do you feel that we are too tolerant?

I think people often confuse the words tolerance and compromise. Just because you tolerate something, doesn't mean you have to compromise your values to accomdate theirs. I tolerate peoples beliefs and do not get offended if somebody is different than me. That's what people want, after all. They have to remembber that they need to tolerate me, too. I will not compromise my beliefs just so i don't offend anyone. That defeats the purpose of teaching tolerance of others. I'm not trying to change anyone, but I'm also not going to change myself to appease others lifestyles. I think if you visit another country you can be respectful with out trying to be just like them. We have people that come into our country and they keep wearing the same clothes and eating the same food. I don't mind it at all. I think it's great to see other cutltures in our country. :)