
Tolerance Is…
Several teenagers and a psychologist talk about the importance of tolerance in our increasingly diverse world. The video encourages viewers to reject racism. Gender bias and seemingly harmless locker room jokes. The teens and the psychologist also talk about cyber bullying and hateful on line comments. Program talks about accepting peoples differences.
Transcript provided by YouTube (unedited)
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I know that not everybody is gonna like
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everybody and you don’t have to do best
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friends with everybody but everybody
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deserves to be diversity is all around
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us everybody is different in all sorts
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of different ways but it’s about being
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open to diversity I don’t know it was
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something referring to me being
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something like an Oreo and he kind of
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just went off on it and I never met this
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kid before it kind of made me feel bad
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and it also kind of made me angry cuz
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I’m like dude what did I do to you I’ve
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been I’ve never done anything I’ve never
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seen you before why would you say
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something like that and any word that’s
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used negatively so frequently and then
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it’s used to describe someone else can
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really only have like me telling them
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that they’re inferior we live in a
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diverse world made up of countless
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different races cultures religions and
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backgrounds making tolerance an
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important everyday issue you can build
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tolerance by appreciating your own and
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others cultural values objecting to
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ethnic racist and sexist jokes
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refraining from judging others
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especially for things they have no
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control over and staying away from
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labeling in stereotypes
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