The Need for Tolerance

I found this video clip by the Chairman of the Nestle Corp., a multi-national Swiss based corporation, quite interesting. He starts out offering a bit of generic career advice, but then tackles the issue of tolerance in this age of increasing globalization.

I found his advice on this subject to be quite insightful. We are "rubbing shoulders" with unfamiliar cultures far more often in our major cities. Yet, our understanding of those cultures is often tainted by ignorance and negative attitudes that pervade our popular culture. Author Charles Caleb Colton (1780?-1832) pointed out: “We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.”

We desperately need greater tolerance and respect as our world grows smaller and more diverse. Intolerance is a learned behavior and can therefore be unlearned. Our increasing globalization affords us an opportunity to work with persons from all sorts of backgrounds. As never before, there is a need for greater tolerance, respect, and, to use an expression seldom heard in modern conversation, brotherhood.

" . . . For a certainty I perceive that God is not partial” --Acts 10:34