Acceptance = accepted people are different, no problem with them at all Tolerance = you have a problem with someone about something (behaviour/scene/skin colour/crap taste/I dunno, etc. etc.) but choose to respect them and keep it to yourself.
Yea, Basically that's wha I meant ^. With people, tolerance is more of a thing where you don't like someone or a group of people and their differences but you simply put up with them,mostly because you have to, not because you want to. Acceptance is more like you put up with these differences in people, ideologies, customs, whatever, because you want to. You understand they are necessary for diversity in society and you are welcoming towards that even if you don't necessarily agree with them. For example, one person might feel like they have to tolerate new immigrants because thats the way society is, even if this person isn't big on the differences these immigrants have and how our society seems to cater to them so he just leaves it and goes about his business as they do. One might be accepting of immigrants because while they also aren't huge on new people in the country being catered to, they can still be accomodating and welcoming and make the effort to understand the newcomers and maybe make more effort to interact.... It's like, some people may see a great big Latin American festival as something that shouldn't be happening in USA because it's not the "american way" or something, but they deal with it, because they have the freedom to do so, whereas someone more accepting might like the idea of people celebrating their culture, whether or not they agree with so many Latinos in their country. I don't know if that's exactly a good example of what I mean...It was hard to think of one...
Good job Drew. I agree with you completely. I try hard to accept people on a one on one bases. If you do not give me a reason to dislike you, then I will like you. I have made a personal commitment not to hold anyone ethnisity againt them. As far as cultural festival are concerned, I love 'em. There is little else better than drinking in the celebration of other cultures. <(^o^)>
labels and titles are for contents contained in a box....I choose to live outside of the "box" of normality(what-ever that might be)..the only label I personally claim...is I am an individual.....I am me...nothing more and nothing less The human race is not comfortable with anything they cannot categorize for unknowns scare people basically bottom line is this....just be yourself...you are the only one there is
You can also live outside the box and still use labels on groups, in my opinion. Also use of labels is not always connected with fear. And, not all people who apply a label on themself aren't being themself.
labels are popular because they're convenient and because of habit / conditioning notice the difference between: "i am an atheist" and "i lack a belief in deities" in the first statement a label is used. in this case it is a label that happens to have a lot of negative connotation attached to it. notice how this first statement is not descriptive. now see how the second statement is indeed descriptive while pretty much expressing the same point. the first example, in a number of common topics that pop up on internet message boards, might result in 20, 30, 80 pages of miscommunication and heated argument whilst the second one, essentially meaning the same thing but being far more focused and descriptive, is likely to not even be touched, because doing so would take a lot more work, a lot more honesty and integrity than just bashing the baggage-laden atheist label with pre-packaged insults and rhetoric that require the offender to know virtually nothing of the what they're talking about. also, most people on the net are not genuinely interested in the discussion that they're taking part in, thus no one is likely to care enough to inquire when someone makes a statement like the second one. someone could say, "those damn hippies!" or they could say, "those damn people who want to protect the environment because it is extremely important, and who don't want to be bothered with shaving because it's a pain in the ass and because body hair is natural!" what good would that do for that person? and if they said something negative about "hippies" but were instead really descriptive about it, then they would inevitably open their ideas up to criticism and refutation, and as i alluded to earlier, being more descriptive tends to take a lot more work, and more intelligence and honesty and on and on. in politics labels are used to easily sway the masses, because the masses are indeed a rather thoughtless lot and don't care to actually understand complex issues on any meaningful level; they want catch-phrases, not facts. in marketing labels and the like are again used because they're catchier, quicker and because most people have the attention span and patience of a rat on crack cocaine. so really i could go on and on, but i think you get the idea. the real problem is not so much labels, but "the consolidation or compaction of an idea or set of ideas for matters of convenience," convenience in this case meaning all sorts of things as simple as a time saver to a method for avoiding criticism via burying one's own stupid ideas; deception, or like i mentioned at the head of this, habit / conditioning. but it's the simple action of being less descriptive that is the problem... a label is just the extreme of this, and i have actually been of the mind for a long time that doing this / using labels is one of the more corrosive things to a society. the fact that people tend so much not to be individuals in the mental / social / intangible sense does not help this matter....
cliques and social groups in my mind are just a way of organizing people like others have said, its easier to just say something like "hey there goes that damn hippie" than it is to say "hey there goes open minded, free thinking, free spirited, weed smoking, acid dropping, tie-dye wearing, George" maybe that's just me though ? :S and people identify with these cliques because they are into the same things as the other people that are in the cliques four or five people who listen to the same style of music like the same activities and think a specific fashion style looks good are more likely to get along, and become friends then others start associating them with a general label its not like people just wake up one day and think hey i wanna become an emo-kid then start dressing the part and listening to depressing music i applogize if this makes no sense at all my posts seem to make sense to me but not to alot of others
