Tolerant is an abuse or not?

Tolerant is how? What is hidden behind this concept, so often used in modern rhetoric? Most often it is associated with ethnopolitical problems and multiculturalism. Without rejecting the implications of these problems, it should be noted that the term covers much broader phenomena.

Biological tolerance

Initially, this concept was used by biologists to denote the corresponding properties of the organisms of living beings. Translated from the Latin language, "tolerate" means the processes of patience and addiction. Biologists have called this the ability of the immune system to adapt to antigens. That is, if the body is immune-tolerant, this means that for some reason (impossibility or lack of necessity) it does not reproduce antibodies to the antigens that have entered it. And it is important to note that this phenomenon is not always negative. For example, the development of the fetus in the mother's body does not cause rejection. Which, of course, is a fundamentally important characteristic of life. This concept is used and ecologists, in the understanding of which it is tolerant, is when the organism is able to perceive and survive in a fairly wide range of climatic conditions. A useful property, is not it?

Tolerance in the societies of people

And here the concept can be used in completely different planes. Tolerant behavior (or not tolerant) can be in relation to women, disabled people, sexual minorities and other social categories. Same An example of a public attitude towards people of non-traditional sexual orientation is today, perhaps, no less discussed in Russia. Often, our society is compared with the European, where the example of tolerant behavior in this area is much easier to find. Yet the most significant problem of tolerance is the relationship of representatives of different human civilizations.

The collapse of multiculturalism was already frankly announced by the first politicians of the developed countries of Western Europe. A number of its regions in recent years are increasingly prone to nationalist tendencies. And the reader is also familiar with the Russian realities. Here the definition of "tolerant" is often a dirty word. However, it is important to remember that tolerance for representatives of a different culture or race does not at all mean automatic submissiveness to inappropriate acts by national minorities. It often happens that migrants brought up in another system of values and social relations carry it with them to a new country for themselves. Of course, tolerance can not extend to behavior or actions that openly contradict local norms - such as the requirement of a general Wearing hijabs by women or lezginka in public places.

These problems should not be solved at all by closing the borders, because globalization is an objectively progressive phenomenon and will sweep away any obstacles in its path. And certainly not the destruction of aliens. Problems can be solved only by the education of these peoples, by the education of the spirit of tolerance in them, as opposed to religious fanaticism and the complexes of small nationalities. First of all, the states of the third world should be involved in the processes of adequate economic and social development. Only after the formation there of responsible civil societies that have overcome their fanaticism and the desire for self-affirmation at the expense of others, trump arguments from the hands of the modern ultra-right will be knocked out.