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Society will never accept people who are different. Comment.

In our culturally globalised world, we are increasingly exposed to different types of people from different walks of life. This makes some people feel that today’s society can start to accept people who are different more readily than in the past. However, some critics may be less optimistic. They will point at that most of today’s wars, conflicts and clashes still happen because differences still matter to a lot of people. They will also look back at mankind’s terrible historical examples of society mistreating people who are different. For example, the murder of millions of Jews, gypsies, the disabled and homosexuals in the Holocaust by the German Nazi party. Today, society presents a mixed picture of growing tolerance as well as persisting prejudice.

Society generally shows great acceptance and sympathy for the physically disabled. Most developed nations’ societies have progressed in supporting the rights and needs of such people with great success. Also, the rise of many...

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