Zeneta

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Tolerance: a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one’s own; freedom from bigotry.

• Why is tolerance such a difficult value for most people to have?
• Why do you think intolerance has existed since the…

I think tolerance is such a hard value for most people to have because all our beliefs, thoughts, and actions are different, and by it being different, someone will not like it and end up disagreeing to it. And in that way, I think that is why intolerance has been around from the start. A perfect example of intolerance would be Hitler’s ideas, including mass genocides and the Holocaust. Because he didn’t like the the Jews, disabled, homosexual, and etc., he decided to “end” all of which he disliked, by killing them all. Another example of intolerance would be Stalin’s reign. Including his secret police, by which they were like Hitler’s; deaths. I don’t think there is a difference between first, second, and third world nations, I just think that it’s what they live by that makes a difference. Adding onto how different governments are set up, I think that is what determines the peoples tolerance levels. For the people today who are living in totalitarian type government, I think there tolerance level would be different from those living in a democratic or republican democracy, because each government system has a different way of how it runs.

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Write a journal entry/blog post regarding what you watched in class today. Use the following guiding questions…

The crisis in Congo is devastating to hear about. For the past 125 years like stated in the video, this one part of the world has went through so much, with all the dictators, wars, and such and yet no one is really stopping and saying something about it. When girls are being raped, and innocent children are being killed everyday, I don’t think there’s one day where they can live in peace. Just like the 15 year old girl who is constantly raped by a different man everyday, and who even had her best friend killed and left in a hole. I was/am aware that this kind of thing is still going on in the 21st century, but watching this video about a girl around the same age as me, getting raped and becoming pregnant made me open my eyes even more about the fact that there’s still a lot we have to do out there to stop these kinds of things, including poverty. It also made me realize how much we have here in California, and how we complain for more when we really shouldn’t be, so I will most definitely be sharing about this with everyone that I can.