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Learn the meaning of intolerance, a noun that describes the refusal to accept or the inability to bear something different. Find out how to use it in sentences and see synonyms and translations.
The meaning of INTOLERANCE is the quality or state of being intolerant. How to use intolerance in a sentence.
Intolerance definition: lack of tolerance; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect opinions or beliefs contrary to one's own.. See examples of INTOLERANCE used in a sentence.
Mar 10, 2021 · Tolerance of dissenting beliefs and ways of living is seen as a necessary condition for societal functioning, whereas intolerance breeds separation, and tensions and hostilities between individuals and groups.
- Maykel Verkuyten, Rachel Kollar
- 2021
- Discrimination and Intolerance
- Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination
- Counteracting Discrimination
What are discrimination and intolerance?
Discrimination – in all its possible forms and expressions – is one of the most common forms of human rights violations and abuse. It affects millions of people everyday and it is one of the most difficult to recognise. Discrimination and intolerance are closely related concepts. Intolerance is a lack of respect for practices or beliefs other than one's own. It also involves the rejection of people whom we perceive as different, for example members of a social or ethnic group other than ours,...
Direct and indirect discrimination
Discrimination may be practised in a direct or indirect way. Direct discrimination is characterised by the intent to discriminate against a person or a group, for example when an employment office rejects Roma job applicants or a housing company does not lend flats to immigrants. Indirect discrimination occurs when an apparently neutral provision, criterion or practice de facto puts representatives of a particular group at a disadvantage compared with others. Examples may range from a minimum...
Structural discrimination
Structural discrimination is based on the very way in which our society is organised. The system itself disadvantages certain groups of people. Structural discrimination works through norms, routines, patterns of attitudes and behaviour that create obstacles in achieving real equality or equal opportunities. Structural discrimination often manifests itself as institutional bias, mechanisms that consistently err in favour of one group and discriminate against another or others. These are cases...
Xenophobia
The Oxford English Dictionary defines xenophobia as "a morbid fear of foreigners or foreign countries". In other words, it means an irrational aversion to strangers or foreigners; it is irrational because it is not necessarily based on any direct concrete experiences of threat posed by foreigners. Xenophobia is a prejudice related to the false notion that people from other countries, groups, cultures, or speaking other languages are a threat. Xenophobia is closely related to racism: the more...
Racism
Some prejudices may transform into ideologies and feed hatred. One such ideology is racism. Racism involves discriminatory or abusive behaviour towards people because of their imagined "inferiority". There has been wide-spread belief that there are human races within the human species, distinguishable on the basis of physical differences. Scientific research shows, however, that "human populations are not unambiguous, clearly demarcated, biologically distinct groups"4, and that race is an ima...
Antisemitism
Antisemitism can be defined as "hostility towards Jews as a religious or minority group often accompanied by social, economic, and political discrimination"9. Antisemitism has been widespread in European history up to the present. By the end of the 19th century, Jewish communities in Russia had regularly became victims of pogroms, which were organised systematic discriminatory acts of violence against Jewish communities by the local population, often with the passive consent or active partici...
Education
There are several approaches to anti-discrimination and anti-racist activities including: 1. legal action to enforce the right to non-discrimination 2. educational programmes that raise awareness about the mechanisms of prejudice and intolerance and how they contribute to discriminate and oppress people, and on the appreciation of diversity and promoting tolerance 3. activism by civil society to denounce discrimination and prejudice, to counteract hate crimes and hate speech, to support victi...
Endnotes
1 Protocol No. 12 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 2 Mario Peucker, "Racism, xenophobia and structural discrimination in sports", Country report, Germany, Bamberg, 2009, p26: www.efms.uni-bamberg.de/pdf/RACISM_in_SPORT_2010.pdf 3 Education Pack "All Different – All Equal" – "Ideas, resources, methods and activities for informal intercultural education with young people and adults" (revised edition) Council of Europe, 2005 4 For example, see America...
Jul 29, 2020 · “Intolerance” is a familiar, superficial label that is easily pasted over various attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, which highlights the importance of unpacking its variations for productive debates, systematic research, and successful interventions.
Aug 12, 2021 · So long as this connection is not recognised, any effort to make sense of India’s growing intolerance would be shallow and misleading. The Pew Survey seems to make this fatal mistake.
