Why is the world a dangerous place when you are different? (Referring to the western culture)?

Question

I notice that there seem to be an intolorence towards people who are different either because of there ethinicity group, wealth, religious view, physical appeareces or other preferences. Why? (Please, provide lengthy explaination of your opinion. Don't hesitate because these questions have no right or wrong answers. Thank you!)

Answer 1

People aren't accepting of something different or anything that differs from the general norm people expect and want from people. Different to them means unstability and the differences can be scary. Some people are set in the ways they view the world, and anything different must be bad. People also have their stereotypes and their false views of what these different things are. Or, some people are so closeminded that they refuse to even believe that anything different could be on the same level as them. I don't understand why people can't accept people no matter what their differences are.

Answer 2

Sorry but Westerners don't have the market on intolerance, racism, hatred, etc., etc. etc. Look at any country which has suffered a civil war because of "ethnic cleansing" or "in the name of (my) God (not yours)" - look at Africa - look at Russia, China, Gemany, Italy and Ethiopia, the middle east, the Romans, the Turks and the Greeks, the Spaniards, your nearest history book - I think either you're just trying to stir things up or you're very, very young.

Answer 3

Maybe it is in our genes to respond that way. For example, in early evolution it may have been a factor in survival to reject the different one. And now, open mindedness comes to so many after the reproductive years that it doesn't act as a trait for survival. But culturally, we can overcome such genetic predispositions, because our brains are capable of conscious choice.

Answer 4

I fel you're incorrect. Where I live I see no intolerance of different people. They are treated the same.

Answer 5

if you have so much problem coping up in a western society/country then why do u choose to go there in the first place

Answer 6

because we fear things we don't understand or fear things we don't want to understand. I'd hate to be gay and live in texas, which is why i live between cali and az! It works for me!

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