The ABC of tollerance

InternationalDay of Tolerance

16 November 2012

Project“Tolerance ABC”

L.T.S. “Sfantul Apostol Andrei”, Ploiesti

Coordonator teachers: Tanase Ana-MariaFanareanu BeatriceParticipants: students from grades 5th – 12th

•Ajutor (Help) because the proverb says Help others and you will be helped;•Acceptance because everyone should accept the nearby,no matter his/ her characteristics/ features;•Attention because everybody needs attention in order to reveal their qualities;•Addaptation because people should accept each other, without making any race or social differences;•Admiration because the more you will be admired by those around you the less you will make this a purpose;

•“Bună ziua”(Good day) because this is how you respect yourself and the others as well;•“Bunătate”(Kindness) because only like this we can make the needy ones smile, and because people need to live in harmony;•“Bătaie” (Physical punishment) because a lot of people still believe in the saying spare the rod and spoil the child but, in fact, good words cost nothing but worth much ;

•A convieţui because is better to live with the others than to live alone;•Cooperation because only like this we can make something important;•“Credinţă”(Faith) because faith should not be synonymous with exclusion; because people should have faith in God, in themselves and in the people nearby;

•Difference because this should not exist between people; because we should not feel above others, and to think that we are all equal;•Dependence because it is good to be dependent on love, understanding and respect;•Dignity because all the people should be able to live their lives with their head up;•“Dumnezeu” (God) because God created us folding us in forgiveness and allowance;

•“Elev”(student) because all the children should go to school;•Equality because we should all be equal in front of God ;•Equilibrium because in life we should give and receive alike;•Example because we should show our fellows that not everything is based on stereotypes;

•“Frate” (brother) because people should behave like brothers;•Fidelity because it is best to be faithful to your own principles;•“Fericire” (happiness) because tolerant people make the others happy, as well as themselves;•“Frumuseţe” (beauty) because we have to look everything differently, from objects to human beings, without prejudices;• “Fire” (human nature) because, as warm and understanding, allows us to forgive and be forgiven;

•Generous because only like this you prove yourself to be really human;•“Ghimpe” (spine) because we have to be like spines for those intolerant;•“Glas” (voice) because the voice of justice should always be heard;•“Gândire”(thought) because every person thinks differently, but no matter his/ her thinking is, he/she should be respected; because only by thinking positively we will discover the true beauty around us;

•“Haide”! (let’s) because this is the way to start a friendship;•“Hartă”(map) in order to locate and heal the others’ suffering;•Handicap because the real handicap is the moral one, not the physical one;• “Horă” (round dance) because people should have fun without taking care of any differences;

•Importance because every person has a role;•Indifference because your indifference towards the others means their indifference towards you;•“Iubire” (love) because you have to love purely, without compromises and truly; because it gives us the power to forgive;

•“Înţelegere”(understanding) because you have to understand the others so that they can understand you; because if you are sympathetic to the others, you will be to yourself as well;•“Încuraja”(encourage) because it is good to stand by the others in difficult situations;•“Îndepărta” (push away) because it is not good to push away anybody;

•“Jignire”(insult) because it is not good to satirize anybody; because only when you are offended you realize the harm you have done when you offended somebody else;•“Joc” (play) because all the children should play together; because the way the children do not make any differences between them in a game, the same way adults should behave•“Joacă”(playfulness) because children’s playfulness should not be stopped by anything;

•Kilometers because it shouldn’t count the distances between people; because the kilometers we cover in life help us reflect upon people and forgive them;•Kilograms because love for the ones nearby can weight enormous; because understanding between people should weight kilos, not grams;Because people should not judge a person by the appearance;

•Liberty because we do not have to steal the others’ freedom;•“Lacrimă” (tear) because in every tear you can find suffering, but also the courage to move forward;•“Lacăt” (lock) because people’s hearts should not be locked, but open for everyone who wants to enter;•Light because all the people should protect the ones who never see the light of day;• “Laudă” (praise) because the praise can change a person’s life;

•“Mândrie” (pride) because everyone has to be proud for his/her soul; because pride has as purpose happiness, but its effect is opposed to the this;•“Mulţumire”(gratitude) because a small present offered, a gesture apparently insignificant can bring a great satisfaction;•“Miere” (honey) because our souls and words must be as sweet as honey;•Mother because all of us should behave like a mother as she is the only one who accepts us the way we are;• “Moarte” (death) because humans should not realise that they are equal only when they are in front of death;

•“Noi” (we) as all the people should be united;•“Nepăsare”(carelessness) because indifference causes victims;•Nobody and nothing because nobody and nothing should separate people;

•Origin because we are all Adam’s descendants ;•Origin because you have to be able to preserve your origin and traditions, but, in the same time, to respect the others’;•Origin because every human is defined through genetics but one should not be judged according to it;•Olympics because all the people should prove sportive and Olympic behaviour;

•Polite because all the people deserve respect;•“Prietenie” (friendship) because it should not be a simple word;•“Prietenie”(friendship) because the characteristics of our soul should be enough to start a friendship;• Peaceful because people should treat problems calmly;• “Paznic”(guardian) because we need to be, no matter the situation, guardians of human dignity;• Pawn because poor people should not be considered as an easy pawn to be sacrificed;• Pawn because accepting the existence of this role, we accept bad-will;• Predestinate because people are meant to live together;

•“Răutăcios”(mean) because we should not be like this to the ones around us;•Respect because if you pay respect, you are respected;•Respect because you have to respect yourself if you want to be respected by others;

•“Sănătate”(health) because everybody should have the right to medical care;•“Speranţă”(hope) because through hope there is always a new beginning;•“Speranţă”(hope) because this can really give people the power to live;• Sincerity because it is better to call a spade a spade;• Simplity because we should not judge people by appearances;

•“Şcoală”(school) because here there are learned the first steps to tolerance;•“Şansă”(chance) because we all have to have equal chances;•“Ştafetă”(relay) because people should pass happiness on from one to another;•“Şocant”(shocking ) because it is shocking to see in the 21st century people who have not completely broken from the prehistoric people’s behaviour;•“Ştiinţă”(science) because it is a real science the behaviour towards the others;• “Şansă”(chance) because we have to give every person a change before judging;• “Şiret”(cunning) because people have to be united as a tied shoe lace;

•“Trudă”(effort) because you can make friends only through continuous effort;•Time because it solves everything;•Time because people need time to get accustomed to one another;• Tenacity because people should be able to overcome life’s obstacles;• Tic because we must get rid of the habit to label others without even knowing them;

•“Ţară”(country) because people should be united no matter the race or religion;•“Ţel”(goal) because one goal should be understanding and respecting the others;•“Ţigan”(gypsy) because we should not label people depending on race;•“Ţap-ispăşitor”(scapegoat) because we all have to take charge of our actions;

•Unite because this is how we all should be;•“Ură”(hatred) because monsters are not those who are hated but those who hate;• Ură”(hatred) because hate brings hate;• Ură”(hatred) because it is a two-edged attitude;•Unique because every person is unique in his/her way, but one can find ways to communicate with others;•“Uitare” (forgetfulness) because we must not forget our origins;

•Violent in order to know what to avoid in relations with others;•“Valută”(currency) because our strong currency should be friendship, love, respect;•Victim because people should be honest not to hurt one another;•“Visător” (dreamer) because if you really want to communicate, your dream may come true;

•www. because in virtual reality there are no differences;•Week-end because a friend is not only for the weekend, but forever;•Week-end because at weekends communication prevails; from this point of view people need to transform life in a continuous weekend;•Week-end because we do not have to dedicate our time to friends only at the weekend, but all the time;• Watt because we must tolerate each other with maximum intensity;

•Xerox because although we are not identical, we need the same things;•Xerox because you do not need to copy the others’ character, but you must be yourself ;•Xylophone because although it is less appreciated, it has a big role in the orchestra; the same, each person is on Earth with a purpose;•Xenophobe because often people hate each other without taking the time to get acquainted;

•“Zgârcit” (skimpy) because we should not be selfish to anyone;•“A zice”(to say) because a good word told to a person can change his/her perception on life;•Zebra because as its colours are in a perfect harmony, the same people should get along;•Zebra crossing because, giving priority, you are also safe, as well as the others; you have to know when to give it;• “Zahăr”(sugar) because we have to spread sugar over our language because Good words cost nothing and are worth much.