Freedom+and+Tolerance+-+Pinar+Kolukirik

Freedom and tolerance are very important in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands there are people from a lot of different cultures. A good society requires respect from each other. In the Netherlands everyone can say what they stand for. I think that’s very important. It’s good to let each other know what you think about each other. But you really have to watch the things you say. Sometimes you can hurt a person by saying everything you think. This can cause a lot of problems. Last year, we had a lot of discussions about freedom and tolerance at school. There were a lot of examples, were people crossed the limit of freedom and tolerance and they hurt a lot of people with what they said. One of the examples is that a songwriter made a song about gay people. In the song he said things like: ‘Gay people must be killed.’ That’s not acceptable. He had gone too far. I think everyone has the right to say what they stand for, but you shouldn’t go too far and hurt people.