The word "tolerance" -- A funny word. Do you feel, as I do , that "tolerance" which more or less means or involves VOLUNTARILY ACCEPTING SOMETHING THAT IS TOTALLY FOREIGN TO OUR RELIGION OR CULTURE OR IS SOMETHING THAT WE DO NOT REALLY LIKE ?? Otherwise, what could "tolerance" possibly be ???! When a governement speaks out that "we are a tolerant society", how do they know that ? Have we been asked ? NO ! Example, Muslim ladies wearing those veils and now even in front of class rooms. Who's tolerant to that here. I am not... so that is count ONE. Let's have your votes, please. No insults please. I really would like to know if you feel governments are putting words in out mouths. Thank you.
2006-10-20 03:16:11 · 10 answers · asked by RED-CHROME 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
"Allinwiththenuts" -- I must admit that I think that yours is a very good answer !!
2006-10-20 03:23:09 · update #1
I once was accused, by a friend/co-worker, of being very tolerant. He was a devout Christian of some Evangelical order who read the Bible every day in a prayer group at 5AM. It surprised me that a Christian would look at a devout Heathen and think of him as tolerant. I took it to mean that I was peaceful and accepting of other peoples...and that as a Christian, he was intolerant, possible willing to forcibly change others because they would disagree with his version of life...which sounds intolerant of me, and is, but my values are rooted in the idea that no man owns another,he may own the body of a slave, but he can never own his mind or soul. Maybe my world is after all a group with tenents after all, we just don't ever have meetings (that is our first law, no meetings, no organization, no cohesion of any sort)
I think tolerant, as far as the meaning you are looking for, is the tendency to ignore differences in others. I do not belong to any group or club that holds itself apart from others...they may not want to associate with me anyway due to my lack of motivation to subscribe to their tenents. I actually have Christian values; raised as a Quaker, but fell out of organized religion as an adult. But the Quakers are a very tolerant bunch and would welcome me back as if I never left.
It is actually funny and illogical to me that people can be intolerant of others, because they cannot hope to change the motivation of others outside their group. America is not all Evangelical Christians, how do they expect the whole country to simply abandon their own morality for another.
People above me are describing illegal immigration, I'm not. But it seems a main topic in this question. I am tolerant, but some balance must be attained in this area that allows guest workers in and creates a way to protect them as well as include them in our system to some degree (like paying taxes and protecting our security). Citizenship, maybe, but not on a wholesale level. immigrants need to prove they would make good citizens and be loyal to the laws of this country.
I don't agee with you statement, because this nation is diverse and you only represent half or so of all Americans, at best. I would be tolerant to a degreee of a Muslim woman and veil, I don't have to agree with her, but if she is a good teacher and does not advocate her religion over others, I don't have a problem with it. The same goes for anyone advocating their religion to my kid...don't indoctrinate my child into your beliefs, about Mohammad or Christ in public school.
2006-10-20 03:47:51 · answer #1 · answered by Ford Prefect 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I think the government is trying more than to just put words in our mouths.
They're trying to put a sock down our throats!!
Criminals are trying to take over our country with our governments blessing.
We're wondering if Osama Bin Laden is under one of those veils? While Americas are being wire tapped and suffering invasion of privacy while grandma is getting manhandled at the airport.
We have no tolerance for some of our Senators like Kennedy, saying, "We have a fence and fences don't work"? Or, "The people in America don't want the minimum wage to be raised.
While the Senators have given themselves 9 pay raises since the last minimum wage increase.
Their lowest salary is $164,000.00 a year. Last year they were in session 94 days, that's $1,800.00 a day, pretty good pay if you can get it!
We're intolerant to the President saying, "The illegal aliens are just poor immigrants just wanting a better life".
So does the REST OF THE WORLD!!!!!
We can't take them all. We have rules and laws that even President thinks he is above!
We have been educated from birth to respect other peoples religions and cultures. I think we are very tolerant to that.
Mostly it is them that are not tolerant to America culture.
2006-10-20 10:18:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I saw that the law on one case said she could not wear it in the class room because the kids said they couldn't understand her. Because they couldn't see her lips when she talked.Interesting but it sounds alot like discrimination.But I know that in the UK you are having immigration problems as are most free nations in the world.The word tolerant has always left a bad taste in my mouth.I am tolerant of rude people,I am tolerant of ignorance,I am tolerant of bad service.I am not tolerant of people.I am either accepting or I'm not but I am not tolerant.
2006-10-20 10:30:47 · answer #3 · answered by Yakuza 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course the government is putting words in our mouths. The government is behind all the illegal immigration to begin with, as well as the forced diversity in this society. We are being conditioned to accept things for what they are. Individually, there are very few people who are tolerant of mass immigration and/or forced diversity, but we have learned through the media and otherwise that we have to keep hush about it except within the protection of an anonymous forum such as this one. Our freedoms, especially freedom of speech, are being eroded daily. Most people just jump on the bandwagon and begin to believe what they are subtlely instructed to believe. But others, like me, question it and denounce it.
2006-10-20 10:25:26 · answer #4 · answered by nido_tr3s 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I'm only tolerant of things that don't matter that much to me. I am intolerant of illegal aliens, and the Muslim woman should not be allowed to wear their veils here in the US. After all do American women get to drive in Saudi Arabia? As they say "When in Rome"
2006-10-20 10:22:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Who elects the government? The poeple do. Just because you are not tolerant of other poeples beliefs, doesnt mean that you are the majority. If the government said that black people should not be discriminated against and some redneck hick disagreed, does that mean our country feels that way?
2006-10-20 10:19:36 · answer #6 · answered by Allinwiththenuts 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
they like to think we are. even i like to think we are. maybe they just mean comparitivly to other countries we are tolerant. I mean, i think we'd have to be to let all these dumb liberals live, and not strangle all of them in their sleep! (see, this is why my Avatar looks the way it does. Libs make me consistently angry!) but i do think that, besides for what you mentioned above, government does tend to put words in our mouths. I guess that's their downside, they get to be the "voice of America"
2006-10-20 10:24:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
they are putting words in the mouth of middle-class Americans while stealing money from our pockets to pay for this "tolerance"
2006-10-20 10:22:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
If you dont like this country, then leave!!!!! ( Unless you dont have a place to go...) If that is the case, im so sorry for you my friend. Get used to it.
2006-10-20 23:30:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are tolerant as far as we don't kill people we don't agree with.
2006-10-20 10:19:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋