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- Title: Tolerance Boundaries and Cultural Egalitarianism/Tolerancijos Ribos Ir Kulturinis Egalitarizmas (Iii. THE CHALLENGES OF CULTURAL IMAGES IN THE TRANSFORMING Space) (Report)
- Author : Limes
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 241 KB
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Introduction At the dawn of the new millennium (on 6-9 September 2000), the United Nations General Assembly adopted United Nations Millennium Declaration, which encourages people and governments of the world to promote creation of peace culture based on tolerance and respect to each other. Different declarations, however, may just remain an expression of good will and strivings. Neither the number of war and political conflicts has decreased, nor tolerance increased. Alas, new serious problems of tolerance and discrimination have emerged. For instance, BNS agency has presented information, concerning political scandal which was caused by Rocco Buttinglione, the Italian politician nominated to the post of Justice Minister of the European Union (EU), who said that "children who have just mother but not father are the children of mother who is not very good" (Lietuvos Zinios, 18 October, 2004, Issue 242). The reaction to this assertion was immediate (as well as to his previous statement that homosexuality is a sin)--the Italian politician's nomination was not only derailed but also he was evaluated as the embodiment of intolerance. This political conflict is symptomatic: the politicians of the EU who declare tolerance towards diversity of beliefs turned out to be extremely intolerant towards the
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