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In 2003, a local English-language newspaper, The Straits Times, carried a series of articles highlighting the phenomenon of insufficient interaction across racial boundaries in Singapore schools Here are some ways in which a teacher can deal with this issue in the classroom teaching or through co-curricular activities. The study of 4,400 neighbourhood school children that revealed most prefer to stick to friends of the same race is not very surprising. Since time immemorial, people have shown an instinctive desire to mix with those of the same background and it tends to be the case that "s...