Globalization processes of the last hundred years have led to mass migration and the emergence of heterogeneous societies where coexisting alongside representatives of different, sometimes quite obscure each other crops.All these processes are nowadays increasingly lead to a discussion of the notion of "tolerance."What is it - the good or harm?By this concept, as a rule, political parties are appealing a racist and nationalist sense, calling for the expulsion of foreign elements from the country and the establishment of monocultural and monoethnic society.
Tolerance.What is biology?
Initially, the term was used by biologists to describe certain properties of living organisms.The Latin word literally means tolerate processes patience or addiction.With respect to, for example, Immunology, this implied condition of the body in which it is, for some reason, can not reproduce the antibodies to specific antigens.Usually such failure is negative and literally means the inability of the body's resistance to foreign elements.However, there is also required tolerance.For example, during the development of the fetus it does not cause rejection by the mother.Environmentalists called the tolerance of the body's ability to adapt and survive in a very wide range of conditions.Also very useful feature.
Tolerance.What is it for society?
above problems in building multicultural societies gave rise to an understanding of social tolerance as very tolerant of strangers.However, the distinction and its other forms: for example, gender, political, educational, Interclass, tolerance toward people with disabilities, sexual minorities and certain other categories of society.However, the development of tolerance in these areas is fairly successful in many Western countries.That, however, is not true of Russia, CIS and the more eastern world.
racial and ethnic tolerance.What is it - the good or harm?
This is the kind of discussion of tolerance in contemporary society.On the failure of the policy of multiculturalism has openly said the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in the north of Belgium (Flanders) is increasingly gaining momentum openly nationalist political forces, and the situation in Russia is really excellent and very knowledgeable reader.
The first thing I would like to note that most of the ultra-right forces strong and deliberately distort the concept of tolerance by presenting it not as a willingness to accept something new, but as blind obedience and resignation to the negative trends related to migration.Turning it into a vice and ridicule.But in fact, tolerance to a different color or culturally acceptable does not imply tolerance for inappropriate acts of ethnic minorities (such lezginka in public places), demonstrating their defiance or inappropriate local regulations cultural expressions (such as the introduction of Sharia).Another tool is the exploitation of the ultra-right of the image of the Jews as the source of all ills.However, a thoughtful look at the historical process dispels this myth, which aims to divert young and radical from the real causes of social problems in society.As a method to combat these trends favor education.For these purposes, in Moscow a year ago, an open Museum of Tolerance.
important argument against the racist arguments are modern scientists research authorities in the study of the phenomena of the nation and nationalism: Anthony Smith, Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner and others.Despite some differences, they all agree that the nation is a social construct, and the main cause of today's international problems are not racial differences, and ideological and social contradictions.
National minorities of Muslims in France, Germany, Russia consist in the stage of social development that is crucial to identify what pushes them to its widespread demonstrations and violent defense.While western Europeans already two hundred years, enough of that with the concept of the nation and go to the next stage of development (characterized by the transfer of power from national governments to transnational corporations. We call this society is a consumer society).In addition, the majority of migrants are facing serious social problems, which causes bitterness.Thus, the problem lies not in the closed society of the castle (globalization is inevitable anyway), and in the retraction of the laggards in the process of quality education, economic and social development.
