Fighting Intolerance toward Vulnerable Social Groups

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Fighting Intolerance
The diversity in countries right now is at an all-time high. The broad range of cultures provides a risk of some individuals facing social exclusion due to ethnic background, age, gender, physical disabilities, and financial background. Discrimination is a vice that is still prevalent in this day and age, affecting vulnerable social groups, which is an utter violation and abuse of basic human rights that requires intervention to curb. Governments are putting some effort into ensuring that the societies are racially harmonized, but a lot more needs to be done. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Jon Ronson, have taken issue with the methods that the governments have in place to create a safe and equal society, terming them as clumsy and ineffective. This essay is an in-depth analysis of their work to show that governments need to do more to provide a safe place for the vulnerable or minority groups in society.
The world today is torn between tolerance and intolerance, and the debate does not show any signs of providing a common ground. The minority are the most affected group by intolerance in their push for no discrimination and equality. The state intervention by the Singapore government is a testament that equality can he somewhat achieved in a diversified nation. The system takes away individual rights for the better part of the group and makes it impossible for an individual to be intolerant to an issue because it affects them all. In a diverse society like the United States, the minority groups will suffer from intolerance because their issues do not affect the majority. Singapore, an independent state for half a century, is an ethnically heterogeneous state consisting of Chinese, Malaysians, and Indians. The ruling party categorized citizens in racial groups, Chinese, Malaysians, Indians, and others (CMIO) for political purposes. The government decided to make the colonial language their official language to avoid disadvantaging either group as this would have led to ethnic conflict. The government required people in Singapore to be bilingual, and every school taught English and the second language is that of ethnic origin. The downside to this is that bilingual education was not an option, and the government forced this policy down on its citizens. For instance, the Chinese had to learn mandarin while the Indians learned Tamil.
This system of education caused plenty of confusion in communication; for instance, it led to some Indians being unable to speak to their gr...