Title: Tolerance
Author: Karina
Rating: PG
Pairing: Pagan
Notes: Challenge 214. Baby Series 4 #98. Takes place a few hours following Walking The Road.
Spoilers: None
Warnings:
Many thanks to ShenLong Deb for her work betaing this set of fics.
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine.
Title: Tolerance
Sanc was a land made up of diverse cultures. From a rough and rude beginning it had grown to incorporate representatives of almost every society on Earth. The Chang Clan was only the latest group to call Sanc home.
It was not easy incorporating a new cultural base into the existing one. With each addition that joined the conglomerate that was Sanc, provision was required to be made. They were a practised hand at absorbing the new into the old and making something wonderful come of the merger.
It was early days and thus far it was conforming to the program, though how it would progress was anyone's guess. There would be ripples in the surface at some time. Colonists quite often did not take well to the every day trials that was the weather in a place such as Sanc. It might take some years to acclimatise themselves to the weather, let alone other diverse aspects of Sancian culture.
Spring was coming fast, the thaw was beginning and the weather noticeably warming. Spring would bring its own unique set of challenges and a people who had no real concept of the weather would need to be watched. They had been fully immunised as a matter of course before coming to Earth in a bid to spare them health issues. They had been warned repeatedly to speak to their guides and not be afraid to ask if they had any needs that had not been previously catered for.
He could not expect events to progress this smoothly for the duration of their acclimatisation, and it would be years in the future before he could even begin to assume they thought of themselves as a part of the Sancian culture, but it would come. Eventually. They would incorporate themselves into the singular designation 'Sanc'.
Chang was attentive to every aspect that reared its head and he would continue to do so. They needed to work closely together to smooth the way ahead, and he was not inclined to have his people reject the new immigrants. Things were never easy in Sanc, but at present they were still rebuilding after the war that had decimated the country. It simply made the matter a little harder to have everyone determine to become One.
One culture with a multi diversity of peoples, customs and a shared desire for peace that demonstrated what was possible with tolerance.
That was their aim, to have people realise what was possible if one consciously put aside differences and worked together to create something wonderful. Acknowledge that everyone was different, had different religious belief's and that was no excuse to take up arms. Tolerance. View the world around you and seek understanding. Demonstrate that which was good about your thinking, your culture and your religion. Others who saw and admired it might seek to know more.
The concept of tolerance was a high factor in what made Sanc, Sanc. It was the corner stone to their success.
End
Karina Robertson 2013