multiculturalism
Crumbling Between Tolerance and Intolerance
The more different choices we have, the more we appreciate our decisions or at least we have more the chance of replacing our habits to “better” ones. On the other hand, so much of differences may lead to conflicts as well since perception of “different” changes from one another and to some; it is not always something desirable. This is why only when combined with tolerance, moral, religious and ethnic diversity in societies, colors the scenes of our everyday world. However that brings the question of to what extent differences should be tolerated. While some societies are great at drawing that line, some societies face serious problems such as discrimination or dualism. Tolerance upon differences should be in such a way that while avoiding a tolerant chaos where everything is welcomed: intolerance, which results as xenophobia, should also be discouraged and it can only be sustained by the sense of common living.
Anything that lacks resemblance in our consuetude is different for us and we all have contrastive attitudes towards those differences. The word different itself has many equivalents such as autonomous and abnormal. Autonomous is regarded as self-determined that is why it is usually a reminiscent of leaders like Martin Luther King so autonomy mostly being perceived something admirable, something we all need. Some “…are fond of saying that a person is autonomous if she or he chooses to live in accordance with the dictates of reason”, even so we must keep in mind that living in a society requires limits for personal spaces, that is to say if everyone follows their own reasons sense of common living may be damaged. On the other hand, abnormality is one of the negative understandings of different. It labels one as odd, not normal or even freaky. “Abnormal is a word which brings a tremendous range of reactions from people.” Thus, while respecting the autonomous, we generally try to avoid abnormal. We don’t want
The more different choices we have, the more we appreciate our decisions or at least we have more the chance of replacing our habits to “better” ones. On the other hand, so much of differences may lead to conflicts as well since perception of “different” changes from one another and to some; it is not always something desirable. This is why only when combined with tolerance, moral, religious and ethnic diversity in societies, colors the scenes of our everyday world. However that brings the question of to what extent differences should be tolerated. While some societies are great at drawing that line, some societies face serious problems such as discrimination or dualism. Tolerance upon differences should be in such a way that while avoiding a tolerant chaos where everything is welcomed: intolerance, which results as xenophobia, should also be discouraged and it can only be sustained by the sense of common living.
Anything that lacks resemblance in our consuetude is different for us and we all have contrastive attitudes towards those differences. The word different itself has many equivalents such as autonomous and abnormal. Autonomous is regarded as self-determined that is why it is usually a reminiscent of leaders like Martin Luther King so autonomy mostly being perceived something admirable, something we all need. Some “…are fond of saying that a person is autonomous if she or he chooses to live in accordance with the dictates of reason”, even so we must keep in mind that living in a society requires limits for personal spaces, that is to say if everyone follows their own reasons sense of common living may be damaged. On the other hand, abnormality is one of the negative understandings of different. It labels one as odd, not normal or even freaky. “Abnormal is a word which brings a tremendous range of reactions from people.” Thus, while respecting the autonomous, we generally try to avoid abnormal. We don’t want