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inority Groups and tolerance in European CountriesAccording to Wirth (1945), a minority group is a collection of individuals who owing to their cultural or physical characteristics are singled out from the rest of the community or society in which they live and are treated unequally or differently thereby becoming items of collective discrimination.... Minority may be based on race or ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, age or disability.... The paper "tolerance or Revival of Old Hatreds" discusses that the historical context of Ethnic minorities cannot be fully attributed or associated particularly with either tolerance or revival of old hatreds....
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Hence, in this murky situation, the national identity ends up being a negotiation between the law and the custom, which influences HR.... Moreover, the notion of good Muslim citizen suggests that Islamophobia can be dealt with through religious Multiculturalism and tolerance; however, it is hard to eradicate it by simple religious tolerance because Islamophobia is linked to US foreign policy (Jung 122)....
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In trade, Byzantine empire was one of the most significant western points of the Silk Road.... yzantium gathered all the classical knowledge from the Roman empire and tried to maintain and develop them.... It is likely that the Renaissance could not have been so prosperous were it not for the foundation laid in Byzantium, and the group of Greek scholars to the West the empire had fallen.... The Byzantine empire brought common acceptance of Christianity to Western European countries - possibly one of the main aspects of a contemporary Europe's identity....
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For nearly half a millennium the Ottomans ruled an empire as diverse as any in history.... The legal traditions and practices of each community, particularly in matters of personal status -- that is, death, marriage, and inheritance -- were respected and enforced through the empire.... Opportunities for advancement and prosperity were open in varying degrees to all the empire's subjects.... The rise of Russia and the growth of Russian influence were also not very helpful to Jews in the Ottoman empire....
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Additionally, it is also vital to recognize and understand how that in the modern age, religion is playing a big role in the social and political arena thus we need to be very careful on how we assess and evaluate other religions and develop a mechanism on how to deal with a variety of religions and tolerate divergent practices.... The essay "Religious tolerance Issues" focuses on the critical analysis of the major issues on religious tolerance....
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On the day of Hajj when all these people irrespective of their identity, caste, creed, color, race, nationality, sect and ethnicity unite to recite Kalima, offer prayers, and stand in one-row shoulder to shoulder with each other.... The essay "Islam as a Vibrant, Tolerant and Eternal Religion" states that several concepts provided by Islam through Quran have been seen as a part of reality....
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urrently, "Zero tolerance" is the official disciplinary policy used in schools to counter cases of violence.... This is evident not only from statistics showing prevalence of violence in American schools, but also from extensive portrayal of the same in diverse.... ... ... Cases of knife stabbing, mass shootouts, as well as, physical bullying continue to be significantly challenging issues, especially in public schools....
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The legal traditions and practices of each community, particularly in matters of personal status were respected and enforced through the empire.... Opportunities for advancement and prosperity were open in varying degrees to all the empire's subjects.... The rise of Russia and the growth of Russian influence were also not very helpful to Jews in the Ottoman empire.... They were caught in the circumstances which led to the end of the Ottoman empire and the transformation of the entire region....
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