Question

Can someone please answer these interview questions no one else in my house speaks English please.
1. In what ways, if any, does our society need to be more tolerant? Think about gender, age, notions of what makes a family, ideas of what makes someone valuable, attractive, interesting, worth listening to, etc.

2. How can we achieve tolerance in the areas identified? What can we do to achieve tolerance?

3. What are some signs that we have become a more tolerant, equal society?

Answer 1

1) There are a few ways, most notably by trying to avoid using the physical appearance of people as a judgement call on their ability to do something. Or in using racial epithets as if it were slang in everyday speech. Just because someone might be different from what is considered "the norm" should be no reflection on what they can do in life. Granted, not everyone can do everything, there are limitations, but people shouldn't simply write them off from the get go based on how they look, dress, or what they prefer to listen to, etc..

2) How we can achieve greater tolerance? By not being idiots about other people. By thinking before speaking or acting. By identifying morons who prey on others for attention because of how they might be like based on looks or simply for being "different" and then promising ourselves and to our children never to be like those cowards. Who knows what would have happened if enough people stood up to Hitler and the Nazis early on to put a stop to what they were doing before WW2 began?

3) There's the Civil Rights movement which led to equal rights for all, laws preventing discrimination in hiring practices, freedom of religion, free speech, and a number of other legislative rules that officially try to fight intolerance. Though looking at Twitter after the elections, it's kind of hard to tell whether attitudes have actually gotten anywhere in the last two hundred years.

Answer 2

Thank you soo much!!