Tolerance and Empowerment

When people stop us with their problems, their prejudices, their ways of seeing the world that do not resemble ours and the fact that we are different from them want to attack us. When there is no room for diversity, when all should be equal and those born different or others develop different ideas are excluded and are dying, when all that happens ... how do you feel?

      Do you think we should be more tolerant with our differences? Of course! Today there are many diversity, people with other sexual preferences, with other political ideas, with other ideologies, other cultures and religions, and still are a world increasingly knowing each other every time because we did not finish discovering something new of each of us.

  

In a Linkin Park song, according to A-Z Lyrics they say:

“I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface
I don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow

I've become so numb, I can't feel you there
Become so tired, so much more aware
By becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you…”

     In Tolerance.org there is an interesting article called Let's Put the Power Back in "Empowerment" and it is said:

“But what does empowerment really look like in the daily lives of our students? The word empowerment has become almost a toss-away in the land of "raising awareness" and "fighting [insert any disease, disaster or issue here]." Those are important first steps, but without pushing beyond these ideas into the realm of practice, those declarations begin to ring hollow.

For instance, my students must create action plans to remedy issues they see in their local community, and I have asked them to reconsider any project that stops at awareness. I remind them that awareness is great, but unless we are asking people to put their awareness into action, nothing will ever change.

Empowerment looks to be going the way of awareness, becoming an easy catchphrase for change without serving as a catalyst for action. We can raise our fists and demand empowerment for and with any marginalized group, but until we put some kind of plan of action in place, empowerment will never come.”

It’s great to see how the world is asking for changes and education is the key to have tolerance and empowerment always. Society needs tolerance and people aware of their power. Let’s think about it and we shall see how everything gets better.