The Roots of Intolerance What eleven letter word contributed to the suffering of thousands, countless deaths, and continues to infect the attitudes of numerous people in society today? Intolerance. It was a main cause of the Holocaust and still impacts many people worldwide. Being an easier alternative to acceptance, intolerance prompts an individual to be close-minded, not willing to embrace ideas and opinions of others. Society has shown to be incapable of extinguishing these hateful ideals
to grant or share social, political, or professional rights is Webster's definition of the word intolerance. My definition of the word intolerance is unwilling to accept people who they are. Intolerance has shaped people around the world from the Jews in the Holocaust to African Americans in Central. There are many things that required intolerance throughout history and one of them is the Holocaust where millions of Jews were brutally murdered at the hands of the Germans. It was awful people were
context of racism in Irish society. The main argue is that Ireland was never secluded from racist remarks from the west and puts considerable emphasis on the concept of xenophobia, which means ‘fear of the stranger’ to explain such prejudice and intolerance, “The term ‘xenophobia’ is often used in the Irish context in arguments that the exclusion faced by new minority communities is a response of a homogenous society to the unknown rather than racism”, (Fanning, 2002, p.18). Fanning outlines the key