Tolerance

The last August, before arrived to Denmark, I travelled with my friends to a rural house in the middle of the mountain. One of my best friends present us his new girlfriend, from Russia. We had to live in the same house for one week, and we know that she was very different than the other girls of the group.

Other friend that is also a Social Educator and me, we were the only that respected her way of life.   That’s why I asked to her some questions about her style of life, her traditions. In the other hand, she made the same to us. She tried to make me to change my idea of live, and I explained to her that I choose this style of live, where I only believe in my actions and in my responsibility and she didn’t understand. I explained that I respect when someone believes in God or other beliefs, but I like that them respect me why I choose this option.

I have to say, that in the same week, we let to her to cook typical food from her country and play some games that for us where very strange, and we made the same for her. I think that it was a way to respect her and us.

We have to think that the culture shock is typical when the multiculturalism appears, and we have to control this shock with the tolerance. That’s why I think that here, the Social Educators and the Teachers has a very important paper, where we need to be tolerance for then show to be tolerance to the others. For me is very hard when I see someone working in this job that doesn’t be tolerant.  

So what I want to say with this video is just that we have to respect and be open-mind and respect all the genders, religious, psychology status,  the precedence of the person… we have to think that everyone has a different background that makes to be different from each other. But the tolerance is only possible if the Human Rights are respected, so if we see any attitude that doesn’t respect it, it’s impossible to be tolerance.

The mediation is one of the resources that one Social Educator can use for work the tolerance, but we need that the conflict appeared can be mediated from the both parts  that are implicated. In this way, we are going to avoid that the problem grow or appear other time.  

For this we also need a democratic participation, for make sure that everyone can express the own opinion with absolutely freedom, and knowing that everyone that is listening is going to respect him.  But without forget that we are in a globalized society and we need to work this not only with the kids, if not with all the society that are near to us.