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Tolerance
Tolerance means tolerance of different lifestyles, behavior, customs, feelings, opinions, ideas,
religions. Thus tolerance is linked to freedom of dissent in the broadest sense of the word.
In terms of personality the psychologists distinguish several types of tolerance.
These are the following:
- Natural tolerance
This kind of tolerance means curiosity and trust inherent in the small child. They do not
define or determine the quality of his "I". The process of shaping the personality has not
reached yet the stage where there are separate classifications, social groups and so on.
- Ethical tolerance
This kind of tolerance is a manifestation of tolerance towards others. Less or more is inherent
in the elderly and grown up people and is manifested in an effort to restrain their emotions.
This does not mean that they accept the values of others. They just comply with them or they
have to comply with them.
- Moral tolerance
Moral tolerance involves both respect of the values and meaning, significant to others, as well
as awareness and acceptance of our own inner world, our own values, goals and desires,
experiences and feelings. This gives a person the advantage of not to be afraid and to
withstand tension and conflicts that inevitably happen and experience of each person.
What characterizes the tolerant person (T) and the intolerant person (I)?
1. Knowledge of oneself
T: Adequately assess themselves and the surrounding. Able to be self-critical, trying to orient
in their own problems in their own strengths and weaknesses.
I: Notice mainly the merits he or she possesses, while to other people - the shortcomings for
which he has only accusatory opinion.
2. Security
T: He is confident in himself, he has no doubts, that he will deal with a situation arising or
task.
I: He's afraid of his social environment and of himself - everything is seen as danger.
3. Responsibility
T: He doesn’t transfer the responsibility on others, he is responsible for his own actions.
I: He believes that ongoing events are not dependent on him and is therefore not responsible
for what is happening around him. Unreasonably suspects surrounding for harming him.
4. Need to determine
T: He strives towards work, creativity, and self-realization.
I: He has a tendency to put on the back burner - "let it be someone else, only not me ..."
5. Sense of humor
T: Always responds to jokes, he is able to laugh at himself.
I: Apathetic or grimly perceives humor. He irritably responds to even harmless jokes about
him.
6. Authoritarianism
T: Prefers democratic relations.
I: Prefers hard power.
To rise to moral tolerance is only possible if you start to get to know yourself and move
towards inner harmony. And this harmony will grow according to the wise expression of
Dzhebran Khalil Dzhebran "will open as a lotus with countless petals ..."
Materials from the training “Tolerance” are prepared by Elizabeth Spasova and Daniel
Stoyanov
Translation from Bulgarian to English – Elena Ilieva