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Can Tolerance Be Taught? The Psychology of Coexistence
Episode 4959
Published 1 month, 1 week ago
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When a security incident turns a shared Jerusalem street into a fault line, the coexistence that seemed so real suddenly reveals its paper-thin nature. This episode goes beyond peace treaties and municipal budgets to ask a deeper question: is tolerance something you can actually teach, or is it baked into personality? Drawing on the Big Five personality model, Gordon Allport's Contact Hypothesis, and real-world case studies from Hand in Hand bilingual schools to Rwanda's education system, we explore why some people naturally navigate difference while others recoil from it — and what that means for building a coexisting society from the ground up.
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