It’s very disappointing to see that the next generation of people are repeating in the same footsteps of the older generation. The world as we know it isn’t bubbled wrapped and sugar coated and packed as ready to go for us, true to that. But even so, I would like to think that there are people out there who realise this and actually take the initiative to take the first step towards acceptance and tolerance. Intolerance is a huge crime in my book and I think it eventually stems into stereotypes, conflict (obviously) as shown on this site, discrimination etc. "Treat others as you want to be treated” is something I’m sure fairly all of you have heard but I completely disagree with this statement. Just because a person does you wrong, it does not necessarily mean you should fall to their level which is low as low can get. It’s not helping the situation or easing the conflict at all, it’s only feeding it. I know it's cause and effect, to dish out revenge when scorned, but it's not a human condition. A human condition cannot be altered easily, whereas the decision to let anger resentment and your ego take over you is a CHOICE. Everyone deserves respect, equality and tolerance but unfortunately some are more equal than others, some people’s actions lose respect and humans simply don’t have enough tolerance because they just want to whine, whinge, complain and let their fat ass egos get into the picture. Internet activism will do very little to solve differences/issues. Try doing some activism in your own backyard for a change by having an open mind, letting go of those labels and stereotypes that you’ve attached to people and seeing a person as an individual with their own personality, opinions and action rather than through their ethnicity or their material possessions. If you know the feeling that comes with this, it's like flying through the clouds, with an uplifted sense of freedom with all that baggage of manufactured ideals and programmed info no longer weighing you down. By being one of the few people out there in this world, to take this first initiative, you’re adding to the process of moving towards that hope, that future generations will set aside their differences and view each other’s actions/thoughts as individuals rather than having a racial/religious tag or some form of label attached to them. You know those people who get bashed for their thoughts and get declared as ignorant or unrealistic? Especially when they dream big dreams of a society that will one day be open to acceptance and tolerance. I salute these people, who have a majority trying to tell them otherwise because it’s thanks to these few people out there who dream these big dreams of hope for a better world, that the world today is a much better place than it was in it's previous eras. It's true that as the world gets better, it also gets worse. There’s always going to be that balance of good and bad, but we're getting there and we're moving forward and that's all that matters. Every era has its war, conflict, greed, revolution, intolerance, depression etc and you’d think that as this destructive cycle repeats itself with every generation, the human race itself would die out. But no it hasn’t. Why is that? Because of people who are too stubborn to admit defeat, to cave in. People out there who notice the root of the problem and apply a healthy dose to the problem in their own daily lives, in their own environments, they create change, movement towards a better society. There is a minority who influence and shape the stigmata in society, through their evil actions and the media often takes advantage of that. The media has the power to influence and shape the thoughts of every human that owns a tv set, radio, computer, mobile phone. But in the end the person who has the MOST power of their own thoughts and actions is YOU. Ask yourself 'are your thoughts really your own? Or did you just derive this assumption from what you heard from tv, friends, family?' If you're looking for someone to blame, blame it on yourself, because through all this time, you've been living your shallow life with your values, actions and opinions based upon spoon fed info that’s not necessarily the 'truth'. By truth I don't mean it in a religious sense but rather in the sense of right/wrong, ideals, opinions, thoughts etc. No one’s hands are clean, and the state of world itself is evidence enough, but what are you doing to make it better?