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other countries and cultures. this makes each I feel very positive about international mobility, it is
of us a global citizen regardless of our world- important to students nowadays. After the course,
view, skin colour, or place of origin. I understand different cultures and people from

tolerance is not indifference different cultures better.
needless to say, tolerance cannot be taken for student from finland in erasmus impact study, 2014
granted. tolerance has to be taught, nurtured,
and communicated as it is the basis of mutual anything and reject absolutely nothing. no,
acceptance and understanding. real tolerance that would be called indifference. for example,
is based on the profound conviction that accepting a person’s right to hold a belief is
diversity is a blessing, not a curse. tolerance one thing and accepting the belief as true is
is a means to combat hatred, ignorance, and another. tolerating people and tolerating their
stereotypes as well as to make the dividing ideas is different. We always have the due right
line between us and them disappear. the true to openly question other people’s unethical
essence of tolerance lies in awareness of and or morally ambiguous thoughts and opinions,
respect for universal human rights and funda- and, in doing so, to set an example of correct
mental freedoms. and preferably tolerant behaviour to them.

active tolerance begins in each of us every for cultivating tolerance, the role of parents
day, but it does not mean that we accept just and adults is to instil in children and young-

27 % 27% of former Erasmus students met their life
partner during their stay abroad.
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