Guest guest Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 I may have mentioned this already sometime back but I was privileged to go to a presentation by the grandson of Mohandus K. Gandhi a few years ago. One of the topics brought up in the question period was about tolerating /toleration. I have an aversion to that word as it is so condescending and patronizing. So I asked Arun Gandhi what the Mahatma thought of that term, " tolerance. " I told him what I thought of the term. He said that the Mahatma also felt the word was belittling and that a better term was " respect. " That we must respect everyone's right to be who they were and that tolerating someone did not come close to what it was that he hoped people would learn. linda > > The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing > that we will never all think alike and we shall always > see truth in fragment and from different points of vision. > ~ Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] Gandhi (1869-1948) > ~~~*~~~*~~~> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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