Talkback Thursday: Are we becoming less tolerant of diversity?
Tolerance - what does it mean?
It’s not a difficult word but have we considered what it really means?
It means being patient with, being open-minded with things or ideas and concepts that are different from our own, or even with things and ideas that we absolutely do not agree with.
In the case of a nation, being tolerant means allowing the right of something that one does not approve or agree with.
It would appear, from recent news in the press, that we might be becoming a less and less tolerant nation when it comes to different people, different ideals and different circumstances.
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