racism

Definitions

Faith awareness projects - special programmes or one-off events based around improving understanding of others’ cultures and beliefs and promoting tolerance.

Levels of racism – because of the structural nature of racism it can be challenging to define. Although it’s a crude measure, we suggest using individual’s self-assessed bias for example through questions such as ‘how would you describe your own levels of prejudice’. This approach is not immune from healthy challenge but we have derived it from the method used on a national basis in the British Social Attitudes survey. We hope it is simple enough to be a starting point for future work evaluating impact in this area.

“So can we ever really know whether someone is racist from how they answer a survey question? No. But should we take someone's word for it if they say that they harbour some racial prejudice? Of course.” - Alison Park, Co-Director British Social Attitudes Survey