Question

5. How diversity and tolerance are linked?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Diversity can thrive only in the presence of tolerance. And with tolerance, diversity is a natural outcome. When we accept cultures, traditions and religions different from ours, without any discrimination, we make space for sustenance of diversity, and this process of acceptance, makes us tolerant.

Answer 2

Answer:

They seem naturally connected, as believing in a diverse society requires tolerance. However, it is not that simple.

Most countries have a dominant culture. Everything is based on the principles of that culture: constitution, education, political climate, dominant philosophy etc. In the West the ideas of enlightenment are the foundation of everything. Tolerance is the key principle. Everyone should be free to be what he wants to be and say what he wants to say and believe what he wants to believe.

Those are all wonderful principles, but there is a trap. What do you do with ideologies and religions that are fundamentally opposed to all that tolerance and are out to destroy the enlightenment based society. Think of communism, fascism and Islam. Those are all totalitarian systems. Do you want to be tolerant and give them the right to grow and destroy the tolerance from within, or should the state put a stop to it?

Those a hard questions. Fascism and communism have subsided, but now Islam is the problematic ideology. They don’t believe in freedom of speech, they don’t believe in freedom of religion, they don’t believe in democracy, they don’t believe people can love who ever he or she wants to love and they don’t believe state and religion should be separated.

So what do you do as a state? You can let it all happen and hope for the best and you can say that we are dealing with an undermining totalitarian system and that action is required. If you take action, do you violate the constitutional rights of freedom of religion and freedom expression?

There is another problem. As a country you want there to be a homogenous culture, irrespective of race and creed. If you are too tolerant towards substantial minorities, the chances are they don’t integrate, but form parallel societies. You don’t want that, as it is bad for that idea of togetherness in the country.

Diversity with endless tolerance can devour a culture,