otes with their main lines at fighting immigration by non-whites. This was made possible where unemployment was been high and where it was easy to convince the people that immigrants were taking their jobs, as it would serve to be a convenient excuse and avenue to vent frustration. Australia has also had a very racist past in which apartheid has been practiced and where indigenous Aboriginal people have lost almost all their land and suffered many prejudices. In the past, the notorious policy that led to the Stolen Generation was practiced. This was the institutionalized attempt to prevent Aboriginal children (and thus future generations) from being socialized into Aboriginal culture. (This also occurred in various parts of the Americas too.) Press Service (IPS) describes how Lebanon has these discrimination problems even though it is often considered relatively open. For example, people of color face discrimination at work and away from work, often not allowed at some beaches or clubs, or allowed with various restrictions. In addition, property rights are severely curtailed, even for Palestinians who are the same race, but not nationals.
"Brazil live with a prejudice that there are no prejudices," says sociologist F. Ferdinandes fifty years ago. Only fifteen years ago the F. E. Cardosu s government admitted officially that the country suffers from racism. There is a great amount of racist examples. Children of black people are rarely praised or spoken to at schools; they are much more frequently punished. According to sociologist and lawyer J. Vincente s personal experience, near expensive restaurants whites accept blacks as jockeys for their cars, in shopping centres they are attentively watched by security. When mother of one of the most famous and greatest football players Ronaldinio came to his place to see him the porter showed her the staff entrance.of these arguments and examples are based on a false understanding of race; in fact, contemporary scientists are not agreed on whether race is a valid way to classify people. What may seem to be significant "racial" differences to some people - skin color, hair, facial shape - are not of much scientific significance. In fact, genetic differences within a so-called race may be greater than those between races.
. Tolerance as the result of the intercultural communication
scientists consider tolerance to be the feeling of respect for culture and ideas of other people, their conscious decision to accept others as they are, interact with them with no damage to their and own interests. Its ground is a positive image about a social group. As a wide notion tolerance is the feature for every culture, but it reveals with different power. The Russian "tolerance" is not a complete synonym, because it means to overcome difficulties. Th...
