Assess The Importance Of Tolerance In France's Tolerance Of France

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“ Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.” Tolerance is the ability to be able to tolerate something or someone. It is important to be tolerant of people that are different than you because it can open up your eyes with new ideas and it builds character. Tolerance is important because it opens your eyes to ideas that you may have not know. Meanwhile people accept more people when they have similar character traits and if they are similar to each other. This shows America's tolerance of France. France opened up America's eyes to use the metric system. The evidence is significant because it shows an example of how other people can give us ideas. Finally, it is important

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