Tolerance of Multiculturalism and Multiethnicity

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When a person says Tolerance what do you think of? If you don’t know the definition do you just think about the last time the word tolerant or tolerance was used? For example, I can’t tolerate you blacks or I can’t tolerate you whites. I assume that a person is saying that they can’t stand white people or black people. Tolerance is respect; it’s the ability or willingness to tolerate something or someone. In the world there are a lot of intolerant people and intolerant events that go on. I don’t think one person could cover all the intolerance things that go on and that’s needed to be addressed. Back in the day there was a lot of intolerance towards race. Racism was a big issue until, after some time, it was recognized and something was done about it. But even now with laws enforced toward racism, there are still civilians that are racists. Racism will not be permitted nor acceptable for this is not what you call peace. Tolerance regarding racism is what the world will accept for this is a law that some do not respect or look up to. Racism is practice, actions or beliefs, or social or political systems that consider different races to be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities. It may also hold that members of different races should be treated differently. While most conceptions of racism include the assumption of "race based discrimination", the exact definition is controversial both because there is little scholarly agreement about the meaning of the concept "race", and because there is also little agreement about what does and does not constitute discrimination. Back in the day when African Americans had to fight for freedom and equal rights, ...

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