One day during class, our teacher was talking about tolerance. It was whole lesson, dedicated to this mysterious, beautiful word. We listened in fascination to the teacher's story about relationships between people, about the uniqueness of each person, and, in my opinion, this lesson had a strong impact on all of us, including me.
Tolerance is, in other words, tolerance. A tolerant person does not condemn other people’s views and beliefs, but treats every point of view with understanding and respect. There is a good saying: “How many people - so many opinions.” Of course, it is possible to meet a person with similar views, but it is impossible to meet a completely identical person, because each of us grows up in our own unique environment, has our own family, our own friends, innate and acquired knowledge, skills, as well as our own experience.
You cannot judge a person by their country of residence, skin color or religious beliefs. These are things that are not decisive in assessing the human qualities of an individual. After all, tolerance is freedom of thought and choice, but is it even possible to limit our freedom?
But why is it needed? In my opinion, tolerance helps reduce conflicts between people. After all, people often get into arguments without taking into account the opinion of their opponent. A person who sees only his own opinion and recognizes it as the only correct one is an egoist. This is not entirely correct, since it only complicates life, primarily for the person himself. Such a person sees negativity and disagreement everywhere, tries to find like-minded people, and turns a blind eye to other views. While other people with their own views and interests have great benefits for other people: different people enrich each other, share new experiences with each other, and broaden their horizons. We must not forget that communication is not just a “one-sided game”; the purpose of communication is not to impose your own opinion on someone. The purpose of communication is exchange: exchange of opinions, experience, knowledge.
Tolerant people, I think, find it easier to accept other people. After all, accepting someone else’s opinion is much more interesting than arguing with others and convincing them of your own opinion. Of course, there are people who cannot live a day without an argument, but disputes can be different. You can simply impose your beliefs, try to “reeducate” a person, accuse him of erroneous views. Or you can calmly and reasonably answer the question of what his mistake is and why your views should be taken on faith as correct.
So, I think people should learn more about tolerance and learn this skill. After all, this is truly creativity - to be able to listen to a person, accept him as he is and not offend him if his beliefs do not coincide with yours. This behavior is a guarantee effective communication and useful exchange of information.
Essay on the topic of
“Tolerance is the key to the survival of humanity”
Gergesova Victoria
Student of 10th grade
gymnasium No. 14
Ulan-Ude
2010
“National culture gains prominence
throughout the world only when the values developed in it
become an achievement for all humanity.
Culture of peace, culture of interethnic communication -
the results of the centuries-long development of human history.”
BUT. Lossky
In its broad sense, the word “tolerance” (by the way, comes from the Latin tolerantia, that is, patience) means tolerance for other people’s opinions and actions, the ability to treat them without irritation. In this sense, tolerance is a rare character trait. A tolerant person respects the beliefs of others without trying to prove that he is exceptionally right. In a narrower sense, the concept of “tolerance” is used in medicine. Here, tolerance is the body’s ability to tolerate the negative influences of the external environment without loss.
In fact, any belief - religious, political or cultural - can lead to intolerance if there is no doubt about the infallibility of the ideas we believe in and the falsity of those views we challenge. Political freedom assumes that we trust our political opponents enough to allow them to organize, campaign, and form a new government. Economic freedom involves tolerance of competing economic interests. Competition contributes to the formation of a more harmonious community and stimulates the initiative of individuals and social groups.
The importance of this phenomenon in modern life so strong that in 1995 UNESCO adopted the Declaration of Principles of Tolerance, which include respect, acceptance and correct understanding of the rich diversity of cultures of our world, our forms of self-expression and ways of expressing human individuality, harmony in diversity, a focus on achieving peace and promoting the replacement of the culture of war culture of the world.
Tolerance expresses the ability to establish and maintain community with people who differ from us in some respect. Of course, one must keep in mind that there are limits to tolerance, i.e. the presence of certain moral limits that make it possible not to confuse tolerant relations with permissiveness and indifference to the values that nourish beliefs. Otherwise, I would have to agree with G.K. Chesterton’s definition: “Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.”
"We unite in commonality with those who share our beliefs, or with those who speak the same language or have the same culture as us, or with those who belong to the same ethnic group. At the same time We tend to be hostile or fearful toward “others”—those who are different from us.”
We have been living in the 21st century for several years now. Progress, economics, new computer systems - everything is at the service of man. It would seem that life should be more measured, more confident, more joyful.
But in modern society there is an active growth of aggressiveness, extremism, and conflicts. Why? We should probably go back to the history of the development of human society, i.e. states that are separated by borders and regimes among themselves. And often they oppose each other. Each state has its own culture. The progress achieved by humanity in various fields has not led to complete mutual understanding between people. The desire for absolute domination and the destruction of independence is still strong. This is visible not only at the level of foreign and domestic policies of states, but also in everyday interpersonal communication. Mass destruction, murders, and flows of refugees have become real. And it's scary.
Various forms of confrontation on ethnic grounds have a particularly strong impact on human consciousness. Tolerance is a key problem for the whole world, an essential component of a free society and a stable government.
The instability of society especially affects young people, who, due to their age, are characterized by maximalism and the desire for quick solutions to social problems.
Among teenagers, an increase in juvenile delinquency is visible; The number of youth antisocial organizations is growing, in particular those of an extremist nature, which involve inexperienced youth.
It seems to me that tolerance is a cultural orientation, an attitude of an individual who lives in peace and harmony, in a country, family, school, class. Consequently, this presupposes that everyone has such human qualities as responsibility, goodwill, restraint, and tolerance. Unfortunately, the spirit of intolerance towards other cultures, lifestyles, beliefs, and habits continues to exist in society. School is no exception. Tolerance and its derivatives are given the main place in solving the problem of developing a culture of interethnic relations.
It is not for nothing that the Declaration of Principles of Tolerance, approved by UNESCO, was adopted. November 16 became the International Day of Tolerance. On December 31, 1999, Russia adopted an action plan to create attitudes of tolerant consciousness and prevent extremism in our society. Without the formation of tolerance, movement towards a civilized society is impossible. Can a school prevent the spread of nationalist and racist sentiments? There is only one answer: yes. It is the school that is one of the most important institutions for educating such a quality of moral aspect as tolerance.
In the Russian language there are two words with a similar meaning - “tolerance” and “tolerance”. The term "tolerance" is used in medical sciences, and is also used in everyday speech, but it sounds like "tolerance" and means "the ability, ability to endure, put up with other people's opinions, be lenient towards the actions of other people."
Thanks to the efforts of UNESCO in recent decades, the concept of “tolerance” has become an international term, the most important keyword in peace issues. IN modern society tolerance must become a consciously formed model of relationships between people, nations and countries. Therefore, we should instill in children precisely such an understanding of tolerance as the perception of the unity of humanity, the interdependence of everyone on everyone and everyone on everyone, respect for the rights of others (including the right to be different). This could happen in the near future if the concept of “tolerance” becomes firmly established in the family lexicon.
But, besides all this, there are groups of people in the world who, on the one hand, reflect the diversity of life, but, on the other hand, are often perceived by the majority as antisocial phenomena. Criminals, drug addicts, representatives of sexual minorities - all these people are undoubtedly “others” in our society. How to treat them? Should tolerance be limitless, and should we be tolerant and lenient in such cases? In this regard, another position is possible. You can live as if not noticing these facts, indifferently passing by them. Will such an attitude be tolerant? Or will active resistance to their spread be tolerant? Thus, the problem of the boundaries of tolerance is also a question of the boundaries between tolerance and indifference, indifference.
A country where children and youth are not cared for has no future. If significant changes do not occur in the near future, we are doomed to extinction. In crisis conditions, it is young people who are most susceptible to the collapse of ideals, aggravation of nihilism, and apathy. the value system is fluid, the worldview is not settled, which leads to the loss of moral and spiritual health of the nation.
Today we often hear from television screens and from leading politicians the “new” word, which was unfamiliar to us until recently, “tolerance.” Maybe this is the influence of fashion, but I sincerely wish that a tolerant attitude towards others becomes as natural a need of a modern person as communication. And therefore, I believe that parents should be among the first to develop a tolerant attitude towards others. Modern children are actively involved in adult life quite early and master various social roles.
And their global life orientation depends on how they relate to the world as a whole, to themselves and to others in this world. A position of tolerance and trust is the basis for making the choice of future generations in favor of peace, not war, peaceful coexistence of humanity, not conflicts. Rooting the spirit of tolerance in the family, developing an attitude towards it as the most important value of society will be a significant contribution of family education to the development of a culture of peace on earth.
Essay on a theme
"Tolerance - the mortgage of survival of mankind"
The author of an essay:
Gergesova Victoria
The student of 10”V” form
Of gymnasium No. 14
Ulan-Ude City
2010
« The national culture gets popularity
All over the world only when the values developed in it,
Become achievement of all mankind.
Culture of the world, culture of interethnic dialogue-
Results of centuries-old development of universal history."
N.O.Lossky
In the wide sense a word "tolerance" (by the way, occurs from Latin tolerance, that is the patience), means tolerance to another's opinions and acts, ability to concern to them without irritation. In this sense tolerance is a rare character trait. The tolerant person respects with belief of others, not trying to prove the exclusive correctness. In narrower sense the concept "tolerance" is used in medicine. Here tolerance is an ability of an organism lost-free to transfer negative influences of an environment.
Actually any belief - religious, political or cultural - can lead to intolerance if does not remain any doubt in infallibility of ideas in which we trust, and in falsity those sights which are challenged by us. The political freedom assumes that we sufficiently trust our political opponents to allow them to be organized, conduct elective campaign and to generate the new government. Economic freedom assumes tolerance to competing economic interests. The competition promotes the formation of more harmonious community and stimulates the initiative of individuals and social groups.
Importance of this phenomenon in a modern life is so strong, that in 1995 of UNESCO the Declaration of principles of the tolerance including respect, acceptance and correct understanding of the rich variety of cultures of our world, our forms of self-expression and ways of displays of human individuality, harmony in variety, an orientation on achievement of the world and assistance to replacement of culture of war has been accepted by culture of the world.
Tolerance expresses the ability to establish and keep a generality with the people differing us in any attitude. Certainly, thus it is necessary to mean, that there are boundaries of tolerance, i.e. presence of the certain moral limits, allowing to not mix tolerant attitudes with permissiveness and indifference to the values feeding belief. Otherwise it should agree with G.K. Chestertona's definition: “Tolerance is a virtue of people which in what do not trust.”
"We are united in one generality with those who divides our belief, or with those who speak in the same language or has the same culture, as we, or with those who belongs to the same ethnic group. At the same time we are inclined hostilely or with fear to concern to “another” - that who differs from us"
Here some years we live in the XXI century. Progress, the economy, new computer systems - all on service of the person. It would Seem, the life should be more measuredly, more confidently, more joyfully.
But in a modern society active growth of aggression, extremism, conflicts. Why? Probably it is necessary to return to history of development of a human society, i.e. the states which are divided by borders and modes among themselves. And often they resist each other. At each state - the culture. The progress reached by mankind in various areas, has not led to the uttermost mutual understanding between people. On the former aspiration to absolute domination, destruction of independence is strong. It is visible not only at a level external and internal policy of the states, but also daily interpersonal dialogue. Mass destruction, murders, streams of refugees became real. And it is terrible.
Especially strong influence on human consciousness is rendered with various forms of confrontation on ethnic ground. Tolerance is a key problem for the whole world, an essential component of a free society and a stable state system.
Instability of a society especially mentions youth which by virtue of age abilities is peculiar maximalism, aspiration to fast decisions of social problems.
Among teenagers growth of teenage criminality is visible; the quantity of the youth antisocial organizations, in particular, having extremist character where the unsophisticated youth is involved grows.
It seems to me, that tolerance is that cultural orientation, the attitude of the person who lives in peace, in the country, family, school, a class. Hence, it assumes presence at everyone such human qualities, as the responsibility, goodwill, restraint, tolerance. Unfortunately, the spirit of intolerance to other culture, a way of life, beliefs, habits continues to exist in a society. Is not exception and school. Tolerances and to its derivatives the main place is allocated at the decision of a problem of development of culture of interethnic attitudes.
The Declaration of principles of the tolerance approved by UNESCO has not been without reason accepted. On November, 16th became the International day of tolerance. On December, 31st, 1999 Russia has accepted a plan of measures on the formation of installations of tolerant consciousness and preventive maintenance of extremism in our society. Without formation of tolerance movement to a civilized society is impossible. Whether the school can interfere with the distribution of nationalist and racist moods. The answer one: yes. The school is one of the major institutions of education of such quality of moral aspect as tolerance.
In Russian there are two words with similar meaning - "tolerance" and "tolerance". The term "tolerance" is used in medical sciences, and also used in ordinary speech, but "tolerance" sounds and means "ability, skill to suffer, be reconciled with another"s opinion, to be indulgent to acts of other people."
Owing to the efforts of UNESCO last decades the concept "tolerance" became the international term, the major keyword in a problematics of the world. In a modern society tolerance should become meaningfully formed model of mutual relations of people, people and the countries. Therefore we should bring up at children such understanding of tolerance, as perception of unity of mankind, interdependence of all from everyone and everyone from everything, respect of the rights of another (including the rights to be other). It can occur in the near future if the concept "tolerance" will be included strongly into a family lexicon.
But, except for all it, in the world there are groups of people which, on the one hand, reflect variety of a life, but, on the other hand, are quite often perceived by the majority as the antisocial phenomena. Criminals, addicts, representatives of sexual minority - all these people, undoubtedly, are "others" in our society. How to concern them? Should there be a tolerance boundless, and we - tolerant and indulgent in such cases? In this connection one more position is possible. It is possible to live, as though not noticing these facts, indifferently passing by them. Will there be a similar attitude tolerant? Or active counteraction to their distribution will be tolerant? Thus, the problem of borders of tolerance is also a question on borders between tolerance and indifference, indifference.
The country in which does not care of children and youth, has no future. And if in the near future there will be no essential changes, we are doomed to extinction. In crisis conditions are most of all subject to collapse of ideals, an aggravation of nihilism, apathy youth since the system of values is mobile, outlook not settled, that leads to loss of moral and spiritual health of the nation.
Today we quite often hear from telescreens, from leading politicians a word “new” and unfamiliar to us until recently “tolerance”. Perhaps, this influence of a fashion, but sincerely I wish, that the tolerant attitude to another became the same needs of nature of the modern person, as dialogue. And consequently I consider, that parents one of the first should develop in themselves the tolerant attitude to another. Modern children it is early enough to actively join in an adult life, master various social roles.
And their global vital orientation depends on how they will concern the world as a whole, to itself and another in this world. The position of tolerance and trust is a basis for the realization of a choice of the future generations in favor of the world, instead of war, peaceful co-existence of mankind, instead of conflicts. Rooting in family of spirit of tolerance, formation of the attitude to it as to the major value of a society will be the significant contribution of family education to the development of culture of the world on the ground.
Sapieva Raisa
"Now that we have learned to fly through the air like birds,
to swim underwater like fish, we only lack one thing:
learn to live on earth like people"
Bernard Show
Today Olga Alexandrovna began the lesson by saying that we are all so different: adults and children, blondes and brunettes, good and evil, plump and thin, bald and with pigtails, smart and not very smart, but everyone must live and understand each other. There is such a beautiful word “tolerance”. She wrote it on the board and asked if we had heard this word and what it meant. I listened to my classmates’ answers and wondered why everyone has been talking so much about tolerance lately. I am Kazakh by nationality. Hatred towards small nations began to manifest itself more and more in modern world. So, when Olga Alexandrovna was offered to write an essay on the topic: “Tolerance is for me...”, I immediately wanted to put my thoughts on paper.
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“Tolerance is for me...”
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Sapieva Raisa
2013-2014 academic year
"Now that we have learned to fly through the air like birds,
to swim underwater like fish, we only lack one thing:
learn to live on earth like people"
Bernard Show
Today Olga Alexandrovna began the lesson by saying that we are all so different: adults and children, blondes and brunettes, kind and evil, plump and thin, bald and with pigtails, smart and not very smart, but everyone must live and understand each other. There is such a beautiful word “tolerance”. She wrote it on the board and asked if we had heard this word and what it meant. I listened to my classmates’ answers and wondered why everyone has been talking so much about tolerance lately. I am Kazakh by nationality. Hatred towards small nations has become increasingly evident in the modern world. So, when Olga Alexandrovna was offered to write an essay on the topic: “Tolerance is for me...”, I immediately wanted to put my thoughts on paper.
Finally, in the evening I had some free minutes. A hectic day remained outside the window: school worries, helping my mother around the house, working in our small store. I sat down at the table and turned on the computer.
Tolerance has proven to be quite difficult to describe, perhaps because different languages it is defined in different ways. On the Internet I found that in English language tolerance is “the willingness and ability to accept a person without protest”, in French - “respect for the freedom of another, his way of thinking”, in Arabic - tolerance is “forgiveness, leniency, compassion, patience”, in Persian - it is a readiness for reconciliation.” The Russian dictionary interprets this word as tolerance - the ability to tolerate something or someone. Meanwhile, the concept of “tolerance” is already given in many dictionaries as outdated. Is this really fair? Is it really possible to have a world in which there is no place for respect for other people’s opinions, culture, or language?
It has now become fashionable to demonstrate your tolerance, or even better, to talk about it as loudly as possible. The word “tolerance” comes from the verb “to endure,” and patience is not the most pleasant feeling. When we tolerate someone, we experience awkwardness, irritation, and sometimes even hatred. Therefore, I prefer to understand the word “tolerance” as understanding and respect, rather than as patience.
First of all, tolerance is manifested at home, at school. Everyone knows that we need to live together, but sometimes it is difficult to restrain ourselves when we see the shortcomings of others. Sometimes we have the feeling that we are being picked on. At school, as everywhere else, we are all different: there are small, big, thin, overweight, Russians, Kazakhs, Armenians, gypsies. Why do we sometimes laugh at each other? True tolerance manifests itself, first of all, in human behavior. The feeling with which we accept the habits of other people. All people have different attitudes towards those who are different from them, who look or think differently, believe in other gods, belong to a different nationality. Someone is indifferent, someone is trying to understand, accept. And someone, on the contrary, does not accept what is alien to him. They call it different things now: racism, Nazism, extremism….
I read that During the Great Patriotic War, when the Nazis captured Russian cities, many Russians were evacuated to the south, where the war had not yet reached. They were warmly received by people of other nationalities: Tajiks, Uzbeks, Georgians, Armenians. The Russians were provided with housing, food, clothing and other necessary things. People didn’t look at the fact that the refugees were not their nationality, with a different eye and skin color! And that is why our country won such a difficult and terrible war. People helped each other, did not let the weak die, they all united against a common enemy - the fascists.
Previously, the problem of tolerance was not as acute as it is now. With the emergence of freedom of choice for every person - how to dress, how to behave, what to believe - society has turned into a mass of people completely different from each other.
I believe that it is wrong to divide people based on nationality or religion. Does it really matter where a person was born and what faith he professes?
On the one hand, how are we different? Two arms, two legs and a head, everything is the same as the others. We are all human, this is our main similarity, this is what we must respect each other for. That means nothing!
And if you meet a person of a different nationality on the street, you don’t need to look at him with contempt or a grin. His nationality and appearance are not a reason to hate him. Once upon a time, our grandparents lived in the same country and it was called the Soviet Union. They told me that all the peoples were friendly, respected each other, were friends. We visited each other in sanatoriums and on excursions. The children met at the Artek camp. It was a place where the best students came different nationalities. Why has everything changed now? Well, not all small nations have one president, but each has their own. This is not a reason to end friendship!
We just need to treat everyone as it was before, and then there will be no “strangers” among us? Every nationality has bad people with whom it is undesirable to meet on the street in the evening. You just need to treat a person like a person, live like a human being, and it doesn’t matter what nationality you are - Russian, Kazakh, Chechen, Azerbaijani or Uzbek. What do we lack to live like human beings? And the fruit of my thoughts was the conclusion that it turns out to be tolerance. We all live in one world, where there are many countries and many different people, where everyone is friends in their own way, so let's live together! It turns out that tolerance for me is friendship and respect. Fight violence together, understand each other in order to build a peaceful future. If we think about it now, there will be no wars or terrorist attacks on Earth. And then there will be peace on our planet, and humanity will survive, and we will all be calm for the future of our children, the future of the Earth, and we will rejoice in every new day with blue sky, bright sun. I am tolerant of all people and encourage everyone around me to be the same.
What is tolerance?
To answer this question, let's understand this concept. Tolerance is tolerance and respect for culture, behavior and ethnicity, acceptance of other people's values and ideals. It would seem that this is a very important and necessary phenomenon, but in modern society the concept of tolerance has been “turned upside down.” Now tolerance is used to cover up many immoral aspects of life. Although its initial signs were renunciation of violence and respect for foreign culture and ethnicity.
To prove this, let us recall Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov’s novel “A Hero of Our Time.” Staff Captain Maxim Maksimych, who has served in the Caucasus for a long time, knows the language of the highlanders well and respects their customs and morals.
He is very kind, sympathetic and honest. The staff captain believes in the friendship of peoples, which is formed from respect for foreign culture, and, naturally, the friendly people reciprocate his feelings. Thus, we see that Maxim Maksimych’s tolerance helps him coexist peacefully with other people.
But tolerance does not always help to improve relationships with others. In Andrei Platonov's story "Yushka" main character Efim, nicknamed “Yushka,” endures constant bullying from those around him. Children and adults offend him, beat him, throw stones at him. But the hero is not offended by them, believing that this is how others show “blind love” towards him. Thus, we see that Yushka’s tolerance borders on unhealthy altruism and rather hinders than helps him.
To sum up what has been said, we can conclude: tolerance is a very important phenomenon, manifested in respect and tolerance for foreign culture and ethnicity. But its basis must be reciprocity, otherwise tolerance will turn into unhealthy altruism.
Updated: 2018-04-17
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