Of course this will not be an easy struggle. This would require convincing parents to let their children socialize with those from other ethnicities and cultures from a very young age. Of course the exposure approach is already advocated by many of those seeking to reduce ethnic tensions. The kin-recognition argument could lend validity to their efforts, although it would require that exposure be pervasive and genuinely interactive rather than brief and superficial. He states that colonies operate as individual units or super-organisms, since only the queen reproduces, and workers' genes are passed along through her.
Selection operates at the hive level, rather than that of the individual.
Although this framework can be used to illustrate the value of cooperation within groups, its logic can ultimately be reduced to selection at the individual level. The offspring produced by the queen has an r of .75 with the other workers, which is higher than the r of .5 usually achieved in sexual reproduction. Although the specialization in tasks benefits the group, it resembles a caste system more than an egalitarian society. Assuming that the tendency to sacrifice oneself for the sake of one's group varies among individuals within groups, those with more selfish tendencies will survive better than their more altruistic neighbors. This would lead the group to eventually become more selfish in nature.