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Teaching tolerance from school: Russia launches experiment

Published: 01 April, 2010, 15:19
Edited: 08 April, 2010, 04:33


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Mutual understanding between people in such a multinational country as Russia is essential. A new course aimed at teaching school kids respect for other cultures and religions has been launched in 19 regions.

 
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alex April 01, 2010, 21:17 quote
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Great idea... now... how about making the hostworkers and other immigrants follow the same courses and teach them some manners .

Nastya April 02, 2010, 12:50 quote
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I think it's a good idea. Religions are fascinating from an academic standpoint. There's no harm in teaching it that way. Understanding what people believe from an objective standpoint really could increase tolerance. I hope it works!

joseph walker April 02, 2010, 15:18 quote
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Cuckoo land philosophy,when these terrorist show tolerance.and respect of life for its civilians ,then we can do the same in the west,Otherwise a bullit in the head is the best advice for its subjects in the west.and most effective medicine.

Roger Bascom April 03, 2010, 05:42 quote
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Countries built on tolerance (e.g. USA) have no future; they will be subject to chronic discontent and dysfunction (antagonistic coevolution). Asian countries like China, India and Japan that strive for racial homogeneity and unity will be the world leaders of tomorrow. The idea of a "white minority" (at global level) controlling most of the resources on the planet while dictating to other races how to behave is nothing more than a racist apartheid ideology.

antihero April 03, 2010, 23:16 quote
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In USSR this issue was deal with much simpler: all ethnicities are friends, but they all lived separately. To preserve the unique culture, ethnicity, religion etc of each individual group they should live on their respective historical locations and not mixed together in a soup. Multiculturalism is the abundance of cultures, and not a mish-mash of unknown somethings with "citizen" as ethnicity. This would also greately reduce or eliminate any cultural differences and disagreements altogether. Teaching children about cultures and religions is good, but most of them know what`s what from their own experience, and very often it`s not as naive as in the books.

L1A April 04, 2010, 03:31 quote
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@Roger Because tolerance = control by a white minority... seriously? The US wasn't built on tolerance, it was built through transportation sentences and by Christian radicals who thought that the fundamentalists fighting religious wars in Europe at the time weren't extreme enough (I do agree with your latter point though). @Joseph Because every Muslim is a terrorist? Or were you talking about a different religion? Both terrorism and counter-terrorism are at their most basic level psyops. if you accept that a handful of sociopaths and mass murderers represent a society you are GIVING THEM the terrain advantage. Why? Because in any psyop people, attitudes, and public opinion are the terrain. If you want to fight a battle on some lunatics terms that is ultimately up to you, but you are surrendering the initiative to a numerically and technologically inferior enemy. I'd rather just kill the handful of people responsible (or throw them in a padded cell for the rest of their lives), make sure that people on both sides understand that they were lunatics, and be done with it.

Roger Bascom April 04, 2010, 13:45 quote
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@Because L1A did not understand. 1.Tolerance = Suppressing natural evolutionary behaviour of the majority race for speciation (not race specific) to promote short term financial/power gain (e.g. mixing races for cheap and skilled labour). 2.Countries built on tolerance (e.g. USA) have no future = Countries that build their future on tolerance (e.g. USA) have no future. Correct me if I am wrong but I don’t think America’s development was complete soon after arrival of the first European immigrants - nor is it today. 3.Antagonistic coevolution is not limited to specific individuals within a gene pool but instead applies to all - different degrees. When LA1 “kills a handful of individuals” he will have to deal with an entire people. LA1 thinks he is “technologically superior” but let me remind him of Vietnam, Afghanistan etc. L1A policies would exhaust the resources of his country and achieve very little.

Tanenbaum April 07, 2010, 23:54 quote
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Russia’s move to incorporate instruction about religion into the curriculum is a laudable that will hopefully be followed by other countries’ education systems. In an increasingly connected world, knowledge about other religions is becoming more and more important for future leaders and citizens. In our education work here at Tanenbaum, we develop lessons and activities that focus on explaining different religious beliefs and practices, while leading students and teachers alike to question religious/cultural stereotypes and hidden messages in the classroom. Religion is always present in the classroom, as it is always present in some students and teachers. Ignoring it will not increase understanding with different groups, but courses that bring it to the surface in a meaningful way, such as the ones beginning in Russia, will go a long way toward bringing different groups together!

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