The Importance Of Tolerance In Society

Tolerance means patience and tolerance for diversity. Respect for other people’s feelings, views, preferences, beliefs, customs and even if they are totally opposed to ours. Today, tolerance is understood through respect for the freedom of other people, their thoughts and opinions, and way of life.

Tolerance can be seen in many aspects. The most common appears to topics of national minorities and religion. Tolerance is closely linked with liberalism (personal sovereignty). It is the theory and the strategy, which as a result of many wars on religious grounds; allowed people to be more individual in beliefs and simply ‘being’. Tolerance allows for a broader view of liberalism. Form centuries we observe many wars on religious backgrounds, especially XX “intolerance”

In fact, intolerance exists in every country, only on different levels. For example, tolerance in Russia has a different meaning than the one in Europe. While writing my first essay in 1st year on sociology classes about skinheads in Russia, I discovered shocking facts. In the country of Tsars, almost every otherness is discriminated. Tolerance towards people with different skin color, religion or another of sexual orientation was critically low, and it is happening on a daily basis. On the secondhand we have Europe. Conglomeration of larger and smaller states, with variety of cultures, but we still share some traditional parts.

I value toleration very much but I do not think that humanity ever manage to completely eliminate the lack of tolerance and respect for other people. However, I hope that the activities carried out in this direction will someday lead to a paradox: the total lack of tolerance for people intolerant.

For me toleration is very important and I value it very much, as long as the things that I