TOLERANCE in society
Tolerance in society is a mutual appreciation society between each other, tolerance is the foundation of life together in the midst of differences, are being abandoned and replaced by a vigilante tendencies, irritable, sensitive to the presence of others, suspicious of everything coming from outside, and easily lured by the provocation, without seeing the actual permasahan.
Tolerance can also open the paradigm of thinking that had been closed. There are still many people among us who have not been willing to open themselves to science, technology that is not from their culture. Though, of course, not all new things are bad. When tolerance began to be cultivated, as well as the openness of our society will be something new out of their environment, to then be taken manfaatnya.Untuk can realize such harmony.
Michael Walzer (1997) view of tolerance as one of necessity in the individual rooms and public space, because one of the goals of tolerance that is built to live in peace (peaceful coexsistance) among various groups of various differences in historical background, culture and identity. Tolerance, according to Walzer should be able to form attitudes possibilities, among others: the attitude to accept each other differences, changing the uniform to be diversity, recognize the rights of others, appreciate the existence of others and are enthusiastically supportive of cultural differences and diversity of God's creation. The latter then popular with the term multikuluralisme.
Tolerance in Society is a milestone in realizing peace in the community itself, so with that we must always keep our sense of tolerance, without prejudice to our awareness of it is destructive to the social life.
