For a few days I wanted to write a new post, but today I felt the URGE to write one about tolerance.
While surfing on the web I learnt about the "NOH8" campaign and I must say I totally support this. But this let me also to read about the sad story of the death of Jamey Rodemeyer, a 14 year old boy who took his own life as he could not take anymore bullying at school for being bisexual. This story touched me deeply, as the concept of intolerance it totally foreign to me as a person. I never understood, why I should hate another person for being different than me.
I want to state here that I am not gay, not because I would mind being gay, just because I am not and I want people to understand that supporting what is right does not have anything to do with the cause connecting to you directly. I am not gay, but I still think gay couples should have the right to get married and live their life as peaceful as straight couples.
I grew up in a foreign country and while most people were friendly there have been moments, where being a foreigner was disadvantage. Since I grew up here I speak the language without any foreign accent, but my parents do have a foreign accent and it happens too often where I see how people raise an eyebrow and get this "learn-the-language-properly-you-dumb-foreigner-look". This hurts me deeply and to quote the movie "a walk in the clouds": "Don't think that because I speak with an accent I also think with an accent". Isn't it a least worth an acknowledgement that I am making an effort to speak to you in your language? As a matter of fact I am writing this blog in english although I am not a native speaker. People in the USA, Australia and Canada (to name a few) can read this blog, because I took the effort to write in their language. Would it be fair then to judge me for spelling or grammar errors?
While intolerant people take pride in what they call their "values" and think everyone has to adopt their ways, they have shirts in all different colours and have everyday different food. The love variety in all parts of their life, except of other people. Would the consequence not mean that the could only mingle with people with the exact same values, the same colour etc. So their favourite person would be themselves, right? So let me guess these people would like to clone themselves, so there is nothing to hate about the other person, as it doesn't differ right? But then they had to start dating their clone (as no one else agrees with them a 100 %) and they would end up in a same-sex relationship!
This last paragraph I know was pretty sarcastic and made this whole intolerance thing sound ridiculous, but that is because to me it is! To what intolerance leads is horrible and the "intolerance" itself is ridiculous. Imagine a guy being bullied for liking blond girls or someone for being canadian!
