Tolerance in a Campus is Crucial
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Tolerance
is a way of expressing oneself in allowing others to say and do things that
people like without being disturbed. Tolerance needs to be applied to everyday
life, especially on campus. Tolerance is to respect the rights of other people
who have ideas and values that do not match a person's own ideas and values
(Kele, 1995: 73). Wilson (1991) defines tolerance as allowing many ideas that
could be different to be expressed and as approaching other people within a
worldwide goal, being self-govering of value differences. When someone arrives
on a campus, he/she is likely to encounter students who have different
perspectives, lifestyles, and values than others. Practiced tolerance will
result in a better attitude. Tolerance on campus is crucial to respecting each
other.
There
are many reasons why tolerance on campus is crucial. The first reason is
tolerance can make respect for others' decisions. Research shows that not
everyone has the same opinion or perspective as other people. Someone should be
able to make whatever decision that people make. Everyone has a right to feel
safe and comfortable on a campus, but not all people are respectful of other
decisions. If someone disagrees with the decision about perspective from the
others, there is no problem, because everyone is allowed to have a perspective
that is different from the other sides. Besides, as long as the decisions are
good and not disturbing to each other, there is also no problem. Secondly, the
reason is tolerance can keep other people’s feelings towards each other. When
someone can keep the feeling of others, it will make others do the same things
with him/herself. By it all, on a campus it would make a person comfortable
being friends with each other. In this case, these whole reasons are the key to
crucial tolerance on a campus.
There
are many kinds of tolerance that are crucial on campus. The first kind is
religion. (Hurtado & Harper, 2007; Mayhew et al., 2016), research on how
religion influences campus climate. The reason is because if someone is on a
campus, maybe everyone will find some of her/his friends have different
religions than others itself. Everyone doesn’t have to be surprised and please
don’t judge them, because it’s their choice. The second is racism. According to
some research, it has focused on understanding the campus climate for racial
and ethnic minorities. When someone has a friend whose skin color is different
from others, someone doesn’t have to judge and discriminate against them.
Actually, discriminating against any student on the basis of race or ethnicity
is a bad attitude inside the campus. The third kind is disability. On a campus,
everyone will find people that have disability, whether physical or mental.
Someone should respect and not judge anything else. Typically, people with
disabilities can do things for themselves and want to be treated normally by
their peers and lecturers. Everyone should support them, because they only need
support from people around their side. They don’t need some critics or judges,
but only support. The last kind is socioeconomic status. Everyone has a socio
economic status that is different for others. Despite their differences in
socioeconomic status, it’s not being different from each other. Students who have
low socio economic status don’t necessarily mean that they are underrated and
vice versa, too. They are all in the same position. There is no difference and
no discrimination. All these kinds have demonstrated the crucial tolerance
within the campus.
In
summary, that’s all the reasons why tolerance on campus is crucial. Tolerance
can make someone respect each other and make more understanding about the
circumstances of others. Besides, there are many kinds of tolerance that are
crucial in campus, such as religion, racism or ethnic, disability,
socioeconomic status, etc. Everyone doesn’t have to discriminate and doesn’t
judge people who have different perspectives than others. In addition, everyone
needs some support and tolerance from each other. In this case, it can make
life better. So, tolerance on campus is crucial because it can keep other
people’s feelings to each other.
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Himbeault,
S. (1998). The Impact of College on the Development of Tolerance. NASPA Journal. 34 (1).
Ahmed,
S. (2018). Measuring College Students’ Perceptions to Tolerance Dimensions:
Socio-Anthropological Study at Cairo. International
Journal of Psychological Studies. 10 (2).
