Intolerance can only be defined as a beings unjustified objection to accept the views, beliefs, and/or behaviours of others. In other words racism, sexism or prejudice of any sort is usually the result of ignorance. It is also true that anything living, fears what it can not understand. Thus prejudice is also a result of fear of the unknown. This is the key reason as to why 'open minded' people have more tolerance, they …showed first 75 words of 443 total…

…showed last 75 words of 443 total…through the education of the young, much like everything else. As they say 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks' and holds very true. These generations, including my own, will never learn, however the education of children regarding tolerance, the environment, ethics etc is the only way of eliminating such problems. However the main problem with this is that the 'old dogs' must educate themselves so as to then, pass on the 'new tricks'.