We are all well aware that we, as a gloal society, are very different from each other. This is seen in many areas of life: politics, religion, child raising techniques, views on acceptable social lives, sexual orientation, living green and the list goes on and on. One of the best things that I have encountered in my life is tolerance.
Let's be very clear that tolerance is not the act of accepting the beliefs and views of others or agreeing with them, but respecting them though they are contrary to your own beliefs. I think tolerance is a hard thing for a lot of our society today. Maybe I'm a dreamer, because I can see that if we had more people with the ability to be tolerant the entire world could change.
It wasn't very long ago that racism against African/ Black Americans was prevalent in our country. Over time, this has become lessened due to tolerance. Those individuals who were tolerant and/or supported the equal rights for our fellow country men and women of darker skin passed this ability to their children, who in turned passed it to their children, and so on.
After all, we shape the world through our children. Knowing that, maybe we should each them tolerance. It may very well be the closest thing we will ever get to world peace.
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