I cannot conceive borders without the concept of tolerance.
Borders mean to me the possibility of meeting new people, new habits, or other ways of life or thinking.
I cannot imagine learning something from borders without tolerance.
I had been living in a border town for 15 years and I met and lived with so many people so different from me.
They are Hungarians (the majority), Ukrainians, and Russians. They all have different life styles but if you respect them you'll see that so many good things can be learnt from them and finally you don't think at all that you are different from them. You don't think that they are "the others".
In my opinion borders mean accepting the others’ life style and taking from it the good aspects and learning from the bad ones. These two concepts, border and tolerance, cannot go one without another.
The other days I had a conversation with my uncle from the USA.
I asked him to buy me a CD with 50 cents and he asked me: "Do you like those music?? I can't believe that! They are like our gipsies!!"...And suddenly I discovered that he is not a tolerant man at all and he should be because "the Negroes" never did anything to him. I believe that he doesn’t know anything about them so he never got through this border. And it's a pity. I am sure that if he had wanted he could have learnt many things from them as I have from our minority groups..
Crossing borders means travelling with your mind all over the world and learning as much as you can. I am proud that I am a tolerant person and that I have crossed borders. This is a very important thing for me and I think it should be for all of us.
Borders mean to me the possibility of meeting new people, new habits, or other ways of life or thinking.
I cannot imagine learning something from borders without tolerance.
I had been living in a border town for 15 years and I met and lived with so many people so different from me.
They are Hungarians (the majority), Ukrainians, and Russians. They all have different life styles but if you respect them you'll see that so many good things can be learnt from them and finally you don't think at all that you are different from them. You don't think that they are "the others".
In my opinion borders mean accepting the others’ life style and taking from it the good aspects and learning from the bad ones. These two concepts, border and tolerance, cannot go one without another.
The other days I had a conversation with my uncle from the USA.
I asked him to buy me a CD with 50 cents and he asked me: "Do you like those music?? I can't believe that! They are like our gipsies!!"...And suddenly I discovered that he is not a tolerant man at all and he should be because "the Negroes" never did anything to him. I believe that he doesn’t know anything about them so he never got through this border. And it's a pity. I am sure that if he had wanted he could have learnt many things from them as I have from our minority groups..
Crossing borders means travelling with your mind all over the world and learning as much as you can. I am proud that I am a tolerant person and that I have crossed borders. This is a very important thing for me and I think it should be for all of us.
Florina Mihali
11th C
2 comments:
it is strange how people don't act as they should, that no one is being tolerant anymore.i'm glad to see that are people who care....
Thank you Mia for this comment. You are right.
It is important to see people who care.
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