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**If you were to create a** //CHANGECAMP// **, what topic would you do and why ?**
**IF** I were to create my own "changecamp" I would choose the topic of tolerance + acceptance. This was the topic I chose when we were asked to choose: "//if there was one thing about the world you could change, what would it be?//" in class. I **believe** that genuinely understanding someone's culture and accepting them for who they are, be it their race, class, education, religion, or any social aspect that makes up their cultural history, could change the way people see others. If people in the world were to talk about what makes them different and have people actually UNDERSTAND why they are different, and that it's OKAY to be different. And at least if people cannot simply **accept** that difference than at least be TOLERABLE of those differences, and not angry, violent, prejudicial, or against their views or culture.

The people in the world who think that everyone has to think the same, act the same, do the same things, are ignorant of culture. If people were to talk and participate and share their views on this topic, I think the world would be that much more open, appreciative and interested in others cultural history or background. Characteristics that make up a culture like language or religion should not be contested or viewed with hate or spite, but with appreciation and understanding, even though these people may be "different" or not view things they way you do, but that is their life and to accept that would be my ultimate goal of my changecamp.