The latest Absolutely Intercultural show features an extract from the WIAOC Connect conference. I would have liked to include more as there were several revelant sessions but the quality of the sound recordings is probably more than the ear can tolerate. I therefore restricted myself to Elaine Hoter’s explanation of the contact hypothesis of fostering intercultural tolerance and how this has been applied to teacher training students across the three communities of Israel. I find the hypothesis very interesting and I am sure that it has potential application in millions of other settings. The final piece is a conversation with Carla Arena, a Brazilian, living in Florida who has run straight into the stereotypes of what a Latina woman should be like. And I begin with a chat with Collette Wanjugu D